Re: Rare Proper Alpine on E-Bay

From: Bob Hamilton (hamilton(at)cast.navnet.net)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 07:49:57 CDT


Rob,

        Yes, it is this movie the car is used in. She was doing some pretty
agressive driving in it and when they stopped for a picnic lunch they had
to remove the passenger seat where Cary Grant was sitting! :)

Later,
Bob

At 11:36 PM 9/13/1999 -0400, robert nanzig wrote:
>BOB WRITES:
>
>I believe there is a slight inaccuracy in the description for this car
>as there were close to 3,000 made (not 11) between 1953 and 1955. If it
>is indeed a 5 speed forward transmission, it is not the original one
>unless of course it has the O/D.
>Regards,
>Bob
>-------------------
>
> Is this the model driven by Grace Kelly in the movie "To Catch a
>Thief" ?
>
>Rob Nanzig
>67SV
>

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Robert (Bob) A.C. Hamilton, Waverley, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Man of Many Sunbeams - Alpine, Drophead and Saloon 1953-1954
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