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>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 97 09:26:00 PDT >From: Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com> >To: Type-3@umich.edu >Subject: Trivia > >FYI: The week of March 31 I had my tonsils removed. During that time I rented >a bunch of movies, most of them martial arts as I'm learning Taekwondo and I >wanted to see how I can use the other styles. Anyway, one of the movies I saw >was a Bruce Lee flick titled "Game of Death". 32minutes and 30seconds into the >film guess what I saw (if you don't know then why are you on this list?) but a >light blue Squareback that (seemed) to have no headlamps installed (the holes >were there but no actual assembly in place). The turn signals worked. I have a >very good VCR but since the quality of the tape wasn't very good it was hard to >make it out. The scene only lasted but a few seconds. > >There's also another movie out there in which the two main characters drive a >real funky lookin' Squareback (which is displayed on the box cover). The movie >itself isn't the greatest (i.e. watch it with some VW enthusiasts whilst >drinking a few good beers) and is *definitely* not a family values movie (i.e. >some female skin is displayed; sorry ladies, but it's appeal is for the >rebellious adolescent male crowd) at least just watch the opening credits as >it's a Miami Vice style look of the T3 driving at night while "Iron Man" (I >think that's the song title) plays -- totally groovin' if you like classic rock! > The movie plays Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" a couple of times as >they two drive around searching for something to do. I forgot the movie title >but if no one posts it I'll try to find it and let ya'll know. > > Toby "if I only had a big budget and a film crew" Erkson > air_cooled_nut@pobox.com > '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L > '75 Porsche 914 stock 1.8L for sale ______________________________________________________________________ Odd that I should remember this, but at the time I was suprised and pleased to see a squareback in a movie. Also, this IS a GOOD family type comedy. "Hopscotch" w/ Walter Matheau as a CIA operative who tries to retire and write a book. Hilarious. Look for his T3. Kevin Toney ____________________________________________________________ ktoney@hotmail.com California, U.S.A. "God bless the human elbow!" '70 Sqbk/Variant '71 Sqbk/Variant '85 Golf '85 Vanagon(dead) --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------