The Self Preservation Society: 50 years of The Italian Job
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We've just got back from the 2019 Italian Job run, and spent the last 15 days in the company of the author and stunt driver & car-procurer for the film David Salamone.
Many interesting tales told (that weren't fit for publication) and many laughs shared.
Watching the film in Italian with English subtitles in the Lingotto cinema was particularly special.
One very interesting fact came to light though.
According to both Matthew and David, the high-profile 'driving coach' who stood in front of us all at MMEs telling stories of filming for the IJ was never part of the driving team, or even on set...
Cheers, Ian
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We've just got back from the 2019 Italian Job run, and spent the last 15 days in the company of the author and stunt driver & car-procurer for the film David Salamone.
Many interesting tales told (that weren't fit for publication) and many laughs shared.
Watching the film in Italian with English subtitles in the Lingotto cinema was particularly special.
One very interesting fact came to light though.
According to both Matthew and David, the high-profile 'driving coach' who stood in front of us all at MMEs telling stories of filming for the IJ was never part of the driving team, or even on set...
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Tuesday while on a drive across country from Utah - Georgia I got their "We have cancelled your order, we weren't able to fulfill your order" email.
Going to their website it's now listed for $40.50 (10% off) but also showing temporarily out of stock
But then Amazon is showing it for $60.17
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"Everybody should own a MINI at some point, or you are incomplete as a human being" - James May
"WET COOPER", Partsguy1 (Terry Snell of Penticton BC ) - Could you send the money for the unpaid parts and court fees.
Ordered so by a Judge
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Or, just frauds.... (once the claims to provenance are made)
Cheers, Ian
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033724/Restored-Italian-Job-Minis-public-display-time.html
"After bidding £6,000 for three boxes of bits from the original cars in 2006, 42-year-old David Morton from Newcastle has lovingly restored the cars to their exact original film specification.
They used 16 cars in the film but they were all scraped (scrapped, you mean?) and left in Italy.
Only these three boxes came back to England. There wasn't much in them except for the lamp bars, bonnet straps and lots of small bits. But most importantly the original number plates and log books were there."
It also says they are registered on their original plates, but the plates used in the film were all fake numbers. I read somewhere else that someone later on registered the fake numbers with the DVLA and had new plates made. I wonder if those are the plates that are on these cars? So the parts they started with didn't even include VIN tags or actual registration plates.
So they restored three Minis from a set of lamp bars and bonnet straps. Would that qualify as a re-shell? Or a re-vin?
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"Everybody should own a MINI at some point, or you are incomplete as a human being" - James May
"WET COOPER", Partsguy1 (Terry Snell of Penticton BC ) - Could you send the money for the unpaid parts and court fees.
Ordered so by a Judge
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"Retired: No Job, No Money, Wife and I! Will travel anywhere for Minis"
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"Everybody should own a MINI at some point, or you are incomplete as a human being" - James May
"WET COOPER", Partsguy1 (Terry Snell of Penticton BC ) - Could you send the money for the unpaid parts and court fees.
Ordered so by a Judge
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with a superb car chase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1lZq3S6HM
a cool car documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EuGElpjRDY
and an Italian restaurant at the Pleasure Beach amusement park in Blackpool .......where I worked a whole summer almost 20 years ago!!!
cheers,
Abel
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