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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #90 on: March 10, 2009, 04:38:05 PM »
AMC Pacer in a Top Gear event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh3UYaq7R6s

it got last place, but anyways, still on there.

and i was watching The Office somewhere in season 3 on DVD and I thought i saw an SX/4 but i couldn't find the scene again after i watched it. (i watched all of season 3 again) anyone watch the office and have noticed?
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #91 on: March 11, 2009, 03:37:33 AM »
in the movie the goonies, the first couple of min chunk says "ORV"? what did that mean off road v. I guess I have never heard of it. or just to young. 
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #92 on: March 11, 2009, 10:40:45 AM »
I was watching hte movie Gator (Jerry Reed's Best Acting in my opinion) and fo a while, Burt Reynolds is driving a Matador Wagon
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #93 on: March 11, 2009, 04:03:00 PM »
just saw death race in the last scene they are working on a rambler wagon looks like early 60's model

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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #94 on: March 11, 2009, 11:13:38 PM »
I turned on the TV to watch Life on MArs, and at the end, there was a cool old CJ Jeep
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #95 on: March 12, 2009, 01:31:40 AM »
oddly, of all the people i would be shocked to see driving a Matador wagon... Burt Reynolds isn't one of them.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #96 on: March 17, 2009, 04:08:25 PM »
Lastnight we were watching the 1989 movie "Driving Miss Daisy" starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy and Dan Akroyd. There are allot of beautiful old cars in this movie.

In this movie Dan Akroyd's mother played by Jessica Tandy is aging and no longer able to drive for herself. Dan Akroyd hires Morgan Freeman to be a personal chauffeur for her. The first new car Morgan Freeman drives as her personal chauffeur is a beautiful maroon colored Hudson.

The movie covers several decades, beginning in about 1947 or 1948 starting with the maroon colored Hudson. That Hudson is gorgeous.

Later on in 1966/1967 Morgan Freeman is chauffeuring Jessica Tandy home after the temple bombing scene in a new Cadillac. As they drive through a neighborhood I noticed what I am almost sure is a copper colored AMC Eagle wagon. It is parked in a garage with the garage door open at a fairly nice home. There is a white gooseneck enclosed trailer parked sideways in front of the Eagle wagon and a blue 1967 Chevrolet pickup parked in front of the house.

Then the scene repeats itself as they are driving and talking in the Cadillac and shows the copper colored AMC Eagle at a closer view. We rewound it several times and zoomed in to get a closer look. It's fun to find little errors like this in movies, but especially when we can find AMC cars that were not yet manufactured at the time the movie takes place.

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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #97 on: March 17, 2009, 07:11:27 PM »
Yes, it is fun to see those goofs now and then.  The best they could do time wise would be 1971 since the Sportabout was so similar.
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« Reply #98 on: March 17, 2009, 11:51:38 PM »
Yeah it is fun to see little goofs like that in movies.  It drives my wife crazy, but I am really good at spotting them. 
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #99 on: March 18, 2009, 12:10:53 AM »
A fun site to waste time on ... http://www.moviemistakes.com/
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #100 on: March 18, 2009, 02:14:52 PM »
A fun site to waste time on ... http://www.moviemistakes.com/
I got extra credit by using that site once, we watched Amadeus in music class and I pointed out all the errors
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #101 on: March 25, 2009, 02:46:49 AM »
A fun site to waste time on ... http://www.moviemistakes.com/
I got extra credit by using that site once, we watched Amadeus in music class and I pointed out all the errors

That's awesome.  That is something I would have done in High School or college.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #102 on: March 25, 2009, 01:53:21 PM »
in the song "More Than A Woman" by the Bee Gees, it sounds like they are saying
"We can take the Rambler just to make it anytime"
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #103 on: March 26, 2009, 10:24:03 PM »
Saw a Red Pacer on a new episode of My Name Is Earl today
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« Reply #104 on: March 26, 2009, 11:31:09 PM »
Saw a Red Pacer on a new episode of My Name Is Earl today
me too. you beat me to it. but then again.. you get to see it well before we do over here. :P
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