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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #210 on: February 19, 2010, 05:21:10 PM »
Was watching  the 1974 movie Earthquake and there is a 1969 Rebel, sandy brown color, driving in to a parking ramp ahead of Charleton Heston.  Also, later in the movie, there is a 1974 Sportabout, white Hornet, that is down in the parking ramp where people are trapped and they are rescued.  The people climb on top of the Hornet's hood to get out. 
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #211 on: February 19, 2010, 07:10:35 PM »
Let me try again. Seems like every time I try to do this I mess something up & then can't find it again. Don't remember if this was already posted by somebody else or not. If so, I apologize. Married with Children there's a couple episodes. One is when they decide to go on vacation & get stuck in traffic. What looks to me to be an Eagle sedan is behind him ( dark brown ) . Shown a couple times. Then another episode ( I think, been a few weeks since I watched it ) the one where Buck ( the dog ) gets a girl friend & she gets him kicked out. Same car passing by the alley.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #212 on: February 20, 2010, 09:45:17 PM »
I think its a Spirit, but hard to tell for sure.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #213 on: February 20, 2010, 09:50:19 PM »
In the opening credits of Good Luck Chuck there's a Gremlin on he street in the 1985 scene.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #214 on: February 20, 2010, 10:10:29 PM »
Just saw a radio shack ad for cell phones. Two Eagles ( Bald Eagles, that is ) sitting in trees talking to each other on their phones.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #215 on: February 23, 2010, 02:21:22 PM »
I can't believe I forgot about this 80's spoof of a movie called "Munchies". :rotfl: Little creatures steal a Gremlin and go out terrorizing the general public :laughing1: .
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #216 on: February 23, 2010, 05:58:32 PM »
In the opening scene of Lethal Weapon 2 there's a 4-door Eagle sedan in traffic

Outside the drive-in restaurant in The Great Outdoors there's an Eagle wagon parked in the opposite lot.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #217 on: February 24, 2010, 02:19:24 PM »
Anybody ever seen The Wall? WEIRD movie, it weirded me out, creeped me out, freaked me out, and I love it
well there are some Matador Police Cars in one scene
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #218 on: February 26, 2010, 05:53:23 AM »
Are you talking about the pink floyd movie? i've wanted to watch it cuz like u and everybody i know that has seen it says its a little odd.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #219 on: February 26, 2010, 07:54:46 AM »
Waaayyyyy back, when it came out ,it showed on fri./sat. nights at midnight near a local college here.Of course I had to go see it, how else to get in the girls dorm. : ) LOL,it was good, if your a Pink Floyd fan, wich I am.The movie that wierded me out was "A Clockwork Orange",I actually had to leave the theatre on my dorm date.

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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #220 on: February 26, 2010, 08:20:23 AM »
Anybody ever seen The Wall? WEIRD movie, it weirded me out, creeped me out, freaked me out, and I love it
well there are some Matador Police Cars in one scene

I've got that movie, watched it like 40 times or more and I don't remember the cars.  Is it during the part when the cartoon hammer smashes the glass, and those guys are robbing the store, then the policemen come and take them away, and you see the old ladies start stealing as soon as the policemen back's are turned?

That's the only place I can think of in the movie where policemen show up...

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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #221 on: February 26, 2010, 08:24:35 AM »
Waaayyyyy back, when it came out ,it showed on fri./sat. nights at midnight near a local college here.Of course I had to go see it, how else to get in the girls dorm. : ) LOL,it was good, if your a Pink Floyd fan, wich I am.The movie that wierded me out was "A Clockwork Orange",I actually had to leave the theatre on my dorm date.

That movie (A Clowork Orange) was rather disturbing....
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #222 on: February 26, 2010, 09:44:52 PM »
in the movie without a paddle 2 natures calling one of the main characters is dropped of at school in a blue eagle wagon at the beginning of the movie.
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #223 on: March 11, 2010, 10:08:42 PM »
I think he does...

And not sure if this one was mentioned, but the HBO series about vampires living in a modern society amongst us in the open... it's called "Trueblood". I do not recomend this series for any youngins as it shows EVERYthing... it's HBO.. but anyways, there's a chick that drives a SUPER nice Gremlin throughout at least the first season.

I tried finding a picture of it, but no luck. :/
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Re: AMCs in the media
« Reply #224 on: March 11, 2010, 11:06:24 PM »
Maybe someone with better eyes than me can spot some. Have been watching Dragnet on hula hoop or whatever it's called. Lots of FORDS, Mopars, & garbage. No AMCs in my eyes.
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