DeTomaso Mailing List: March 1997, Message #38
     



From: Andy Poling <andy@realbig.com>

Subject: Re: More movies, TV shows, commercials...

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 02:41:13 -0500 (EST)



On Wed, 5 Mar 1997 MikeLDrew@aol.com wrote:

> There's a movie, I think it's called "Cannonball", a nominally serious

> precursor to the awfully lame Burt Reynolds series of "Cannonball Run"

> flicks.  It starred David Carradine (or was it Keith Carradine?), was made in

> the early '70's and is basically about a cross-country race.  Carradine's

> character drives a black Dodge Charger as I recall (it's been many years),

> but there's one character, a rather sinister cartoonish German driver, who

> drives a yellow Pre-L Pantera.  There are several great scenes of this car

> absolutely hauling butt across the country.



In "Cannonball Run II" (or whatever it was called) there is a silver Pantera

among the waiting contestants just before the start, and it is one of the

cars shown punching their timecards and launching (over a speed bump?!).



It's a brief Pantera moment.  I was vegging in front of the tube one day

when it came on and I watched for a while to see what cars they would show.

The opening sequence with the two young ladies in a Countach playing tag

with the cops (and then getting picked up by a cowboy in a MB 300SL) is silly

but nonetheless fun.



-Andy



72 Pantera: power             91 Miata: quickness              96 A4Q: traction

84 RZ350: all the above