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« Reply #60 on: February 24, 2013, 04:45:35 pm »
As was Keenan Wynn, they all loved their bikes and in particular their desert racing, just imagine their stories from around the campfire. :o
This guy was the king of cool for me when I was a kid, despite the dunny seat.


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« Reply #61 on: February 24, 2013, 04:49:19 pm »
My nomination for the Queen of cool.

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« Reply #62 on: February 24, 2013, 04:51:20 pm »
Keenen Wynn and Lee Marvin....Mojave desert races 1955.
                                                 
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« Reply #63 on: February 24, 2013, 07:11:27 pm »
Fair go Firko, I think I'm about your age and surely no one else would even remember Keenan Wynn.I used to rush home from school to watch The Troubleshooters, it was a show about the construction industry and he was the go to man when there was a problem.Bulldozers and tin hats, proper tv back in the day.maybe why I ended up in the industry.
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« Reply #64 on: February 24, 2013, 09:41:54 pm »
Tin hats....that's cool
                                                            
                                                                    
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« Reply #65 on: February 25, 2013, 09:40:57 pm »
My nomination for the Queen of cool.

That's hot. So where does the girl stop and the bike start?  Is that some kind of monocoque design?  ;D

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« Reply #66 on: February 26, 2013, 06:56:32 pm »
Is Bullit the movie where the car makes 16 straight up-changes at the start?  :-\

That's a serious question btw
I read in a car mag that the Stang was dubbed over by the sound of a GT40 :-\

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« Reply #67 on: February 26, 2013, 09:22:57 pm »
Kiera Knightley, Brad.
Not a lot of meat on her bones but I have to agree, that photo is red hot. :P :P :P

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« Reply #68 on: February 26, 2013, 09:42:23 pm »
Bullitt the movie where the dodge loses a total of 6 hubcaps. The mustangs were 390's and had to be hotted up to stay with the Dodge. Originally the producers asked Ford for a couple of baddies cars as well, but they refused.
So McQueen and his mate Bud Ekins went down to the Dodge dealer and bought the cars personally.next time you see the movie nearly all the cars parked etc during the chase are Fords plus a VW from memory. Watched the DVD many times, section 14 the chase.

Three Mustangs were used, 1 was trashed, 1 was available for sale until the movie studio found out and because of "someone might get hurt" it was crushed. 1 remains, and the colour is highland green.

I'm off to the DVD machine crank up the sound and track 14, Woo hoo.!!
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« Reply #69 on: February 26, 2013, 11:12:39 pm »
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Kiera Knightley, Brad. 
I don't reckon that's Keira Knightly on the Ducati Steve, she's too fat for a start 8).
I read somewhere that McQueen picked the 390 big block engine option over the small block because it 1: Had a deeper, more grunty note that sounded better on screen and 2: because of the extra low down torque it laid rubber much easier and more 'violently' than the 289/302.
         http://www.ponysite.de/barn5.htm
         http://www.mustangmonthly.com/featuredvehicles/mump_0707_1968_ford_mustang_bullitt/viewall.html
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Re: The art of being cool
« Reply #71 on: February 27, 2013, 12:12:41 am »
I stand corrected gentlemen....she's got fat, that's what threw me off ::)

Speaking of babes, tonight I watched Prizzi's Honor starring Jack Nickolson and Kathleen Turner......how hot was Kathleen Turner back in the 80's? I'd forgotten how beautiful she was. She went off pretty quickly but in her day she was so flucking gorgeous.
                                                              
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Re: The art of being cool
« Reply #72 on: February 27, 2013, 06:46:11 am »
Looks like Kathleen better stay off the Chinese foot pegs! J

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« Reply #73 on: February 27, 2013, 07:20:42 am »
Plenty of meat on her bones now, that's scary.

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Re: The art of being cool
« Reply #74 on: February 27, 2013, 01:59:16 pm »
She must have got married,that does it every time :D