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Thomassima II 
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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2007-07-09 21:50 |
the red car..not sure if also a Lola..looks different than the white and green one. |
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◊ 2007-07-09 22:40 |
Is the green car a Chaparral 2D ? The back of the car seems different, but I don't know... |
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◊ 2007-07-10 17:15 |
Looks Ferrari P4 replica-ish. Maybe a modified Foreman P4? -- Last edit: 2007-07-10 17:16:18 |
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◊ 2007-07-12 17:10 |
Ferrari P3 |
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◊ 2007-07-13 13:28 |
Right!![[Image: p3rpv5.91.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is244/p3rpv5.91.jpg) |
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◊ 2007-07-28 17:25 |
Hey, Oswald - a man after my own heart .... but you're way, way out on your dates. Neil Foreman didn't start building P4 replicas until 20 years after THX 1138 was made. Junkman was getting closer, with 'P3'. Close .... but no cigar. .gif ";)") How about Tom Meade's Thomassima II .... built in or around 1967 ? (THX 1138 released in 1971)  Check out the 'P3' (not P4) shape of the car's perspex headlight covers; the (non-wrap-around) windshield and the Borrani wire wheels under the flared wheel arches.  See: http://www.theautochannel.com/publications/magazines/sci/aug-sept-98/pg78.frame ![[Image: thomassimaiinsflargerwv8.1999.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is511/thomassimaiinsflargerwv8.1999.jpg) (Edit: added a scan of a sale advert for the same car from R&T, August 1970): ![[Image: thomassimaiiadrtaugust1uw7.8274.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is248/thomassimaiiadrtaugust1uw7.8274.jpg) (Edit: See also the last post (#10) in this thread: http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16451 ) -- Last edit: 2007-12-24 02:06:21 |
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◊ 2007-08-02 01:34 |
Confirmed in a phone call to Tom Meade, this evening .... it IS the Thomassima II.  -- Last edit: 2007-08-02 01:36:00 |
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◊ 2007-08-03 01:25 |
Tom Meade also told me that the Thomassima II featured in the racing scenes this Italian-made '007 ('077') spoof movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062178/ Rapporto Fuller, base Stoccolma (1969) - A.k.a.: Fuller Report, Base Stockholm. Quoting from IMDB: "Ken Clark is such a lug. All he wants out of his visit to Stockholm is a Swedish girl but luckily for us he gets much more. I say luckily because this is a heck of a fun movie. Clark plays Dick Worth, an American racing driver in Stockholm to put on an exhibition that his boss Bennet (Jess Hahn) hopes will result in orders for cars. At least that's what Worth believes. Worth gets drawn into CIA business when he is mistaken for a spy and takes on the job of recovering the Fuller Report, CIA information about an assassination plot. The entire production is visually impressive especially an interrogation and gunfight sequence that takes place in a lumber yard. It's an outstanding location chosen, no doubt, for the many horizontal lines that accent the action. It was even memorable enough to make it onto the Belgian poster! At the end of this sequence, after Worth and his lady have temporarily escaped the clutches of the bad guys, she says to him `I was afraid they would kill you' and he responds `Yeah me too.' The racing car milieu makes for some fun but the hands down winner here is the killer score by Armando Trovajoli. It's practically non-stop jazzy spy pop that will have you humming long after the VCR has rewound. Look for this one, it's recommended." Anybody got any stills or footage from the racing scenes ? -- Last edit: 2007-08-03 01:31:55 |
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◊ 2007-12-20 10:05 |
Wello done P4Rep! You like these cars, don't you! ;-) |
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◊ 2007-12-24 02:00 |
My pleasure, Oswald. Always happy to help identify Ferrari P4 replicas (even cars mis-identified as them ) - I run the world-wide registry for them. But the Thomassima II isn't really a P4 replica, as such. (It's a styling design exercise - Tom Meade's idea of what the Ferrari P4 could have looked like). Lots of people love the looks of the Thomassima II, in it's own right. If you want to see more photos (and read a little about the car's current restoration), check out this 3-page thread on FerrariChat: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16451 -- Last edit: 2007-12-24 02:07:19 |
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