Advertising Last completed movie pages 1975 Toyota Corolla [TE31]Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2008-03-22 04:37 |
I don't know if there is enough to identify, but this is the car into which Mitch threw the bowling ball from the GTO. I guess that would qualify it as a minor action vehicle. |
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◊ 2008-03-22 04:54 |
The vent in the rear fender is rather distinctive. circa-1975 Toyota Corolla |
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◊ 2008-03-23 17:49 |
could be also a Saab 99 from the early 70s, in that angle looks like a Saab |
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◊ 2020-12-31 09:39 |
Okay, crazy story - this scene and the rest of the mailbox-smashing was done near Convict Hill area of Austin with a lot of car-to-car shooting and rapid handheld switch-outs with various passengers in the GTO, (pull one actor out and put the camera in his place for POVs) and at 3AM or so when we got to the bowling ball toss, we'd finally climbed off of the insert truck to do a static shot of the bowling ball saying HOOF to the foreign car - a subtle comment on our sweet Detroit wheels vs the world. (hey it was the bicentennial, right? We love our country!) I was camera crew on this movie and while we were waiting for the gag to be set up, a man came out of the house next door to see what the commotion was, and we quickly recognized him as Lubbock-to-Austin singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and struck up a short friendly conversation. We were being fairly quiet and all the neighbors and his family were asleep, so the scene was relaxed and cool - artist to artist casual. This was years before he played "over the line" Smoky in The Big Lebowski. (Maybe he got the acting bug that night, lol. Maybe he got the BOWLING bug, you never know.) You couldn't swing a dead cat - or a nine pound Brunswick, it seems without hitting a great guitar player in Austin in those days, so we didn't think too much about it at the time. We got the shot in one take and quickly moved on, grinning at our sudden friendly fortune. "Hey, cool, that was Jimmy Dale!" Cut to: Almost 30 years later, and I'm at a special home-theater preview screening of BLAZE, the Ethan Hawke-directed biography of another Austin music legend, and find myself speaking to a woman who introduces herself as Jimmy Dale's daughter. After the perfunctory we love his music comment I break out my one and only Jimmy Dale 3AM chance meeting story and she IMMEDIATELY freaks out! OMG, she cries and calls her mother on the cell to make me repeat my story, and SHE freaks out too, both of them indecipheribly screaming OMG, holy shit, etc. It took a bit to get the story from her, but it's a good one. It seems that all those years ago, Jimmy Dale had neglected to tell her what he has seen that evening - and in the morning, his wife, my new friend's mother had woken up early and strolled out onto her yard with her coffee cup in hand to greet the day. She saw something on the grass and said - how odd, oh joy, I think I'll just skip over there in my bare feet and punt that colorful balloon off of my yard! Yes, it was a stray bowling ball that had gotten left behind by the prop department or a stunt performer, I won't say who to protect the guilty. She BROKE her toe and had to go to hospital, and - get this - Jimmy NEVER told her his part in the play, presumably out of fear of being blamed! I did my best to profusely apologize on behalf of the production, and she graciously just laughed it off, water under the bridge, but at least, mystery solved. Not sure how hard she twisted Jimmie ear once she got off the phone tho. He's probably still in the doghouse over that one! |
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