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1980 Cadillac Seville

1980 Cadillac Seville in Diamond Girl, Movie made for TV, 1998

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1980 Cadillac Seville

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Author	Message
karoomay ◊ 2011-06-07 12:06	1980-85. I see a Peugeot 504 Break to the right.
Lateef ◊ 2011-06-07 12:14	405
karoomay ◊ 2011-06-07 16:47	Lateef wrote 405 Oops! I meant to say 405 but it ended up as a typo!
Sandie ◊ 2011-06-07 16:48	Scene from South Africa? Has a Dutch sticker on the back...
Lateef ◊ 2011-06-07 16:51	karoomay wrote Oops! I meant to say 405 but it ended up as a typo! I figured so
Ingo ◊ 2011-06-07 23:21	Sandie wrote Scene from South Africa? Has a Dutch sticker on the back... a) Seems so. Despite it was obviously nearly completely filmed there, as Gag wrote, Gag Halfrunt wrote A Canada-South Africa co-production. The IMDB says it was filmed in Canada, South Africa and the UK, but it looks as if all the location filming was done in South Africa, with some stock footage of San Francisco. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139984/locations P.S. A message on the IMDB messageboard says the office building "is on one of the main streets of Cape Town, next to a museum". You can see the museum entrance in the third thumbnail. Link to "www.imdb.com" it's the only country, there the 405 was sold. b) What has the NL-sticker to do with the question of the location?
Sandie ◊ 2011-06-07 23:27	Nothing. It was a separate point as in it is strange that it was in South Africa. I guess that it might be due to the historical colonial history between the countries that someone has taken their car there but ultimately nothing to do with my first point. It is a pretty big goof as it would seem this entire movie is meant to be set in the US and there is visible at one point a car that was never sold in the US with a sticker pointing out that it is from another country a long way away.
Ingo ◊ 2011-06-07 23:44	Sure, it could be possible, that some Dutch immigrants took the car with them, or maybe some occasional employees of a foreign company. This generates the question, how easy it's in South Africa to registrate a RHD car. It's possible (the only running K 70 in ZA went there on this way . Or maybe some tourists? Otherwise these would rather have chosen big Offroaders, 4x4-trucks or Enduro-motorbikes. Indeed, such European registrated vehicles you can see there. Sometimes after they made the trip across whole Africa And sometimes illegal imported cars. Illegal insofar, as they were driven with expired foreign registrations. For example this Hymermobil, I've spotted in 2006 in Swakopmund/Namibia: It's a German export plate from Konstanz - the red coloured part on the right, where the expiring date of the insurance is remarked, was cutted off... At the same day I saw also a young couple, acting "High Society-cool" in their polished black Mercedes G - the stickers on their German plates were scratched off, which means, that the car was out of registration, without any insurance covering. You better hope, not to be hit by them. Then you will be really buggered... -- Last edit: 2011-06-07 23:46:01
CougarTim ◊ 2011-06-08 00:11	Sandie wrote It is a pretty big goof as it would seem this entire movie is meant to be set in the US and there is visible at one point a car that was never sold in the US with a sticker pointing out that it is from another country a long way away. The sticker is not necessarily a goof. Such stickers are not uncommon in the US; people usually have them as souvenirs of trips or to boast of their heritage (Ireland stickers are common, though I used to know a girl in high school with a Latvia sticker).
dsl ◊ 2011-06-08 00:17	CougarTim wrote I used to know a girl in high school with a Latvia sticker. Whereabouts?
jettalover ◊ 2011-06-08 05:33	In ingo's link of the Hypermobile a sign in the background reads "bottle store". Is that what us Americans call a liqour store?
Ingo ◊ 2011-06-08 13:36	@jettlover: yes. In Sweden named "Systembolaget", in Holland "Slijterij", other names in other countries. It seems, that except Germany and Luxemburg are nearly no other countries, where you can buy high-content alcoholic beverages in normal supermarkets, corner shops and even gas stations.
rjluna2 ◊ 2011-06-14 03:24	Script at the front of the front fender and bodyside molding trim tells me that is 1981-85 Cadillac Seville Eleganté.

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