[DeTomaso] NPC - Another Enzo Bites The Dust

[bill gaino]

Micheal, I belive you are the one who pointed out  "who put the barrier at the turn anyway"  That was kinda stupid for an autocross. The guy behind the wall never flinched?  You reckon it WAS staged? Makes you think hugh?  Bill

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>From: Michael Shortt <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 28, 2007 11:17 AM
>To: "JJD1010 at aol.com" <JJD1010 at aol.com>
>Cc: RKMosier at aol.com, MyCars at comcast.net, detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - Another Enzo Bites The Dust
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>In thinking about the comment that this incident probably generated more
>than 1.5 million dollars worth of PR for the movie...after seeing it all
>over the web and even on Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition, guess
>that it did that if nothing else.
>
>So being the curious person that I am, I looked up the movie, here's what I
>found.
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>"Redline" is an auto/action thriller that features the personal exotic car
>collection of the producer, real estate investor Daniel Sadek. Sadek who is
>financing the $26 million movie used his own cars including a Phantom Rolls
>Royce, Lamborghini Murcielago, Ferrari Enzo, Ferrari F430, Ferrari
>Scaglietti and two Mercedes SLR McLarens. Sadek's $450,000 Porsche Carrera
>GT is actually crashed during one sequence.
>
>It has actors that you have never heard of before.
>
>Then I think to myself, except for LeMans with Steve McQueen, Winning with
>Paul Newman, Gran Prix with James Garner and The Gumball Rally, there hasn't
>been a decent, realistic auto movie in 30 years, the list of absolute crap
>is endless...
>
>The Fast and the Furious ( part 1 ) features perhaps the dumbest line in any
>auto themed movie in history... Vin Diesel talking to the star Paul Walker
>about his now dead father, the DRAG RACER of the blown Dodge Charger, "He
>went into the first turn and hit the wall"
>
>What a dumb ass!, maybe that's why he's dead, the whole idea is to go in a
>straight line.
>The writer should be forced to eat marbles and drink nitro!
>
>Days of Thunder, Driven, Cannonballs,
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>I'd rather watch The Great race with tony Curtis than sit through those.
>
>So this clown makes this film and destroyed an SLR and an Enzo, money and
>film aside, that just ain't right!
>
>Somebody make a decent car movie ( not animated ) that's realistic....and
>hire me while your at it.
>
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>Michael Shortt
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>On 3/28/07, JJD1010 at aol.com <JJD1010 at aol.com> wrote:
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>> In a message dated 3/27/2007 9:05:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
>> MyCars at comcast.net writes:
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>> Swedish ... Koenigsegg?
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>> I thought I saw a Saleen in the paddock.
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