[DeTomaso] sacrificial Panteras - :-(

[Rob Dumoulin]

I like your quote. "no Panteras were harmed in the making of this movie".
 We should certify movies and put that disclaimer at the end just like PETA
does.  We would be PETOP.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Christopher Kimball
<chrisvkimball at msn.com>wrote:

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> Naw--if you look at the DVD frame by frame you can see "no Panteras were
> harmed in the making of this movie."  (See below a couple of items I found
> while searching the ever-truthful internet...")
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>  In the aerial shot where the Pantera explodes on the highway,
> you can see that it's a crude mock-up on some type of rolling trailer.
> Also, it appears to only be moving at 30 or 40 mph, which is WAY slower
> than the 160 mph speed indicated in the movie.
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> error: Supposedly the Pantera was rigged to explode once it
> reached 160 mph. There are two problems here. First, a stock Detomaso
> Pantera could never reach 160, especially a smog-controlled "L" model
> with the old bias-ply Arriva tires, which is what they used in the
> movie. Second, the Dodge Polara police car that was tailing him closely
> and matching his speed, most DEFINITELY would not be able to achieve
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> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:08:13 -0700
> From: garth_rodericks at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] sacrificial Panteras - :-(
> To: chrisvkimball at msn.com; detomaso at realbig.com
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> I think Mike Drew had once told me it was a real honest to goodness
> Pantera. It sure looked like the real thing when I froze the video to watch
> the pieces fly off. I own it too, so I'll have
> to pop it into the DVD player and step through the explosion frame by
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> From: Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
> To: garth_rodericks at yahoo.com; Pantera List Serve <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 8:30:15 PM
> Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] sacrificial Panteras - :-(
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> I own the Cannonball movie--it was that movie that ignited my love for
> Panteras (no pun intended)!  The explosion is not a Pantera, it's
> odd-looking contraption that is being towed behind the police car in the
> overhead "explosion" shot.
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> That movie was way too low budget to waste a Pantera!
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> > Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:32:22 -0700
> > From: garth_rodericks at yahoo.com
> > To: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Subject: [DeTomaso] sacrificial Panteras - :-(
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> > This triggers flashbacks from "Cannonball" (1976) - aka Carquake -
> starring David Carradine in which a real
> > Pantera was blown to bits for the sake of  movie B-movie entertainment!
> > http://www.banzairunnerpantera.com/movie_cannonball.htm
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> > Unfortunately, the English trailer/clip I linked from my website is no
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> > issues. But here's a German version. The carnage occurs 1:13 into the
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9fvd4oBkMA
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