New Haven Independent

Posted by: Walt | June 4, 2007 5:42 PM

You mention l980's Chevy

How about 1986 Lincoln Town Car, not quite mint, but very good looks, and mint mechanically?

Do you know? How contact?

Thanks

Posted by: stephe | June 5, 2007 5:02 PM

how about a 1962 Ford Falcon. It has a very 50's feel. Does not run well but i mean all it needs to do is be parked on the street right. not a problem then.

Posted by: movie guy | June 5, 2007 5:09 PM

great article! maybe they'll use the corolla in Indiana Jones V.

Posted by: Steven McQueen | June 7, 2007 9:45 PM

In Indiana Jones IV, Raiders of the Lost Park they could contrast the usual bulbous examples of American iron chrome cruiser yank tank land yachts with a sensible VW bug (medium blue color)
and sporty Ivy leaguer rides like a Porsche 356 (silver metallic), a BMW R whatever, BSA A7 and Triumph Thunderbird mc's and don't forget a perky red MG-TD or MG-A or white on red Triumph TR-2 complete with waspy Tad with Eli sweater and blonde hairbanded Muffy riding shotgun.

Also throw in a pipe munching, scarfed, tweedy patched elbow professor type in a British racing green Jaguar XK-120/140 looking forward to his jaunt home, where he likes to powerslide through the eastrock turns with his tourqey six...Weee, Oh Yaaahhs.

Hey, that's it! Indy jacks Tweedy out on his J. Press ass, and the chase is on! -- with the villains' black '55 Chevy bumper to bumper, they race up Prospect St. past the Davie's mansion, hard cobblestone skittering right turn through the Divinity school - commencement jumping and bottoming out hard on down divinity sledding hill and through the iron fence. Dents miraculously disappear in the next shot (!) as we're now racing down St Ronan St. mowing down the Ilmanen Estate's gumdrop bushes then up east rock via Farnam Drive, dicing it out up through the hair pins to a Bullit bigblock throttle blipping, doubleclutching, gear snatching, tire squealing soundtrack with wheel flex shots ala "The Last Run"; the bad guy's snarling Chevy handles like a drunken camel and skids through the low stone barrier at the final left turn at the top and bel-airs a Harold and Maude slo-mo endo, pancaking upsidedown into the Mill River. Indy stops at the summit to survey the flaming wreckage and..."look what we've got"...a panoramic (CGI corrected) shot of New Haven..."for everyone to see"...while Indy stares pensively...no, balefully across Long Island Sound to the flashing green light of East Egg, enticing him towards the unobtainable -- The barrier created by the water is symbolic of the barrier that...GUNSHOTS ring out! -- a searing pain dive into the XK -- won't start (damn Lucas electrics) - crawl over to a nearby BSA goldstar and the chase is on! Wheelie past the Soldier's and Sailor's (peace?) monument (just like I did in high school for Jodie Foster and her Yale drawing class -- still holding on to the grips but legs horizontally off the pegs ala Rollie Free at Bonneville) nah, too undignified for Indiana Jones - anyway, the bike chase continues offroad with dual Ural M-72's in hot pursuit (piloted by none other than NH Park's Dept. Ranger's Dan and Tom), nosestand bouncing down the giant steps -- boink, boink, boink (excellent rider's all), more power sliding hotshoe traprock ridge action up Indian Head and Snake Rock (good view back at the monument...where a monocled sniper takes aim); down across Rice field, through a Yale Lacrosse game, popcorn and pennants flying then down to the "Guerilla trails" (Mill river jogging trails) jumping over Orange St. (catching big air with a One-Handed Carey Hart Attack to dodge Kalishnikov bullets) back onto the riverside trail then a Backflip One-Handed Nac-Nac across East Rock Rd. to the trail -- across the foot bridge (joggers and young fishermen/bathers ejecting over the side); Hollywood style wheelie across the river cutting gray haired bird watchers canoe in half, then across the covered bridge at the Eli Whitney museum where a mean looking, eye patched Bill Brown tries to clothes line him with his suspenders but clips Ranger's Dan and Tom instead; across Whitney Ave and across the Edgerton Park foot bridge were he runs out of gas but nicks a police horse...Hi Ho silvers it, with only one horse power on tap up to the Everit St. block party barricades but is turned away by shrill, maniacal blue meanies who pelt him with shotguns loaded with caviar buckshot...on down Livingston, across College Woods (where he wipes out in Doggie Doo) then on through Fair Haven where he jumps his steed off the Grand Ave. bridge onto the shell pile of passing Oyster boat...("Oyster's! I hate Oysters!")...

Posted by: Steven McQueen | June 9, 2007 3:17 PM

Flashback -- haven't seen that movie for 25 years but in this particular situation Indiana Jones might utter something like "Oyster's -- Why'd it have to be Oysters?!" (Remember that aspy snakepit?)

Posted by: Reid Kaplan | June 28, 2007 8:17 PM

Queenie, except for being a teeny weeny verbose, you know exactly what the cars, and locale situations were here in 1957. I applaud you. There were MG TDs and TFs, Sunbeam Alpines, and 120s all over the place, and also the occasional Ferrari 250 GT (I was passed by 3 of them in Edgewood park) and a slew of Fiat Abarth Double Bubble's - the dealership was in Milford. Jag Mk IVs and Vs were on the used car lots. I nearly bought one. The production designer hasn't got a clue about cars or clothing of 1957.

Posted by: Thurston J. Howell III | July 2, 2007 7:12 AM

"The production designer hasn't got a clue about cars or clothing of 1957."

Yaahhhss shame on them for using those horridly taahcky townie autos, naahhturally the gownie autos were mostly of a different...er...calibre, more sophisticated shaahll we say, more refined and, of course, newer. In 1957 I'm quite sure most Eli's would'nt be caught dead in 10-15 year old milk painted cars, ahhnnnd they clash with the hallowed Gothic Revival architecture. Yaahhss Muffy I do believe this is more like Raiders of the Lost Carch...itecture. Hah hah.(sips martini)

Aaht the risk of sounding gauche or something, these automobiles are simply noht Ivy League; well this IS Yale -- there certainly were none of these hulks aht my Hahvahd.

Say, is one of those things yours?
http://wtnh.tv/blogs/index.php/anchors/2007/06/28/movie_magic

Anywho, wowie, passed by 3 Ferrari 250 GT's in Edgewood park, do tell! In Cambridge, of course we had the authentic version, from what I've seen New Haven might have had the Ferris Bueller type (:))