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Rome
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 Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| The modestly powered Ghia passing the Alfa! If Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman, the Alfa's driver) were Italian, he'd have sped up and passed it to save face. Too bad this screen shot is about 20% stretched... would be easy to shrink down and crop out the black borders top and bottom with photo editing. I've seen it in the Gallery in another recent post (VWs in movies?) but at least it's a reasonably sharp quality. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Rome wrote: |
| The modestly powered Ghia passing the Alfa! If Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman, the Alfa's driver) were Italian, he'd have sped up and passed it to save face. Too bad this screen shot is about 20% stretched... would be easy to shrink down and crop out the black borders top and bottom with photo editing. I've seen it in the Gallery in another recent post (VWs in movies?) but at least it's a reasonably sharp quality. |
Shot with an iPhone off an iPad. Screen grab not available.
Ben is passing the Ghia in the movie.
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Rome
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| Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Trylon posted this photo today from "The Graduate" (1967), but IMO it was significantly distorted/"stretched".
With his consent I modified it slightly, narrowing it approx. 20-25% to appear more realistic. Also cropped out the large black borders, lightened the shadows, rotated 0.5 degree CW, and straightened out the distortion towards the upper right. Very similar to photos from Don Radomski and rcooled. The Alfa Duetto Spyder is driven by main character Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:46 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| John Moxon wrote: |
| Rome wrote: |
The Alfa Duetto Spyder is driven by main character Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California.
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I'm sure my '58 Ghia has travelled that bridge hundreds of times during its 49 years of Berkeley to SF daily commute. |
2x a day 5 times a week = 10 x a week = 520 x a year = 25,480 times in 49 years. Now even if she didn't drive to work everyday .......
2x a day 4 times a week = 8 x a week = 416 x a year = 20,383 in 49 years.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:59 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Fish wrote: |
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| Rome wrote: |
The Alfa Duetto Spyder is driven by main character Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California.
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I'm sure my '58 Ghia has travelled that bridge hundreds of times during its 49 years of Berkeley to SF daily commute. |
2x a day 5 times a week = 10 x a week = 520 x a year = 25,480 times in 49 years. Now even if she didn't drive to work everyday .......
2x a day 4 times a week = 8 x a week = 416 x a year = 20,383 in 49 years. |
Surprised it wasn’t there during this shoot.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:37 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Rome wrote: |
| I've seen it in the Gallery in another recent post (VWs in movies?) but at least it's a reasonably sharp quality. |
The 'Graduate Ghia' has been mentioned at least twice before in this thread...on pages 13 & 16. Photos aren't as sharp as the one you enhanced though...
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From 2010:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-TlxADdA4
Gone in 60 seconds (the original 74)
Lots of Vws everywhere ghia at 2;16 2;28 and at the end on the bridge at 7;30
It's amazing the number of Vws in the streets...a lot of type 3 also ...and the 70 style fashion
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I did not watch Claude's linked movie, though last year I watched the long movie-end chase segment closely for any Ghias. Likely the one he mentions above "on the bridge" is this one- a 2-tone early Ghia is on the bridge to or from Terminal Island, Long Beach, California. Seen from the yellow Mustang "Eleanor".
Also this one, easily missed, as Maindrian Pace (H.B. Halicki) driving the Mustang is finally leaving the large dirt vacant property in Carson (you can see the Mustang in background above the police car hood) and gets back on the paved streets. The Ghia is not hit. Low-light! 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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From the tail lights, looks like a 57, 58, or 59. |
They didn’t make low light convertibles in 57,  I do like the license plate!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Marcdeb wrote: |
From the tail lights, looks like a 57, 58, or 59. |
Could very well be?!?! I asked my Facebook friend where they found the video clip, and apparently they were doing some Starsky & Hutch research, and somehow or other came across some Paul Michael Glaser web site or account somewhere, where it was posted. I will ask again specifically where the clip was found, as there are other views of the car from different angles.
Okay, try this, if you're Facebook compatible:
https://www.facebook.com/jett.starr.5/videos/10218716508405380
EDIT: Having some experience with Ghias & Ghia seats, it's my observation Glaser seems to sit fairly "tall in the saddle" in that Ghia. He's not a small guy, listed at 5'11", but I still wonder if some "Hollywood Magic" (like, say, a seat cushion or two) might've been employed...
EDIT #2: I'm not sure if this is the whole movie or not (maybe just a part of it), but check this out--more scenes with the Ghia in it:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hos8k
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| Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 5:37 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Movie "Brewster McCloud" (1970) filmed in Houston, Texas. Old man Abraham Wright (Stacy Keach) rolls past a parked pale yellow Ghia Coupe while in his runaway wheelchair. I don't see the red reflector on the upper part of the rear quarter panel that would be on a '68/'69, and the wider rear axle stance points to a '67. Color is probably Castilian Yellow as it appears to be more yellow than the ivory-like Lotus White. IMDB lists the location as 1 Main Street in Houston. |
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| Dicky Roberts - david spade rolls one down the edge of a cliff |
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| Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star starts with him jacking up a ghia and it rolling off a cliff. |
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, 2003. 1972 Karmann Ghia.
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, 2003.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Karmann Ghias on the silver screen |
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| The car driven by Robert Redford in "SNEAKERS" is a Karmann Ghia |
also first mentioned by Gary in 2004. Here are some photos from this 1992 movie which was filmed in the San Francisco, and Lost Angeles areas of California. Martin Bishop (Robert Redford) heads up a team of security system specialists, and drives a battered '67 Ghia missing its reverse lights and rear bumper guards & towel bars. In some scenes ex-CIA agent Donald Crease (Sidney Poitier) is his passenger. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:52 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Thanks! I forgot about the vintage photos forum.
Impressed you found those so quickly! |
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