ray > wrote in message >...
> >>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, z wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>In last week's Sopranos, Tony has a flashback to when he was 16, and his
> >>>father excused his late arrival home by saying the car broke a timing
> >>>belt. What cars had timing belts in the 60s? This is like all the movies
> >>>that take place in the 50s, and the driver turns on the car radio and it
> >>>plays with no warmup.
> >>
> >>Oh yeah, I *hate* stupid errors like this. It arises from willful
> >>ignorance and laziness. The list goes on and on: '59 Cadillacs with
> >>automatic transmissions that sound like '88 Tercels with stick shifts when
> >>started and driven. Nonexistent "440 Hemi" engines and "Holley Quadrajet"
> >>carburetors.
> >>
> >>It's one of the many reasons I no longer watch television.
> >
> >
> And how come in all the racing movies when the hero wants to pass
> for the lead he jams his foot to the floor and rockets past the
> villan? WHY was he not driving full out before? he was
> in a bloody car race!
> (driven, days of thunder, any Burt Reynolds movie...)



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