Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Get your Family Truckster now...auction closing soon!

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-24-2003, 05:55 AM:

I think we should all pitch in and buy this car for Joe's 39th birthday. It's even still got the "honky lips" graffiti from the ghetto scene on the side of the car! [Big Grin]

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For those of you who just don't understand the awesomeness of this car, click here.

Posted by Don Bruechert (Member # 1538) on 07-25-2003, 08:51 AM:

I was thinking about bidding on this.... It would make an excellent birthday present for Rachel!! [Razz]

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 07-25-2003, 10:35 AM:

How John Landishly surreal!

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 07-25-2003, 11:50 AM:

I WANT THE FAMILY TRUCKSTER!!! That is so cool. Let's see, if I take out a 2nd mortgage...

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 07-25-2003, 03:52 PM:

Thanks Don, you can use the awesome family truckster and I'll just use your truck! [Razz]

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-26-2003, 06:23 PM:

Here's a link to the original article from National Lampoon (written by John Hughes) that inspired the movie.

http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/vacation58/vacation.html

Posted by Gerard S. Cohen (Member # 994) on 07-26-2003, 10:55 PM:

Thanks, Mike!
I really enjoyed reading that. It made me recall the film, as I showed it for many days when it was first released.
Sort of satirizes Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
doesn't it? (I was stationed near Barstow on Route 66 at the edge of the Mohave Desert in the early 1950's)
Gerard

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 07-26-2003, 11:55 PM:

Wouldn't you much rather have the Turbo Grand Detroit Town Car driven by Steve Martin and John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles?"

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