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| | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | The movie was "Duel" not Dual. I remember it well. I read the story before it was a movie. That was an interesting article. Thanks. | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 477 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 477 | pretty good movie, and real good article.
however,
the movie p.m.o. (i assume i can't say [censored] me off).
helluva waste of a classic needlenose pete! | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 117 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 117 | I'm glad to see that it has an owner that appreciates it's history and is taking great care of it. If only every neat old vehicle could have a caring owner. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon | | Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 | Coincidental (like most of the events bedeviling poor Dennis Weaver in the movie) AMC broadcast "Duel" today!
Although goofy and overdone, this one had different elements of suspense and is in the same league as a Hitchcock thriller.
It is good to know that a truck from the movie is still around.
Drivin' down a 2 lane country road in a stovebolt.....cowboy, it don't get no better than this!
1946 1-1/2 ton Chevy
"Ol Blue", or "THE BIG 'UN"
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 543 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 543 | Steven Speilberg's first movie as a director. Who'd thunk?
Pessimist - Sees glass as half-empty. Optimist - Sees glass as half-full. Gov't- Sees glass and takes it from you because you have a glass.
Political Correctness: A philosophical belief system bereft of common sense and logic, that supports and rewards ignorance and stupidity.
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 9 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 9 | I too remember some nightmares after I watched the movie in my youth. Thanks for sharing the great article!
N Cal Calvin
'46 Two ton, nice project
'56 Two ton dump,a work horse!
'94 C1500, Hers
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,893 | I never liked that movie. or... I never had sympathy for Weaver's whiny charecter and I always want the truck to run him off the road and then it has the Hollywood ending. The truck is cool tho'.  I dig it. Then again, I've seen 'convoy' waaaaay too many times when I was a kid... -W | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon | | Big Bolt Shop Curmudgeon Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 332 | Once upon a time there was a great series on TV called "Cannonball."
Two fellers drove a truck interstate and had all kinds of adventures -- sort of a "Route 66" with Todd and Buzz, but on a truck theme.
It had a neat truck, too.
Anybody remember that program?
Drivin' down a 2 lane country road in a stovebolt.....cowboy, it don't get no better than this!
1946 1-1/2 ton Chevy
"Ol Blue", or "THE BIG 'UN"
| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 477 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 477 | yeah i remember cannonball. mike malone and his trusty sidekick moving freight on the 2 lane.
r model bubblenose was the star. i think it was a 520, but spanky will correct me if i'm wrong.
i even remeber the theme song.
barrelin' down the highway
wheelin' right along
hear the tires ahummin'
hummin' out a song
the rumblin' of the diesel
the shiftin' of the gears'
the rythum when their rollin' is music to their ears,
cannonball!
darn how many years have i stored that in the memory bank! (and still forget to pick up milk on the way home)
thanks for the memory glen! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 | Well Cannonball is a new one on me sounds like they just updated it little and came out with "movin on" in the seventies. using a KW w900 with Claude Atkins and Frank Converse | | |
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