I'm a Nissan 350Z!You're not the fastest or the most agile, but you have style and power. You believe in looking good and moving quickly -- without breaking the bank. "Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz. Get Your Sexy Name Get Your Cyborg Name No? Okay, it's the car. I'm not a Nissan, thank you very much. I'm one of these. This is Straker's car from the Gerry Anderson series UFO. Two were made. They were sleek and gorgeous looking, with automatic gull-wing doors that whirred excitingly when you got in or out (how else would you know it was a special effect?) and they made a jet turbine whine rather than the usual car noise. Well, that was the dream. In real life, they were aluminium shells bolted to a Ford Zephyr chassis. The actors hated them because they were underpowered, they steered like pigs, and engine fumes leaked back into the passenger compartment. As for those lovely gull-wing doors, you never saw an entire door open or close because they were operated manually by a stagehand standing just off camera. It was almost impossible to let yourself out of the car without assistance. But on screen, and in my head, they rock. |
Thursday, April 12, 2007
One of these is wrong
Can you spot which?
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The robot name is quite cool. Why do people have to shatter illusions about cool cars?
ReplyDeleteSo... are you saying that you're sleek and gorgeous-looking, that actors hate you, or that you have to be operated manually? :)
ReplyDeleteOoh, matron!
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