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Subject:Re: VWs in Hollywood [Get Smart!]]
Date:Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:15:36 -0700

>No, No, No Steve! You are half correct. Max did drive a Sunbeam Tiger but
in some episodes or some season < hard to tell in reruns> DID indeed drive a
Ghia Convert.  I noticed this while I owned my long since gone '70 Ghia
'vert. I still would love to drive either one again.
rvb\
 
>>Didn't Maxwell Smart drive up in a Karmen(SP) Ghia during the
>>opening shot of "Get Smart"?
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>Nope-- that was a Sunbeam Tiger. Same size and weight as a Ghia, but
>with a Ford 289 V8 engine under the hood. My dad used to say you could
>remove the drive shaft from that car, and drive it around powering it
>with the cooling fan...
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>And, adding injury to insult, Agent 86 crashed it into the rear of
>a truck every episode (shudder)
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