ReggieSnake said:I hadn't noticed that before. I guess they were trying to be consistent with the vehicles. I doubt it is the very same vehicle though since the sub bay scene was filmed in France, and the Truck Chase in Tunisia.
Stoo said:Considering it is such a weird, seemingly unidentifiable vehicle, it's doubtful that they had 2 of them.
The truck was used twice so why not this? Good eye, Koosh!
Definitely a Frankenstein vehicle. I'll have to check out those models you mentioned.Kooshmeister said:Thanks. The car is sadly a total fake, Mercedes never made anything even remotely like it according to the Internet Movie Cars Database. (it looks like they cut a Horch in half, shortening the middle, and stuck the front end of an Opel Blitz onto it and added the Mercedes hood ornament; but then again I'm no car expert.)
It looks like the truck that explodes in Cairo is also sitting on the dock during the Bantu Wind scene. Tell me what you think.Kooshmeister said:Where else in Raiders is the cargo truck used?
No, I never knew that and I used to watch them movie a lot! That is so funny when it just lightly touches the Pinto's fenderKooshmeister said:Incidentally was anyone else aware that both the truck and the troop car were repainted and reused for the movie Top Secret? In addition to the repaints, they have the truck be open-backed rather than have a cloth top, and the middle bar and convertible top (which is folded back during the chase) of the troop car were removed. I forget what happens to the truck, but the poor troop car rear-ends a Ford Pinto....
Stoo said:From day 1, I never believed that either the car (or the truck) were actual Mercedes.
Stoo said:It looks like the truck that explodes in Cairo is also sitting on the dock during the Bantu Wind scene. Tell me what you think.
Stoo said:No, I never knew that and I used to watch them movie a lot! That is so funny when it just lightly touches the Pinto's fender
*tink* and causes an explosion! (It's been a long time...which car explodes?)
Stoo said:No, that looks like one fo the cars (Opel Olympia?) from the Tanis digsite repainted.
Kooshmeister said:The Pinto, for the most part.
Mickiana said:Maybe he's thinking he'd like one for driving around his home town?...
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NLogan said:Good catch. Along a similar line I just noticed the car Belloq and Dietrich are riding in during the truck chase is seen in the submarine port.
Kooshmeister said:The black Mercedes? Where? Are you sure you aren't confusing it with this:
Which would be the troop car that went off the cliff, not the staff car. Unless the black car is also there, somewhere else in that submarine pen and I haven't spotted it.