Re: IML: Lemony Snickets, My review of the '60 Imperial etc.

[dardal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Did they destroy the car in the movie?  D^2

Quoting richard burgess <lecrown60@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Folks, Yesterday was opening day for Lemony Snickets' A Series of
> Unfortunate Events.  My partner Tony and I and Chris Hawkins went to see it
> last night.  A pretty good movie by all accounts but of course my focus was
> entirely on the star of the show, the '60 Imperial.  Before now all that was
> available were quick little clips of the car.  Now we know what it was they
> started with.  A 1960 Custom Soouthampton hartop.  We could see some fabric
> on the door panels with the small crowns, and the front fenders just read
> Imperial, indicating a Custom.  Sedan posts were added but there were no
> sedan door frames and the Southampton interior chrome surround was present. 
> Sedans have no chrome running along the headliner.  The major modification
> was stretching the car between the rear doors and the rear wheelwells with a
> customized roof treatment.  The car has the standard decklid.  They highly
> modified the dashboard, it was not recognizable but retained the push buttons
> in various
>  locations.  The seats were also not original to the car but of a thicker,
> more "sofa" variety.  The car was pretty succesful in creating the menacing
> look and the patina of age on the car looked quite authentic.  It featured a
> highly modified Tatra in many more scenes than the Imperial.  I know the dash
> of the Tatra was highly modified but don't know enough about those cars to
> say more than that.  Our Atlanta paper did mention the Chrysler Imperial so
> at least there were no mistakes in the year, just that it was a Chrysler
> which is technically wrong.  I find that the general public needs the
> Chrysler prefix anyway or you just get a confused look on their face.   I
> think it is quite an enjoyable movie. Happy Holidays Everyone.  Richard and
> Tony, Atlanta
> 
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