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Post by texasblumo1 on Mar 2, 2014 3:42:20 GMT -5
I have posted a bunch of new pics from my car getting around town in DFW on www.texasbluesmobile.com including the Dallas Comic Con, Jimmie Vaughan concert and upcoming George Thorogood, and two trips to Houston's HOB - one with Jim Belushi. Amazing the car gets more attention then the tribute bands in Texas --- often!
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Post by Steam McQueen on Mar 31, 2014 22:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by chitownjohn on Apr 9, 2014 9:55:21 GMT -5
Wow, very nice looking car, like how they did it. Great shape too!!
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Post by Steam McQueen on Apr 26, 2014 22:50:05 GMT -5
- I think this is the same Blumo in Kansas mentioned two posts up ... The image is from a blog which appears to be just someone driving around Kansas taking video. Some of the trips they upload but it doesn't look like the video from that night made it to youtube. - svobodakc.blogspot.ca/
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Post by Steam McQueen on May 11, 2014 17:42:09 GMT -5
- I think this pic has been posted somewhere along the way. I noticed it the other day at the Dodge Monaco tumblr page ... The pic is a bit bigger at the link, sure is a very clear pic. - www.tumblr.com/tagged/dodge-monacoI figure the piece of telephone pole on the ground is what was cannoned from under the front of the car to make it flip over ...
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Post by Ghostbluesman (Ghostsoldier) on May 11, 2014 18:52:17 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but that looks like a Photoshop image to me.... Rob
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Post by Steam McQueen on May 11, 2014 22:43:29 GMT -5
that looks like a Photoshop image to me.... I believe it's the real deal, Ghostman. I was pretty sure I had seen the piece of telephone pole blowing outta the car at some point. I don't think you can see it on the VHS. I think this GIF is how we see it on VHS. You can see a puff of dust from the charge but no pole ... I don't have my DVD copy handy at the moment (I know, I know, what the hell kind of fan am I? lol) so I'm not certain if it's visible on the DVD or maybe it's the wide-screen format from the Blu-ray or something. But I just noticed the scene from "MOVIECLIPS" and you can definitely see the pole exiting ... So knowing for sure that piece of pole came from the Bluesmobile, and it worked perfectly sending the car into that trunk stand, I think the b&w pic is authentic. Although some of the smoke and dust may have been cleaned out of the pic, I think the Bluesmobile really did stand up and over like that. --- As we know, Gary "Whiz Kid" McLarty was the stunt coordinator on The Blues Brothers, and he was the guy who actually did the first ever cannon roll in a movie, the John Wayne flick, McQ. I used to think it was Hal Needham because basically he invented the set up, but here's a good story about that ... - www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/vintage-speed/hal-needhams-greatest-stunts-mcq-1974#slide-7I love that story Until I had read it just last year I had always believed it was Hal who did the roll in the movie. So it was Gary and what a stunt! Duke in a Belvedere, Gary in an Impala ... And that's about as far off-track as I can take this post at this time.
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Post by Ghostbluesman (Ghostsoldier) on May 12, 2014 7:27:18 GMT -5
I stand corrected, Steamo....I guess the crisp B&W image, coupled with the side-angle, made it look like a fake (to these old eyes, anyway); it's sad that with the advent of PS, it gets where a person can't trust anything seen on the interwebs anymore...or at least, become very suspicious lol! And thanks for the write-up on the 'cannon'; I had watched that scene in McQ, but never knew how it was done, who did it, or that it was used in The Blues Brothers! Rob
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Post by flcl64 on May 12, 2014 18:13:35 GMT -5
I noticed this a while ago, the backflip mechanism is cropped out in the blu-ray version but not the DVDs
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Post by Steam McQueen on May 17, 2014 16:09:56 GMT -5
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Post by Steam McQueen on Jun 15, 2014 18:07:09 GMT -5
- Is this Ant's new Blumo? We know he had his stolen, then I think he mentioned (at BBC) that he found another '74. Not sure, but this pic is from the Dunstable Car Rally last weekend ... - www.flickr.com/photos/28083135@N06/14189097760/
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Post by christine58 on Jun 16, 2014 16:46:28 GMT -5
I believe it is. A friend of mine was at that show and spotted it.
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Post by Steam McQueen on Jul 25, 2014 20:46:14 GMT -5
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Post by Steam McQueen on Aug 8, 2014 22:20:38 GMT -5
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Post by Steam McQueen on Sept 21, 2014 20:28:04 GMT -5
- The Blumo known as "King of the Hill' is still being photographed out and about ... - www.flickr.com/photos/7119320@N05/- blusbros.com/--- It got that nickname when there were three '74 Monaco's for sale at the same time and this one was considered king of the hill. Actual K-code, ex RCMP ...
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