Four MOVIE Bluesmobiles in one picture ?
Sept 17, 2016 19:08:59 GMT -5
Post by Steam McQueen on Sept 17, 2016 19:08:59 GMT -5
- Quite a pic of one of the Pinto tests flying off the unfinished ramp in Milwaukee ...
Does it look like as many as four Bluesmobiles here?
- www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2016/08/23/our-back-pages-when-blues-brothers-crashed-milwaukee/89084288/
I made a vid about that filming location, nothin' fancy, fan-made not for profit ...
I wonder if those Bluesmobiles wound up in a Milwaukee wrecking yard back then? The one they jumped over the Pinto would have had a 440 and roll bars. I wonder how many other pics they got in their archives? I'll take a look around for some.
This one came from Tony Donno, son of Eddy Donno (Jake's double) ...
Does it look like as many as four Bluesmobiles here?
Milwaukee's close-up is the brief bit on the bridge — specifically, the stub end of eastbound I-794 just before the lakefront, a long-unfinished link to the never-built north extension of the Lake Freeway.
Filming was supposed to take place in one day. The Journal's Ron Elving reported in a front-page story Aug. 28 that he spotted Belushi in full Blues Brothers regalia — rumpled black suit, skinny tie, black hat, white shirt — and saw Aykroyd pull up in a black Cadillac with Illinois plates. Henry Gibson, the former "Laugh-In" star who played the head Illinois Nazi in the movie, also was seen.
"By 11 a.m., a small crowd of onlookers encircled the filming area," Elving reported. It wasn't until 12:20 p.m., the Sentinel reported, that cameras began to roll.
"An orange compact car, with a dummy propped in the driver's seat, came hurtling down the East-West Freeway, taking the exit that no man had dared to take before — at least at that speed," the Sentinel wrote. "The car with the dummy driver was attached to the side of a second car. At the right moment, the dummy car was released and in a screech of tires, hit a gravel ramp at an angle, flying off one side of the expressway stub."
Landis wasn't happy with the results.
Filming was supposed to take place in one day. The Journal's Ron Elving reported in a front-page story Aug. 28 that he spotted Belushi in full Blues Brothers regalia — rumpled black suit, skinny tie, black hat, white shirt — and saw Aykroyd pull up in a black Cadillac with Illinois plates. Henry Gibson, the former "Laugh-In" star who played the head Illinois Nazi in the movie, also was seen.
"By 11 a.m., a small crowd of onlookers encircled the filming area," Elving reported. It wasn't until 12:20 p.m., the Sentinel reported, that cameras began to roll.
"An orange compact car, with a dummy propped in the driver's seat, came hurtling down the East-West Freeway, taking the exit that no man had dared to take before — at least at that speed," the Sentinel wrote. "The car with the dummy driver was attached to the side of a second car. At the right moment, the dummy car was released and in a screech of tires, hit a gravel ramp at an angle, flying off one side of the expressway stub."
Landis wasn't happy with the results.
- www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2016/08/23/our-back-pages-when-blues-brothers-crashed-milwaukee/89084288/
I made a vid about that filming location, nothin' fancy, fan-made not for profit ...
I wonder if those Bluesmobiles wound up in a Milwaukee wrecking yard back then? The one they jumped over the Pinto would have had a 440 and roll bars. I wonder how many other pics they got in their archives? I'll take a look around for some.
This one came from Tony Donno, son of Eddy Donno (Jake's double) ...