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The Italian Job’s Minis jumped a 24-meter gap between Turin rooftops at 68 mph, and BMC still wanted paying
The rooftop jump in The Italian Job lasts only seconds on screen. In real life, the Italian Job Minis left a roof 15 meters above Turin…
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Greased Lightnin’ began as a 1948 Ford De Luxe convertible, one of 40-plus cars Eddie Paul built for Grease
Before it had fins, flames or a song, the Greased Lightning car in Grease was a tired old Ford convertible. In the 1978 film, Kenickie buys…
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Elon Musk paid nearly $1 million for the Bond Lotus Esprit submarine a Long Island couple found in a $100 storage unit
In 1989, a Long Island couple bid on a storage unit they had never seen inside and won it for about $100. Behind the door sat…
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Miami Vice’s Daytona Spyder was a Corvette underneath, and Ferrari’s lawsuit put Crockett in a Testarossa
The black Ferrari that Sonny Crockett drove through the first seasons of Miami Vice was really a Corvette in a fiberglass suit. That Miami Vice Daytona…
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