Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/22

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Subject: [Leica] BULLITT and THE FRENCH CONNECTION and Cars
From: rmcclure2 at woh.rr.com (Rob McClure)
Date: Wed Aug 22 10:14:57 2007
References: <363524.41712.qm@web55907.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Good catch.  It was definitely a Triumph twin, a 650cc Triumph Trophy  
TR6, I believe.

Rob McClure
On Aug 22, 2007, at 7:22 AM, H. Ball Arche wrote:

> Actually it was shot in Germany. In the documentary
> that accompanies the DVD edition, someone talks about
> how the whole cast and crew worked, in off moments, to
> make the barbed wire by tying small bits of rubber at
> short intervals to straight fencing wire.
>
> My question is what kind of bike was McQueen riding?
> It looks like some sort of Brit upright twin.
>
>
> --- Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
>>> Good point, Mark.  But the first chase jump may
>> have been McQueen's
>>> epic motorcycle chase (and jump over a fence) in
>> the Great Escape.
>>>
>>> Rob McClure
>>
>>
>> Which I think took place in Nebraska. Those fences
>> are still there.
>> Nothing like that I ever saw in Germany.
>>
>> I read that whole thing was Steve McQueen's idea.
>>
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Harlem, NY
>>
>> rabinergroup.com
>>
>>
>>
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Rob McClure
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