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Did the movie Apollo 13 have a 65-66 Shelby Mustang

Started by deathsled, November 01, 2020, 09:05:39 PM

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deathsled

I am attempting to recall which movie had a scene with a white Shelby with blue stripes doing a burnout filmed from the rear of the car against I believe a Corvette.  Was the movie Apollo 13?  I recall Gary Busey was hanging out of the window of the Shelby I believe.  My youtube search came up snake eyes.  Anyone recall this scene?

Addendum: Okay, I whittled it down to Apollo 13 since ebay is selling a Green Light commemoration of that scene.  I can't find any further details though.  It really stuck in my memory all these years....
https://www.ebay.com/p/23015818584?iid=183546163689
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Gary Busey, wasn't in Apollo 13.  The scene was the Lovells in their Corvette, pull up at a light.  The GT350 is next to them.  Someone (I forget driver or passenger) in the GT350 yells over "Hey!  Are you Jim Lovell?".  Tom Hanks as Lovell nods and smiles.  The light changes and the GT350 spins tires running away while the Vette, stalls.  This is all setting up all the "foreboding" things that go wrong.

Lots of films have people hanging out a window.  I've no doubt Busey is one of them.

One I remember is American Graffiti.  Richard Dreyfuss when he is hanging out with the "Pharoh's" and they hook the cop car, speed by yelling to entice the cops to give chase. 
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2112

Busey hangs out the window of a '70 Camaro SS in Gumball Rally IIRC.

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Never noticed the guy taking the shots until today
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Quote from: 2112 on November 02, 2020, 10:43:07 AM
Busey hangs out the window of a '70 Camaro SS in Gumball Rally IIRC.
Yep.  Maybe more than once.  And that whistle he has!  "Mr. Guts". 
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Chevrolet was selling all the astronauts Corvettes on the cheap. They were the rock stars of the era and Chevy wanted them seen in the car that lived up to their devil may care fighter pilot persona.
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Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on November 02, 2020, 07:41:34 PM
Chevrolet was selling all the astronauts Corvettes on the cheap. They were the rock stars of the era and Chevy wanted them seen in the car that lived up to their devil may care fighter pilot persona.

Chevrolet was gifting,  selling or lending them out . That came to an end in 71 or 72
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deathsled

Interesting facts about the Vette.  Also...didn't Shelby give a Cobra to the woman who penned Hey Little Cobra? 
"Low she sits on five spoke wheels
Small block eight so live she feels
There she's parked beside the curb
Engine revving to disturb
She's the princess from his past
Red paint gold stripes damned she's fast"