remember the movie with John Cusack from the 80's ?? Here is a cool website about a guy who fell in love with the Camaro used in the movie, and how he ended up with the car. http://www.betteroffdeadcamaro.com/index.html?main.html~fright
One of my favorite movies. :laugh: I'd like to have the W30 from Demolition Man. Read an article back when the movie was made saying they used three real W30's for the movie. One was totaled, one had some damage, and the last one was still pristine. Wonder what happened to them?
"Dieing when you're not really sick is really sick." I'm glad to see that site is still up. That is one of my favorite movies. Back in highschool I had a Camaro that never ran. I always used to comment "if only I had my Camaro running. Then, when seeing this movie, the scene where they end up in the water, and he comes out and says "If I only had my Camaro running," my friend and I were almost rolling on the floor laughing. A couple girls in front of us turned around and said, "It wasn't that funny," to which we replied it was. "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn." We've taught many people to ski that way.
Neat story and web site Talk about determination. I know of another movie with a Gen I Camaro that he didn't list. The movie "Body Double" is one of my all time favorites and the main star drove a 67 blue convertible. Love the video of "Relax", but could have lived without the electric drill scene. YUK.
ALL Three of the Demo Man cars are not real W30 s. They are clones. The one crashed (totaled) was a 3687 (Cutlass S) and the other two were real 4487 s (442). When I was given a private tour of the R E Olds Museum on a Monday they were closed (right after the two remaining cars were donated to the museum), my buddy (who traveled to Lansing with me from Florida) and I looked over both cars and they are for sure cloned W30 s. Also, whoever did them for the company who supplied the cars for the movie, did a poor job. They looked Ok from 30 feet away! LOL
Hmmmmmmmmmm. The best one of the three was owned by Marc Carpenter, a very reknown Olds collector of rare original Olds iron (Hursts, Pace Cars, etc.) and a good friend of Mark Cornea(Dr Decal). Marc C. sold it to them for the movie. It was later on display at the Olds Homecoming soon after. I believe it was a real W30, perhaps not perfectly restored after the movie people got it. This was the main one used in the closeups and not in the action shots. The worst one was truly a pile of junk and had a Chevy engine. Don't know much about the Mama bear car. All 3 cars were "prepped/restored" together by a shop near here in Norther Detroit suburbs using Marc's car as the model. Think they did all 3 in under 3 weeks. I don't know what they might have changed on Marc's car after he sold it to them. He moved to Minnesota (training instructor for Ford Service training) and last I knew had a 70 Pace Car convertible that I believe,came from Cornea. Mark Cornea's own 70 W30 is a real one and is really, really nice. He has a lot of personalized modifications in it and cruises in it regularly. See it at his website. I think he traded the Indy Pace Car convertible to the other Marc (Carpender) for it. I'll call him and see what he remembers of the Demolition car that Marc C. sold to the movie guys. Hey, I've been wrong before, just not often. Just because something's not right on a car, doesn't mean it's not a genuine thing. I added a vacuum trunk release kit (bought from salvage sales for $1.00) to my Ramrod, have 1969 retractable seat belts, pin stripes on the dash from a 442 (not available on Cutlasses), Toro stereo radio, 2 antennas (original one on the front and the retractable on the rear (more salvage sales), etc...... but it's still a real one, not a clone. It's actually closer to original appearance today that it was when it was six months old with Chrome reverse wheels, and a 442 grille without the numerals (like a Hurst).
Charles Dumar... yep, Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. Also the one DJ on That 70s Show. And Major Winchester (forget his real name) from MASH played the father in Better Off Dead. Have any of the other actors done anything of note?
Truzi, you are thinking of David Ogden Stiers that portrayed Major Charles Emerson Winchester III. Incidentally, do you know who played the voice of his sister Honorria when she sent him a tape from Boston?
So the Demo Man car ('s) went to the Olds museum? Guess there's no chance of getting one of them. Thanks for the info.
ANOR-ria? No, A-nor-ia. LOL. No, I don't know who she was - I suppose I could Google it, but its more fun if you tell me. Plus I need to get to bed - its about 6:38 am.
