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  1. hoffmeister

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    #1 hoffmeister, Apr 22, 2005
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    Amusing story...

    Talk about being clueless (me). I went to a car show LAST summer and parked next to this station wagon in the pictures below. I just YESTERDAY posted this pic on a different website and someone responded by asking me if that was the "Family Truckster" from National Lampoon's Vacation. It NEVER even occured to me until just NOW what a coincidence that was. I guess that explains why the guy who owned it gave me such a strange look after I parked next to him and was pretty much an @sshole the rest of the day. LOL!
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  2. El Wayne

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  3. 96impalaSS

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    #3 96impalaSS, Apr 22, 2005
    Hhahaha honkey lips... love those pics.

    Anyone ever notice though that in the Vegas Vaction movie Christie Brinkley (I think that's who the woman in the Ferrari was.) was Driving a Mondial?
     
  4. Ricambi America

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    #4 Ricambi America, Apr 22, 2005
    Is that a Maserati trident on the side of the Truckster? Now it all makes sense...
     
  5. Greg G

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    #5 Greg G, Apr 22, 2005
    Since when does an Aspen/Volare look like a Country Squire?

    I love the real Truckster... wood grain on the hood and the octet headlamps. Always guarranteed to crack me up!
     
  6. rsvmille676

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    #6 rsvmille676, Apr 22, 2005
    " You think you hate it now.. wait until you drive it!"
     
  7. MalcQV

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    #7 MalcQV, Apr 22, 2005
    I am not going mad then. There was another thread that touched on the film "National Lampoons vacation", some guy commented that it was a 308 she was driving. I was convinced it was a Mondial Cab.

    Seems like right characters wrong film :D
     
  8. PWehmer

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    #8 PWehmer, Apr 22, 2005
    In Vegas Vacation she's driving a Modial with a baby seat in the back. The license plate said something funny.
     
  9. WJHMH

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    #10 jimpo1, Apr 22, 2005
    They filmed the Christie Brinkley driving scenes in this movie outside of my home town. I still remember going to the Holiday Inn every night to see the 308 and the Truckster on the open car hauler. We couldn't figure out what the story was on the station wagon, but we admired the Ferrari for hours. I wish I'd known Christie was in the hotel.
     
  11. Dcup

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    #11 Dcup, Apr 22, 2005
    GREAT MOVIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    #12 CMY, Apr 22, 2005
    I wouldn't hesitate for a second to buy that car, it's ugly but you probably couldn't get me out of it!

    C.
     
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  15. Bimmerista

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    #15 Bimmerista, Apr 22, 2005
    She still looks great!!
     
  16. JeffB

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    #16 JeffB, Apr 22, 2005
    Man, I was obsessed with her & the Ferrari in that movie as a kid. What a great flick! Some funny scenes from that movie. A couple that stand out are...

    1) When Rusty asked the pimp how to get back on the express way, the pimp said "hey man f**k yo mama!".

    2) When Audrey & her cousin were on the seesaw, the cousin says "I go steady, and I french kiss". Audrey says "so, everybody does" and the cousin says "yeah, but daddy says I'm the best at it".

    LOL!
     

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