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By John Mummert - 13 Years Ago
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Turned on the telly when I got home from work Friday night in the middle of an old B/W movie. A guy is working on a boat engine that appears to be an Interceptor. Sure enough it is a Y-Block. When he gets it running and gets back to shore he is driving a 57 Ford Sunliner. Even the bad guys in the movie drive 57 Fords. The ambulance is a 51 or 52 F-1 panel. Turns out to be a Mike Hammer movie, "My Gun is Fast". Not a great movie but the all Y-Blocks made up for the plot.
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By mctim64 - 13 Years Ago
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Cool! I wonder if it's wone you can streem for free online. 
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By Hollow Head - 13 Years Ago
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Not this one...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKy5GKOtXU4Nice song, though... 
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By 314 - 13 Years Ago
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you get about a 2 second look at the y in the 50 or 51 robert mitchums driving in thunder road.most who saw that movie thought it was a flathead.
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By 46yblock - 13 Years Ago
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John, is this the movie? http://cgi.ebay.com/My-Gun-Quick-1957-Robert-Bray-Whitney-Blake-DVD-/300554881589?pt=US_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray&hash=item45fa778a35 If so maybe I could buy it and watch it, and send it to someone else for the postage, then they can pass it on too, etc, making a chain movie.
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By John Mummert - 13 Years Ago
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My, that is it. I almost had the title correct. I hate the sound in Thunder Road. In one scene Mitchum takes of in a 57 Ford and it sounds like a 6 cylinder with no muffler
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By DANIEL TINDER - 13 Years Ago
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[quote][b]John Mummert (5/7/2011)
Turns out to be a Mike Hammer movie
As a side note, when novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand was asked who was her favorite author, she named Mickey Spillane (described him as a "romanticist"). I discovered his Mike Hammer novels in the late 50s, and once I started one, could never put it down. Don't remember for sure, but I think Mike always drove a Ford (and carried 45 auto).
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By 46yblock - 13 Years Ago
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I ordered the movie and will post when it is available to be passed on. It is coming by slow media mail.
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By Y block Billy - 13 Years Ago
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I have been reading the FULL THROTTLE book of the life and fast times of Curtis Turner, worked on it all day today while flying from Maine to Texarkana, Quite interesting.
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By 46yblock - 13 Years Ago
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The "My Gun is Quick" movie is ready to be sent on. Give me your address and I'll forward via First Class mail. Postage is only $1.50 so not worth worrying about.
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By 46yblock - 13 Years Ago
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Maybe your TV has more interesting stuff to watch than mine. This is a good display of some of the flavor of 1957 (I was 8). Basically it is free, only pass it on to the next guy.
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