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Rome
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 Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:29 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Another sighting of an ivory Ghia Coupe from my Dec. 2014 post in the movie "They call me MISTER Tibbs" (1970)- likely the same Ghia, just driving the other direction on the highway.
"Melinda" (1972), with bonus Splittie bus parked behind.
"The reincarnation of Peter Proud" (1975). Filmed in Massachusetts. |
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VeloMikey
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| Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:58 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Looks Like DJ's Ghia is going to be in an upcoming episode of Bel-Air.
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Rome
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| Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Ivory early '60's Ghia Cabrio in junkyard, movie "The death collector" (1976). IMDB lists the filming location only as New Jersey. The all-black rear wheel is mid-year change for '64 model year. Movie low resolution makes determining the style of the front blinker impossible; if it has a cone-shaped plastic blinker or the earlier one with chrome retention ring; the style changed during the '64 model year.
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Keyes
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| Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:25 am Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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Unfrosted, a new Netflix movie directed by Jerry Seinfeld. Not surprising he would use a Ghia, he's a huge car guy, specifically Porsches.
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AmandaCB
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| Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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There's a Netflix show called Firefly Lane where one of the main characters buys a red Ghia and tries to gift it to the other main character, who doesn't want it. Then they get in a horrendous crash and total the Ghia. I can't seem to find photos or clips anywhere! But I know I watched it.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| Noticed the orange Ghia twice in the beginning of “Good Times”. |
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Rome
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| Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:20 pm Post subject: Re: Good Times Ghia |
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| Noticed the orange Ghia twice in the beginning of “Good Times” |
From 2021:
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From 2010:
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Remember the Good Times show from the 70's.
There is a glimpse of one in the show opening credits.
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNNBjbJT6nI
Its at about 24 seconds
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Segment was used for the first few seasons starting in 1974. You don't see any more of the front because of being blocked by the boy on the bike, and a bus passing by immediately after; so that the year of the car is not clear. Lack of towel bars, and the "rectangular" shaped overrider points to the '72 or later bumper style. |
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Rome
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| Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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| AmandaCB wrote: |
| There's a Netflix show called Firefly Lane where one of the main characters buys a red Ghia and tries to gift it to the other main character, who doesn't want it. Then they get in a horrendous crash and total the Ghia. I can't seem to find photos or clips anywhere! But I know I watched it. |
I found a few seconds of the late (big-bumper) Ghia Coupe in a YouTube trailer for Season 2. The bum who T-boned the Ghia ran a red light. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: Ghias on the Silver Screen |
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I watched Zodiac with Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead here in New Zealand last week. Two Ghias. One a lowlight.
The actual crime scene photo Ghia - not in the film - shows a green Ghia with the victim's body next to it. In the film the killer (identified by Gyllenhaal's character, drives a Ghia.
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