Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Bender2
Just this morning I saw an abandoned red Matador.


25 posted on 11/07/2011 4:24:08 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies ]


To: Revolting cat!; blackie
Was it the flying one... from Man with the Golden Gun that Scaramanga and Nick Nack used for their escape?

More pix of it:

Ni CGI here, campers... this was a real flying car!

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_vehicles

"The featured car in The Man with the Golden Gun. "Bond is foiled by perhaps the best trick a getaway car has ever performed; the Matador transforms into a plane." Francisco Scaramanga and Nick Nack use this 1974 car to kidnap Mary Goodnight and make their escape. In the film, the Matador coupe is converted into a 'car plane' to fly from Bangkok to an island in the China Sea. With the flight tail unit, the complete machine was 9.15 metres (30 ft) long, 12.80 metres (42 ft) wide, and 3.08 metres (10 ft) high and the "flying AMC Matador" was exhibited at auto shows; however, it could only make a 500-metre (1,640 ft) flight so for the film's aerial sequences it was replaced by a meter-long (39-inch) remote controlled model. Transformation of the AMC Matador into a light airplane occurred when wings and flight tail unit were attached to the actual car (that served as the fuselage and landing gear) and a stuntman drove the 'car plane' to a runway at which point the scene cut to the radio-controlled scale model built by John Stears."

26 posted on 11/07/2011 4:39:53 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson