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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2008, 09:26:48 pm »
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2008, 10:02:13 pm »
What's interesting is reading about some of the features in those 50's cars that are just now seeing widespread use in actual cars.

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1956 Firebird II

electronic guidance system for use on the "electronic highway of the future."
Wonder if that is a forerunner to the nav systems of today.

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At a touch of a button, Cyclone's doors move outward from the car three inches. Moving smoothly on ball bearings, they can be slid back for easy entrance. Among its advanced engineering features is a radar device which scans the highway, and warns the driver electronically of objects in its path.

Ahead of their times to be sure.
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2008, 11:12:30 am »
all the cars they think of and show whee made for place that have no snow, its would be interesting to see a car that is build for place where you will get now.

a car that in high on the ground, not some sport cars, but they car industry don't see the potential for that market.

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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2008, 08:09:57 am »
My dream wheels has been the same for the last 10 years: a 2-door Chevy Tahoe with a pair of Ma Deuce .50 cals mounted under the headlights, a pair of Sidewinders on top, TOW's on the sides, and rearward pointed Halogen brights.  Road rage terminator. :flame:

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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2008, 11:04:56 pm »
My dream wheels has been the same for the last 10 years: a 2-door Chevy Tahoe with a pair of Ma Deuce .50 cals mounted under the headlights, a pair of Sidewinders on top, TOW's on the sides, and rearward pointed Halogen brights.  Road rage terminator instigator. :flame:

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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2008, 11:46:06 am »
i actually have the logan's run tv series on disc! jealous?
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2008, 01:05:03 pm »
My dream wheels has been the same for the last 10 years: a 2-door Chevy Tahoe with a pair of Ma Deuce .50 cals mounted under the headlights, a pair of Sidewinders on top, TOW's on the sides, and rearward pointed Halogen brights.  Road rage terminator. :flame:

A sugestion.  Change the TOW's to Hellfire missles.  TOW's are guided by a wire between the missile and the launcher.  Hellfire's use a laser guidance system.  Less chance to get the wire cut in traffic and miss your target.
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2008, 01:08:23 pm »
i actually have the logan's run tv series on disc! jealous?


WTH , I mean yeah. :D

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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2008, 01:25:31 pm »
i actually have the logan's run tv series on disc! jealous?

WTH , I mean yeah. :D

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The TV show was Heather Menzies and the movie Jenny Agutter (in the movie Fawcett awas a secondary female character).

There is a new movie planned for 2010.
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2008, 03:14:11 pm »
i actually have the logan's run tv series on disc! jealous?

WTH , I mean yeah. :D

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The TV show was Heather Menzies and the movie Jenny Agutter (in the movie Fawcett awas a secondary female character).

There is a new movie planned for 2010.

I knew she was secondary, A nurse or something. Had forgotten the other actresses names though.

Wow a new version of Logans run. That will be interesting to see, If done right. Sometimes I like remakes, other times..ehh.

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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2008, 07:33:06 pm »
Wow a new version of Logans run. That will be interesting to see, If done right. Sometimes I like remakes, other times..ehh.

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I think that some Movies/TV shows should not be remade as they are just too classic to change.  Others however may have a classic concept (or just a good one) and a remake may be able to improve on the flawed original.

As a side note on that I gave my brother-in-law a copy of Battlestar Galactica Season 1 for Christmas and he finally watched it and sent me the message that I am a A*****e because now he is addicted and will be buying the rest of the series.  He was further annoyed when I told him that I haven't seen it myself but was using him as a test case (actually I said cannonfodder ;)) as I did on a previous Christmas with Firefly.   :angel:
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2008, 07:44:24 pm »
Wow a new version of Logans run. That will be interesting to see, If done right. Sometimes I like remakes, other times..ehh.

Stephen

I think that some Movies/TV shows should not be remade as they are just too classic to change.  Others however may have a classic concept (or just a good one) and a remake may be able to improve on the flawed original.

As a side note on that I gave my brother-in-law a copy of Battlestar Galactica Season 1 for Christmas and he finally watched it and sent me the message that I am a A*****e because now he is addicted and will be buying the rest of the series.  He was further annoyed when I told him that I haven't seen it myself but was using him as a test case (actually I said cannonfodder ;)) as I did on a previous Christmas with Firefly.   :angel:

LOL, too be a fly on the wall when people first see some good SciFi.

I'll give you an example of a movie that should not be remade, The Day the Earth Stood Still. At one point John Carpenter was going to do it, then someone else. It just won't be the same. The Socio/Political views would appear so biased today, rather then subtle and thought provoking in the original.

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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2008, 08:29:36 pm »
There is one classic Sci Fi I would like to see remade - This Island Earth.  In its case though the reason is because I would like a remake that is true to the book. 

In the book it was not two planets fighting but two alliances that each covered many galaxies, each had representatives on Earth and was working to include us in their sphere of influence.  The "good guys" are losing until the human heroes figure out why,
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2008, 09:22:32 pm »
Wow a new version of Logans run. That will be interesting to see, If done right. Sometimes I like remakes, other times..ehh.

Stephen

I think that some Movies/TV shows should not be remade as they are just too classic to change.  Others however may have a classic concept (or just a good one) and a remake may be able to improve on the flawed original.

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LOL, too be a fly on the wall when people first see some good SciFi.

I'll give you an example of a movie that should not be remade, The Day the Earth Stood Still. At one point John Carpenter was going to do it, then someone else. It just won't be the same. The Socio/Political views would appear so biased today, rather then subtle and thought provoking in the original.

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I so have to agree with that.
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2008, 07:36:06 am »
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2008, 08:17:53 am »
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heh, The day the Earth stood still is playing on AMC right now. Don't know if you get that channel up north.
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Re: old prototype future cars
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2008, 08:23:04 am »
heh, The day the Earth stood still is playing on AMC right now. Don't know if you get that channel up north.
Stephen

I don't watch much TV so I don't know if that channel is available or not, but I do have the DVD.
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