The Best Truck Movies

your right there Lang , drove all over the UK and Ireland for twenty years and enjoyed every minute ,
before motorways it could take a couple of days to get from Newcastle in the north east to London ,in the eighties and nineties you could do it in a day ,but nowadays with the amount of traffic and state of the roads its taking as long as it did back then in the 50,s 60,s . so much for not a lot of progress
I don,t think from the cast list how many are still around ,one or two maybe

The trucks were Dodges, known as Kew Dodge as that was the London suburb where they were made. The cab was shared with both Ford and Leyland (Comet). The film trucks were hired from a south east London company and most if not all had to be scrapped as the chassis were badly twisted - can't think why!

husky wrote: I don,t think from the cast list how many are still around ,one or two maybe

From Langs llist Sean Connery is still around and David Mcallum is the Chief Medical Examiner on NCIS

Terry

Terry

Not too certain but I think I saw something in the last few weeks about Sean Connery dying aged 90???

Might be wrong.

lang

Lang wrote: Terry

Not too certain but I think I saw something in the last few weeks about Sean Connery dying aged 90???

Might be wrong.

lang

He is 89 and still kicking, www.google.com.au/search?q=sean+connery&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 :)

Terry

Does anyone remember the spinoff to the TV series Cannonball, it was on tv in the 70s & called Movin'On stared Claude Atkins as the tough trucker Sonny Pruitt.

Was that a spinoff from Cannonball?? Talking about two different eras entirely, I think. Apart from the original being either Canadian shot, or at least Canuck money tied up in it, the other being a Seppo offering.

Looked up an episode of that on Youtube recently. Sonny had Frank Converse (from Coronet Blue) as his offsider in the series.
Watched about ten minutes of the pilot episode, twas enough for me ! About on par with that Oz show, "Truckies" with the bonneted Yo-Yo, wasn't it christened "Maggie" (may have wrong show)? Parts of it filmed up around Whittlesea area and up around the Black Spur? Blokes seemed to do more miles running around bob-tail than actually making a quid!

Dont think Moving On was a spin off from Cannonball
Was all on youtube some time ago but I think it was pulled

BJ and the Bear, now theres a fella who never shifted freight only woman and their problems

Another movie that I though was crap but the Mack truck forum based in the US loves is "Moon Fire"

Was a old Movie with wild woman running a truck stop that stole trucks and beat up drivers, cant think of its name

Paul

Lang wrote: Terry

Not too certain but I think I saw something in the last few weeks about Sean Connery dying aged 90???

Might be wrong.

lang

Lang, can you get the Lotto numbers from that newspaper, please?

Hi,

the chat about what you did and didn't get with your old new truck can be found here,

www.hcvc.com.au/forum/OldTruck/18748-unfinished-new-trucks

Terry

Ps. Ignore the two topics called The Best Truck Movies it will sort itself out.