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Title: bus movie sighting
Post by: tekebird on December 23, 2007, 07:52:33 AM
4103 in many scenes
The Invaders staring Scott bakula
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Post by: Dreamscape on December 23, 2007, 08:50:32 AM
Eagle in Holiday In Your Heart on Lifetime right now.
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Post by: zubzub on December 23, 2007, 09:14:02 AM
4104 (4106?) Fools for Love, older Robert Altman movie.  Just the side and entrance way, but nice because it is still all nice clean aluminum, stock seating of driver etc... watched it last night.  Is this bus nut stuff or bus geek stuff?
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Post by: Dallas on December 23, 2007, 09:47:12 AM
2003 "The Singing Detective" ACF-Brill IC41

1971 "Play Misty for Me" Some kind of MCI, (They all look alike to me, kinda like White Castle Hamburgers) http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_132064-MCI-unknown.html (http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_132064-MCI-unknown.html)

2000 "Goodbye Earl" Dixie Chicks Music Video PD4108?  http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_125999-Unknown.html (http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_125999-Unknown.html)
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Post by: tekebird on December 23, 2007, 09:49:28 AM
mc-5
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Post by: FloridaCliff on December 23, 2007, 10:03:05 AM
The Runaway Bus 2000 Frankie Howerd Margaret Rutherford
The Magic Schoolbus 1998
Get on the Bus 1996 Andre Braugher Ossie Davis
Speed 1994 Keanu Reeves Sandra Bullock
The Gauntlet 1977 Clint Eastwood
The Big Bus 1976 Joseph Bologna Stockard Channing
Bus Stop 1956 Marilyn Monroe Don Murray
Man on a Bus 1955 Walter Brennan Ruth Roman
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Post by: Nick Badame Refrig/ACC on December 23, 2007, 11:15:58 AM
Hi Guy's,

GMC Buffalo in the tail end of a trailer for Sony Play Staiion 3 "Rock Band" video game

http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Games/Rock_Band

Happy Holidays
Nick-
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Post by: captain ron on December 23, 2007, 11:22:13 AM
My old 4905 has been in a few movies  ;D  Nothing that will be released deliberately.
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Post by: larryc on December 23, 2007, 12:31:44 PM
Don't forget the classic "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (I think).
Several others mentioned in some of Bob Redden's videos.
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Post by: mak on December 23, 2007, 01:40:43 PM
Leap of Faith staring Steve Martin, late 90's. Fun movie, had 2 GMC PD 4905's, one of which had a popped roof in the back. Movie starts off with the buses racing down the highway and getting pulled over buy a cop. Fun movie. I supplied the 2 buses, did the paint, popped the roof etc. The movie people can sure spend money! But the buses are shown quite a bit in the movie. After the movie I purchased the buses back and resold them to private party conferters. Any of you out there have one of the two?
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Post by: NewbeeMC9 on December 23, 2007, 04:42:42 PM
nuther game,

Scenic Cruiser in Tony Hawk Underground circling the block in Hawaii
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Post by: Charles Seaton on December 24, 2007, 09:08:07 AM
Forrest Gump --- Several fishbowls and old looks in the Washington D.C. anti-war rally scene.  Detour to Terror. O.J. Simpson driving a PD4107 plays bumper cars with thugs on dune buggies. Badge 373--Robert Duvall commandeers a NYC Transit Authority fishbowl while being chased by a street gang.
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Post by: captain ron on December 24, 2007, 11:36:39 AM
I can't believe non of you have mentioned the movie about Rosa Parks.
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Post by: gmorton on December 24, 2007, 12:03:25 PM
Quote from: mak on December 23, 2007, 01:40:43 PM
Leap of Faith staring Steve Martin, late 90's. Fun movie, had 2 GMC PD 4905's, one of which had a popped roof in the back. Movie starts off with the buses racing down the highway and getting pulled over buy a cop. Fun movie. I supplied the 2 buses, did the paint, popped the roof etc. The movie people can sure spend money! But the buses are shown quite a bit in the movie. After the movie I purchased the buses back and resold them to private party conferters. Any of you out there have one of the two?


My brother owns the one with the popped roof in the back.  It still has the paint from the movie.  He is redoing the interior now.  I'll enclose an interesting shot of it.  Last summer on a particularly hot Arizona day, when the roof airs couldn't cut it, ever the ingenious one, he added a nice "after-market airconditioner" so he could continue to work inside.  ;D
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Post by: captain ron on December 24, 2007, 04:10:09 PM
What is a popped roof?
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Post by: NJT 5573 on December 24, 2007, 04:45:11 PM
Got to add, "Angels In The Outfield."
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Post by: Dave Siegel on December 24, 2007, 05:33:12 PM
Everyone is talking about some other buses in movies, but no one from this board has laid claim that their bus was in a movie, until now. Our PD3751 was in "Race to Space" a Disney movie that was about astronauts and "Mak" the monkey they sent into space before the first astronaut went up.

Our bus was first hired for a standing still shot with people milling around the bus, but when the director saw our bus he had the writers rewrite the script for it to be a drive on for the bus with the congressmen getting off to see the space launch. What a treat for us. What a day that was.

They shot the bus at about 4pm and the setting sun off the siding was magnificent. (Biased opinion.)

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

Dave Siegel

P.S. See you at Jack's "Bussin 2008"
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Post by: tekebird on December 24, 2007, 07:51:40 PM
OK, When My Dad still had the Mack MV-620 it was in Sleepers Staring Robert Deniro Kevin Bacon Et al.

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Post by: Beatenbo on December 24, 2007, 07:52:44 PM
Just saw a cool Buffalo puling a trailer with Nick Cage in Ghost Rider.
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Post by: Lee Bradley on December 25, 2007, 08:17:43 AM
Not a movie but I spotted a Neoplan in the latest episode of 'The Amazing Race'.
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Post by: gomer on December 25, 2007, 08:58:11 AM
charlie,charlie,  that is when the roof has popped.  In other words it opens up when you pop it open.  LOL
GOMER ???
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Post by: tekebird on December 31, 2007, 04:39:44 PM
Walk Hard the Dewy Cox story.  4103 near the beginins and a Flx clipper several other times
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Post by: Charles Seaton on January 02, 2008, 02:04:29 PM
Whoa, Tekebird.

I had a 5106 and a 64 Flex Transit in a street scene for "Sleepers", but I believe they never went farther than the cutting floor.  "A League of Their Own" featured several scenes with my buddy's 4151. (35-foot Silversides).


-- Seaton
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Post by: NewbeeMC9 on January 02, 2008, 06:22:31 PM
In the Fugitive, one gets hit by a train, it is still on the track where they shot it at Dillsboro, NC.  You can see it if you take the train over to Bryson City.  I think it was a GMC transit.
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Post by: Runcutter on January 03, 2008, 07:35:17 AM
The Brinks Job (I think that was the title), with Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, shot in 1978.  Two Brill C-36's, shot in East Boston.  I was driving one of them, but any scenes I was in didn't make it.  Gordon McLeod, old Eastern Mass St. Rwy driver drove the other one.  The one I drove was owned by a friend, but it had a bad water pump and kept overheating - including breaking down in the Sumner or Callahan tunnel on the way to East Boston - I had to be towed out on a short chain amidst clouds of smoke.

More trivia, they'd given me a 1950's haircut, and a couple of weeks later I started a management job with TANK, the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky.  Fortunately, the haircut wasn't that bad, but a little more time to grow out would have been nice.

Arthur
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Post by: Charles Seaton on January 03, 2008, 12:43:07 PM
Abbott and Costello's "Pardon My Sarong".  They play a pair o Chicago bus drivers who take their Yellow Coach old look way off route and end up in California.
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Post by: bergdoll on January 05, 2008, 10:19:50 AM
well, mine was "almost" used in Reno 911...they asked if they could use it in the background & said they'd even pay me!
they did shoot right out in front of our lot, in Acton, Ca. 'robin's nest RV park'. i love those crazy guys!?!
still haven't watched that episode(s) yet...
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Post by: Jeremy on January 05, 2008, 10:47:17 AM
Earlier today I saw a breif advert for a 'forthcoming movie' at the end of a film review programme - it was one of those things where they make up a very quick trailer for the movie using breif flashes of lots of different scenes. Well, I've no idea what movie it was, but one of those brief flashes showed a Routemaster bus doing a barrel roll!

Jeremy
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Post by: tekebird on January 05, 2008, 07:31:24 PM
two 4107's "We Are Marshall"
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Post by: Dallas on January 06, 2008, 12:57:43 PM
At the beginning of the Movie "Windtalkers" with Nicholas Cage, the Navajo boy is picked up by a Greyhound and taken to bootcamp.

Anyone know what kind of bus that is?

TIA
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Post by: jackhartjr on January 06, 2008, 05:41:48 PM
Just watched "October Sky", it had a Scenicruiser in it twice.  It won a "Best Family" award in 1999.  Good little movie based on a true story.
Jack Hart