bus movie sighting

[NJT 5573]

Got to add, "Angels In The Outfield."

[Dave Siegel]

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"

[tekebird]

OK, When My Dad still had the Mack MV-620 it was in Sleepers Staring Robert Deniro Kevin Bacon Et al.

[Beatenbo]

Just saw a cool Buffalo puling a trailer with Nick Cage in Ghost Rider.

[Lee Bradley]

Not a movie but I spotted a Neoplan in the latest episode of 'The Amazing Race'.

[gomer]

charlie,charlie,  that is when the roof has popped.  In other words it opens up when you pop it open.  LOL
GOMER

[tekebird]

Walk Hard the Dewy Cox story.  4103 near the beginins and a Flx clipper several other times

[Charles Seaton]

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

[NewbeeMC9]

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.

[Runcutter]

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

[Charles Seaton]

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.

[bergdoll]

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...

[Jeremy]

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

[tekebird]

two 4107's "We Are Marshall"

[Dallas]

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