I finally saw the movie on Saturday (Thanks Redbox), and it was most definitely an exceptional movie.
I will say one thing though. Every single shot of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was actually filmed in Ontario International Airport (ONT). How do I know this? Because the mountain in the background is actually Mt. Baldy. How else do I know this? I grew up in Ontario, CA (California, not Canada!) and the house I grew up in had a great view of Mt Baldy.
Yeah, LAX doesn’t have mountains that close, that whole area landscape looks like The O’hare area here if you ignore the pesky palm trees and ocean on the west side. I may be going out on a limb but I suspect test driving GT40s on the runway, in broad daylight at times, may have been artistic license too ?
Funny enough, I know of a Ontario CA because of my other hobby. One of my high school friends dad had a old Jackson Strat made there(they used to be made in San Dimas), and apparently these were shunned by collectors because they thought production moved to Canada, despite using the same employees, same tools, same designs/materials etc. lol
Based from Google Satellite images, I could see the highlighted part being used for the filming part of the GT40s as that part of the airport seems to be low volume takeoff and landings.
Another tidbit about Ontario, CA, the flashlight manufacturer Maglite is based there.
I mean IRL back in the 60s. I never heard they used the runways for testing purposes, Shelby moved to the LAX facility from the original Venice beach location primarily for space to produce and store the much higher volume Mustangs.
Ok, I'm gonna rip this idea off from another forum since I think it's such a good idea. (And I like to take pictures. :D )
Update Edit:
If you guys want to post pictures of your firearms please do so in this thread.
Since there's already a thread dedicated to firearms lets save this thread...
Well, so it was finally time to get to the project I've been waiting on. Complete restoration of my first car. Bought the day after Thanksgiving in 1997 as a junior in high school. The car had 37k miles and was overall very clean besides some tiny cracks in the clear on the hood and passenger...
im just seaching around for some of the best looking pics of our cars, i was looking though a few mustang forums and they all have stickys of the best looking foxes and things so i though mabye we could get one going on the MN-12's.
My friend Brad (Practical Car Guy) made a new video reminiscing and reviewing his MN12 Cougar ownership experience.
He thanks TCCoA for our help in making the video a reality!
Well, today I took a trip down to the shop where the T-bird is getting some work done and snapped some "posterity" pics. Here's a list of the work I'm having done:
1) Repair the passenger side rocker (rust and damage)
2) Repair the driver side rocker (rust)
3) Replace the passenger door...
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