I mildly wondered about Susan Clark's attraction quotient for you, Dargo: Guess I found out!
Ah yes! From the James Bond 'Thunderball' movie with the rocket launcher-equipped 1965 BSA Lightning and Luciana Paluzzi astride it. I believe this bike is now presently on display in the British National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham England, and just a stone's throw from where the BSA factory used to exist. Visited this museum back in '96.
You should've insisted on the additional accessories, Dargo.Dargo wrote: ↑April 3rd, 2024, 7:30 pmAh yes! From the James Bond 'Thunderball' movie with the rocket launcher-equipped 1965 BSA Lightning and Luciana Paluzzi astride it. I believe this bike is now presently on display in the British National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham England, and just a stone's throw from where the BSA factory used to exist. Visited this museum back in '96.
(...my first "big" bike back as a teenager was a slightly used 1966 BSA 650 Lightning, in fact...not rocket launcher-equipped though, of course...nor with that fairing on it either)
LOL
That's cool you got to visit it: Seems a necessary pilgrimage for you, Dargo.Dargo wrote: ↑April 3rd, 2024, 7:30 pmAh yes! From the James Bond 'Thunderball' movie with the rocket launcher-equipped 1965 BSA Lightning and Luciana Paluzzi astride it. I believe this bike is now presently on display in the British National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham England, and just a stone's throw from where the BSA factory used to exist. Visited this museum back in '96.
(...my first "big" bike back as a teenager was a slightly used 1966 BSA 650 Lightning, in fact...not rocket launcher-equipped though, of course...nor with that fairing on it either)
Yep, it was. This museum, and in addition the then recently built new and modern Triumph factory which sits about 20 miles east of it in a little town named Hinckley, were a couple of stops my wife and I made while doing a clockwise loop through the U.K. in '96 and by use of BritRail passes we had purchased.
Coming from motocross - fifty years ago a prime interest, it's surreal, Dargo, I wondered about the Triumph of THE GREAT ESCAPE: I once thought that it might have been a Maico used because of the 1963 movie's German setting, eventually learning otherwise...Dargo wrote: ↑April 5th, 2024, 11:55 amYep, it was. This museum, and in addition the then recently built new and modern Triumph factory which sits about 20 miles east of it in a little town named Hinckley, were a couple of stops my wife and I made while doing a clockwise loop through the U.K. in '96 and by use of BritRail passes we had purchased.
Ironically and weirdly enough though, both this museum and the Triumph factory would suffer major fires within a year of each other back in 2002 and 2003.
(...both would be rebuilt within a few years, though)
Sounds as if you might've ridden the old Indian Dunes track up there near Magic Mountain back in the day.NoShear wrote: ↑April 5th, 2024, 1:10 pm
Coming from motocross - fifty years ago a prime interest, it's surreal, Dargo, I wondered about the Triumph of THE GREAT ESCAPE: I once thought that it might have been a Maico used because of the 1963 movie's German setting, eventually learning otherwise...
With TCM's screening of THE BOY in the PLASTIC BUBBLE last month, I noticed a prop poster from my childhood used for the 1976 made-for-television movie:
