GPL and Grand Prix:The Movie **co-incidence??**

% Just wondering if anyone had noticed that the driver on the North = % American box cover of GPL has the same helmet design as the James Garner = % character in the great movie "Grand Prix?" Garner (Pete Aron) is stated = % as driving for Ferrari during his career as well in the movie. = % Co-incidence?? Or just a sly homage to a great movie by Papyrus? While in the plot of the movie Garner did drive for Ferrari, it was in the "past" and he did not drive one in the movie. He starts out in the BRM (I think) and ends up with the Japanese team (looks like Frankenheimer couldn't get a license deal from Honda either <G>). -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

It's Chris Amon's helmet design. >% Just wondering if anyone had noticed that the driver on the North = >% American box cover of GPL has the same helmet design as the James Garner =

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>% character in the great movie "Grand Prix?" Garner (Pete Aron) is stated = >% as driving for Ferrari during his career as well in the movie. = >% Co-incidence?? Or just a sly homage to a great movie by Papyrus? >While in the plot of the movie Garner did drive for Ferrari, it was in >the "past" and he did not drive one in the movie. He starts out in the >BRM (I think) and ends up with the Japanese team (looks like >Frankenheimer couldn't get a license deal from Honda either <G>). >-- >**************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* > Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

In the January 97 issue of f1 racing magazine their is a feature on 'GP' and the previous post was correct it is Chris Amons helmet design and the name of james garners character was chosen to resemble amons on the side of the car in the live action footage

That helmet was worn by Chris Amon, who drive for Ferrari at the time.. =rez= Just wondering if anyone had noticed that the driver on the North American box cover of GPL has the same helmet design as the James Garner character in the great movie "Grand Prix?" Garner (Pete Aron) is stated as driving for Ferrari during his career as well in the movie. Co-incidence?? Or just a sly homage to a great movie by Papyrus? Scott

In the Movie it IS Chris Amon ! Who of you thought the actors drove ??? hahaha :-) Bart > In the January 97 issue of f1 racing magazine their is a feature on > 'GP' and the previous post was correct it is Chris Amons helmet design > and the name of james garners character was chosen to resemble amons > on the side of the car in the live action footage

Not exactly true. James Garner was an avid amateur racer at the time, and did the vast majority of his own driving scenes in the film (and got into quite a bit of trouble with his insurance company for doing so!). Granted, he was only driving F3 cars which were dressed up to look like F1 cars. Of the other primary actors, Brian Bedford didn't even have a street driving licence until just before filming started, Yves Montand hated the whole thing, and Antonio Sabates was apparantly totally useless behind the wheel, so they did very little (if any) driving. But Garner was quite heavily involved in the driving scenes. Source: interviews with John Frankenheimer and James Garner.

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>In the Movie it IS Chris Amon ! >Who of you thought the actors drove ??? hahaha :-) >Bart >> In the January 97 issue of f1 racing magazine their is a feature on >> 'GP' and the previous post was correct it is Chris Amons helmet design >> and the name of james garners character was chosen to resemble amons >> on the side of the car in the live action footage

Believe it or not the actors DID do some driving:) Especially James Garner, (Who played Pete Aron), who by the time filming finished was a good competitor for all the real drivers! Brian Bedford (Scott Stoddard in the film) was too nervous to do it at any real speed only just having got his driving licence a month earlier. Yves Montand (Jean-Pierre Sarti) only ever drove up to third gear and Antonio Sabato (Nino Barlini) spun his car the first time he drove it and never went very quickly after that. The cars they used included two real-life 1965 Lotuses and 20 cleverly disguised formula junior cars. Cheers! -- Graeme Nash You know what to do with "don't_spam_me"... http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk/ ICQ# 11257824 "My car appeared to disagree with my preference for living"

Graeme Nash wrote in a message ... It's kinda funny...I was reading the back of the video box, and saw "...and two camera cars - a Ford GT40 and a 7-litre Shelby Cobra - modified to go over 150mph, faster than the racing cars themselves!" We all know a 1960s F1 car can do more than 150. So apparently, it's true. I had no idea they were formula 2/3 cars the actors were driving in the movie. Hmmph. I guess I never really thought about it. What about the Zandvoort in-car footage (at the beginning of the second videotape, when Stoddard is qualifying)? That may have been one of the '65 Lotuses, huh? It certainly seemed faster than, say, the Spa footage. - John P. Wilson :|: - Downshift http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/1123/index.html - Growing Fan of Sierra's "Grand Prix Legends" 1967 Computer Racing Simulation

Just wondering if anyone had noticed that the driver on the North American box cover of GPL has the same helmet design as the James Garner character in the great movie "Grand Prix?" Garner (Pete Aron) is stated as driving for Ferrari during his career as well in the movie. Co-incidence?? Or just a sly homage to a great movie by Papyrus? Scott Actually, I think that the car/driver on the box is Ferrari's Mike Parkes. I'm pretty sure his helmet looked like that. I also think that they based Aron's helmet off of Parkes' for the movie. I'm not 100% sure, but that what I believe to be true, at least. Chris

It might also have something to do with the fact that Pete Aaron/James Garner used Chris Amon's helmet design. Tom in Atlanta

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> noticed that the driver on the North American box cover of > GPL has the same helmet design as the James Garner character > in the great movie "Grand Prix?" Garner (Pete Aron) is > stated as driving for Ferrari during his career as well in > the movie. Co-incidence?? Or just a sly homage to a great > movie by Papyrus? Scott Actually, I think that the > car/driver on the box is Ferrari's Mike Parkes. I'm pretty > sure his helmet looked like that. I also think that they > based Aron's helmet off of Parkes' for the movie. I'm not > 100% sure, but that what I believe to be true, at > least. Chris