A Little On The Passing of Paul Newman
Sep. 28th, 2008 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotMy favorite movie of Paul Newman's is Winning...perhaps not the first one that comes to mind of many Newman fans, I'm sure. The Sting is probably #2, then Butch Cassidy..., Slapshot, The Color of Money, Road To Perdition and so on.
I've only seen Winning once, in the method I usually saw movies back in adolescence--the TV late late show. In it, Paul starred as a race car driver whose ambition was to qualify for Indy. Making this movie sparked the creation of the real-life Newman Haas team which has been a force to be reckoned with at Indy over the years.
My research addiction led me to one of the cars he drove in the movie...the Holman Moody "Honker II":
It was proposed as the next generation Ford GT (after the GT 40, which was being retired at the time) but it wasn't very successful, so it was free for movie use.
Now I'm having this vision of a track in the next world, where Paul is suiting up by his car and Steve McQueen is awaiting him beside a Porsche 917.
The forecast calls for thunder.
FP
I've only seen Winning once, in the method I usually saw movies back in adolescence--the TV late late show. In it, Paul starred as a race car driver whose ambition was to qualify for Indy. Making this movie sparked the creation of the real-life Newman Haas team which has been a force to be reckoned with at Indy over the years.
My research addiction led me to one of the cars he drove in the movie...the Holman Moody "Honker II":
It was proposed as the next generation Ford GT (after the GT 40, which was being retired at the time) but it wasn't very successful, so it was free for movie use.
Now I'm having this vision of a track in the next world, where Paul is suiting up by his car and Steve McQueen is awaiting him beside a Porsche 917.
The forecast calls for thunder.
FP
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