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Date:         Sun, 11 Jan 2015 12:05:09 +0000
Reply-To:     Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Film sighting of Westy
Comments: To: Pete O <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <CAKA=wSYO0iFxvycax78k_SFkTvZCD2ppOCuW+_+OW2h_wvJdkQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Obviously a bit of dramatic license, such a thing you'd never encounter in real life.  All Westies are fast here in the real world. Stephen

On Saturday, January 10, 2015 10:37 PM, Pete O <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

Westy = S-l-o-w M-o-v-i-n-g.......?

Pete '87 Westy "JoesVan" '79 Westy "Aardvark"

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Rocket J Squirrel < camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> In Richard Linklater's satisfying 2014 film "Boyhood," we have a Westy > sighting. > > The kids' first stepfather (the first of two abusive alcoholics) has a > road rage incident when he's stuck behind a slow-moving* Westy, loses > his temper, jams on the gas and passes it in dangerous traffic causing > much panic. > > Looked to be a nice clean white Westy. > > * It's apparently slow-moving though we can't tell for certain from the > camera angles. But (a) it's in front of him and he wants to go faster, > and (b) it's a Westy. > > -- > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, > Bend, Ore. >


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