Anyone remember the movie Christine? (and the car?)

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Anyone remember the movie Christine? (and the car?)


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The reason I ask... :D


Is not only is Christine an iconic TV car but we're also going to have the car used to create Christine at our next Detailing Boot Camp Class in July!

Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury. These cars were originally ONLY offered in the color Buckskin. Christine the movie car has a custom paint job but originally it was Buckskin too.


Here's just one of the cars everyone attending the July 17th, 18th and 19th 3-day detailing class will get to work on....


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I took these pictures with my camera phone but you can easily see the tale-tale signs of holograms which are a scratch pattern inflicted by the misuse of a rotary buffer.

I'm sad to say this kind of hack work is all to often typical of the type of detailing done to cool cars like this 1958 Plymouth Fury.

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You can really see the holograms in this shot....

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This is a fully restored 1958 Plymouth Fury with a basecoat/clearcoat finish. This car has the original 350 Golden Commando engine with dual Holley carbs.

As you can see by the pictures, I'm sad to say the last person to machine buff the paint left holograms over every inch of each body panel.

Those attending the July class will be the lucky ones that get to undo the damage and learn how to restore a flawless, show car finish using one of the below tools....

  1. Flex PE14 Rotary Buffers
  2. Rupes BigFoot Orbital Polishers
  3. Flex 3401 Dual Action Orbital Polishers
  4. Rupes Cyclo Polishers
  5. Porter Cable - Griot's Garage & Meguiar's 8mm DA Polishers

This isn't the only cool car the July class will get to work on... I have more in the works...


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Yes, I saw the movie when it came out. Nice looking car.
 
What ever you do, don't damage it in any way... she WILL come after you ;)
 
Yes; and I enjoyed the manner in which She
killed-off her and her owner's antagonizers. :dblthumb2:

Bob
 
Calendyr said:
What ever you do, don't damage it in any way... she WILL come after you ;)
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^^^Yup, no good can come of that. You'll either go insane detailing it or get crushed if you leave any polish residue behind.

Will it be visiting the show car garage?
 
I will always associate the song "Bad to the Bone" to the car in the movie.
 
NO WAY!!!! Beautiful!!! John Carpenter's movies rocked!! I especially loved his wife in movie's Adrianne Barbeau....wow!!! Escape from New York...see that and you will know what I mean.

The most awesome thing about that time is I had a FULL head of Hair!!!!....LOL

Beautiful work on that ride!!
 
Does anyone remember one of the " sacrificial" cars from the movie? There was a car that lost the battle to Christine.

Any guesses?

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Alexandra Paul (Leah Cabot) was hot in that movie, oh and the movie was cool, but the book was better
 
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Alexandra Paul (Leah Cabot) was hot in that movie, oh and the movie was cool, but the book was better
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I agree the book was better. The story was based in a town on the outskirts of the Burgh, Monroeville, Pa

Great looking cars, Love the 50`s and the big fins in the back:)
 
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I agree the book was better. The story was based in a town on the outskirts of the Burgh, Monroeville, Pa

Great looking cars, Love the 50`s and the big fins in the back:)
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Arnie and Christine were from Libertyville, Pa. Monroeville was their school's rivals
 
I do remember it and it was pretty spooky for that time. The screenplay was written by Bill Phillips and soon the car will be in the hands of Mike Phillips........coincidence or fate? BUHWAHAHAH!!!!!!!
 
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