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Thank you so much for the nice comments, you sound like a very smart and well grounded person. I think my daughter Andrea and her friends were typical of the period, no cell phones, no internet, and "social media" was hanging out with classmates or getting involved with sports. Andrea has been an elementary school teacher for almost 20-years and is doing very well.

Thank you for the compliments, I'm pleased that you enjoyed the video of my daughter and her classmates. I worked with a McCubbin in the late 1960's when I was a test engineer at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, CA, "Mac" was a draftsman who did a lot of the drawings for our department. A real "character", liked by everybody, an ex-Navy man.

Good eye! Yes, this photo is from 1964, it was one of the Goldfinger movie cars, license plate BMT216A, most likely one of the two promotional cars, not one of two movie cars. Just a lucky photo taken right when the Aston was driving by. The car had a huge Goldfinger movie poster on the doors.

Sounds like you have some great car memories as well. Thanks for watching and writing.

Thank you Mark for the very nice and generous compliments, it's very gratifying to know that you enjoyed the film so much. I was very careful to only use music from that period, late 1960's, it suits the film and adds charm. It's music we would have been listening to at the time. Yes, I painted my Ferrari in my garage using available materials. Only 4-years old but that silver paint would not hold a shine, it was beyond polishing, so I painted it Ferrari Giallo Fly yellow, just to be different from the more common red. We used our cars daily to enjoy, they were just used cars, not art pieces to be kept in garages and shown rarely like today.

@@kartkingeric A few years ago i was working in a resto shop doing high end restos and one of the cars I assisted on was a twin to your Ferrari. The Owner insisted our firm did a repaint as the boss had talked up a big rep. The paint job was $50,000 and lots of bondo was uncovered. A witness to a car life lived . What seemed like a lot of money for a paint job was nothing compared to what they can cost in 2024.

Yes, great observations. In 1969 I paid $7,500 for the 4-year old 275GTB (they were $11,000 new), which sounds cheap today but at the time I could have almost bought two brand new Corvettes for what I paid for the Ferrari, so not exactly cheap. At the sports car races you saw such a variety of cars all racing together, not like today with strictly defined classes and Balance of Performance rules to keep the performance equal across many makes. Thank you for watching!

Yes, I know, but this was 1967, I only had access to my friend's little 8mm movie camera which I borrowed. I also would have liked to upgrade my inexpensive Yashica Twin-Lens Reflex camera for a Hasselblad, but couldn't afford that. I did the best I could with what I had and I'm glad that I at least have those memories on film.

Wow, all the way from Sweden! Tack för att du tittade.

Boy oh Boy I sure miss those days🤔Girls coke a cola and hot rods 🤗😎 Drive in Burger joints (burger fries & a coke for you and your Chick 7 bucks) Hanging at the Beach

Well, briefly, I owned that car for two years, 1969 to 1971, paid $7,500 for it from L.A. attorney Ed Niles. They were just used cars then, not collectibles. I was a test engineer at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica at the time, and my apartment room mate Brad Bunch owned a '63 Ferrari Lusso, shown in the film. He was an attorney working in a bank in Beverly Hills. My GTB sold new for $11,000 in 1965 so had depreciated quite a bit when I bought it. The original silver paint would not hold a shine, was faded, so I painted it Giallo Fly yellow myself in my garage. The car was wonderful to drive, 280 HP, Ferrari's first 5-speed transmission, and it only weighed 2,550 pounds! Light, precise steering and a beautiful gated shifter. The V12 engine was magical, that crisp, throaty sound only a 12-cylinder can make. I sold it to buy a Formula-B race car and a Chevy Impala Wagon to go SCCA road racing. I have owned 112-vehicles in my lifetime, I am now 81 years old. Thanks for watching my movie.

@@kartkingeric thanks for taking the time to share details!

Thank you so much for the very nice compliments! I purchased all the music on Amazon Digital and RUclips approved it all with the exception that due to the one Beatles song, Drive My Car, the movie cannot be viewed in Russia or Belarus. I'm very pleased that you enjoyed the movie. The playfulness came from my friends just goofing around and I left most all of the raw footage, didn't try to "tidy it up" as I would on most movies. I had very little film to work with so I left it all in, flashes of light, burned frames, and poor lighting. Call it "patina".

Thank you for the nice compliments, and I'm very pleased that you enjoyed the movie. I have a sweatshirt from my local Fitness Connection gym that just says E P I C in large black capital letters, so I just added a little leg to the P with a felt marker and made it an R, so now my sweatshirt says E R I C. My little inside joke.

Sorry, no suggestions. I had mine professionally refurbished so everything worked, I later sold it on eBay.

The grille is from an 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada which is based on the Chevy S10-Blazer. Thanks for watching.

I doubt there are very many large trucks like this being sent overseas! First of all it is too wide to fit in a ocean container so we had to cut 1-ft. off the sides of the bed on each side so that it would fit in a container. Notice the cutoff sides in the bed. Secondly, it's very expensive to ship

@@kartkingeric Antique truck rescue sends them overseas all the time it’s heartbreaking to see all these nice old trucks leaving the United States

I don't know if that would work. I kept it all original and sold the radio on eBay.

You're right, I checked the shop manual and these early front wheel drive Eldorados, 1967-76, used a 3-speed Turbo-Hydra-Matic 425 (THM425) transaxle. I updated the description.

I think later model transmissions were designated as THM 325 but I advise checking a service manual for the model year in question. I use to write the service manuals for the 1980 and up models.

@@SLJ2137694 The engine and transaxle was from a '74 Cadillac Eldorado. The transaxle has the word "Turbohydramatic" cast in it, but not the model number, at least that I could find. My Chilton manual for Cadillac 1967-89 states that the early model transaxles for Eldorados, 1967-76 used a THM425. I have a '70 Cadillac Eldorado engine/transaxle that I will eventually put in the truck, it's a high compression, higher horsepower engine that the '74.

@@kartkingeric you have a fun project. I’ll bet the performance is outstanding. Stick with the 425 trans, they are tough! Build up a performance Cad engine, lots of info on line.

Yea but you saw the trx he needs a lot of power to haul that back home

Yes, I still have the truck. Thanks for watching.

Your a moron, keep your negative comments to yourself. You probably drive a bucket 😂

Hello Paulo. That is amazing, what a story! What a coincidence to see the truck in England! Thanks so much for writing. I wonder if it's still owned by the lady that bought it to use around her "ranch" with horses. I don't remember the town but I think it was not too far north of London.