Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. Actually it's like this. There were 3 55's made for TLB by Richard Ruth in 1970. 2 were nearly identical in all aspects suspension, looks, etc. except for engines. The most popular one was the drive car with the tunnel rammed 427. This car was also used in an episode of Adam 12 in full TLB trim. This is also the car that got a makeover for use in American Graffitti. This car now resides somewhere in Maryland and most of the original Ruth built parts are gone as whitetop stated. Budnate got it right with the recently found 2nd car that was used for interior shots. This car carried all the framework for exterior camaras and crap and appeared the same as car #1 except it had an LS5 454 4bbl and had a holley mounted on a piece of sheetmetal to give the appearance of the tunnel ram through the windshield in some shots. This car was recently found in Canada and had spent most of it's life since TLB as an American Graffitti clone! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] A good deal of the original parts were missing on this car as well, most notably the custom straight axle front suspension and custom fenderwell headers. Someone mounted a Camaro sub-frame to it. A few of the original fiberglass parts were found and the man who built the car to begin with (Ruth) is aiding in its restoration to full Two Lane Blacktop trim. (btw, if you want to see Richard Ruth he is in the movie, He is the guy in the white shirt who walks over and checks out the car when they stop for gas and asks about the headers). The 3rd car was just a rolling junker they were going to use for a rollover crash scene that was never filmed for TLB. I belive that car was used in the roll over scene in Graffitti. And there was a 4th car used in Graffitti for the car that burned after the roll over if you didn't know that. Just this past year the two original TLB 55's were displayed together for the first time since the filming of the movie at a show in Maryland. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Now I'm getting the urge to pop in TLB and watch it for the 1000th + time. The sounds that 55 makes when James rows the M22 through the gears just gets the old blood flowing [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] "Run 'er flat out for a while"
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