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MaTBoY Grand Master

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I went and watched that Love That Beast Movie last night. It's like a car doco about Eric Bana, his mates and his XB Falcon that he's had pretty much all his life. i didn't know what to expect, i thought it would be pretty boring to be honest, but it wasn't. It was really good.

Basically, it's about guys who love cars and car culture in Australia and how he built his dream car and raced at Targa.

I went with a mate who has absolutely no interest in cars what so ever, and he enjoyed it too. He even said he started to understand why and how car people like us can get so attached to a car. So take your missus if she has no idea about why you like cars.

If your a car person and miss out on seeing all the classics thrashing along Tasmania on the big screen your missing out on something special!

i want an XB even more now!!!! :):)

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Without giving the end away...

Has anyone who has seen it spotted two mangled yellow and purple r32's next to Bana's wreck in the post crash holding yard in Tassie?

Our claim to fame that year sadly was ending up his crashed neighbour, and apparently there was meant to be some filming in that yard?

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I don't think they show the car in the yard, you see it in the trees and then again later on not in the trees, but not in the holding yard... i'm being vauge on purpose but no i didn't spot any wrecked gtr's. I woulda noticed. There's a few in the backgrounds in the work shops and stuff. and you can hear one or two in the background.

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Eric Bana's XB Coupe he's had that car since he was a kid and rebuilt it for Targa. In a recent interview on SEN (Sports station here in Melbourne) they asked him where is the XB Coupe and he said that it is still in his garage smashed (from the targa accident) and hasn't gotten around to fixing it as he needs the itch of racing to motivate him to fix it up

His parents still live in Tullamarine and I use to the XB Coupe (when it was in its original form) out on the street

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Will my non-car loving, non-racing man friends like it too? :verymad:

Actually Eric Banana lost a few female fans with his comments like this one:

Bana said women were the "target audience".

"It's the partners, friends and so forth that I'm trying to reach out to with this film," Bana said.

He's also been quoted saying things to the effect of the movie being good for showing the wives and girlfriends what racing is all about.

I guess all the chicks in racesuits standing around in the carparks at Targa were there giving moral support to all the men driving & navigating :O

I don't mind the sentiment, just the implication that men are the only ones who race.

And I'll still go and watch & probably like the movie :wub:

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Actually Eric Banana lost a few female fans with his comments like this one:

Bana said women were the "target audience".

"It's the partners, friends and so forth that I'm trying to reach out to with this film," Bana said.

He's also been quoted saying things to the effect of the movie being good for showing the wives and girlfriends what racing is all about.

I guess all the chicks in racesuits standing around in the carparks at Targa were there giving moral support to all the men driving & navigating :wub:

I don't mind the sentiment, just the implication that men are the only ones who race.

And I'll still go and watch & probably like the movie :verymad:

heh, i actually thought of you and people like you when i heard him say that on ACA

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I was curious about the state of the car post wreck, after hearing him on the radio say the damage

was far worse than they first suspected. It took a while to find, but the pic (from his targa blog)

is here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/Ban...ga-Crash-01.jpg

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I was curious about the state of the car post wreck, after hearing him on the radio say the damage

was far worse than they first suspected. It took a while to find, but the pic (from his targa blog)

is here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/Ban...ga-Crash-01.jpg

The poor old Raceworxs cars were parked in the same holding yard up near Devonport at the end of Targa that year.

Banas car was definitely as messy as it looked in that pic and then some.

But then he was in good company.... this is how Mark Hawkin's finished up

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