Greetings Mike
My car was owned by my brother in law who lived in NJ. He was contacted by
the filming company at the same time they were contacting other owners of
circa 1940s 1950s cars. His car (my car now) is a 1953 Chrylser Imperial,
green. It is not the limo in the picture posted on the Imperial site. If
you review Godfather I, in the scene where they take away "Fish" (that was
his Barney Miller name) they hauled him off on his one way ride in my
brother in law's (now my) car. There were a couple of other scenes the car
was in. I will have to look at the G-I film again and make a note of what
scenes they are. Unfortunately, when my bro in law passed away the
documentation from the film company was lost. When we look at the film as a
family my kids always stand up and shout "there's uncle Tony's (now my) car!
Play it again dad!"
And now you know the rest of the story!
Quint
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Christine Trettin" <mtrettin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: October 28, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: IML: Quint Villanueva's Imperial in The Godfather
>
> > Thanks for the heads up. I always like to spot Imperials in films. Mine
> was
> > in Godfather I.
> >
> > Quint
>
> Whoa, Quint! I can't let that interesting tidbit go without asking you
> about it:
> http://www.imperialclub.org/Movies/GodfatherOne/index.htm
>
> Is that your car pictured on that page? And is it a '54, or should it be
> listed as a '53? I'd love to hear your story of loaning the car for the
> movie, how they treated it, whether you still own the car, etc. Also more
> pictures, if you have them, would be great! If you'd be good enough to
> write something up, and include any pictures you have, I'd like to add
that
> to the Godfather page.
>
> You can send stuff, including picture attachments, to the volunteers at
> webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike Trettin
> 1956 Imperial Sedan, Turquoise
>
>
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