Hi,

Has anoyone else ever seen 'Watch Out we're mad' It was a pretty low budget film from the 70s poss early 80s which seems to be set in Argentina (apparently its a lot lot cheaper to film there) but its American actors (I use the term loosely!)It had Bud Spencer & Terrance Hill in it. They start the film off trying to win a Dune Buggy in a kind of rally cross event. One of them is in a mk1 Escort, I remember that. They come a deat heat and share the car but fall out trying to own it out right. They have a beer and hotdog contest to try and beat each other, but a fight ensues around them and they get caught up in it because the dune buggy gets wrecked.
As far as I remember, as I watched it many times as a kid and had it on vhs there was a fair bit of Ford Escort action, as well as some unknown South American cars the baddies drove. Might be worth seeing if still shots from this film can be found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvQbcMB3SIFound the racing scene on youtube, some great mk1 escort and mk1 capri action!

It is listed on the site:
http://www.imcdb.org/movie_69697-Altrimenti-ci-arrabbiamo.html
(under its Italian title, but can be found by searching the English title too)

Very loosely ... Bud Spencer's real name is Carlo Pedersoli and Terence Hill's is Mario Girotti

That clip reminds me of the folkrace competitions we have here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhSB9QMk1Tc

poor old cars

You should come and visit some time, the most common cars in these races is SAAB 90/99/900 I think

I wouldn't go there, I would be too angry. The cars are too old -some over 35-40 years- to have fun by watching that. Crappy cars from the 90ies would be o.k. for me, but not classics.


P.S. It seems, that the Swedish have a different view on that. Even in the last years there were cars wrecked there, which in other contries would raher be saved. I mean, freshly wrecked, not stored since years as wrecks outside.

I've been in 1999/2000 two times in Sweden, the first time for a real "junkyard-vacation" at my friend in Avesta and Vesteräs. The second time I went there with my luxemburgish friend, who has bought a "made for S"-K 70 there (in Gävle). Then we also have visited some junkyards.
(5th line, second pic from the left: http://www.k70-club.de/bunte_bilder.html ) There you can see such an Ovali-roof, I got there and have sold later on - for sure for too less money, but it was before my eBay-times.

Both times I've been surprised, sometimes even shoecked, what cars were delivered then. So in Motala there was a 1964-Beetle in complete and good condition freshly delivered. Only the battery was missing, even the keys were in the lock. We were fully loaded, so we only could wreck it, as the complete and perfect interior.

My Swedish friend has said, that not too many years before, even Ovali's were brought to the junkyards, because for Swedish hardcore-VW-freak a Beetle is only old enough, when it has the Brezel-window.

I haven't photgraphed all cars, but I remember, that in a mountain of recently pressed cars (a yard around Vesteras) I've seen a Borgward Arabella and a Merceded W 110 Fintail - even it's 10 years ago, in Germany this would be absolutely uncommon.

How many 1303 S were there, first year-Golf I's (in Avesta I have wrecked one totally, we took the complete green -only 1974/75!- interior), Opel Commodore A's, I've even seen two Opel Rekord A Coupé's and a Borgward Hansa on one yard (o.k., they weren't new there, but less than 6-7 years for sure).

But it was talked around in Europe, what's up with Swedish junkyards, to since the 90ies there are professional dealers going around the country and picking up interesting cars. In my German classic car-magazines and on markets you can find a plenty of Sweden-imports, mostly stuff from the 50ies and early 60ies.

My friend told me the story of a 1951 VW T1 Bus. How it was bought by a British freak (some British are totally crazy for pre-1953 VW's) for a ridicoulus price (750 Euro or so) around Göteborg, and has changed the owner 4 times during the delivery-trip to Liverpool - and was finally offered there for 15.000 Euro.

I did wonder about the american thing, as the film appears to be dubbed, but I wondered if it was originally American dubbed into the varying foreign languages and then back to English. It seemed pretty ropey even as a kid, but highly entertaining and the race at the beginning always stuck in my mind. Would be interesting if anyone could work out the cars in the background when the 'heavies' try and cause grief at matey with the beard's workshop.