kungphuphil
11-16-2006, 12:39 PM
I have always loved big Buicks, even from my limited tactile experience with them compared to many enthusiasts. My folks had a '76 Estate Wagon which I thought was good lookin and only the '69 Sport Wagon compares in my book.
I bought my Centurion from a neighbor in 1998 for $1000, it ran at the time. I remember when he first uncovered it to show me his new toy and I knew I would own it someday despite no knowledge of his intent to sell (which at the time he did not have).
Since then I have rediscovered one of my favorite movie monologues, a gem from Kurt Russell in "Used Cars," a classic and the only movie I know of that extols the Buick Centurion Convertible by name. He is a salesman trying to sell his Centurion to a meek soul, whom he has lured across the street and into his car door with a $10 bill on a fishing line. It is a priceless mile-a-minute schpeel about the glorious car and the statement it makes (the line about gas savings is priceless).
I have a pet suspicion that I own this car. The color is the same and looks for all the world like the car in the movie right down to the shape of the dent in the driver's door made by the rube's head.
Does anyone know anythng about this car and can we get the sound bite from the movie posted on the site?
It would be a hilariously appropriate embellishment for such a site as this.
Someone from the should also attempt to contact Kurt Russell or his fan club to find out more about the car and get his reaction to our enthusiasm for the car he immortalized in film.
That would be the limit!
-Phil
I bought my Centurion from a neighbor in 1998 for $1000, it ran at the time. I remember when he first uncovered it to show me his new toy and I knew I would own it someday despite no knowledge of his intent to sell (which at the time he did not have).
Since then I have rediscovered one of my favorite movie monologues, a gem from Kurt Russell in "Used Cars," a classic and the only movie I know of that extols the Buick Centurion Convertible by name. He is a salesman trying to sell his Centurion to a meek soul, whom he has lured across the street and into his car door with a $10 bill on a fishing line. It is a priceless mile-a-minute schpeel about the glorious car and the statement it makes (the line about gas savings is priceless).
I have a pet suspicion that I own this car. The color is the same and looks for all the world like the car in the movie right down to the shape of the dent in the driver's door made by the rube's head.
Does anyone know anythng about this car and can we get the sound bite from the movie posted on the site?
It would be a hilariously appropriate embellishment for such a site as this.
Someone from the should also attempt to contact Kurt Russell or his fan club to find out more about the car and get his reaction to our enthusiasm for the car he immortalized in film.
That would be the limit!
-Phil