The 1980s were full of great movies, from my personal favorites with the Back to the Future trilogy, to the masterpiece that was the first Robocop movie. These movies were full of great cars, and occasionally, they come up for sale.
The Autopian staff got rather excited to learn that a screen-used ‘6000 SUX’ from Robocop is for sale. Readers had fantastic comments. D-dub:
Bidding is open at €30,000.
You have 20 seconds to comply.
You now have 15 seconds to comply.
You have 5 seconds to comply.
I am now authorized to use physical force.
Here’s the reference:
Church:
Bidders leave
I almost died laughing at this.
Rafael has a really good story:
Robocop is my favourite movie ever, right there with Gladiator, Godfather and (of course) Shawshank Redemption.
I saw this movie as a kid, way earlier than I should’ve been allowed, and it made a mark on my mind. No joke, the theme of Murphy still being Murphy after (and despite) all that stuck with me. As someone who went through some serious crap in my life, sometimes it felt that the person emerging from it would be someone else, worse, less empathetic, more cynic – but we’re made of the stories we tell ourselves about us, and one of mine is Robocop. So, laugh all you want, but Murphy inspired me to hold on to my identity regardless of how much my life changed and how much life tried to beat me up.
Also, this story made me wear my scars with pride – not only on my body, mind you, but on my possessions. This is REALLY handy when it comes to accept dings, scratches and dents on my cars.
Like and subscribe for the next episode where I’ll go on about how much Star Trek made me accept that sometimes we have to let things go, as long as we replace the with better versions with a letter after the NCC-1701 (true story).
Finally, Brian wrote about how the F-150 Lightning might be on its deathbed. Here’s a joke to end the work week from Arch Duke Maxyenko:
I mean if Ford wants to Focus on on Flexing Lightning production to develop the next gen version of the truck then Fairlane to them.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Top screenshot: Orion Pictures
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Well I guess that is one effective way to terminate an executive and save on the executive compensation package.
He really could have used a golden parachute right about then.
Yay
So – WHAT happened to our avatars ?
Either you set one for yourself or they give you a Space Invaders sprite.
I had it set, in Gravatar or whatever crap The Autopian was using. It’s still set to that in Gravatar. What happened ?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Turns out the email used for Gravatar has to be the same as the one used for The Autopian. I think that’s new. Eh. Works now. Thanks.
Yay, Robocop and COTD on the same day! I could say that I am contemplating acquiring such a thing for a single unit of US monetary value, but I don’t really know how to put it to words…
COTD? Big is back!