Saw the movie, _The Thing About My Parents_ tonight. About 30 minutes into
the picture Paul Reiser and Peter Falk wind up stranded at a car repair
shop in the country with an eccentric mechanic, and there prominently in
the foreground of several shots is a nicely restored Bridgeport M head. I
guess the director thought it would evoke a working auto shop atmosphere.

Richard J Kinch wrote:
Saw the movie, _The Thing About My Parents_ tonight. About 30 minutes into
the picture Paul Reiser and Peter Falk wind up stranded at a car repair
shop in the country with an eccentric mechanic, and there prominently in
the foreground of several shots is a nicely restored Bridgeport M head. I
guess the director thought it would evoke a working auto shop atmosphere.

A BP in an auto repair shop is a rare thing, at least in Texas.
Even a small lathe is almost unheard of.

Rex B wrote:


Richard J Kinch wrote:

Saw the movie, _The Thing About My Parents_ tonight. About 30 minutes
into the picture Paul Reiser and Peter Falk wind up stranded at a car
repair shop in the country with an eccentric mechanic, and there
prominently in the foreground of several shots is a nicely restored
Bridgeport M head. I guess the director thought it would evoke a
working auto shop atmosphere.


A BP in an auto repair shop is a rare thing, at least in Texas.
Even a small lathe is almost unheard of.

But perhaps something you'd find in the shop of a mechanic who's
eccentric and very competent.

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I was surprised a few years ago to find one in a Harley Davidson
motorcycle shop. They told me that is normal.

Pete Stanaitis
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Richard J Kinch wrote:
Saw the movie, _The Thing About My Parents_ tonight. About 30 minutes into
the picture Paul Reiser and Peter Falk wind up stranded at a car repair
shop in the country with an eccentric mechanic, and there prominently in
the foreground of several shots is a nicely restored Bridgeport M head. I
guess the director thought it would evoke a working auto shop atmosphere.

Richard J Kinch wrote:
Saw the movie, _The Thing About My Parents_ tonight. About 30 minutes into
the picture Paul Reiser and Peter Falk wind up stranded at a car repair
shop in the country with an eccentric mechanic, and there prominently in
the foreground of several shots is a nicely restored Bridgeport M head. I
guess the director thought it would evoke a working auto shop atmosphere.

Cool! An M head, too! Was it a round ram? That dates it roughly to
pre WW-II.

Jon

Jon Elson writes:

Cool! An M head, too! Was it a round ram? That dates it roughly to
pre WW-II.

Here, I made some frame captures to see:

http://www.truetex.com/thingaboutmyfolksbridgeport1.jpg
http://www.truetex.com/thingaboutmyfolksbridgeport2.jpg

There's also some kind of nice old drill press in the 2nd frame.

Eccentric but competent was what the mechanic is supposed to be. He winds
up selling the old man (Falk) an elegantly restored 1940 Ford convertible
dream car.

Here's a link to the IMDB on this movie:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0429177/

I would give it my thumbs up. Not just for the Bridgeport.