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Written by Ben Branch |
May 24th 2011
Celluloid doesn’t get much better than this, The Italian Job is essential viewing for any self-respecting red-blooded male. Featuring Michael Caine and Noel Coward the 1969 comic caper centres around a gold heist in Turin, Italy.
This is the full, unedited car chase scene that entered the film into the annals of 60s pop-culture, with music by Quincy Jones (of course).
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Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
This is an original 1959 Bocar XP-6, a little-known American sports racing car developed by Bob Carnes in Lakewood, Colorado to challenge the dominant…