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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson
the car that picked up Jake Gittes and drove him to his luncheon with Noah Cross ("I believe they should be served with the head on." " I don't mind as long as you don't serve chicken that way.") Besides the shot of the Ford looks like it's parked outside of Pierce Patchett's garage.
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The wagon you mentioned--a 1936 Ford. A genuine woody.
Jake's '35 Ford Phaeton--soon to be bifurcated by a tree in a Valley orange grove.
Mrs. Mulwray's beautiful '38 Packard in her Pasadena driveway. She would later die at
the wheel of it in...
Chinatown.
And...
An excellent
Chinatown re-creation of a SoCal streetscape, appropriately
enough in a rear-view mirror. An iconic Bekins van completes the scene:
All photos: Paramount Pictures Corp./http://imcdb.org/