I believe they are/were called pedicabs, and they had them when I visited Oahu in 1988.When I lived in Waikiki, I wished there had been some of those rickshaws around to cart me home from the bars at night, lol.
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Most movie and TV props are real guns, and in the case of automatics (semi and full), they are usually modified to cycle with blanks. Usually it is as simple as a lighter recoil spring, though sometimes a plugged barrel is used to create more pressure to cycle the action. This is also why Magnum's Colt Government Model was a 9mm, rather than a .45 like it was supposed to be in the context of the show. They only came up with blanks that would reliably cycle a .45 about 20 years ago. Before that, they had to substitute a 9mm version of the gun for firing scenes. And before the early '70s when Colt introduced the 9mm version of the Government Model, they had to use similar looking guns like the Spanish-made Star Model B 9mm. This is why Star Model Bs were far more common in the movies or on TV than in real life.TSMagnumIII wrote:I am a gun nut so I call dibs and I checked, no one else claimed it yet... I want Orville's Uzi!! I thought that rhymed more than Rick's Uzi, lol. I don't want some blank firing prop, if it wasn't real, I don't want it. Give me the UZI!! If I can't have the Uzi then here's something no one has claimed yet either, Rick's Rickshaw from the "China Doll" episode!! When I lived in Waikiki, I wished there had been some of those rickshaws around to cart me home from the bars at night, lol. In three years I never saw a rickshaw and wonder if they ever did really have them. If anyone knows if they had them back in the 80's, why did they go away?? Mahalo and Alohas!!
Gee, didn't it sink in "Paper War"?ConchRepublican wrote:Hmmm . . . I don't think anyone called dibs on the surf ski. Let me just put my name on that bad boy . . .
I had one, but it got grungy and I tossed it.Frodoleader wrote:Wouldn't it be cool if every member of this board would get their very own Cross of Lorraine team ring? That way when we run into each other out in the real world, we could recognize each other and our interest in all things MPI!
Those are the ones I saw. Don't know where they came from, but those are the ones.Sam wrote:Frodoleader...Here are the pics of the surfski.
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg22 ... tage_6.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg22 ... urfski.jpg
You know I had seen those pics of the Surf Ski before when Dave Romas wrote up his piece a few years back, and again when posted here, not to mention all of the episode I watched with Magnum on the Surf Ski but this is the first time I noticed there is a "Cross of Lorraine" on the top of the Ski.........Sam wrote:N1095A
The pics came from a tour of the studio that Dave Romas took in 1997.Rick Romer got him in.Those are the ones I saw. Don't know where they came from, but those are the ones.