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The Eastwood Company began in a garage in suburban Philadelphia in 1978, with the founder, Curt Strohacker, selling buffing wheels and compounds from 1/4-page ads in automotive magazines. [2] Today, the company has a distribution and headquarters facility in Pottstown, Pennsylvania , mailing millions of full-color catalogs annually, and running ...
Undercoat may refer to: Down hair, or underfur, of an animal; Primer (paint), applied to a surface before the visible final coat of paint will be applied; See also
"Go ahead, make my day" is a catchphrase from the 1983 film Sudden Impact, spoken by the character Harry Callahan, played by Clint Eastwood.The iconic line was written by John Milius, [1] whose writing contributions to the film were uncredited, but has also been attributed to Charles B. Pierce, who wrote the film's story, [2] and to Joseph Stinson, who wrote the screenplay. [3]
A grease gun (pneumatic) A grease gun is a common workshop and garage tool used for lubrication. The purpose of the grease gun is to apply lubricant through an aperture to a specific point, usually from a grease cartridge to a grease fitting or 'nipple'. The channels behind the grease nipple lead to where the lubrication is needed.
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson at the premiere. City Heat was released in United States theaters in December 1984. It grossed $38.3 million at the North American box office. [12] For his roles in this film and Cannonball Run II, Reynolds was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor. [13] Reynolds later recalled:
Lydden Spout Battery in 2010, showing the Warrant Officer's Mess, Sergeants Mess, dining room and cook house. Lydden Spout Battery is a World War II coastal defence battery built in 1941 west of Dover. Originally armed with three 6-inch Mark VII naval guns on Mark V mountings, later upgraded to Mark XXIV guns on the same mountings.
A powder flask is a small container for gunpowder, which was an essential part of shooting equipment with muzzle-loading guns, before pre-made paper cartridges became standard in the 19th century. They range from very elaborately decorated works of art to early forms of consumer packaging, and are widely collected. Many were standardized ...
A Fistful of Dollars was directly adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961). It was the subject of a lawsuit by Yojimbo ' s producers. [6] Yojimbo ' s protagonist, an unconventional rōnin (a samurai with no master) played by Toshiro Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and ...