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Just for those too young who might not get the reference - I believe the company name is a riff on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077369/ http://www.imdb.com/titl
by omonra 11y ago
Just for those too young who might not get the reference - I believe the company name is a riff on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077369/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077369/.
I think I watched it in the USSR in late 80s - we all thought that's what USA is like.
- gavazzy 11y agoIt's more likely that the movie and the company chose the name because of its meaning. A convoy is literally a group of ships or vehicles transporting something, usually protected. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convoy http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convoy
- bufordsharkley 11y agoThe Peckinpah movie (and the hit C.W. McCall song that inspired it several years earlier) stands among the most famous instances of trucking in popular culture-- I would guess rather strongly that it's a reference.
- baseten 11y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss somebody gotta link the convoy song!
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- twic 11y agoLogically, then, the next move would be a high-speed, long-distance, high value small load courier startup called Vanishing Point. Expect it to have a sudden, but dramatic, exit.