This week a freelance photographer working in Malibu made rent for the month by snapping photos of a rumpled Richard Dean Anderson standing next to his dead Audi Allroad.
Anderson, known to children of the 1980s as TV's MacGyver, apparently made no attempt to dive under the hood and fix his Audi. And who can blame him entirely? Twenty-first century luxury cars have all sorts of built-in countermeasures to foil would-be MacGyvers and protect their manufacturers from litigation.
After the jump, a CBS clip of old-school MacGyver jimmying a fix for a busted brake line on an eastern-block police cruiser. It looks... quaint. Not that anyone will watch it because of the cloying 30-second Disney ad that precedes it.
Photo credit: AKM Images
e90_m3 says:
12:50 PM, 12/14/11
I will gladly take the Allroad off MacGruber. It was my dream car when I was a poor graduate student at the turn of the century.
If Audi decides to sell the A6 Allroad here again I'll be at the dealership first thing in the morning.
throwback says:
01:07 PM, 12/14/11
Perhaps he did not have any duct tape.
cjasis says:
01:34 PM, 12/14/11
Great pic.
rustyshacklfrd says:
01:48 PM, 12/14/11
Eastern Bloc? Nah, that's just an old Volvo, not a Volga or Lada. Hollywood always hoped nobody knew the difference...like when they'd be chasing a Mustang on CHIPS which would suddenly turn into a Pinto just before blowing up.
_feloniousmonk says:
02:12 PM, 12/14/11
rustyshacklfrd says:
"...a Mustang ...would suddenly turn into a Pinto just before blowing up."
Hey, you just described the history of the Mustang in the last half of the 70's.
ed124c says:
02:58 PM, 12/14/11
I never watched MacGyver, but I did watch all 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1. And fell in love with Amanda Tapping.
General Hammond: "That's SG-1!!!"
Erin Riches replied to comment from rustyshacklfrd
03:25 PM, 12/14/11
Sweden was behind the curtain, no? Good catch, and my regrets for the sloppiness.
carlisimo says:
04:40 PM, 12/14/11
No, Sweden was neutral but seemed to lean towards the US, since the USSR was more likely to reach in and grab its territory in case of war. Later in the Cold War their defensive strategy depended more and more on help from NATO, and we helped them a bit with their Saab fighter jets.
_feloniousmonk says:
06:24 PM, 12/14/11
carlisimo says:
"No, Sweden was neutral but seemed to lean towards the US, since the USSR was more likely to reach in and grab its territory in case of war. Later in the Cold War their defensive strategy depended more and more on help from NATO, and we helped them a bit with their Saab fighter jets."
Man, the internetz really needs a "That went right over your head!/Sarcasm Detector obviously broken." emoticon/icon. Maybe I'll just start saying, "WOOSH!"
sidx says:
06:24 PM, 12/14/11
Sometimes I am glad I am not a celebrity. Why is this news?
billt9 says:
04:37 AM, 12/15/11
car broke down is news.
car never breakdown.
I don't think i've had a car ever break down.
sherief says:
01:18 PM, 12/15/11
@e90_m3
the allroad is returning, will be based on the A4.
explorerx4 says:
05:30 PM, 12/15/11
Could have just been out of petrol.
e90_m3 says:
03:44 PM, 12/19/11
"@e90_m3
the allroad is returning, will be based on the A4."
Too small for me :(