MOTORAMA is the most interesting and intriguing movie that I have ever seen! Jordan Christopher Michael is extremely talented. He carries the whole movie as the only major character (all other characters are cameo parts and bit-parts). You owe it to yourself to get a copy and watch it!

If you have not seen MOTORAMA, read no further!
(some parts of the plot are divulged)
(these bits of trivia are in no particular order)
(last updated: 08 Aug 2001)

Did you notice:

  1. The photos on the video cassette case and on the movie poster:
    1. The red Ford Mustang on the case is a convertible. The one in the movie is not.
    2. The emblem of the horse and the four letters "F O R D" are missing on the front of the car.
    3. The image of Gus is printed in reverse (that is, it is a mirror image). His eyepatch and the rip in his blue jeans are on the wrong side. If you hold the case up to a mirror and look at the reflection, you will see it correctly.
    4. The image of the car is not printed in reverse.
    5. The images on the back (exept for the one in front of Phil's gas station) are also printed in reverse.
    6. In the new video cassette case (the one with Drew Barrymore on the cover), the emblem of the Chimera company is in the clouds (and is also printed in reverse).
    7. Gus has on a different colored shirt and jacket (different from the ones he had on in the movie.


  2. The white 18-wheeler truck that runs over Phil is the same one that runs Gus off the road and runs over the man at the end (the man who had won a million dollars).

  3. At the first motel that Gus stops at, in the morning when he gets up, his clothes are all neatly folded and placed on the chair by the bed (not something you would expect a little kid to do, but then Gus does a lot of things you would not expect a little kid to do).

  4. Some of the characters in the movie treat Gus like he is an adult:
    1. At the first motel that Gus stops at, his reflection in the mirror tells him that he is "acting like a little kid".
    2. Vern (Meatloaf) at the biker bar calls him "old pirate".
    3. The security guard at the Chimera building says to Gus, "Hold on there 'oldtimer', you can't go up there."
    4. The kid at the picnic area says, "'That man' has only one eye."
    5. The kidnapper lady did not seem to notice that Gus was only ten years old until she took off the fake novelty eyeglasses that he was wearing.


  5. When Gus is going thru the carwash, you can see some of the production crew members (possibly the director) in the reflection of the car windows as it passes by.

  6. There is a huge two-foot-long hook on Elmer's (Irwin Keys) toolbelt. (used for throwing bales of hay)

  7. When Gus is talking to Elmer, he hides his hands behind his back because they are covered with blood (from the old man who had died in the car that he is now driving).

  8. At the end of the movie, the license plate on the car driven by the man who had won a million dollars (Shelley Berman) has on it "812-YUM". The man takes the pack of chewing gum (looks like a pack of BubbleYum brand gum) out of Gus' pocket and eates a piece of the gum. ("812-YUM"-- Ate one too. YUM) get it?

  9. After Gus is run off the road, his hair has turned grey.

  10. By the time Gus has reached Elmer's gas station, he is growing a grey stubbley beard.

  11. The medal part of the stilts that Gus builds at the beginning of the movie are made out of an engine valve cover.

  12. At the end of the movie, right after Gus is thrown out of a window and lands in the water, you can see on the bottom of the stream, a keychain just like the one in the red Ford Mustang (a silver six-sided die/dice).

  13. When Gus is cashing in his coins at the bank, behind the bankteller (Martha Quinn) there is a man that looks like he is trying to break into the safe.

  14. The money in Gus' piggy bank is real money. The rest of the money used in the movie is not.

  15. The two wild horses that Gus passes at the beginning of the movie are Mustangs (there are also two Ford Mustangs in the movie: the red one Gus is driving and a brown convertible parked at the picnic area where Gus wins $100 playing horseshoes).

  16. At the first place that Gus stops for coffee there is a "Bob's Big Boy Restaurant" statue out in back of the building.

  17. When they were carrying the old man out to dump him in the stream, he is mumbling, "I was't finished with my chocolate cream pie."

  18. At the first gas station that Gus stops at, there is a banner that reads "Be Full-Filled" above the gasoline pumps.

  19. At Phil's (John Diehl) gas station, there are several religious items for sale.

  20. At the first motel that Gus stops at, there is a statue of a squirrel on the wall of the office, and on the motel clerk's tv, they are talking about squirrels.

  21. There are no self-service gas stations in the movie, only full-service stations.

  22. When Gus is buying a tire at the gas station, he puts the three MOTORAMA cards on the hood of the car and they spell out "M O M".

  23. When Gus is buying the novelty eyeglasses from the vending machine in the restaurant, the busboy (Flea) knocks Gus' head into the vending machine.

  24. After Gus gets away from the kidnappers, he runs out and washes his face. The red smudge on his face is not blood, it is red lipstick.

  25. There is a shrine with a bunch of candles in the background at the biker bar where Gus meets Meatloaf.

  26. Gus finds a ball of string in the glove box of the red Ford Mustang while he was at the biker bar.

  27. Gus writes the letter "R" on the shower door of the second motel that he stays at.

  28. The first place that Gus stops at, the Wagon Wheel, there is a huge shadow of a wagon wheel cast across the parking lot.

  29. Gus is only about 52 inches tall in this movie (based on the height of a 65 Mustang). (That's why he needs the stilts, so he can reach the pedals while driving the red Ford Mustang)

Goofs:

  1. When Phil (John Diehl) is running down the road chasing after his kite, if you look at the left bottom of the screen you can see two of the crew running ahead of him. They are actually flying the kite.

  2. At the end of the movie when Gus stops the red Ford Mustang, he gets out and throws his stilts over a cliff. Right before this scene, he is driving the car and the camera comes in real close on his feet, so that you can see him driving with the stilts. There is a rip in his blue jeans, but at this point in the movie there should be no rip. In the scene right before he gets into the car and in the scene right after (when he throws the stilts over the cliff), his blue jeans are not ripped.

  3. At the first place that Gus stopps at, the Wagon Wheel, as he gets up to leave he does not have his red baseball cap on. In the next scene he has it on.

  4. Also at the Wagon Wheel, the old man falls on the floor behind the younger man (the one who comes over and questions Gus). In the next scene the younger man steps on the old man lying on the floor, but in the previous scene the old man was behind him.

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