<VV> Music video and CD featuring a '65 Corvair 500 - Mel Vondrau

[Dave Leonard]

Amazing.  A very very remote '65 Corvair 500 w/ a 3-speed staring in a music
video...  I emailed the artist - Mel Vondrau - about the car and location.
I got an immediate and very polite response.  Here is what she told me:

"The Corvair belongs to a friend of mine and is "housed" in a hanger in a
little town near the Swartberg Mountains in South Africa (it's about a 5
hour drive from Cape Town and is called Prince Albert)."

"The chap "chasing" me in the video is the owner - it is one of many
beautiful cars he has restored to magnificence."

"Oh yes, one last thing, the Corvair is one of the most powerful cars
I've driven.  Three gears and that engine in the boot is more like a
jet than a normal car."

She continued with a note about her not considering the Infinity album to be
her best work - claiming it's too "pop driven" and that since then, she has
matured.  The following link takes you to an interview she did with the BBC
recently and on this is a link with her latest single "Never Give Up".  She
believes her best album is the "Show Me How" album, which is apparently sold
out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2004/09/08/mel_vondrau_featu
re.shtml

Dave

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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Dave Leonard wrote:

> I've not seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but I may have missed it.  I
just
> happened across a music CD from a woman named Mel Vondrau, (thanks to a
> truly bizarre search algorithm - when I was looking for something
completely
> different).  What struck me was the full picture of a very nice looking
'65
> 'vair featured on the cover! She's fine also...  The album had a link to
her
> web site - which is extremely well done.  Pictures of the '65 500 coupe
are
> all over her site for her album "Infinity"!
>
> But wait - there's more.  She also has a full-length high-res music video
of
> her driving the 'vair all over, being followed by a guy on a motorcycle.
> The refrain in the tune is "I want to be alone".  It's actually very well
> done, easy to listen to, and easy to watch!
>
> Check it out for some weekend entertainment:
>
> www.vondrau.com
>
> The pictures are under: Photos, I N F I N I T Y  C D Cover
>
> The video is, well, under "video"...
>
> Sure doesn't look like it was shot anywhere in the US, and plate on the
bike
> is foreign.  Anyone hear about this one before or any ideas where it was
> shot, and who's car it is?
>
> Dave
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