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Why did det. Junkins ask Arnie about the paint job.


When his car was trashed Junkins asked "if they even make that kind of paint anymore"...what was he getting at? I mean, it's odd after seeing Arnies' car magically refurbished and he wants to know if he had a receipt for the paint.

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now....figure it out......you just about answered your own question....

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I've wondered that, too. He should be looking into whether or not it was Christine who ran over Moochie. By asking how the car's paint can't be bought today it is like he knows she is alive. I just don't buy that Junkins knows Christine is alive. I don't understand his questioning either.
I took it more of a fraud thing. "You say there were punctures in the body but I don't see the fill. You say the paint doesn't match but I can't see it. I don't belive you when you say this car was totaled" is how I took the questioning. HOWEVER he knows Leigh, his parents, and the local police saw it (he said so).

By the way, he said the local police told him about it but then he says Arnie never reported it. If he didn't report it how did the police know about it?










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Right. Arnie explained the difference in the paint not matching in spots and whatnot. It seemed Junkins had other ideas of what Christine was.

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I assumed it was because they found red paint scrapings at the scene of Moochie's death, and a rare color would limit the number of cars that could be culpable.

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I assumed it was because they found red paint scrapings at the scene of Moochie's death, and a rare color would limit the number of cars that could be culpable.


That.

I mean... these days they can probably match paint scrapings to a specific car (if they have access to that car), but even in 1978 they would've examined the scrapings left behind at a murder scene. Analyzing and ID-ing said paint shouldn't have been a huge deal, even back then.

Once it turned out to be a rare, out of production color, how could they not become suspicious? Especially since there was a car driving around in that small-ish town, belonging to someone who knew the murder-victim and was bullied by him in the past and that car just happened to be painted in that rare, out of production color. You'd have to be a pretty bad cop to *not* follow up on that.


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When his car was trashed Junkins asked "if they even make that kind of paint anymore"...what was he getting at? I mean, it's odd after seeing Arnies' car magically refurbished and he wants to know if he had a receipt for the paint.


Yep, totally agree. If anything, they could have used that exchange later in the film if and when Junkins began to suspect something supernatural going on.

And actually, any auto paint supply store will mix any color that ever existed. They don't stock every color, they mix to order so even the Fury's original paint could be mixed up in minutes.


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"And actually, any auto paint supply store will mix any color that ever existed. They don't stock every color, they mix to order so even the Fury's original paint could be mixed up in minutes."

Exactly. Junkins' line of questioning about the paint didn't even make sense, since there's no such thing as a paint color that's unobtainable. Not only can a paint store mix any car factory paint color that ever existed (as well as paint colors that were never used by any car factory), but you can do it yourself too.

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