Christie Brinkley and Chevy Chase are on the road again!
On Monday, August 26, the couple – who tempted fate during a trip to National Lampoon’s Vacation — reunited more than 40 years later in a few photographs. In the pictures that Brinkley (70) shared on a joint Instagram carousel with Chase (80), the former stars are smiling for car selfies.
“Vacation always ends too soon! 🏎️ @chevychase” the supermodel captioned the set of images, plus a video of them smiling while waving at the camera.
Viewers first met the duo in the classic 1983 comedy when Clark Griswold (Chase) and his wife Ellen (Beverly D’Angelo) drove from Illinois to a California amusement park with their two children.
While Ellen slept in the passenger seat, the young and very flirtatious Brinkley became known simply as “The Girl in the Ferrari.”
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Chase’s character found it hard to keep his eyes on the road as the blonde in the sports car next to him raced between lanes playing with her hair, giving him suggestive looks the entire way.
Things heat up in the film when the two happen to stop at the same destination during their travels, and a brief encounter at a bar leads to Ellen catching her skinny husband taking a dip in the pool with Brinkley’s character.
Christie Brinkley and Chevy Chase in ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’.
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The National Lampoon’s Vacation The series consists of seven films, although two of them are not sponsored National lantern.
In December 2023, Chase reunited with D’Angelo, as well as Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn at Christmas Con 2023 in Edison, New Jersey, in honor of their 1989 film. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
“So happy my daughter @em_chases and @alex.baglieri came and said hi at @thats4ent this weekend,” he captioned an Instagram photo of them laughing in his formal meet-and-greet space at the event — which happened to be Saturday night live alum’s first appearance at a Christmas convention.
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National Lampoons Christmas Vacation 2019 Cast Reunion
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Later that month, the director of the Christmas classic, Jeremiah S. Chechik, spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about how PEOPLE made a cameo in the 1989 comedy.
“Yeah, that’s me,” Chechik, 69, said of himself appearing on a mock PEOPLE cover designed specifically for the film.
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“I think it was easiest for me to get permission to do that,” he said at the time. “It was a fun way for Hitchcock to get into the movie without doing any walking.”
The unique cover appears in a scene about 11 minutes into the film where Clark and Ellen are seen lying in bed discussing their vacation plans.
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Clark, who has just finished trying to tear down a Christmas tree, has trouble turning the fake pages of PEOPLE magazine because the tree sap is still stuck to his fingers.
Ellen suggests that “it’s not too late to change our plans,” while Clark unfazed agrees and adds “great.”
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