They met for the first time on the set, and the chemistry between them showed in the flick.
And they loved practical jokes.
From A.E. Hochner's Newman bio "My Pal Paul Newman", which I highly recommend:
"Paul and Robert Redford had a collegial but prickly relationship as illustrated by their exchange of practical jokes. Redford fired the first salvo when, as a birthday present for Paul, he had a junkyard Porsche, sans wheels and fenders, put in Paul’s driveway with a big blue ribbon around it.
Paul showed me the pathetic Porsche and then described his plan of reprisal. He had engaged a compacting company to pick up the Porsche and turn it into a metal lump. Paul had located the real-estate agent who had brokered Redford’s Westport, Connecticut, house. In exchange for an autographed picture, the broker opened Redford’s front door for the compactors, who deposited the Porsche lump in the middle of Redford’s living room with Redford’s blue ribbon securely around it."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/19/my-pal-paul-newman.html
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