Favorite Car Chase Movie??

[NZ 440R/T]

Whats your Favorite tyre smoking, chase movie? If other What?, and Why?

[goose69]

As far as car chase scenes go "BULLIT" has to be toward the top of the list. This is an all time classic that is still used as a benchmark. And it doesn't use hoaky stunts that are unbelievable like in the new "Gone in 60 sec.". I love that movie too, but the jump scene at the end is too unbelievable. Kind of like all those jump scenes the Duke boys did. We all know what happened to those cars!

[dwc43]

Bullet may have been called the car chase to judge all other car chases by but it's not. The cars were run in circles on a closed of street. You see the same purple volkswagon on your left as they come down the hill four or more times. At the end the tape was speed up to make the mustang look faster than it was and it could not keep up with the Charger.

The original Gone in Sixty seconds is the best car chase movie. The Mustang had a nascar built cage installed and that's why it survived all of the crashes it took. And the stunts were real and not speed up. The maker of the movie played the star role, and drovet the car. There were no speed up tapes or monkeying around with it. That's what makes it accurate and the best. Plus the old mustang could be sen again in the movie called the Junk Man inside Hugh Hefners mansion on a pedastal with Gone in Sixty Seconds in black letters across the door.

[Mister Fiberglass]

how about Dirty Mary/Crazy Larry or even Slither ....with the Mopar motorhomes ??

[dwc43]

I have never heard of slither, but Dirty Mary and crazy Larrys pretty good too. I forgot about that. I think I still have a copy of it.

[NZ 440R/T]

Vanishing Point (1971) by a country mile for me, No mucking around like the remake plus he doesnt make 100 gear changes when he's all ready doing high speeds. The hole movie is the chase unlike Bullitt where you watch 1 hour then get to see the 5 min chase. Not because I drive a

[NZ 440R/T]

Vanishing Point (1971) by a country mile for me, No mucking around like the remake plus he doesnt make 100 gear changes when he's all ready doing high speeds. The whole movie is the chase unlike Bullitt where you watch 1 hour then get to see the 5 min chase. Not just because I drive a Challenger, because it made me want a Challenger!!

[71roadrunner]

The Wraith is another good one where the star is a Chrysler product. It's hard to see but if you look close enough you can see the pentastar on the nose.

[hellhound]

i have to agree Gone in 60 seconds is my fave too

[dwc43]

Originally posted by 71roadrunner
The Wraith is another good one where the star is a Chrysler product. It's hard to see but if you look close enough you can see the pentastar on the nose.

I forgot about that one. I have a copy of it somewhere. Good movie.

[NZ 440R/T]

What car is the star of the Wraith?

[dwc43]

The turbo interceptor. IT was developed by Mopar and corning PPG. It had a kevlar/fiberglass body with a rear wheel drive 2.2 turbo and a v6 turbo was also prototyed. IT was used as a pace car for the Indy 500 the year the movie came out. THey were all a molded charcoal grey color. Almost looked black. They used 12 bodies and one car to shoot that movie.

[NZ 440R/T]

Cheers, Sounds interesting might have to find that one at the local Video store.

[dwc43]

It's worth a look see. Warning, if you have kids, it has a topless shot in it too.

[NZ 440R/T]

No kids Just like Vanishing Point which had a topless lady in the dessert...........Mopar thinks of it all Cars, Chicks and action........

[dwc43]

SWEET!! Aint it!

[NZ 440R/T]

DC: Sweet indeed, Another spit on ricey movie moment is in Fast and the Furious where the end battle between the Charger and supra, The Charger kicks arse straight away by a car length easy with brute Muscle, and the supra has to relie on NOS to stay in the hunt

[DavidRo]

Originally posted by 71roadrunner
The Wraith is another good one where the star is a Chrysler product. It's hard to see but if you look close enough you can see the pentastar on the nose.

Yeah The Wraith was a good movie. They had a nice Daytona in that movie too (of course it got beat and taken by the "gang").

[71RR]

As far as car chases go, the 74' Gone In 60 Seconds is the best with 30+ minutes for the final car chase. The driving was real and so are the unscripted errors. Some of the accidents were not intentional and I'm not sure but I think it was filmed all at once as a single take (no stoping and re-starting). I'll have to watch the DVD with the commentary on again to know for sure.
On Fast and the Furious, if you notice the Chargers Hemi appears to throw a rod or something very early on and the Supra still needed to use up all it's nitrous just to keep up.
I also love the Phantasm movies for their heavy use of a 71 Cuda and a 70 Hemi Cuda Convertible that get chased by the Tall Man. There is also a movie called Love & A .45 which has a 72 Roadrunner. And of course who doesn't love Christine.

[693404BBL]

Originally posted by 71RR
As far as car chases go, the 74' Gone In 60 Seconds is the best with 30+ minutes for the final car chase. The driving was real and so are the unscripted errors. Some of the accidents were not intentional and I'm not sure but I think it was filmed all at once as a single take (no stoping and re-starting). I'll have to watch the DVD with the commentary on again to know for sure.
On Fast and the Furious, if you notice the Chargers Hemi appears to throw a rod or something very early on and the Supra still needed to use up all it's nitrous just to keep up.
I also love the Phantasm movies for their heavy use of a 71 Cuda and a 70 Hemi Cuda Convertible that get chased by the Tall Man. There is also a movie called Love & A .45 which has a 72 Roadrunner. And of course who doesn't love Christine.

Bullitt had it's share of unscripted errors, but the fact that they were actually driving at 115 was too cool, it could have been longer though. Didn't catch the first Fast and Furious but the second one is about the same, course the muscle cars didn't throw a rod.

[NZ 440R/T]

The film makers had to make it lose some how

[road chicken]

ACHHHH- you missed the BEST car chase movie of them ALL- The GUMBALL RALLYE!! Cannonball run tried to copy it, but couldn't hold a candle to it. Of course I like my mopars, but that was a classic, I wish I could find a copy of it. A full cut of Vanishing point would be great too. All the ones I see now are missing a 5 minute scene in the denver garage where he's decsribing the mods to the engine.

[RT Mark]

My choices

#1 Bullit. A 390 BigBlock Ford vs a Charger R/T. 100 percent American Muscle all the way.

#2 Ronin. Check out the chase scene through the streets of Paris, France. A buddy of mine told me that they had the real actors in the "drivers seat" with a dummy steering wheel, while professional race car drivers actually drove the cars from the "passanger seat". The part where they crossed over into oncoming traffic was shot with the right of way traffic at normal commute speed, while the wrong way drivers were at high speed.

[dwc43]

Originally posted by 71RR
As far as car chases go, the 74' Gone In 60 Seconds is the best with 30+ minutes for the final car chase. The driving was real and so are the unscripted errors. Some of the accidents were not intentional and I'm not sure but I think it was filmed all at once as a single take (no stoping and re-starting). I'll have to watch the DVD with the commentary on again to know for sure.
On Fast and the Furious, if you notice the Chargers Hemi appears to throw a rod or something very early on and the Supra still needed to use up all it's nitrous just to keep up.
I also love the Phantasm movies for their heavy use of a 71 Cuda and a 70 Hemi Cuda Convertible that get chased by the Tall Man. There is also a movie called Love & A .45 which has a 72 Roadrunner. And of course who doesn't love Christine.

Your right all the stunts were done in one take except one. THe jump scene at he end where the stang hit the RoadRunner hood in the wrecked cars and jumped. Look at the road. There are skid marks there from the first take.
The scene where the cop cars hit the Caddies at the dealer was a goof. The first two caddies were movie junkers and the cop car driver was too fast and knocked them into the real for sale caddies.
The other unscripted good was when the stang hit and knocked donethe light poll exiting the off ramp. The shot was over when it happend, but the camera's were still rooling and they used it.

And yes Phantasm is great movie too. I have all four on tape.

[NZ 440R/T]

In Gone in 60 seconds (1974) When the mustang jumps those cars in the slow motion part he lands and starts smoking the hides then when they move into normal speed he lands clean and continues forward, What's up with that? Could that be where the tyre marks came from?

[71RR]

If anyone is interested, Phantasm, Phantasm IV, both Gone In 60 Seconds, Christine, Cannonball Run 1 & 2, Bullitt, all 3 Mad Max, Smokey And The Bandit 1 & 2 and Blues Brothers are available on DVD. The Wraith, Phantasm II and Vanishing Point(1971) are available on VHS. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry and Phantasm III are out of print. Vanishing Point(1996) has never been available.

[NZ 440R/T]

Don't you get Vanishing Point on DVD in the US? I have a copy of VP on DVD.

[dwc43]

Yes, we can get it. Check out this link for your old hot rod movies.

www.hotrodmemories.com

Alos another good mopar movie sorta is Hot Rod. Old black Hemi Satt at first gets rolled and Hemi goes into a '40's Willy's coupe and blows the Olds away everytime.

[NZ 440R/T]

Cheers for the link you sure do get it......Some good titles there as well. Did you see my post on the tyre marks and the mustang burning the hides? What do you make of it?? I wouldn't mind finding out why they did that?

[dwc43]

Yes I did. I do believe that it is a spliced piece with two jumps made cause if you look real close when the stang smokes them it starts to spin out.