Greatest car chase ever?

[70bigblockdodge]

I don't know how you would even tell what the parked cars are if it was done today. I was behind a Dart and a Honda at a light the other day at first I thought they were both Hondas but realized the taillight styling is almost identical.

 

[cm23uoc]

But remember how often Stan got the "we used to have a Lincoln just like this" comment on his NYB, it's been the same back then as well to people who see cars mostly as a mode of transportation, like we do with the new ones.

 

[commando1]

I can't recognize anything 2000 and up.
And maybe 20% of anything from 1990 to then.
I can watch any movie older than 1980 and can tell you year, make, and model.

I could stand there and watch this thing run over me and all I would be able to tell the officer was "It was white..."

"Was this the vehicle?"

Yah, that's the one.........

 

[cm23uoc]

BMW, Mercedes, and the VW Bug are the ones who somehow managed to Keep an identity, the former two ones mostly up front though and it doesn't mean good looking either.

I also have a hard time telling prewar cars apart, especially the ones with running boards and cyle fenders, many of them look the same to me as well

 

[70NPORT]

Bullitt has the coolest sound track by far. Who did the score? Maybe Vanishing point after that or DMCL.

 

[GooBak]

I've gotta give it to the original Gone in 60 seconds, It was something like a 40 minute chase. It made me want an early 70s mustang, and who wants those?

Vanishing point was pretty lame as far as I'm concerned, and two lane blacktop is an awesome movie, but not so much on the chase scenes. Though I'd still pick Gone in 60, I think smokey and the bandit deserved a slot... too late now tho

 

[Aidan1976]

Yes, saw that pic of HB Halicki standing in the Mach 1 when it was stripped. Crazy pic. RIP HB - killed while making Gone In 60 Seconds II in 1989. Check his other flicks The Junkman (1982) and Deadline Auto Theft (1983) - car carnage lol

 

[Aidan1976]

Two Lane Blacktop (1971)?

 

[Aidan1976]

A few more classics: Fear Is The Key (1972) - Barry Newman from Vanishing Point trashing a red '72 Torino; Brewster McCloud (1970) - some classic Mopar stuff here, Shelley Duvall driving a brand new '70 Roadrunner; Moonshine County Express ('76 or '77), Grand Theft Auto (1977), Hi-Riders (1977), Moonrunners (1975 - where The Dukes of Hazzard came from), Eat My Dust (1976) etc. etc.
I could go on and on, I have a big collection of so-bad-they are brilliant car flicks from the '70s. Can't get enough of 'em, have been collecting for years. Its a sickness lol

 

[1978 NYB]

Did you know that most of the sound effects (engine sounds) in Vanishing Point were from a Ford Mustang.

 

[C Body Bob]

I know its a little late, but I thought of another movie. C body fans I would think would like this. For the life of me I cant remember the name of the movie. It was from the early 60's. Has Johnathan Winters, Sid Cesar & several other old stars. Apparantly a group of people from different walks of life got tipped off about a treasure. So they are driving across the south west desert trying to be the first to find it. Not really a car chase, but more of a car race. There is an early 60's C body convertable in it. I think its a Imperial. Could be a 300. An old pick up, an old import & several other early 60's cars. Worth a look I say. Maybe someone knows the title of it.

 

[polara71]

That is, Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World

 

[1978 NYB]

I like Bullitt a lot too but you can only vote once.

 

[C Body Bob]

I like Bullitt a lot too but you can only vote once.

If I could...or more accurately if I though I could get away with it I would vote twice for Bullitt. :thinker:

 

[cm23uoc]

That's a rather weak reason to go through a registry with another name.
In another Forum there actually was a guy with about five identities always positively commenting and praising his first personality until a moderator demasked him by checking the ip addresses.

 

[Wollfen]

And its neck and neck between Bullitt and Gone in 60 Seconds

 

[C Body Bob]

The French connection with a big fat 0

 

[tallhair]

I'm just shocked when talking Mopar chase movies that the original vanishing point isn't getting more love.

It was a chase from start to finish featuring many many Mopars, had a large amount of C and B body Cop cars and other period cool cars in it, and the soundtrack and the snapshot in time of Americana from the days when the Mopars we all love were new is pretty awesome IMHO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0dPaNosPMc



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[C Body Bob]

Well there so far has only been 40 votes cast total.

 

[tallhair]