I hate movie theme cars except ...

Basic Instinct Loti:

TVR in Swordfish:

Against All Odds:

The baddies group of 911s from Condorman

I would totally wear a stainless steel contact in one eye if I had a replica of that slant nose

Snowdoggie said:

SkinnyG (Forum Supporter) said:

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

(2-Lane Blacktop)

Still haven't seen the movie.

Keep it that way.  They spent so much on the cars, they forgot to spend any on script.

It’s existential. You either “get it” or the guys with Art History degrees make fun of you.

 

That describes a lot of movies from the 70's. 

I've always figured the guys writing the checks back then would think anything was a good idea when stoned out of the minds. 

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Tony Sestito :

"what happened to your friend?"

"I had to let him go."

"You'll have to excuse my friend. He's dead tired."

Run_Away (Wears Clogs) said:

This is the coolest Delorean I've seen:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0-Zh5DHbs5/

 

 

Hopefully the pic works. Original wheels cut down and re-barrelled, plus air ride. And a home made hoverboard boombox.

Jesus christ i need those wheels. 

In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :

Albert Brooks '68 912.  Lots of driving scenes in the car.  Modern Romance - you gotta be an AB fan to like it.  
 

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to John Welsh (Moderate Supporter) :

If the question is movie 911, then the answer is

What movie is this from?

Racingsnake said:

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to John Welsh (Moderate Supporter) :

If the question is movie 911, then the answer is

What movie is this from?

Bachelor Party, w/ Tom Hanks.

Nobody else with some of their formative years in the 70s? 

Also, 1983 movie, which seems like it was 4 short movies packaged together called Nightmares.  Preacher guy decides to leave the church, and on his drive home this black 3/4ton GM truck relentlessly pursues him through the desert southwest.

As it seems through the internet, the same truck shows up a year later in "The Terminator" in 1984.

That one reminds me of The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer.

But my favorite square body is the one in The Driver that morphs between stick and automatic.

Speaking of 'stick to automatic' who could forget the coolest car ever created from the most boring car ever built?

Disappearing body side moldings! How clever.

And one more...another boring car that is made cool by movie magic.

Same car? Those door edge moldings look suspicious...

Door edge moldings also give away the added scenes to Duel filmed later to turn the tv movie into a theatrical release. Dennis Weaver's Valiant didn't have them in the original scenes but the replacement car used for the added scenes (including the RR crossing incident) has them.

Yes, I watch and re-watch classic car chase movies way too much.

NoviceClass said:

Nobody else with some of their formative years in the 70s? 

That's not the 'real' Corvette Summer Stingray. The one in the movie was right hand drive.

I really wanted a speedster like this one after I saw "King of the Mountain."

The movie isn't that great. But I was teenager living in Michigan where MDOT road salt had long ago eaten most of the cars from the 50's and 60's.

I would rock the truck from Tremors

In reply to Type Q :

"King of the Mountain" is an underrated B-movie for cars.  Not to mention some classic Dennis Hopper acting. 

I used to love Christine so much that my buddy and I (well, mostly the buddy) built a 57 Belvedere.  It wasn't a tribute car, more of a resto-mod, but it ended up being featured in several magazines.  He's currently building a replica of the 2 Lane Blacktop gasser.  Search "Brendon Vetuskey Mattel" and you'll also find a BV Bird and some more of his work.

Our version was featured on CarsTV, Car Craft,  Orange Track, and a few others.  It was even immortalized as a Hot Wheels car.  Important note:  The movie used a 58.  The book was written as a 57.

Christine was a Fury.

Correct.  Fury was an option package of the Belvedere line (Plaza, Savoy, Belvedere) that was badged a "fury," but it still retained the P30 or P31 (V6 or V8) code of the entire line.  Discussing Plaza/Savoy/Belvedere is much like discussing LeMans/GTO/Tempest.

The Fury didn't become its own model until 1959.

Quicker than explaining it, copy and paste from wiki:

The Plymouth Fury is a model of automobile which was produced by Plymouth from 1955 to 1989. It was introduced for the 1956 model year as a sub-series of the Plymouth Belvedere, becoming a separate series one level above the contemporary Belvedere for 1959. 

Ian F (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Type Q :

"King of the Mountain" is an underrated B-movie for cars.  Not to mention some classic Dennis Hopper acting. 

The 356 was some kind of kit car. Dennis Hopper drove a really beat to crap old Corvette Stingray. There were all kinds of 911s in the shop scenes. 

Most of it was actually filmed on or near Mulholland Drive. 

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

Ahh, got it. I like Pontiacs so that makes sense.

MOPAR guys are weirdos... 

That said, I love Christine and would happily have a '58 Fury, just because of the scene where she chases down Moochie.

One I liked (because I owned one) was the Jensen CV8 in the British series 'The Baron'. Never heard of it before I got the car but of course had to search it out when it came to DVD years after just to look at the car. It predated The Saint with the Volvo and the car used in the series was only 3 cars off from my serial number.

I remember the Siberian Husky powered bug in the movie Snowdogs...

...and the Jeep Pickup that James Coburn drove in the same movie...