Howdy!
This is my new car.....With 440 Magnum and Holley 770 Avenger.
Its marked #1 Stunt, and I have the original "bill of sale" from Back to Back films Inc.
And its in topp of the list with 6 other chargers and 3 "Challengers".
The only one with engine.
On page 195 in The Grindhouse book, You can see a picture, with "Kurt" and a Camera gig, that is a fingerprint of my car.
What's the hood ornament all about?
Quote from: 68X426 on September 20, 2009, 12:04:44 PM
What's the hood ornament all about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkuwTsP9Tg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkuwTsP9Tg)
Quote from: 68X426 on September 20, 2009, 12:04:44 PM
What's the hood ornament all about?
Here's the origin;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKaxQmFBUOU&feature=related
I actually bought one!
http://deathproofduck.com/
I have a spare hood...may paint it primer black and mount the duck..otherwise it'll go on my school-bus yellow '85 GMC 4x4.
welcome to the site. do you plan on leaving the charger in its original form or putting it back to its glory before they smashed it all up?
Quote from: RD on September 20, 2009, 12:43:35 PM
welcome to the site. do you plan on leaving the charger in its original form or putting it back to its glory before they smashed it all up?
Man, I'd have to just get the running gear right and drive that dude just like it is! :cheers:
more pictures!
I don't want to change it..........Its runs like a rocket.
The "Duck" is the "Rubber duck" from "Convoy" (movie with Kris Kristofferson back in the 70)
This duck is made in the original mold as in that movie.
......more pics.
does the doors and hood open and close okay?
is the windshield held on by duct tape ?
Yes, the doors and hood close okay... with some force.
The car is approved for the street.
The windshield has four ironplates with screws, and covered with "duct tape".
So which stunts was this one used for? Apparently it wasn't the one that got rear-ended by the Challenger...
440 HP and wilwood brakes all round IIRC? Should be fun :-)
Bought it off a certain dealer way down south, I gather? Saw the add on nitroz, had the down payment in his account for the "camera car" but he wouldn't give me any pictures before shipping it over. No dice!
Looks like you not only bought the charger, but you got some of the Challenger that rubbed off onto the side. :smilielol:
I have been told that this one is the only one, that was actually driven, by "Kurt" and "Buddy".
The other cars where dragged or pulled.In which scenes...I am not shire....but I think, mostly beetween "Kurt" spots the girls, the chase,
and He got shot.
Yes, a little bit of the challenger and I also got a radio, made out of "rubber".
how much did it cost? do the headlight covers open and close?
good find!!
Very cool! I found some of the others chargers, a challenger and a nova from that movie a couple months back. If you search my old posts you can find the thread. Glad to know they're not all just sitting there rotting away.
Sweet man, you scored Stunt Man Mike's Charger, freakin sweet.You have to leave it as is man, that is just to cool to be true.
Cool car.
I'd lay money you've got the specific car that Buddy Joe Hooker spun into the ditch for the pause in the middle of the chase. (When Kurt Russell gets out and gets shot in the arm.)
You actualy baught a car thats smashed up, you are leaving it smashed up, AND the road authorities said you can have it legally on the road smashed up.
Hell if I ever heard anything Crazy in my life you just topped it all off!
Hey, there's no law against body damage.
I'd also vote (strongly) to leave it smashed. Straightening that thing out would probably cost 2/3rds the price of putting together a straight clone of it.
Quote from: G-man on September 21, 2009, 01:21:04 AM
You actualy baught a car thats smashed up, you are leaving it smashed up, AND the road authorities said you can have it legally on the road smashed up.
Hell if I ever heard anything Crazy in my life you just topped it all off!
Where do you live, G-Man? Heck, around Detroit or Miami, seeing a car in that condition as a daily driver isn't unusual at all! :patriot:
Quote from: elacruze on September 21, 2009, 07:56:14 AM
Quote from: G-man on September 21, 2009, 01:21:04 AM
You actualy baught a car thats smashed up, you are leaving it smashed up, AND the road authorities said you can have it legally on the road smashed up.
Hell if I ever heard anything Crazy in my life you just topped it all off!
Where do you live, G-Man? Heck, around Detroit or Miami, seeing a car in that condition as a daily driver isn't unusual at all! :patriot:
I was thinking the SAME thing!! Driving this awsome (BTW AWSOME!! :2thumbs:) machine around the way it is doesn't seem crazy or illegal at ALL. !!! Too Cool, :coolgleamA: Awsome find. If you don't mind us asking, approx. how much did ya pay?
:cheers:
That is really cool!
I would fix the windshield and drive it as is.
:2thumbs:
The way your hood is dented, it looks like the car towards the end of the chase scene right when he says "get ready to fly"...
and the left side looks just like this at the end...
Thanks for the pics....they really match.....
I had some discussions with the authority, and made some smaller changes, that I allready change back.
The car is reinforced from the front to the end with a steelconstruction.
I live in the North of Sweden, in a little town call Luleå. Its 100 miles from the Arctic circle and in the end of bay of Bothnia.(55000 people).
I think Sweden is the country, outside The U.S with so many vintage American cars.
Jøss, har du importert bilen til Sverige? ikke gærnt.
I'm surprised that swedish authority accepts that car like it is, I thought that they would be stricter.
(http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61876.0;attach=110867;image)
That is exactly the shot that I was referring to. I would be very surprised if it was not this particular car. You can see most sides of the car in this shot because it rotates around before coming to a stop.
The car in this shot also shares the same damaged roof from being rolled over (probably accidentally) during filming, which was not supposed to happen to that car during that portion of the chase. The roof damage on this car is clearly not related to the final rollover of the film, which occurred after the Charger(s) got the severe damage at the rear end. This car obviously never recieved the rear-ending damage, not even faked.
Here is my picture............ ferfect match!
Thanks for the "moviepics" 1BAD68 and Mike DC
I now about 3 other of the "DP Chargers: One:I Have a spare roof from a crashed one.
Two: Body intact, but nothing inside, beside a steelconstruction and no engine. Sold in Sweden to a guy that made it into a "General Lee".
Three: Smashed in the back and everywhere else, no engine, also only a steelconstruction inside(Radiocontrolled or something) . Owns by the same guy that helped me with my import.
And I thing two of "Challengers" also sold to Sweden.
Hejja Norge!
All it needs is two doors, two fenders, hood, 2 full quarters, grill, trunk lid, rear valence..........Just kidding :smilielol: I would leave it like it is too, I think it has "character" this way :lol: not just another charger.
We demand burnout clips immediately! Elda elda elda!
You should stick some serious tires on that bad boy and run it on the lake once it's cold enough, nobody would dare overtake you :D
Quote from: stuntman mike on September 20, 2009, 01:15:34 PM
I don't want to change it..........Its runs like a rocket.
Great. Do keep it like it is. a piece of automotive history. shame the other one was turned into a dukes car, you might end up with the only running DP charger.
Quote from: LeadfootBob on September 22, 2009, 03:10:03 PM
We demand burnout clips immediately! Elda elda elda!
I have an idea, put some tires on your head, and do a burn out, then tell us how it feels ::) :smilielol:
You seen one burn out you seen them all just about. :shruggy:
QuoteYou should stick some serious tires on that bad boy and run it on the lake once it's cold enough, nobody would dare overtake you :D
If he doesn't fall through with 2 tons of vehicle. :smilielol:
Quote from: MoparManJim on September 22, 2009, 06:35:09 PM
If he doesn't fall through with 2 tons of vehicle. :smilielol:
Let's put it this way... Where do you think Sam Hubinette learned to drift? :D
Interesting that so many of the cars ended up in Sweden.
Wish you where around these parts. I want to get a GL, my car, Blade, F and F and your car together some day hehehe
think of the confusion people would have with that picture LOL
Quote from: Ghoste on September 23, 2009, 08:40:46 AM
Interesting that so many of the cars ended up in Sweden.
I was in Stockholm in '02. I remember Saturday night (the sun didn't set until like 11pm) and heard that familiar Gratiot Avenue rumble...suddenly a parade of American Muscle came by that would have made Detroit or L.A. proud. My friend there said, "We love the U.S. Your system is a great start to go forward from". :icon_smile_blackeye: But she was right, in many ways. Across from the villa we stayed at was a race shop with a 40' Hoosier Racing Tires trailer...they take drag racing as seriously as we do.
What's the total population of Sweden right now? Something like metropolitan L.A. if I recall correctly.
We share the same "carculture" in Sweden.
In July we have "the Worlds largest American car meet called "Power meet", with 9000 cars this year.
Classic car week in august, 7000 to 9000 cars.And the people are between 16-70 years old.
We have "mopar at the strip" with 500 mopars this year.
Myself, I have never own a car without American V8, since the seventies.
Did anyone else notice in the movie that right under the driver's side door handle in one of the close ups, you could plainly see Orange paint? I think there were some General Lee clones torn up in that movie. :rotz:
Quote from: Cooter on September 24, 2009, 12:24:51 AM
Did anyone else notice in the movie that right under the driver's side door handle in one of the close ups, you could plainly see Orange paint? I think there were some General Lee clones torn up in that movie. :rotz:
Really? i have to rewatch again for that sometime.. about the orange paint that is.
Quote from: MoparManJim on September 24, 2009, 12:42:27 AM
Quote from: Cooter on September 24, 2009, 12:24:51 AM
Did anyone else notice in the movie that right under the driver's side door handle in one of the close ups, you could plainly see Orange paint? I think there were some General Lee clones torn up in that movie. :rotz:
Really? i have to rewatch again for that sometime.. about the orange paint that is.
Maybe it wasn't a clone... they could have bought some or one of the left of GLee's from the movie shoots that never made it in the film that are floating around the market. :shruggy: Or maybe they did use a clone... hopefully it was ratted up if they did... even then... tsk tsk.
That Charger that was sold, and converted to a "General Lee".... the owner fond some orange paint on the car, and
and marked under the dash "general lee".
Here's the "Death Proof" Challenger that was for sale at Spring Fling 2007.
Quote from: autoxcuda on September 24, 2009, 01:56:03 AM
Here's the "Death Proof" Challenger that was for sale at Spring Fling 2007.
I guess this one was pre-rear ending as well :2thumbs:
Wonder if that's the same one from the storage lot... :scratchchin:
Ill check on my way to work in a bit!
Quote from: autoxcuda on September 24, 2009, 01:56:03 AM
Here's the "Death Proof" Challenger that was for sale at Spring Fling 2007.
buy it and put it on the drivers side door. See if the paint matches ;)
Its is your car to do with what you want...
but please keep it like that, its bad ass! Not everyone gets to have a reason to have a beat up car!
Quote from: Cooter on September 24, 2009, 12:24:51 AM
Did anyone else notice in the movie that right under the driver's side door handle in one of the close ups, you could plainly see Orange paint? I think there were some General Lee clones torn up in that movie. :rotz:
No, but i did notice in one scene a door is missing the inside trim and you can see dark green there. (i think it's just before he gets out and gets shot.)
The more I drive it, the more I like it, as it is.
Maybee in the future I get one original. Mine has been "green" when its was born.
Stuntman Mike, can you post some more shots of it? I'd like to see the interior.
BTW, the hardcore Dukes fans have followed the fates of the Warner Bros GLs with very keen interest. We generally know where the cars have ended up, and as far as I know there is no evidence to believe any of them ended up in "DeathProof." If there were any GLs used in "DeathProof" then they were almost surely replicas without any Warner Bros connections.
In fact, at the time of DeathProof's filming, the current producers of DOH stuff probably would not have been willing to part with any of the GLs yet. DeathProof was being filmed at a time when the 2005 DOH movie was finished but the possibility of more new sequels/TV shows had not yet been abandoned.
I have original seats and original 3-way belts, for the registration.
It gonna be Simpson seats and Simpson 5-way harness, and I looking for Beard seatcover.
I have some problem to download the pics. for the moment.
They are coming when I have solved the problem.
pics. 1
I think It works now...
More pics.
more pics
i am diggin' that roll cage
Hollywood rollcage work often looks like this. Their cages have their own style and it's not quite like most other racecars.
Those guys don't just risk a crash, they schedule it.
Quote from: Cooter on September 24, 2009, 12:24:51 AM
Did anyone else notice in the movie that right under the driver's side door handle in one of the close ups, you could plainly see Orange paint? I think there were some General Lee clones torn up in that movie. :rotz:
none of the cars were ex-generals , they were all built from the ground up not repainted orange catastrophe's(as u can see the rims are the new vectors , u can read it all in a past issue of mcg :yesnod:-MATT
picked up the movie this past weekend, the car scene was good other than that so so. Awsome charger though love the way it is set up.
Quote from: chargerkid01 on September 28, 2009, 02:38:02 PM
picked up the movie this past weekend, the car scene was good other than that so so. Awsome charger though love the way it is set up.
without the car chase, this movie would have totally stank! (i never walk out of a movie, but peeeyeeewww).
In it's defence though, I think that was kind of the idea. The movie was supposed to emulate the cheaply made assembly line type of films sent out to drive-ins and low budget B movie theaters. Hence the "Grindhouse" title for that and the Planet Terror or whatever it was that went with it.
DeathProof was just crap as a movie IMHO, and I don't mean in an excusable way. The cars were awesome and so was the chase, but not the rest of it.
The thing is, look at us here. WE ARE that 00.4% of the population that will actually get every little obscure 70s gearhead/grindhouse reference in the film.
That tiny group that's supposed to "understand" and love this movie, even though the vast majority of the viewers don't "get it" . . . it's US.
I liked the companion movie, maybe because I'm old enough to remember when movies were like that,.. but i also think this was a bit of an inside joke between the directors who of course would encourage each other and hope/think that others would appreciate the genre...
I don't think though the pair was made for a few thousand dollars like the originals Grindhouse movies were, perhaps if they had set a ridiculously low budget then it would have worked as intended but I was simply annoyed by deathproof beating on the Mopars I wouldn't of minded so much if they were camaros or whatever but i still wouldn't have liked the movie... Maybe it's like reggae you'd have to be stoned to get it... :shruggy:
There's not much wrong with the "Grindhouse" production that wouldn't have been fixed by cutting it down to a pair of 1-hour shows instead of them both being full length.
IMHO it was pure over-indugence making them both run two hours.
Anyone else notice that odd chrome window frame on the Challenger?
(http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61876.0;attach=110965;image)
I see "Death Proof" as a tribute to, to the coolest "muscle"cars and 70 movies, he know. So he put in "the Challenger" from from vanishing point, and a Charger 69 as in Dirty Mary crazy Larry, with wheels
from Duke of Hazard and the "Duck" from Convoy(Sam Peckinpah) And the Nova is not so bad either
And to all that, he add serious dialogue. What more do you want, he is a Master!
Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on September 29, 2009, 12:38:11 PM
DeathProof was just crap as a movie IMHO, and I don't mean in an excusable way. The cars were awesome and so was the chase, but not the rest of it.
The thing is, look at us here. WE ARE that 00.4% of the population that will actually get every little obscure 70s gearhead/grindhouse reference in the film.
That tiny group that's supposed to "understand" and love this movie, even though the vast majority of the viewers don't "get it" . . . it's US.
:iagree:
Quote from: Ghoste on September 29, 2009, 09:41:25 AM
In it's defence though, I think that was kind of the idea. The movie was supposed to emulate the cheaply made assembly line type of films sent out to drive-ins and low budget B movie theaters. Hence the "Grindhouse" title for that and the Planet Terror or whatever it was that went with it.
i have no issues with the 'style' of the movie, but those chicks gabbing about who knows what for like an hour of the movie :blahblah:
Quote from: aussiemuscle on September 29, 2009, 05:43:28 PM
Quote from: Ghoste on September 29, 2009, 09:41:25 AM
In it's defence though, I think that was kind of the idea. The movie was supposed to emulate the cheaply made assembly line type of films sent out to drive-ins and low budget B movie theaters. Hence the "Grindhouse" title for that and the Planet Terror or whatever it was that went with it.
i have no issues with the 'style' of the movie, but those chicks gabbing about who knows what for like an hour of the movie :blahblah:
Yeah, waching and listening to that was more painful than the distruction of the Charger and Challenger. I was glad when Kurt Russell ran the nova head on into them..
all tarantino movies, besides maybe Kill Bill to an extent, are full of "blah blah blah"...
not hating-I do enjoy his movies, I do like Death Proof but all his movies are very dialogue heavy. It's interesting how he mixes and matches so many different movies together to make one-mostly obscure, b-movies/foreign stuff the average audience wouldn't ever watch/give a crap about, so with their ignorance they hail him as original and amazing. He's amazing at being a movie DJ, I'll give them that...but original, nope. And yes, I know "blah blah blah no one is original everyone takes from somewhere" but Tarantino is a little wee bit more blatant than that.
Quote from: squeakfinder on September 29, 2009, 09:39:02 PM
Quote from: aussiemuscle on September 29, 2009, 05:43:28 PM
Quote from: Ghoste on September 29, 2009, 09:41:25 AM
In it's defence though, I think that was kind of the idea. The movie was supposed to emulate the cheaply made assembly line type of films sent out to drive-ins and low budget B movie theaters. Hence the "Grindhouse" title for that and the Planet Terror or whatever it was that went with it.
i have no issues with the 'style' of the movie, but those chicks gabbing about who knows what for like an hour of the movie :blahblah:
Yeah, waching and listening to that was more painful than the distruction of the Charger and Challenger. I was glad when Kurt Russell ran the nova head on into them..
Yea I think that's what they were going for but I wish they would have cut the dialog in half... Hell, if they had him kill two groups of girls/boys and then come to the last with way less conversation it would have been such a better movie all together, but they just took so long. Plus there was no thriller part, I thought the girls were going to see him/avoid and either recover and have to outrun him or get murdered by the car on foot but when they all just died I was like :icon_smile_dissapprove: ... And the hospital scene made no sense at all, drunk and high or not any insurance investigator and cop or retard with a banana would see the skid marks on their side of the road and know he was on the wrong side. :shruggy:
I just visited the cars today, they're all still there...waiting for someone...
*ahem*
:D
And the challenger does appear to be a different one then the one seen at spring fling.
QuoteAnyone else notice that odd chrome window frame on the challenger?
All the DeathProof Challys had those things added.
Remember when the girl was riding the car's hood, and holding onto the belts with each hand? That chrome window frame is what her two belts were strapped around.
One thing are for sure.... He can make movies that people talk about.
50 % hate them, the other loves them.
And for someone who is basically not a car-guy, Quentin Tarantino sure understood what cars would be good to use in the movie. One of them is the Vanishing Point Challenger, and the other one is a matte black Charger similar to the General Lee. I couldn't have picked them better myself.
Tarantino wasn't trying to make a movie that made any sense with Death Proof and Grindhouse planet Terror..He was paying tribute to the Other GREAT movies that ALSO woulda sucked today if not for the great car chases..I mean, has ANYBODY actually looked for a meaning and plot to "Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry? It's the dumbest movie until the car chase. Vanishing point? What was so great about a drug addicted Car thief racing across country to deliver a stolen 1970 Dodge Challenger in 1971?
None of them made any sense, but then again, that's how a Cult classic is born......
I agree about Tarantino knowing what cars to use and probably in all his movies. He obviously likes violence for it's ability to evoke an audience response but I also think he is a huge movie geek and is keenly aware of props (cars in this case) and how they should be used. The cars in Pulp Fiction all seemed to be perfectly suited to the characters as well. Even the more mundane cars seen in something like Resevoir Dogs were the right flavor of mundane.
Agreed. He's a detail nut and his movies benefit from it.
However, I don't think the "it sucks authentically" excuse covers it with DeathProof. He could have done every bit as good a job of mimicking the old movies without resorting to making his own movie so boring at times.
I think the original "Vanishing Point" flick had more going on that it seemed.
Of course, I don't think it's as deep as it fancies itself to be. But it's still deeper than how they studio dressed it up. The final cut of VP that they released was actually not what the director wanted at all. The studio re-hacked what he originally turned in to them and he came away saying, "they turned it into a B-movie." On the extras they have a couple of "lost scenes" but apparently it's only a small slice of how different the director's cut had really been.
As a film geek I would LOVE to have the chance to remake "Vanishing Point." I'd wanna do that almost as much as I'd wanna remake "Dukes." IMHO both of these shows have never been done as well as they could be.
And its actually the same thing with my DP Charger, some people things its the "coolest car they seen and some think its crap, a piece of shit.
And one thing more, girls seems to like the movie even more, maybee because of the revenge in the ending.
They have screemed the hole 70s, in every horrormovie.
Got to say I don't like the film....in the extra features QT says he wanted to make the best road chase movie ever....well he failed IMHO. Good choice of cars though and I would certainly keep yours as it is!
By the way the Power Meet is awesome.....I'm in the very far West of England and we drove there in 2003. Amazing collection of cars and conditions.
Sure, Powermeet is "heaven", but Classic Car Week, always week 31, with approx 7000 cars, is longer... Powermeet is only 3 days.
And on Thursday in that week, they have "mopar at the strip", with only Mopars.
Maybee, I have some pics, I shall look and return......
Anybody knows, where to buy a "black" carcover to 69 Charger.
Just a note, from the look of the radiator support, it's a 70?
What size tires were on these cars? I know they are 15 x 7 new American racing vectors by the graphite color they are, but I think I recall someone stated 222 or 235/70r15?
This the one turned into a GL, was in like 2 magazines(the guy did get it totally wrong)....
The guy in Trelleborg(Sweden) that sold them, had 4 of them, 2 of them was really bad(one chopped up). Im looking for pictures of them, i have them somewhere....
wait, you mean stuntman mike turned his car into a gl? or is that someone else's?
No no, its the other that was in best shape. He allso bought the chopped up one, so that one is no more. Who bought the the one bad hit in the rear, i dont know...
Quote from: ChargerSG on August 07, 2013, 05:50:07 AM
No no, its the other that was in best shape. He allso bought the chopped up one, so that one is no more. Who bought the the one bad hit in the rear, i dont know...
i think i read somewhere that it was supposed to be one of the cars in drive angry, but took to long to build since it needed the entire back end, i guess some fab shop has it then :shruggy:
Ok, i think there is a old thread back when it was going down...
This is not the one, but there is some pictures and more... http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,81224.0.html
Here is the pictures i posted long ago.. http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,37863.0.html
ohh so im guessing that solid one with the steel wheels became the GL?
Dont know, since i dident get anyones of them i or even see them i person i have no idea, this is like 5 years ago...
Quote from: stuntman mike on October 06, 2009, 10:12:04 AM
Sure, Powermeet is "heaven", but Classic Car Week, always week 31, with approx 7000 cars, is longer... Powermeet is only 3 days.
And on Thursday in that week, they have "mopar at the strip", with only Mopars.
Maybee, I have some pics, I shall look and return......
Hi stuntman mike, Please check your PM. I sent you a message.
You realize that the OP hasn't been on this forum since November 2011 ??
A lot of threads from the dead lately.
Quote from: Kern Dog on January 02, 2016, 10:48:29 PM
You realize that the OP hasn't been on this forum since November 2011 ??
Yes I realise that. But this might bring him back...
Not if he is dead.
Not if he is in jail.
Not if he sold the car and doesn't care.
Not if he changed his email address.
You'd have better luck chasing a unicorn.
Quote from: Kern Dog on January 03, 2016, 02:20:10 AM
Not if he is dead.
Not if he is in jail.
Not if he sold the car and doesn't care.
Not if he changed his email address.
You'd have better luck chasing a unicorn.
It MIGHT bring him back. Why are you so interested anyway? There must be plenty of other stuff here to comment on :rotz:
ps. I spoke to him!
Does he still have the car then. I'd like to ask him what size tires they used on the movie cars.
Luke
I'm still interested in a VIN list of these cars...
Quote from: lukedukem on January 06, 2016, 09:10:44 PM
Does he still have the car then. I'd like to ask him what size tires they used on the movie cars.
Luke
Yes he still has the car in his collection.
Quote from: rtajunk on January 12, 2016, 07:34:16 AM
Quote from: lukedukem on January 06, 2016, 09:10:44 PM
Does he still have the car then. I'd like to ask him what size tires they used on the movie cars.
Luke
Yes he still has the car in his collection.
Can you ask him what size tires his car has on it. id like to find out what the size were for the movie cars.
luke
Quote from: Cooter on October 01, 2009, 11:33:46 AM
Tarantino wasn't trying to make a movie that made any sense with Death Proof and Grindhouse planet Terror..He was paying tribute to the Other GREAT movies that ALSO woulda sucked today if not for the great car chases..I mean, has ANYBODY actually looked for a meaning and plot to "Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry? It's the dumbest movie until the car chase. Vanishing point? What was so great about a drug addicted Car thief racing across country to deliver a stolen 1970 Dodge Challenger in 1971?
None of them made any sense, but then again, that's how a Cult classic is born......
Okay... I have to respond here even though Cooter doesn't come around much anymore.
DMCL was actually a decent flick. Not Oscar worthy but still a decent movie. Two dirtbag guys are short on cash, long on guts. They want and need money to fund their Circle Track racing team so they rob a grocery store to get the money.
Vanishing Point was a better movie in my opinion. First off, the car was NOT stolen. He worked for a car delivery service. Second, the movie was released in 1971, filming was done in 1970.
Vanishing point was better than you know. Here is a guy that had dealt with one failure after another. Careers that didn't pan out, a wife that died in a surfing accident and living in a culture where loners were deemed outcasts. He had to get
home, Back to San Francisco. Nothing was going to stop him ...except a pair of bulldozers. The light shining in between the dozer blades was his "Vanishing Point", the place in his destiny where he would leave the current world and all of his troubles behind. Good bye to sadness and heartbreak, hello to the next world.
Quote from: Kern Dog on January 31, 2017, 04:47:26 AM
Quote from: Cooter on October 01, 2009, 11:33:46 AM
Tarantino wasn't trying to make a movie that made any sense with Death Proof and Grindhouse planet Terror..He was paying tribute to the Other GREAT movies that ALSO woulda sucked today if not for the great car chases..I mean, has ANYBODY actually looked for a meaning and plot to "Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry? It's the dumbest movie until the car chase. Vanishing point? What was so great about a drug addicted Car thief racing across country to deliver a stolen 1970 Dodge Challenger in 1971?
None of them made any sense, but then again, that's how a Cult classic is born......
Okay... I have to respond here even though Cooter doesn't come around much anymore.
DMCL was actually a decent flick. Not Oscar worthy but still a decent movie. Two dirtbag guys are short on cash, long on guts. They want and need money to fund their Circle Track racing team so they rob a grocery store to get the money.
Vanishing Point was a better movie in my opinion. First off, the car was NOT stolen. He worked for a car delivery service. Second, the movie was released in 1971, filming was done in 1970.
Vanishing point was better than you know. Here is a guy that had dealt with one failure after another. Careers that didn't pan out, a wife that died in a surfing accident and living in a culture where loners were deemed outcasts. He had to get home, Back to San Francisco. Nothing was going to stop him ...except a pair of bulldozers. The light shining in between the dozer blades was his "Vanishing Point", the place in his destiny where he would leave the current world and all of his troubles behind. Good bye to sadness and heartbreak, hello to the next world.
And at the final moment the car magically transforms into a camaro :lol:
Well back to the OP topic... Cool car 6+ years later... :icon_smile_big:
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Okay... I have to respond here even though Cooter doesn't come around much anymore.
DMCL was actually a decent flick. Not Oscar worthy but still a decent movie. Two dirtbag guys are short on cash, long on guts. They want and need money to fund their Circle Track racing team so they rob a grocery store to get the money.
Vanishing Point was a better movie in my opinion. First off, the car was NOT stolen. He worked for a car delivery service. Second, the movie was released in 1971, filming was done in 1970.
Vanishing point was better than you know. Here is a guy that had dealt with one failure after another. Careers that didn't pan out, a wife that died in a surfing accident and living in a culture where loners were deemed outcasts. He had to get home, Back to San Francisco. Nothing was going to stop him ...except a pair of bulldozers. The light shining in between the dozer blades was his "Vanishing Point", the place in his destiny where he would leave the current world and all of his troubles behind. Good bye to sadness and heartbreak, hello to the next world.
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I love the org V.P. GREAT movie, even the remake is good. I said good not great.I also really like Death Proof. IMO
both good flicks. I have only watched some of DMCL as I do not have a copy, I know, I know I really should have a copy of this movie, but I don't. I do have the org VP on VHS. Then the collectors edition on DVD, with alt ending, totally changes the movie. Also have collector edtion of ORG-Gone in 60 sec. Any way I will get DMCL, and Death Proof is a good flick.