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Wrecking cool cars for movies

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by teisco, May 12, 2009.

  1. teisco
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    Ok,,this has always pissed me off,,,watching a really great movie and then all of a sudden they trash a nice car. The last one was some comedy and the main dudes were driving a nice,,really nice 69 Judge.. Now this car might have been a "made up" car and not real but when, at the end, they broadsided it I almost lost it.

    Ok what are some movies you guys have seen where they trash a cool ride.
     
  2. 54fordgasser
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    because of this i have always wanted to start this - PETA!- People for the Ethical Treatment of Automobiles
     
  3. Muttley
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    What about the GTX from Tommy Boy?
     
  4. I saw a trailer for the new John Dillinger movie coming out with Johnny Depp. In the trailer they show a scene where they roll a 33-34 Ford Sedan!!! I gasped aloud in the theater... my wife laughed.
     

  5. Demo Derby X-100
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    Ok, you asked for it.

    <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OXt7Vm04SnM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OXt7Vm04SnM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
     
  6. Von Rigg Fink
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    All ways pissed me off too..

    like that yellow charger in Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

     
  7. 62nova
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    The more nice cars those guys destoy, the more their Barret-Jackson investment is worth.
     
  8. Al Consoli
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    :D:D:D Good One !!
     
  9. Conrad_AZ
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    How about the 12 '58 Furys that were destroyed in Christine?
     
  10. Chaz
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    Its just twisted metal.... Sometimes I wish people would get as much respect as old cars.
    The way I see it, If Its YOURS. you can blow it up, eat it , bury it, etc.
     
  11. TBone69
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    How about all the Mercs they destroyed in ther Stallone movie Cobra.

    Not a movie but Dukes of Hazard wrecked cars by the dozen every week.

    The Challenger in Vanishing Point.

    The original Gone in 60 seconds, Mustangs, Satellite or GTX, The remake I am sure wrecked a bunch of 68 Fastback Mustangs.

    I am sure there are plenty more.
     
  12. H3O
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    beat me to it!!!:D
     
  13. Muttley
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    I like old cars, I dont like most people.
     
  14. Jobe
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    How about the merc custom in Cobra...
     
  15. hotdamn
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    I love you.

    that is the most punk rock shit I have ever heard anyone say on here.:D


     
  16. 85-percent
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    The Willys Coupe that got ripped up in Who Framed Roger Rabbit made me puke.

    There was a Jan and Dean made for in the 70's TV biopic that drove a 64 Corvette off a pier or something?

    There's a 1980 Peter O'toole movie called The Stuntman, which had an original Bugatti driven off a bridge into the water!

    Harold and Maude had a XKE coupe driven off a cliff at the end.

    Tim Allen Show crushed a 55 Nomad with a wrecking ball?

    -90% Jimmy
     
  17. Tingler.....you are twisted and I admire that! Truly a nonconformist.
     
  18. Chaz
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    Thanks, Tingler. Well said
     
  19. The Rocketeer

    Cheech & Chong's Next Movie
     
  20. Death Proof....I didn't feel bad about the Nova, but OMG stop killing Dodge Chargers!!!
     
  21. Mazooma1
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    The restored vintage car crowd says the same things about hot rodders.
    We all know what they think about us cutting up coupes, chopping sedans and turning "classics" into race cars.
    So, whats the difference? OWNERSHIP...PERSONAL PROPERTY

    Monster Garage crushed an Anglia gasser. Ok...and?

    Many classics have been ruined by customizers with zero skill or vision taking a torch to a car and then having to abandon the project because of poor workmanship or it being "felony ugly".

    So, it goes both ways. If a movie production company buys a car and destroys it for the film, why is that any different than a guy cutting up a car to be a hot rod, race car or custom (by the way, there's no "K" in custom)?

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,...... or the movie CEO, or racer, or restorer, or rodder, or the OWNER.
     
  22. abone1930
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    Yea that monster garage eposide cruching the anglia really sucked. I stopped watching that show after that.
     
  23. teisco
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  24. enjenjo
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    The car crushed on Tool Time was not a Nomad
     
  25. teisco
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    Yeah Tim is stlll explaining that to this day
     
  26. VespaJay
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    Holy crap! Never heard of this flick "Steel Arena" before but I've GOTTA track down a copy!

    IMDB info page:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070730/

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  27. G V Gordon
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  29. RacerRick
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    If you guys have ever worked with movie cars, you would realize that most of them are not what they seem.

    Take the movie "Sex Drive" for instance that was mentioned above.

    They probably had one or two real judges or clones they used as close up cars that are in nice shape but painted a non stock color that appears the right shade on film, four or five chopped up rusty lemans they painted orange, put nice interiors in, and mounted low on trailers or dollies so they could film the actors in the car, and three or four junkers with cages, a crate SBC, and a quicky paint and body job that they used as stunt cars.

    The two close up cars will survive unscathed and a couple of the stunt cars will be wrecked. The dolly cars were cut up junk to begin with, and the remaining stunt cars with their cages and crate motors will sit on a lot somewhere until another movie decides it needs a judge or get auctioned off.
     

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