Right! Every time I mention the movie everyone ALWAYS talks about the crappy remake & some folks dont even know the original movie existed

​@@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman The second "Gone" can't even really be considered a remake. All they did is jack up the legendary title and roll a completely different storyline under it. Lead character Madrian Pace becomes Memphis Raines. The only character name that I'm aware of that was in both movies was Atlee, played by Ribert Duvall in the second one and an actor that I don't recall in the 1974 film. The strangest thing about the character is that he somehow became white in the 26 years between the two films: he was black in '74! Madrian's love interest worked in the office with him; Memphis' was a reformed car their turned exotic car mechanic. In the first film, "Eleanor" was an orange-ish '73 Mustang sportsroof with dog-dish hubcaps, while in the later film she had morphed into an extremely fake gray Shelby GT500. The original had cameo appearances by actual, honest-to-goodness luminaries in the auto business (Parnelli Jones, J.C. Agajanian) while the second one was actors all the way, not a real car person in sight. I mean, they could have at least stolen a car or two from Jay Leno, right?😂

I love the original gone in 60 seconds movie. I rented this movie on a VHS tape back in the mid 1980's because it said on the cover over 150 cars destroyed and it has the longest Car chase ever .

Especially the former

​@@corvairjim1It was considered a remake because Halicki's widow was one of the producers. They had to get her onboeardsi they could use the names.

You must be so proud!

@@Iloveyouallalittle LoL!

Hey that's pretty cool though. Not trying to 1up but my folks live around the corner from Jim and Jamie Fagan (Jim rip) Trust me you've heard em they did thousands of voice overs in the 60s. Ms Fagan gave me a couple of autographed cds a few years back. Alas ,she's getting a little older but can still carry a tune quite well!

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if you list all the stars in that movie it would read like a novel. lol

The car chase(s) in the Seven Up's were Amazing! I believe that they did the chase cum race with the Subway overhead was unrehearsed and that they didn't close the road, underneath the EL, out in the East Bronx (or poss Brooklyn?). I do recall that going up the West Side Drive / Henry Hudson Parkway, Roy Scheider totaled that Pontiac by piling it into a guard rail divider - Jaysus!

@@jamesmcdonnell5617 All of the main cars in those movies were ravaged. The only one left running in the movies was Bill Hickman's 1973 Pontiac Grandville.

@@jeffrobodine8579 I think I got it wrong, Jeff. I juxtaposed the subway chase scen frome 'The French COnnection' upon the 'Seven-Ups'. The former was when Popey Dyle (Gene Kackman) ran his -Yes, same again, a Pontiac LeMans sedan I believe - out along New Utrecht Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Conta posto, 'The Seven-Ups' chase scenes were predominantly done in Uptown Manhattan - West 96th Street, then over the GWB, over into Jersey, up onto the Palisades Interstate Parkway and in New York on the Taconic State Parkway and the Saw Mill (River Parkway). The weird thing, of course, is that the crash scene is ostensibly located on the Palisades Interstate Parkway but the exit sign is for Briarcliff Manor over on the Saw Mill / Taconic (NY State) where the parked trailer sheers the top off Scheider's Pontiac Ventura. Philip D'Antoni was a consultant on 'The French Connection' to director, William Friedkin and a producer on all three whilst Director on 'The Seven-Ups', a once off. Combined, the homage to Sonny Grosso, 'The French Connection' and 'The Seven-Ups' , with 'Bullit', are singular examples of the pinnacle of 1960s and early '70s car chase scenes in a movie.

Love that movie but never hear about it

I love that movie

@@christophertaylor2464 Still the #1 Car chase of ALL time. I have the movie CD of both the original "Bone in 60 seconds" and the remake. Remake was OK but always thought the original was better (chase) not acting.

Watched that the other night on Tubi, loved those old cars. the 70s were the pinnacle of car chase movies.

I think they were Plymouth valiant's

Glad to know you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment!

Good Question! Allegedly, James Garner drove it in the film. Anybody know what happened to it?

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Legend has it, its still slowly driving around San Francisco!

After drinking some beer, Steve McQueen jumped it over the barbed-wire fence just to prove that he could have done the stunt for the movie if the studio had let him!

@@ronframe387 Yep driving in slow circles around the block !

Of course they did. That's GM for ya...

I had thought that it had something to do with the way the promo exec from GM did the deal.... something like "I'll have a new one shipped to you every year from here on in out of my offices budget" or something like that... and then he used the "I got the T/A in Smokey" achievement to get a higher profile job somewhere else... and yeah GM didn't honor the deal, but there was something shady that happened first.... haha

That’s true, as Burt told it Pontiac sent him a new one every year because they liked his movies. It stopped in the late 80’s because the new head of Pontiac said “I don’t like your movies”

​@jennifersman79 That's right! It's rumored that the new c e o didn't honor the deal because he didn't give a crap....you know, you gotta cut corners and pinch pennies.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I have never heard of McQ but I might have to try and find that one to watch.

​@@christophertaylor2464That be the late Steve McQueen in the movie Bullet with the car chase involving the Mustang and the Dodge Charger.

My great-great aunt was the biggest Burt Reynolds fan in the world. Her grandson was publisher of _Cosmopolitan_ when they did the Burt Reynolds centerfold where Burt was wearing nothing but his body hair and a strategically placed hand. He sent her a life-size print of the picture and she had it placed over her nursing home room door. First thing she saw in the morning and the lasst thing she saw when she went to sleep. I'm fairly sure Aunt Sal was at the Gates of Glory at the head of the clusters of screaming welcoming committee upon Burt's arrival.

But imagine paying $600,000 for a mid-'70s fake muscle car.

Nah, it's a Beetle, problably were scraped or catched fire...

Yep noticed them too. First thing i thought

That's absolutely intentional, Tarantino did it as a nod to convoy

Yes sir, those are the convoy rubber ducks

I agree. The '62 black Dodge that Capt. Culpepper (Spencer Tracy) drove was my favorite. Tried to build a model of it, but you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find that year model car these days. Finally found one but it took a while.

Now i'm wondering about the DBS from Casino Royale

@user-yc2oz8kc5k, black was not a color option for '68 Dodge Charger R/T. The new owner screwed up and repainted it to yellow, the original color and ruined the car's value.

I know. Every time i unexpectedly see a classic car in a movie, I look at my gf and say "I hope it doesn't get crashed". And of course, sooner or later in the movie, it gets crashed. It makes it worse when it happens early on it the movie so I know most of the movie I won't see it again :(

so sad

If you watch the Bond film Skyfall, you’ll see the scene with the DB5 being destroyed by heavy, sustained gunfire, but that was actually a replica created specifically to be shot up.

Very rarely you can find new old stock glasspack mufflers from the 60's and 70's.

I remember my dad having original Cherry Bomb glass packs on his ‘67 GTX when I was a kid in the 70’s, and yes, they had a different sound. It was a 440/727 Torqflite car with a 3.73 sure grip rear end and was unfortunately crushed by a huge oak tree in ‘95 thanks to Hurricane Opal. I was stationed in Germany and my mom sent me the pics which made me physically sick considering it was eventually going to end up mine one day.😢

Shuttleworth Exhaust in London, Ontario Canada can make any sound you want. They expertly rebuilt some original 1960s mufflers for me, and worked with me on sound choices. Ask for Dean. Good luck with your project.

Yellow.

Thank you for taking the time to comment and glad you enjoyed it!

Yes....and the Dodge Charger seemingly had an 18 speed gearbox! (based on the ridiculous number of gear changes it did in the movie)

That merits heavy research

Get a MARTI report on the cars VIN #.

And I thought I was the only person that noticed that 😂...

It was infested with ants from all of the watermelons in back.

Mopar Collectors Guide did a feature on the original Vanishing Point Challengers a few years back. They interviewed one of the surviving filming crew members and he said that, just as your video stated, the cars were scrapped by Chrysler after filming. According to the article, Chrysler's PR guys were so infuriated that their cars had been used to promote illegal drug use and running from the police, they refused anyone the chance to keep the cars and destroyed all of them.

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A local in my area imported an Australian 1974 Ford Falcon and made it into the Mad Max car with a working Weiand blower on top of the 351C motor.

Either the Blower works or it doesn't you can't turn it off or on... Plus the Original didn't have a Functioning blower... It had Dual Four Barrels inside the Blower so they could run it off a Switch... If memory is correct it was spun by a starter and extra battery...