First saw this "hippie flick" in 1975 at a refugee camp in Guam and as an eight year old from Vietnam, it made quite an impression to my childhood throughout my life in the U.S. Rest in peace with Jesus, Cleavon!

When I was in high school, a friend of ours had a Challenger 440 six pack, dark green. Five of us in the car fish tailing down a gravel road. I thought I was gonna die. Never forget it !

Vanishing Point, one of my favorite movies of all time! Saw it in the theater first run. Thanks for the memories :)

Update: Nick of Nick's Garage just finished his version as of Fall 2019. It is exactly like the Barry Newman version in every way right down to the Good Year Polyglas GT F 60-15 tires, standard gas cap and driver's door only standard outside mirror. It's awesome!

I'm sure I'm not the only person who only ever knew of the original movie because they first watched the made-for-TV movie as a kid in the 90's. And only ever because my dad watched the movie on TV with me and mentioned it was a remake. Now....every white Challenger I see, new or old, is Vanishing Point in my mind. So many great movie/TV cars from the 80's & 90's!

Thank you for making this video. That car, the stories, the faces, all wrapped up in a beautifully made editing. Well done sir.

if you like THIS, you're gonna LOVE what Nick's Garage is doing on his channel

The sound of that car is so intoxicating

Long Live Kowalski!

Thanks for the work on this great story.

My Father drove that Cat Dozers on to the road for the filming of the original movie. They needed a qualified Caterpillar diesel mechanic and operator and he was chosen. He dragged his family along for the experience. I was so bored I was probably playing on the school playground while this was happening. I remember the crash vividly into the tractors though.

Another well done video by The Aficionauto. Consistently quality and great production value.

You don't even know the envy I have for you right now... Actually, you probably do... And you deserve to hit 100K subscribers. You are working hard. Anyone complaining about "not enough" should heed your words. Anyone who does KZfaq and especially car reviews with multiple camera angles knows where you are coming from. And you sir, are next level stuff. Something I can only dream to be!

You truly have one of the best auto channels on KZfaq. Really enjoy all the content. Wishing you nothing but the best in 2018.

Glad they saved this history! Excellent video by the way well made THANK YOU!

Way to go Ted. I'm glad you saved the cars, even if I'll never see or drive them, it's good to see someone appreciate molar for what it is.

Good to see a video with the correct information on the card from both movies. I've been lucky enough to drive an original '70 Challenger, only a 340 but it was white, and a (then) new '17 Hellcat and they're two very different cars with virtually nothing in common. The '70 felt very light and user friendly in comparison, the newer car huge and heavy but well built and certainly not lacking in performance. I vastly preferred the '70 though, it felt like you could control it in the turns while the '17 felt like it'd kill you.

As always, extremely well done, entertaining and perfectly edited! Thanks for another awesome video dude!

Super well done! The splicing of the movie with your drive was epic. I saw the original movie at the drive in way back when.

The vanishing point challenger wasnt a hemi it was an h code 440 4speed with a dayna

sweet video. i discovered vanishing point when i was 18. i was a daddy's girl so as a child i was around drag racing all the time and became a car nut at a very young age lol. most guys my age don't understand my talk about cars lol. im 30 now. my dads side of family were all mopar fans and me as well. my uncle has a 68 dodge dart GTS 383 which is rare and 2 1970 dodge challenger's. 1 a TA model. 340 panther pink and a RT with a 440. and many more cars he bought in his young ages days.

I’m so glad you made this video

Super exited that you guys are doing new videos - I attend and photograph allot of car events around Sydney, Australia (mostly Aussie/ American muscle cars) and really appreciate the effort and high quality of your videos. Always beautifully shot and great story telling - thank you!

your videos are top notch, maybe even up there with a channel like petrolicious. i always like and share your videos cause they really deserve all the credit in the world. absolutely perfect. (still waiting to see some of those cars from that trailer for 2016 u put out wayyyy back when. glad this one finally made it)

As a car guy it hurts to see a classic being killed just for a damn movie if Hollywood keeps going one day all classics will be so rare you would have to be a millionaire just to own one ...smh

Thanks for this. Ted is the man for saving the cars he could

I just subscribed and I'm glad I did ,,looks like a lot of quality viewing and a lot of quality work put into these episodes! Please keep making more you're doing a great job and it is appreciated..

The guy from the muscle car museum looks and sounds exactly like someone from a muscle car museum would. Also, great video, as always!

I have a corvette zo6 and I still can appreciate the movie and the iconic 1970 challenger

You need support! The quality of your videos is superb. The content also is what car guys want to see. Cars with great backstories. Well done and good luck going forward.

I'm glad you got to drive this car. The Vanishing Point Challenger has a special place in my heart. I appreciate the fact that you liked many of my photos on IG too. I also liked your KI3T video, I'm the only one who liked that KITT Mustang I think. Thanks again for all of your hard work.

Another incredibly well made video. It's a shame this channel isn't blowing up as fast as it should be. Cannot wait for your next upload. I'd donate but I'm poor and unemployed lmao

The HELLCAT is not the same. I love it with all my heart, but it's just not the same. If only they made official replicas of the original 1970 Challenger...

Good stuff man. This car is certainly a dream car for me. I'm 33 so I wasn't around when this movie came out but it hits close to home with me because I was born and raised in Grand Junction. Colorado. So I know the filming locations quite well. (I drive through Cisco every time I visit home) One of my all time favorites along with Christine. Keep up the great work.

I didn't really know about these movies prior to this movie to be honest, they were never a thing here in Europe. But after watching this I'm definitely going to watch them ASAP ! Thank you for this beautiful documentation, I subscribed and I will be sticking around for more of this stuff. Keep it up, this was awesome !

Beautiful car. I had a 71' Cuda' 383 orange / black billboards. I sometimes miss the sound of that big block.

That was an awesome movie. I always loved that Challenger...never could afford one when I got older. lol

Seeing this car gets my heart racing! It's beautiful!!

Just wanted to chime in and say that this was the first video I watched from your channel. 10/10 video!! Excellently filmed and expertly edited! I hope that you will soon be able to do this as a full time jobb and that you will be able to get an even better camera, your videos deserve to be filmed in 4K :D Thank you for doing what you do!

The film "Vanishing Point" brings me peace - always has. This video on the Last Vanishing Point Challenger is, for me, a beautiful and very emotional video. Thank you so much for adding to my knowledge about this wonderful car and film.

Love your videos Chris - amazing production and the passion for movie cars and film production really shows! Just keep going!

I was driving by the Nogales airport in '96 in my '74 Imperial..saw 'em unloading the Challengers off the truck..did a double take and I knew something good was going down..

This was well done, really captures the essence of the cars. This just gave me an idea for another film.

I bought my first Challenger in 1989 when I was 19 years old. It was the first car I had ever purchased. It was a 1973 Dodge Challenger, 340 automatic, Parchment exterior color, dark green interior and vinyl top. My 2nd Challenger I purchased was a 1970 Dodge Challenger, slant six, 3 speed manual, Rallye Red. 3rd Challenger was a 1970 Challenger B5 Blue, 318 automatic, all blue interior and vinyl top, bench seat. 4th Challenger was a 1970 Challenger Deputy, Gold color (can't remember the official color's name). 5th Challenger was a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, 383 Magnum, Plum Crazy, Pistol Grip 4 speed, white interior and white longitudinal stripe. I still have all 5 of these cars to this day. Not all of them are currently running, but they will all see the road again soon. I know that my Challenger's are not high impact colored Hemi, 440 Six Pack or T/A cars, but every Challenger from 1970-74 are special to me. I don't care what options they have or don't have, they ALL deserve to be restored, driven, and enjoyed. That's what Chrysler wanted and intended all along when these beauties were built. I drive them, drag race them, and travel in them as often as I can. There is nothing I would rather drive than my Challenger's. Long live the 1970-74 Dodge Challenger.

Congrats for 40k

This is awesome!!!!!

My best friend had one of these in high school. 383 pistol grip. I had a Road Runner and we both made it through HS. He has passed now, may he rest in piece and I have lived a full life. We had a blast in the challenge! Short story, we were raised in Selmer Tenn. This is in McNairy County Tenn. Yes, Bufford Pusser country and yes we both new him. Anyway there was a little pizza joint that sold beer by the gallons. Well my buddy and I had popped a couple ludes and they were hitting him. As we had just payed for our beer he pulled out on hwy 45s headed towards Corinth Mississippi. Well he pulled our and dropped the clutch, this was back when 45 highway was just two lanes. That man ran everything we met off the road between the pizza joint and a small community called Eastview. Was no cell phones back then but word got to THP. They were waiting for us. Guys you prolly not going to believe any of this but the THP,Tenn. Hwy Patrol pulled us over. Hell Freddie almost ran him over. Just so happened the THP use to date my mother. Frddoe couldn't handle his ludes. He got Freddie out and looked at me, I was still ok and he didn't know what we had taken. This was way back in 1974 or 75. Well he let me drive Freddie's car on and took him to jail. Swear to God guys! I should write a book. This was just one time he went to jail and I didn't. I miss you Freddie, so sorry I couldn't make it to your funeral brother. YOU ARE MISSED MY BROTHER!

Loved this episode and the 1970 Challenger. I recently bought a 2017 Challenger, even though it's a V6 it has 305 HP and I love it. So much fun to drive!

What a beautiful 1970 Dodge Challenger RT

Love the Challenger!! when they came out with the new one me and my brother said that it BADASS!! had the look and you could tell that it was a Challenger.I liked the 2005 Mustang too.I think you could look at it say thats a Mustang even at night the front end and roof line.The new Camaro didn't do that much for me.I think they missed the mark on the front end and rear.I still like them but i think the should of did more of a retro look to the Camaro for the first few years.I wish Dodge would do a Special edition Charger and make it look like a 68-70 Charger.

Great video. I fell in love with the challenger when I was 16 when I saw my father in-laws '74 in the garage. Just this year he passed it down to me. Driving down the road in it reminds me of the movie and I get Audioslave's song "Show me how to live" in my head (the music video shows scenes from the movie).

i loved this movie, and this video was perfect. great job !

Always thought they should have crashed another Camaro in the remake - everybody knew they used a Camaro in the original anyway - and then put the line " No Mopars were wrecked in the filming of this movie " at the end.

Great video as always, your editing it really good. Love the movie and love this car. Very iconic. Your channel is very underrated and I have been subbed for quite sometime. You deserve so many more subscribers. No reason you shouldn't already be at 100k. I will try and spread the word as much as I can and thank you for making these quality vids.

Props on the video, I enjoyed watching it. I saw Vanishing Point at the State Ave Drive In in Kansas City when it came out.

Great work, I have three challengers. A TA, an RT/SE, both 70’s, and a beater 71 with a 440 that keeps me young. Couldn’t wait to get a challenger after seeing vanishing point when I was 16. Still love to drive my cars. Oh, I have a 68 440 charger to die for.

THIS was fucking brilliant. I loved it on many levels THANK YOU!

Cool video. I just wish Hollywood would stop destroying Dodge Muscle cars. They didn't make that many and there are even fewer left. Maybe they could switch to '80's Chevy's or Fox body Mustangs, there are millions of those around.

H E M I I was in my Senior year of High School (Tustin High, Orange County, CA) when VANISHING POINT came out. Later that year had a Demon from DODGE & went to a Drive-In (yep, had the "experience" of those, growing up). Parked the vehicle as close as space allowed then, centered to the screen, & it felt like I was 'driving the CHALLENGER' in the film! Lost 'count' the number of times I saw that film. Great film here gentlemen; very impressed! Great loss what happened to the original vehicles from the first film.

Love the camera work and editing, nothing is ever too static and that lends a great feel! * I wondered if the nice clean 'stereo' car engine sounds were all added, but I suppose you could easily plant a few mics around a car to get a nice perfectly synchronous sound while shooting. The 'sudden braking' tire sound seemed added - and the music cut / lost train of thought there was very funny.

HEMI is still on the move! 👍🚘

I read several years ago, one of the original 440 cars had been found in California, behind an out of business car dealership. I can't imagine they destroyed the cars.

Wow I'm so glad I found this. I saw the movie Vanishing Point in 1971 and I was only 12. All my live I have dreamed of having this car or one just like it. I still may get my chance before I get to old. Keep making your videos.

Nice tribute to a classic motion picture and a truly iconic automobile. You represented the spirit of the film and the influence it had on an entire generation very well. Kudos! Alex G

I'm a Ford Man but Daaaamnit Man I've always wanted a 1970 Challenger T/A or R/T. A Beautiful Car.

Theres one in the Wellborn collection in alabama

Oh my God I love you for posting this video one of my favorite movies in one of my favorite cars thank you so much!😎 I have to say I watch that movie for the first time at seven years old and I was mesmerized I have loved Dodge ever since and classic cars I have to go to this museum it’s on my bucket list!Just an FYI I have a wheelchair van and it’s a Dodge

1970 Challenger R/T, my favorite car of all! I am grateful you made this video. Keep up the great work.

5 Tesla drivers disliked this video.

You need to send this video to Nicks Garage,Nick is Building a Kowalski replica for himself.

Had to watch again and Happy Holidays.

Great video, I really enjoyed it!! Nicely filmed and edited!!

How does that make sense? They use a Camaro for the crash scene to save the challenger only to send it to Los Angeles to be sold for scrap.

More riot than anything anyone could ever want.

Just supcribed! Man I can't stop watching your videos from start to finish! You do an awesome job. Keep doing what you do

The first commenter is exactly right , my late uncle worked for Chrysler leasing in Los Angeles in the 70's and he said they leased 2 truckloads of the cars to the production company and got only 2 or 3 drivable cars back and yes they were scrapped

Yeah... i don't know. Theres a car lot in Liberty Missouri with about 12 of them in various conditions and colors.

I just bought one of Dream cars 1970 Pontiac firebird but if i one Day get the chance to buy A white 1970 Challenger i will cause Thats the number one!

That was great. Will always be partial to the original movie, but it was cool when the TV movie came out. Thanks for sharing this piece of Mopar movie history.

My favorite muscle car of all time, great vid man

How can 18 people not like this , must be brain dead this was awesome !!!!!

I think 31 lame ass people disliked because they think it's too "loud" lol

Great job ! Love what you do keep it up !!!

My friend had a challenger in the 70s and I swear it's still one of the coolest things I've ever seen or ridden in pistol grip shifter telescoping column. Metal flake bronze paint. Oh my god what a beautiful car! Gettin a chub just thinkin about it. Gotta go.

Somebody has an original Bullitt Mustang. I'm this was filmed way before but they had it at the Detroit Auto Show for the launch of the new Bullitt.

The Bullitt cars were found

Beautiful car. Beautiful landscapes, beautiful shots. Beautiful.

Thx for the show! Beautiful Mopar produits.

How have I not heard of the 1996 TV movie of Vanishing Point?

I love the Dodge Challenger, but I think my favorite will always be the 69 charger!

This episode should be a bonus in the dvd from the 2 movies. Great work!! greetings from Uruguay!!.....and now i have to watch "show me how to live" from Audioslave!

Yep, LOVE them Mopars! Actually have an original 1970 Panther Pink Dodge Charger. Bought it in 1978 for $650-dollars. Back in 2014 a friend of mine, Rick Campbell, did the "Hemi-Swap" thing for me. It now has a 2007 5.7 Hemi. Yessir, got the best of both worlds. Also have been to see this featured Challenger in the museum. Thanks for sharing!

Check out Nick's Garage Video's He built a Kowalski! car from scratch. It's incredible.

V8 Challenger costs not 25-26k but 35+k

I enjoy the break when I can sit down and watch your work. Thumbs up, like and always subscribe

AWESOME job sir!

dude you should be on motortrend or something

As I recall this Challenger had a 440

Amazing episode, really love your videos! I still hope you will release the episode with the Peterbuilt from Duel one day, that is my favorite car-related movie ever.

OMG. I don't know what that man was talking about. I had a '69 Charger with a 426 which is just about the Challenger and I drove it everywhere. To work, to town, in the country, it was a fun car to drive no matter where you were going. I loved just listening to the engine sound with those twin pipes. Vroom, Vroom. Or if you were driving with the rock & roll booming it was heaven. The car handled like a dream, no problem to drive whatsoever. Sure, it didn't have some of the creature comforts you find in the newer cars but it was a lot of fun. I cranked her up to 140 one night and she was ready to go faster.