RIP Barry Newman and Kowalski.

Thank you SO MUCH for this! "Vanishing Point" is near and dear to my heart. Funny to say, but this film brings me peace. Thank you for all your work bringing these locations, then and now, to us. It was sweet to see Kowalski's name on the old building. Something very, very poignant about all of this.

What an amazing juxtaposition 40 years apart. Saw Vanishing Point as a first run movie in 1971. Just came through Cisco for the first time returning to Colorado from Moab.

this Is what makes KZfaq great, being able to view someone doing something I would absolutely love to do, but probably will never get the chance, at least I can watch it tho!! so thanks

By watching this movie in 1971 or 1972, I fell in love with the Dodge Challenger. Always had in my mind to buy one, but kids came and other priorities (business). Now at the age of 71, they have become too expensive here in Europe. I still keep dreaming😃.

I stop there when ever I go to CO. I zip tied a stuffed scare crow on the Ethel cafe a couple years ago and it was still there last December. :) I did a burn out in front on honor of Kowalski.

I saw this movie when it first came out and have always liked the challenger since then.

I saw Vanishing Point in 1971 in Reno, Nv on vacation, I was 16, it was so mesmerizing, I sat in the theater all day long and watched it over and over, returning over the next 3 days to repeat the process. I have watched this picture more times than any other movie ever. Something about it spoke to me then. Still does. This is COOL. I also have stood on the steps of radio station K.O.W. in Beautiful downtown Goldfield . Nv. Thanks for this video piece.

Thank you for the memories the greatest car movie ever. I was just 15 years old one Saturday when I walked by a theater with $2 in my pocket. I saw the white challenger. But I never knew it was going to be such a great movie thank you for the Memories. Very well done Earth Changes Channel 🌎

Great video and music. Saw this movie when it came out. 1971

Excellent video work with the flashbacks of then and now. The cinematography is spectacular in Vanishing Point and along with the music, it really gives the feeling you get of the freedom of the open road. The spirit of the Last American Hero is in all of us.

The Shell fuel station/Ethel's Cafe featured here is slowly but surely collapsing inward, either by natural decay or accelerated by a vandal knocking out the 4x4 columns that were holding the rotting structure up in the middle. A shame, since it's the only nearby structure left from the time of filming aside from the shed 0:23 in the middle distance. Photographs show Ethel's cafe was still standing straight in 2012. The roof began caving in sometime around 2013; I doubt the walls will remain standing for another decade. Visit Cisco soon if you wish to see it with your own eyes before it's gone.

Great research! Love the Tonka Caterpillars, nice touch:)

I travel on I-70 Often to Grand Junction Colorado and that guitar theme always plays in my mind when I pass Cicso Utah

I discovered the movie only a few years ago. I love traveling the open road preferably by motorcycle. Needless to say I consider this one of the best movies ever! I plan a trip to the USA in 2021 if this damn virus allows it. I will make sure to pass by these locations. Thanks for this great video

June 2024. I am 75 years old now and this is still my favorite movie. I think it is genius and Barry Newman so perfect.

Wow!! Incredible! I can't believe that some of those buildings are still there, just. Thank you

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this video! I'm sorry the old houses no longer exist. The red writing on the house at the end touches me a lot.

Great film. Thanks!

Fantastic: saw it here in Germany 1971, I was 11 years old at that time. Kowalski saw the light!

I'm a big fan of the movie. You did a really NICE job of replicating the various shots. I liked the toy bulldozers; very convincing initially! I wanted to see you jump the railroad tracks in the Scion Xb, though!

My wife and I just completed a good portion of the VP route in our 2020 R/T Shaker a few weeks ago in May, just two days after Barry Newman passed away. Your videos helped us very much in planning our journey through Rifle, Cisco, Hanksville, and Austin plus all those stretches of Hwy 50. What an experience! Thank you!

Can't figure out where the 17 dislikes came from. Excellent editing and a great video. Thank you for sharing.

Was back in Cisco in Sept 2019. The gas station building is almost completely collapsed in on its self. another year or two and it will be completely caved in.

That guitar always brings tears to my eyes.

Drove through Cisco in 2001 or so. We were visiting National Parks in Southern Utah (Arches to Zion) We called it our A to Z tour. Anyway I have been a fan of Vanishing Point from the first time I saw it. Since we were in the Moab area, I knew I had to make the short drive to Cisco and check it out.

“THx4 sharing this reminiscing of probably one of the best Car movies of all time “ Was then & as far as I’m concerned still is 😎☝️👌👍👍💪👊✊✊✊✊

I have to commend you. I understand what it takes to edit a video like this. Absolutely EXCELLENT. A+ and my favorite movie.

Trifecta: Right car, right actors, right music. A rare combination that created a sum greater than the parts.

Fantastic production! Thank you very much! One of the most underrated movies of all time . .saw this at a drive in when I was 7 years old back in Detroit, Michigan, and even then I realized I was watching something special.

Wow! Great shots and superb edits!

Wow... Just wow !! Saw this on TV as a kid back in the 70s. Even then I got Kowalski. It helped that when I saw it on TV the Viet Nam war was over and it made more sense to me. Just an excellent job lining up and matching the shots. The toy. Bulldozers gave me a laugh ! And the spray painted Kowalski Lives sign ! He does indeed in our hearts and so does Barry Newman !! Thanks for posting this . Well done !! 💖🕯️

Went to see this movie at the drive-in when it came out! I was driving a 68 Charger! The good old days

got goose bumps a couple of times during this, great job friend. I saw the movie in its first week out back in 71......this was moving.

Nice video. Vanishing point is one of my favorite movies.

Thank you for this great post, speeta ! Nice to see the contrasts in time at filming locations. 10 yrs old when I watched Vanishing Point. Amazing the impact it had on me. Good work !

One of my favorite movies of all time, I remember seeing on tv for the first time when I was in high school, about 1976 I think, on a Sunday night. Monday at school me and my buddies were all talking about it. Great video you put together, it’s too bad barely anything is left but heck that was a long time ago, thanks for that!

I think the site should be preserved as a tribute to the movie and all it stands for. Would be a good tourist attraction, not too far from Moab. Something needs to be organized...tough to do from Canada...but there must be many American fans of the movie who get it.

Great visit back in time my friend. Thank you for sharing this with us.

When I was there April 2016 I repainted the Kowalski lives writing in green due to it being all faded. I try to drive there yearly in my 2012 SRT white Challenger but the pass still is getting snow so I'll have to hold off Til may this year.

Love it! Growing up in Chile and watching this movie was pretty cool. Im located now in Utah, a place that has a lot of connection to the movies I watched as a kid. thanks for sharing this video

KOWALSKI LIVES! Greetings from Brazil.

This makes me feel old I remember when it came out and loved it ! Hated the ending but still will always be the most bad ass chase movie ever made hands down

Well done very good job awesome Kowalski would be happy Mopar fan

Excellent now and then pictures and videos ... I just watched the movie and was hoping somebody documented the locations !! thank you

Speeta . Thanks for going to a lot of trouble to show us the old locations. Appreciated. It was ( is still ) a great movie. Thanks again.

Fantastic job! Really enjoyed the trip back to Cisco after all these years. I was 10 when this film debuted in Arbroath Scotland. We moved to Scotland from Pendleton Oregon which is hot and dry in the summers but doesn't have quite the big sky that they captured so well in this film. We had only been in Scotland 6 months and I was completely homesick. Hadn't seen the sun for weeks so this movie was like going home for me. Thanks again!

Thanks for bringing this too us big fans of the Movie

Love the way this was done; I'm surprised to see the town itself has all but vanished.

Great video and music. Loved this iconic movie

Very very cool!!! love the toy dozers. very creative!!

Thank you , so much . Whenever i get back to the U S im heading to Cisco .

I always loved the wig glued onto the crash helmet of the stunt driver when he skids around at the bulldozers!

That was really cool thanks for sharing that I always love that movie first time I seen it I was 14 years old I'm 51 now and I still love that movie thanks for sharing that that was awesome👍👍👍👍👍

Great job on finding the locations and excellent editing 👍👍

Never met you, but I like the way you emotionalize a location with your videos.

Fab. such a brilliant film. Great to see some of the locations. thanks x

Everything is vanishing.

Excellent.

Kowalski lives 👍👍👍

Incredible editing. Great video indeed. Well done. Shoutout from Australia.👍🇦🇺😁

Super cool! Thanks for showing the comparisons. Love this!

Brilliant thank you from here in the UK

I have been through Cisco several times on my way to Moab for camping and Mtn. biking...I saw Vanishing Point many years earlier, a classic rebel against the system movie.....

Thanks, good job, enjoyed it and nice to know where it was!!

This was great and greatly appreciate the effort you went through, thanks!

Great job on these videos. Very interesting to see how things have changed. THANKS!

So glad you did this man. Great work. Would love to see it.

Great job man! I've watched this several times.

Loved the vid. Thank you. It gave me chills seeing those also

Well DONE! I was just out there (Nov. 2022). The building is covered with graffiti now and barely standing. I wish I'd covered the angles like you did. And I never did find that railroad crossing. Still, it was an awesome visit!

Awesome work

Thanks for making this tribute video . Very well done 👌

Nicely done.

What a pilgrimage that would be.

Thank you for posting the scene shown in 4:40-4:49. The mysterious black car scene is really something. I can't verbalize what I mean, it hits several different levels.

brilliant takes me back

Nice job- sad there's almost nothing left.

Kowalski lives !

Thank you ! Love vanishing point ! ❤

Love the movie awesome video thanks

Great video, love the way you connected clips from the film to your own. Must have taken a lot of research to find the locations.

This video make me cry...

Maby he gonna highjack that car to Cuba .Or maby he stole that big dude

Drive hwy 128 from Cisco to Moab. You will not regret it. I’ve done it 4 or 5 times.

Anybody wanna back to 1971?

Vanishing Point,Easy Rider,and Billy Jack all had this same kind of feel.

If I have to explain it...you’ll never understand it. I could watch this over and over.

Amazing! Good Job!

Great site to visit someone should do it with a challenger thanks for the video.

The back drop of where Kowalski trying to go into California from Nevada. I always thought it was on the actually border of California/Nevada border but didn't know Utah was going to be that exact location for that particular scene.

I really love this.

Excellent! Thank you!

Superb job. Absolutely superb.

Great video! Well done 😁👍

Excellent video

Very nice! Good job!

"Kowalski lives"...Greetings from Greece. Congratulations for the job to merge all these clips from the movie then and the sad images of the place today. Now in 2021 , some years later i wonder after watching this video if 50 years is too much or too less....

Well done! Thank you.

Nicely done!