Vanishing Point

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Did anyone see this movie back in the day? I was taken to the theater by a friend`s mom and we had a hoot. I guess I was 7 or 8. Anyway the movie features a white Dodge Challenger. I was infatuated with that look of car the rest of my life. By the time I was old enough to buy cars, my taste had changed to more European types, but I still get excited when I see one of the newer Challengers in white. And of course an original in white, although rare. Plum Crazy is awesome too but I digress.

The movie also had a nekid girl on a Honda motorcycle. And to this day, I REALLY like, um, Honda motorcycles.

Any movies or shows influenced your taste in cars?
 
I grew up watching car movies and I think it has really influenced my love for muscle cars, Vanishing Point, Bullit, the original Gone in 60 seconds, Smokey and the Bandit, Two lane Black top, and American Graffiti are still some of my favorite movies.
 
Bond, James Bond:)

I have always loved Bimmers and Aston Martins. One of my dream cars is the Z8. I love everything about that car.
 
dieselwrench said:
...Vanishing Point, Bullit, the original Gone in 60 seconds, Smokey and the Bandit, Two lane Black top, and American Graffiti are still some of my favorite movies.
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LOVED American Graffitti. Loved the deuce even more. I was finally able to get a copy of Two Lane Blacktop on VHS back like in 1997, and thought it was somewhat boring. Any subsequent viewings were done on fast forward to the good parts. :)

The original Gone, I saw it, but don`t recall it much.

I will need to watch Vanishing Point, both versions!

And in case some of you have missed it, Hollywood Knights stars a 1957 Chevy driven by Tony Danza. Various other cool cars make some scenes, including a Shelby Cobra.
 
When I was a kid I would wake up in the middle of the night to watch Anime movies on the Sci-Fi channel. The red motorcycle in Akira did it for me. He had the fastest, newest, coolest looking red motorcycle and I was hooked.

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And of course anything Bond drove....James Bond.
 
I still think the original Vanishing Point is the best car chase/car chase movie ever....and nobody that sees it will forget the ending.
 
JustJesus said:
I was finally able to get a copy of Two Lane Blacktop on VHS back like in 1997, and thought it was somewhat boring. Any subsequent viewings were done on fast forward to the good parts.
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I agree, fairly boring movie just like the judge and the 55 chevy. I recently learned that the 55 chevy Harrison Ford drives in American Graffiti is the same car as the primer 55 in Two Lane Black Top and the reason the engine was never shown in American Graffiti is that the movie was based in 1962 and the 55 has a mark iv series big block which wasnt available until 1965
 
dieselwrench said:
.. I recently learned that the 55 chevy Harrison Ford drives in American Graffiti is the same car as the primer 55 in Two Lane Black Top and the reason the engine was never shown in American Graffiti is that the movie was based in 1962 and the 55 has a mark iv series big block which wasnt available until 1965
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That makes sense. I had known about it being the same car, and thought that was cool. I believe there were two different set-ups for the engine at one point. One had the tunnel ram set up (which is why they had that aluminum "scoop" in that one movie). Both engines were big blocks :)
 
Of course the sequels in most movies never live up to the original and this one is no different. In the first I am not sure if it was his intent to commit suicide as they played it like he couldn`t see them with the sun shining on the bulldozer blades(someone correct me if this isn`t how it was portrayed or how the movie played out as I haven`t seen it in years). Now memory failure again but didn`t he stop in the sequel when he saw the barricade and took off and then just drove into it.

Maybe I need to watch them both again.
 
The Dodge Interceptor from "The Wraith" has always been one of my favorites ,especially the sound and the lighting haha, I remember being amazed the first time I saw it. I recently saw the movie again and it is still as cool as the first time.


I love Tarantino`s "Deathproof" also, such a great car chase scene at the end.
 
How about the black interceptor from the original mad max film, and the KZ1000`s in that movie for the two wheel crowd.
 
WaxAddict said:
Oh yeah, didn`t it have a blower pulley that could be turned off and on ?:rofl
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yup. I think they went with that because the hyper-drive unit from the Millenium Falcon wouldn`t fit under the hood.

Seriously though, I always wondered how they did the pulley thing, what did the blower belt connect to under the hood? I couldn`t have been the crank obviously, so some pulley that wasn`t connected to anything?. IIRC there were carbs on top of the blower like normal, so did they remove the scroll from the innards of the blower, or was the whole top end fake and the real induction system was underneath; side draft carbs or something?
 
Never saw that movie. I`ll have to check it out.

Grew up on Dukes of Hazzard, so it goes without saying what my favorite car growing up was
 
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