Who here gets really mad when they see a nice car get totalled in a movie? - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

Hooter · 12-07-2004, 01:46 PM

Iv gotten soo mad at movie, like on to fast too furious when they use that 71 Monte as demo car, I had to be told by friends to sit down and shut up. I l know most times they dont wreck the actual cars, but the ones they are wrecking usualyy are fixable too. I just think someone loved and cherised that car, then the ovie company buys it and just blows it up, rolls it, crashes it, fills it full of bullets etc, I know theres better things to care about in this world but this still gets me angry too

ryanroo · 12-07-2004, 01:52 PM

Me too, when i watched the faculty i about peed myself when they smashed the beautiful GTO into a schoolbus. i just always get worked up about those things too.
Ryan

toddtheodd · 12-07-2004, 01:58 PM

I too get mad p.o.'d about that. I always think to myself that these cars and trucks don't grow on trees and that the movie industrie is just making it harder and harder to find these cars by wrecking them just to get a shot.
What I wonder is how many of those cars did they destroy before they got the shot right?

Hooter · 12-07-2004, 02:02 PM

I heard they totalled another 5 Chargers in the making of the new Dukes of Hazzard movie, didnt they already wreck enough?

shortymac83 · 12-07-2004, 02:23 PM

what, you mean like the cutlass on Demolition Man, GTO in The Faculty, camaro in Vanishing Point, etc? yeah, I get mad. A$$holes.

TsgtE662 · 12-07-2004, 02:38 PM

I agree. Wife & the kids think I'm nuts when I yell at the TV when they trash a nice old car/truck.
There is a Used car lot near me that lately they have been having some cars of the '60's - '70's for sale. Look like brand new too. I know there is a 69 and 70 Mustang looks like the MACH 1's, 2 or 3 Chargers, 80 or 81 Z-28, and a 50ish Chevy pickup not sure exactly what year but looks like a 52 - 54, and some others.

For anyone in / near St. Louis and interested, this lot is on St. Charles Rock Road in St. Ann.

cib101abn · 12-07-2004, 02:43 PM

I used to have a 67 GTO new off the lot when I came back from Vietnam..paid cash ($3600)...traded it in 72 and regretted it ever since..then I saw Triple XXX with Vin Diesel and almost cried whent they destroyed that one..

And what about that 'Vette in "ConAir"?

bigblock73 · 12-07-2004, 02:50 PM

It used to bother me when I saw older vehicles getting wrecked for the sake of entertainment, but not really anymore. If they have the money to buy them, they can do whatever they want with them...just like all of us. I am sure there are people (purist) who look at what we do to our vehicles and say "They are ruining a perfectly good <insert vehicle type here>".

GreyHoundSteve · 12-07-2004, 02:51 PM

lmfao. This is funny stuff. I guess the one consolation the dead car has is that at least they were featured in a major motion picture when they went outwith a bang and didnt just rust away in somebodys back yard.

cib101abn · 12-07-2004, 02:54 PM

Hey, that's a good point GreyhoundSteve! I never thought if it that way...I feel so much better! Really!

68CST327 · 12-07-2004, 03:22 PM

I always used to get a little peeved seeing the Charger and Mustang in Bullitt get messed up. But compared to nowadays, that's nothing! Like in the Fast And The Furious, they completely destroyed that beautiful Charger at the end! That made me so mad. At least when Bullitt was made, those cars were brand new, so it wasn't like they were super rare or anything.

*Randy70C-10* · 12-07-2004, 03:27 PM

How about the General Lee? I once saw a pic of an 18 wheeler with a trailor full of wrecked Genaral Lee's.

oldraven · 12-07-2004, 03:27 PM

This has always bothered me. 'Couldn't you have made that point with a Taurus or something?'

Same goes for the arse holes who think it's cool to destroy a Gibson on stage.

MAC67 · 12-07-2004, 04:09 PM

i still get tears in my eyes when the 55 sedan gets rolled at the end of american graffitti , yeah i know it was a stunt car and not as nice as the one they drove in the movie , which by the way was also the 2 lane blacktop car , but still it was in good shape , i was watching the dvd the other day and george lucas was talking about how they had to come back like seven times because they could not get the car to roll , if you watch the movie you see the guy hit the brakes and brake lights flash to get it to slide , everytime i watch it im thinking to myself , dont hit the brakes , dont hit the brakes ,, one of these days ill be watching and he wont tap them and falfah will finally take the deuce ,, lmao

or at least i like to think so

LT4XTREME · 12-07-2004, 04:38 PM

There was that red 55 nomad that Tim Allen dropped a huge steel beam on in Home Improvment. I guess the only way to stop it with a car you own. Would be to have a contract for when you sell a car that the new owner or future owners can never purposely destroy the car in anyway. Kind of like how a gas station on one corner can build a new station on the other corner and sell the old property with the condition that it can never be a gas station again (no compition).

68LSS1 · 12-07-2004, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by MAC67

i still get tears in my eyes when the 55 sedan gets rolled at the end of american graffitti , yeah i know it was a stunt car and not as nice as the one they drove in the movie , which by the way was also the 2 lane blacktop car , but still it was in good shape , i was watching the dvd the other day and george lucas was talking about how they had to come back like seven times because they could not get the car to roll , if you watch the movie you see the guy hit the brakes and brake lights flash to get it to slide , everytime i watch it im thinking to myself , dont hit the brakes , dont hit the brakes ,, one of these days ill be watching and he wont tap them and falfah will finally take the deuce ,, lmao

or at least i like to think so

LMAO. I agree though.

boraxman · 12-07-2004, 06:43 PM

Sold a '69 Dodge Charger R/T S/E to the "Dukes of Hazard" back in 1980 for $500. They launched it! Wish I would have kept it now.

badone07 · 12-07-2004, 07:55 PM

Saw "Wrong Turn" the other night and the 67-68 Mustang they wrecked into the Land Rover. Since it was filmed for present time, they could've easily used an import.

shortymac83 · 12-07-2004, 08:09 PM

I loved in 2f2f how they took all the real cars and trashed them, then kept all the imports pristine. ugh.

CHEVYE · 12-07-2004, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by badone07

Saw "Wrong Turn" the other night and the 67-68 Mustang they wrecked into the Land Rover. Since it was filmed for present time, they could've easily used an import.

i seen that too, made me pretty ill.
anyone seen that new starsky and hutch? they tear some old tin up too.

krue · 12-07-2004, 09:11 PM

What about the 72 long bed they drove off a cliff in Groundhog Day? They did pull the engine and tranny out, but it was still a good looking truck before it exploded.

pat · 12-07-2004, 09:39 PM

I cringe watching Gone in 60 Seconds every time

68LSS1 · 12-07-2004, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by pat

I cringe watching Gone in 60 Seconds every time

Me too, especially the original. I've always like the 71-73 Mach 1's.

Brainchild · 12-07-2004, 10:12 PM

I can't watch movies with musclecars cars in them anymore.It's just too painful

Ever notice howthey trash the old musclecar,and the fartbag ricer is untouched? I hate that

longhorn71 · 12-08-2004, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by pat

I cringe watching Gone in 60 Seconds every time

Elenor...she will be missed

That is one of my favorite movies..the wife likes Smokey and the Bandit 2 cause she used to drive a Pontiac just like the ones they creamed..lol But just like in the movie those things will sure take a beating and keep on ticking she would still be driving it but she wanted her truck on the road

12-07-2004, 01:46 PM	#1
Hooter My other Love Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Castlegar B.C. Canada Posts: 4,078	Who here gets really mad when they see a nice car get totalled in a movie? Iv gotten soo mad at movie, like on to fast too furious when they use that 71 Monte as demo car, I had to be told by friends to sit down and shut up. I l know most times they dont wreck the actual cars, but the ones they are wrecking usualyy are fixable too. I just think someone loved and cherised that car, then the ovie company buys it and just blows it up, rolls it, crashes it, fills it full of bullets etc, I know theres better things to care about in this world but this still gets me angry too __________________ MEMBER DISCS UP FRONT CLUB 69 custom camper/cst 10 70 monte carlo 383 stroker with a 700r4 77 fully loaded silverado (back in the backyard for a little while longer) 1980 BMW 320i (back in the garage finally) 1981 f@*d f150 4x4 (Robert red ford) tried to kill me 1972 Honda ct 90 trailbike Castlegar B.C.The great white North (Canada Eh!) Hooter_5@hotmail.com AC/DC RULES!!! First generation Monte Carlo club pictures of my life

12-07-2004, 01:52 PM	#2
ryanroo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: sw colorado Posts: 2,720	Me too, when i watched the faculty i about peed myself when they smashed the beautiful GTO into a schoolbus. i just always get worked up about those things too. Ryan __________________ 72 K20 12v build 72 K20 "parts truck" A place for your diesel swap questions

12-07-2004, 01:58 PM	#3
toddtheodd The oddest Todd around Join Date: May 2004 Location: Miami, Florida Posts: 1,418	I too get mad p.o.'d about that. I always think to myself that these cars and trucks don't grow on trees and that the movie industrie is just making it harder and harder to find these cars by wrecking them just to get a shot. What I wonder is how many of those cars did they destroy before they got the shot right? __________________ "The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." Ghengis Khan IIOY???

12-07-2004, 02:02 PM	#4
Hooter My other Love Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Castlegar B.C. Canada Posts: 4,078	I heard they totalled another 5 Chargers in the making of the new Dukes of Hazzard movie, didnt they already wreck enough? __________________ MEMBER DISCS UP FRONT CLUB 69 custom camper/cst 10 70 monte carlo 383 stroker with a 700r4 77 fully loaded silverado (back in the backyard for a little while longer) 1980 BMW 320i (back in the garage finally) 1981 f@*d f150 4x4 (Robert red ford) tried to kill me 1972 Honda ct 90 trailbike Castlegar B.C.The great white North (Canada Eh!) Hooter_5@hotmail.com AC/DC RULES!!! First generation Monte Carlo club pictures of my life

12-07-2004, 02:23 PM	#5
shortymac83 hmm... Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Culver, Indiana Posts: 1,631	what, you mean like the cutlass on Demolition Man, GTO in The Faculty, camaro in Vanishing Point, etc? yeah, I get mad. A$$holes. __________________ 1983 Oldsmobile Delta 88 1967 Chevy C-10 stripper www.fcrperformance.com - wanna go...faster? talk to FCR.

12-07-2004, 02:38 PM	#6
TsgtE662 2A674 Tank Rat Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Maryland Heights, Mo. Posts: 626	I agree. Wife & the kids think I'm nuts when I yell at the TV when they trash a nice old car/truck. There is a Used car lot near me that lately they have been having some cars of the '60's - '70's for sale. Look like brand new too. I know there is a 69 and 70 Mustang looks like the MACH 1's, 2 or 3 Chargers, 80 or 81 Z-28, and a 50ish Chevy pickup not sure exactly what year but looks like a 52 - 54, and some others. For anyone in / near St. Louis and interested, this lot is on St. Charles Rock Road in St. Ann. __________________ '92 GMC Sierra, Sportside, 2wd, 350, Black '92 Chevy Silverado Extended Cab 4 x 4, Blue USAFR = 2A674 = Aircraft Fuel Systems Maintenance i.e. Tank Rat

12-07-2004, 02:43 PM	#7
cib101abn Screaming Eagle Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: SW of Houston Posts: 288	I used to have a 67 GTO new off the lot when I came back from Vietnam..paid cash ($3600)...traded it in 72 and regretted it ever since..then I saw Triple XXX with Vin Diesel and almost cried whent they destroyed that one.. And what about that 'Vette in "ConAir"? __________________ "Basic Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Dr. Werner VonBraun (Rocket Scientist) Contributing Member 79 GMC SWB w/402 79 Chev SWB w400 sm blk being built remnants of 72 Cheyenne (selling)

12-07-2004, 02:50 PM	#8
bigblock73 yeller Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Twin Cities Posts: 13,826	It used to bother me when I saw older vehicles getting wrecked for the sake of entertainment, but not really anymore. If they have the money to buy them, they can do whatever they want with them...just like all of us. I am sure there are people (purist) who look at what we do to our vehicles and say "They are ruining a perfectly good <insert vehicle type here>". __________________ Jeff 73-87.com 73-87.com Facebook page 73-87 cab corner 6x9 speaker brackets for sale 67-72 cab corner speaker brackets for sale 47-54 cab corner speaker brackets for sale

12-07-2004, 02:51 PM	#9
GreyHoundSteve Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: DFW TX Posts: 769	lmfao. This is funny stuff. I guess the one consolation the dead car has is that at least they were featured in a major motion picture when they went outwith a bang and didnt just rust away in somebodys back yard.

12-07-2004, 02:54 PM	#10
cib101abn Screaming Eagle Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: SW of Houston Posts: 288	Hey, that's a good point GreyhoundSteve! I never thought if it that way...I feel so much better! Really! __________________ "Basic Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Dr. Werner VonBraun (Rocket Scientist) Contributing Member 79 GMC SWB w/402 79 Chev SWB w400 sm blk being built remnants of 72 Cheyenne (selling)

12-07-2004, 03:22 PM	#11
68CST327 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: USA Posts: 443	I always used to get a little peeved seeing the Charger and Mustang in Bullitt get messed up. But compared to nowadays, that's nothing! Like in the Fast And The Furious, they completely destroyed that beautiful Charger at the end! That made me so mad. At least when Bullitt was made, those cars were brand new, so it wasn't like they were super rare or anything.

12-07-2004, 03:27 PM	#12
Randy70C-10 Account Suspended Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Virginia Beach, Va. U.S.A. Posts: 15,320	How about the General Lee? I once saw a pic of an 18 wheeler with a trailor full of wrecked Genaral Lee's.

12-07-2004, 03:27 PM	#13
oldraven Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Antigonish, Nova Scotia Posts: 869	This has always bothered me. 'Couldn't you have made that point with a Taurus or something?' Same goes for the arse holes who think it's cool to destroy a Gibson on stage. __________________ '86 C10 regular cab, 383 on propane www.cardomain.com/id/doasa '87 TurboCoupe 2.3Turbo intercooled 5-spd www.cardomain.com/id/oldraven '93 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0L

12-07-2004, 04:09 PM	#14
MAC67 " SHOW ME" Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: shelbyville illinois Posts: 2,624	i still get tears in my eyes when the 55 sedan gets rolled at the end of american graffitti , yeah i know it was a stunt car and not as nice as the one they drove in the movie , which by the way was also the 2 lane blacktop car , but still it was in good shape , i was watching the dvd the other day and george lucas was talking about how they had to come back like seven times because they could not get the car to roll , if you watch the movie you see the guy hit the brakes and brake lights flash to get it to slide , everytime i watch it im thinking to myself , dont hit the brakes , dont hit the brakes ,, one of these days ill be watching and he wont tap them and falfah will finally take the deuce ,, lmao or at least i like to think so

12-07-2004, 04:38 PM	#15
LT4XTREME Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: MINERAL WELLS WV Posts: 143	There was that red 55 nomad that Tim Allen dropped a huge steel beam on in Home Improvment. I guess the only way to stop it with a car you own. Would be to have a contract for when you sell a car that the new owner or future owners can never purposely destroy the car in anyway. Kind of like how a gas station on one corner can build a new station on the other corner and sell the old property with the condition that it can never be a gas station again (no compition).



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12-07-2004, 06:43 PM	#17
boraxman Keepin an eye out Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: So.Cal Posts: 3,921	Sold a '69 Dodge Charger R/T S/E to the "Dukes of Hazard" back in 1980 for $500. They launched it! Wish I would have kept it now. __________________ 1970 Chevy C10 SWB 5.3 1996 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 2007 Vespa GTS 250 Scooter ZIP 91351

12-07-2004, 07:55 PM	#18
badone07 Project 2 Resume Join Date: May 2004 Location: Jim Thorpe, PA Posts: 884	Saw "Wrong Turn" the other night and the 67-68 Mustang they wrecked into the Land Rover. Since it was filmed for present time, they could've easily used an import. __________________ John 1984 C30 Chevy Crew Cab Dually 1998 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 2004 Chevy Trailblazer 4x4 (wife's) 1970 Mustang FB fully tubed (getting 521 BBF & powerglide) 1978 Nova 2dr (going BBCaddy & S.P. th400) 1984 Monte SS (circle track car)

12-07-2004, 08:09 PM	#19
shortymac83 hmm... Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Culver, Indiana Posts: 1,631	I loved in 2f2f how they took all the real cars and trashed them, then kept all the imports pristine. ugh. __________________ 1983 Oldsmobile Delta 88 1967 Chevy C-10 stripper www.fcrperformance.com - wanna go...faster? talk to FCR.

12-07-2004, 09:11 PM	#21
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12-07-2004, 09:39 PM	#22
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