Challenger RTA
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Funny thing, I'm trying to post two pictures of the vanishing point and they vanish. Give me a moment checking pic format. checking to see what went wrong?
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Challenger RTA
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Vanishing point. There is a Challenger and a Imperial passing. If I said Chrysler I know now I would be corrected. Kowalski driving both.
Few frames later.
Few frames later.
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Challenger RTA
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S7.E83
New Project 440 Dart Makeover!
Recently Frieburger and Dulcich were stopped by some fans who invited the guys to come thrash the Crusher Impala around their property. While there, Freiburger spotted a big-block 440 swapped '68 Dart he couldn't pass up. This time on Roadkill Garage, the guys pick up the new 440 Dart and take it home to give it an impressive engine bay makeover and horsepower-adding tune-up.
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Barry had just taken some uppers, (speed), as we called it back then. Reflecting on all that had happened and his dead surfer girlfriend, he became delusional. When he can up on the dozers for the second time that day, he really didn't see them. Instead, he only saw the bright evening sunlight that was gleaming between the blades. He went for it. We don't know if he thought he had "made it" or just wanted to be with his dead girlfriend. We'll never know .You decide
Ricks72Chlgr440
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DMCL was one of our family favorites! Could be because we had a '69 Charger! My son and I still use some one liners from that movie... "Hey Deke, he wants to play!"
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Look how much rarer the Dukes show made 68-70 Chargers now.
They crashed them by the dozens...
They crashed them by the dozens...
Ricks72Chlgr440
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While the show was popular, I remember reading that there was a team of folks combing the country looking for Chargers. Very sad.
TomIGo
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Here are some points of trivia found on the hotcars.com website about filming Vanishing Point:
"While Chrysler had lent out 5 alpine-white Challengers to the production house, there are rumors that one of them was originally green, having been repainted to match the director’s vision. 4 of the Challengers were relatively similar, carrying 440 engines under the hood, but one of them bore a lesser-powered 383 cc engine and had an automatic transmission. Quite unexpectedly for a car movie, none of the cars had any special modifications, save for the heavy-duty shock absorbers that had been retrofitted on the car that was slated to jump over No Name Creek."
Think I read somewhere else that the 383 auto was the one that had cameras mounted to the hood for rear-facing interior shots.
@Challenger RTA - There are some folks that believe the black car going past Kowalski is a "loop", as it appears to be the same car that Kowalski arrived in at the garage at the beginning of the movie!
"While Chrysler had lent out 5 alpine-white Challengers to the production house, there are rumors that one of them was originally green, having been repainted to match the director’s vision. 4 of the Challengers were relatively similar, carrying 440 engines under the hood, but one of them bore a lesser-powered 383 cc engine and had an automatic transmission. Quite unexpectedly for a car movie, none of the cars had any special modifications, save for the heavy-duty shock absorbers that had been retrofitted on the car that was slated to jump over No Name Creek."
Think I read somewhere else that the 383 auto was the one that had cameras mounted to the hood for rear-facing interior shots.
@Challenger RTA - There are some folks that believe the black car going past Kowalski is a "loop", as it appears to be the same car that Kowalski arrived in at the garage at the beginning of the movie!
Mopar426power
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In the movie, was the Challenger supposed to be a Hemi Challenger?
Fireman Dan
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They leased five challengers all Alpine White, From Chrysler for one dollar a day. There were four 440, four speeds and one 383 automatic car that they used as a camera car. That was the one that pulled the Camaro into the dozer.
Fireman Dan
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No they never reference the engine in the original movie. He just said it was hopped up over 160. The hemi came into the remake. A funny thing about it, when the hood was open and he was tightening down the air cleaner lid it was a B body that had the hemi in it and not an E body
Fireman Dan
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If you have frame by frame advance or an old VHS tape, L O L, you can see that the explosion in the Camaro actually happened right before it made contact with the dozers.
TomIGo
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They can drop off one or more of those at my place f they need a spot to store them!
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