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I will not watch fast n furious 7 bunch of asshats put chevy motors in the cars

I watched part of one the other day...a tanker and grand national going in reverse...yada yada yada....thats about all I could take.
 
Sounds like a good movie for a date at the Drive-In (back row, of course). Yep, we still have them in Oklahoma. In fact, the Winchester opens this month in OKC.
 
onlyone said:
Cross thread.
http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/showthread.php?62695-Road-Runners-to-be-in-the-new-movie

I read an article about how much money was spent preparing the cars. It said some were just shells from the desert. And it has limited CG since they wanted it to look real. The air drop destroyed two cars by accident.
The shoots didn't open and the cars pancaked.
Even so.
No, I won't spend my time watching it. The trailers seem to be pure fantasy and I suspect the plot isn't anything to write home about.
And I saw several "Road Runners" in the article.
I hate to think they are still destroying cars for this type of thing when they could be saved.
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Hows that any different than the thousands of owners who let them rot because "I'm gonna restore it some day"..... They destroy far more cars than the movies combined.
 
The Challenger in the original Vanishing Point turned into a Camaro right before it hit the bulldozer. You can see this in a video listed under "Vanishing Point" on YouTube. The movie makers had leased four Challengers used in the movie from Chrysler and did not have authorization to crash one. This tells you just how low a budget movie this must have been. That they saved a Challenger and sacrificed a Camaro does provide some sense of justice. Hood that flies off appears to be a completely flat hood with no scoops also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2S6nP3U0s
 
Yup, a used base 68 Camaro (I think is was a 68) was a lot cheaper than a new RT Challenger was. Also in the movie, they showed a side view shot too and you could see the side marker lamp was totally different than what a 70 Challenger uses.
 
Simple reality is that car movies create generations of fans for that make / model. Look at Dukes, sure they wiped out plenty of nice chargers, but thy created a whole generation of Mopar guys. The Fast and Furious movies all suck (IMHO), but they are generating the next generation of Mopar guys. I know a lot of you could give a rats *** if anyone else digs Mopars, but I like that our cars are gaining popularity with the younger generation and I give significant credit to those movies, as terrible as they are.
 
67GTX440 said:
The Challenger in the original Vanishing Point turned into a Camaro right before it hit the bulldozer. You can see this in a video listed under "Vanishing Point" on YouTube. The movie makers had leased four Challengers used in the movie from Chrysler and did not have authorization to crash one. This tells you just how low a budget movie this must have been. That they saved a Challenger and sacrificed a Camaro does provide some sense of justice. Hood that flies off appears to be a completely flat hood with no scoops also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2S6nP3U0s
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They used more like 8 cars in vanishing point. They killed all of them but 1 driving around the desert. But at the time they were still in production and it wasnt that big a deal.
 
Glad I sold my Challenger and got a Road Runner.
It has a trunk. And I'm not sitting in a hole.



Momma always told me that two wrongs don't make a right.
Perhaps this is morally neutral.
But
Every car which is destroyed, for any reason, is one less for the kids to have.
Follow the money.
In 150 years will it make any difference?
I can't say.
 
SPOILER

I hope that 70 Plymouth they totaled wasn't a real RR.
 
HT413 said:
Simple reality is that car movies create generations of fans for that make / model. Look at Dukes, sure they wiped out plenty of nice chargers, but thy created a whole generation of Mopar guys. The Fast and Furious movies all suck (IMHO), but they are generating the next generation of Mopar guys. I know a lot of you could give a rats *** if anyone else digs Mopars, but I like that our cars are gaining popularity with the younger generation and I give significant credit to those movies, as terrible as they are.
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Yep, generations of Mopar guys that cannot find a Charger to own! ;)
 
I saw Fast 7, the movie was good, my kids and wife liked it. I'm glad at least they stuck with Dodge thru all the series. Creates another generation of Mopar fans. I know cars are destroyed, but like somebody else said, how many are rotting in back yards or junk yards that will never be restored or cars sold overseas that will never return. They take cars that most of us would never even want to attempt to restore and re-create them for the movies. I know there are some that would attempt it, and more power to ya.
 
the guy who makes these movies is actually a 100% mopar guy, i read a story a while back that he uses gm motors because they are cheap, they got a good deal from gm and he doesnt want to ruin genuine mopar motors.

the silver 68 charger at the end is actuall still got a hemi in it.

if you are not going to watch these movies then you are probably not a real car guy. it is not often we get dedicated car movies anymore, especially chock block full of mopars anyway.
 
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