The '68 Charger in Christine.

[Mopar Hunter]

 

[Kern Dog]

Here are a couple observations I had about the movie.
I liked the movie and enjoyed it when it was new but there are numerous holes in the plot along with stupid things the characters did.
That Moochie guy....when the Plymouth had him trapped, why didn't he climb up and over the hood to get out? Why did Buddy Reperton run right down the middle of the road instead of zig-zagging or running into a building? When the car returned to the storage yard and into the building all smoking and burned up, why did Darnell open the door and then sit on a steamy hot seat frame? They were idiots. Then there is Arnie..
He was a weasel anyway....the kind of dork we stuffed in trash cans, gave him wedgies, slapped the "Kick ME" signs on his back. Instead of him growing up to be a CEO or a Cop where he could screw with people, he drove a possessed car and lost his mind.
Nobody was concerned that Dennis ran over him with a tractor? There was no funeral for the guy? Sure, the nerd was messed up but nobody cared to pull his body out for a proper burial? Dennis wasn't investigated by the cop standing beside him at the junkyard? Arnie's parents just disappeared and didn't care?

 

[66 Sat]

Did the book have a Charger or a different car?

Dennis had a Duster in the book. The book is great, one of the first books I read as a teenager. There's plenty of auto-bloopers in there, Stephen King has no clue about cars. From memory he says it's got fuel injection with a 4 barrel carb and fuelie heads or something.

 

[Kern Dog]

Stephen King has no clue about cars.

I agree, OR about a LOT of things.

 

[YY1]

The only movie with a Charger in it where the Charger wasn't destroyed!

Did you watch the movie?

Pretty close to destroyed, if not totally.

 

[chargervert]

They did not wreck the 68 Charger in Christine. Not even a scratch.

 

[BLK 68 R/T]

Kings best movie, in my opinion, was maximum overdrive.

 

[Photon440]

Well Christine wasn’t always a 58 fury , they were hard to find so film crews used any 57-58 Plymouths. The general Lee towards the end was any 68-70. Vanishing point challenger tunes into a Camaro. Hollywood does what Hollywood does

I don't think Christine was ever a Fury. They weren't available in red that year, Sandstone Beige only.

 

[Cojohnso1]

I don't think Christine was ever a Fury. They weren't available in red that year, Sandstone Beige only.

That's true. And they knew it filming the assembly line scene. But Hollywood is going to get the shot they need.