Modern Over Dramatic Twist On My Favorite Movie

[chris401]

https://youtu.be/1FvJ6nwJpf0

[shady]

do you  know that it was a Camaro that hit the dozers, not a Challenger.

just some useless trivia.

[57 lima bean]

Resent studies have shown that one E body is worth 4.6 times what a that scrub is worth.....honest

[chris401]

do you  know that it was a Camaro that hit the dozers, not a Challenger.

just some useless trivia.

Yes. It was being towed by the only 383 automatic Challenger. The other cars were 440 4 speeds. The front sub chassis was ripped off in the car that jumped the creek when it landed.

[chris401]

I discovered this movie in 2000. Quit my job 2 weeks before I moved and my 65 F-100 had just developed a hole in #8 piston which started my 11 year FE dry spell. With 2 weeks to pack I wasn't going to cruse I-635 or Deep Elm in my 91 Geo Metro. Bought Blues Brothers, Bullitt, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Vanishing Point, sat in my apartment and killed time watching movies. That is when I discovered it was cheaper to sit and watch actors than it was to do some of these stunts myself.

[hvywrench]

Barry Newman (Kowalski) was in another movie that didn't get a lot of play. I thought it was a kick-ass movie. I believe it was based on an Alistair MacLean (spelling??) book.
"Fear Is The Key" was the movie and it has a very long car chase, this time with a Torino, I'm pretty sure it was the Starsky & Hutch vintage.
I've watched the original Vanishing Point a bunch of times. Should have bought Fear is the Key way back when.

Found the YouTube link:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzIa17PUzKo
Not sure if it is the whole chase....that Torino takes a beating (probably a bunch of them did). The rest of the movie/plot is pretty good as well.

[ericwevans]

1972 Torino, one year only body style, would love to find me one of those.

[RJP]

That movie was a good reason for a road trip. I wanted to see where Super Soul [Cleavon Little] broadcast from. After a little internet research I found he did his radio show scene in the Goldfield Hotel. So the wife and I loaded up the car and took off. After a carshow in Bishop we headed down 395 to Big Pine and across 168 to US 95. Heading north we arrived in Goldfield NV, a self proclaimed ghost town with a population of about 300. County seat for Esmeralda County. We found the Goldfield Hotel but could not go in as it has been closed to the public for years. Interesting history as it has been said the hotel is haunted by, among several other ghosts, the ghost of a woman who's newborn baby either died during childbirth or was murdered by the woman's lover and the body was disposed of in a abandon mine shaft... don't know if there is any truth to the story but many people have sighted ghosts in the lobby and on the 1st floor hallway and one room [room 109] is said to be where she "resides" as the room is unusually cold and cameras will not work. The hotel has been featured on The Discovery Channel on haunted houses and buildings and FOX's World Scariest Places.     

[cjshaker]

That is when I discovered it was cheaper to sit and watch actors than it was to do some of these stunts myself.

Lmao!! Sometimes I still relearn that lesson.
I just watched Vanishing Point when my son was back, after Drag Week. After the ending scene he asked "What the hell did I just watch?" Hey, it was the '70's, what do you want?

[shady]

Not being into mopars at the time, the chick riding the bike in the desert was always my favorite part.

[chris401]

Barry Newman (Kowalski) was in another movie that didn't get a lot of play. I thought it was a kick-ass movie. I believe it was based on an Alistair MacLean (spelling??) book.
"Fear Is The Key" was the movie and it has a very long car chase, this time with a Torino, I'm pretty sure it was the Starsky & Hutch vintage.
I've watched the original Vanishing Point a bunch of times. Should have bought Fear is the Key way back when.

Found the YouTube link:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzIa17PUzKo
Not sure if it is the whole chase....that Torino takes a beating (probably a bunch of them did). The rest of the movie/plot is pretty good as well.

That car was bent for half of the chase, any trivia if they reinforced the chassis to stay put or if they just drove it as is?

[chris401]

That movie was a good reason for a road trip. I wanted to see where Super Soul [Cleavon Little] broadcast from. After a little internet research I found he did his radio show scene in the Goldfield Hotel. So the wife and I loaded up the car and took off. After a carshow in Bishop we headed down 395 to Big Pine and across 168 to US 95. Heading north we arrived in Goldfield NV, a self proclaimed ghost town with a population of about 300. County seat for Esmeralda County. We found the Goldfield Hotel but could not go in as it has been closed to the public for years. Interesting history as it has been said the hotel is haunted by, among several other ghosts, the ghost of a woman who's newborn baby either died during childbirth or was murdered by the woman's lover and the body was disposed of in a abandon mine shaft... don't know if there is any truth to the story but many people have sighted ghosts in the lobby and on the 1st floor hallway and one room [room 109] is said to be where she "resides" as the room is unusually cold and cameras will not work. The hotel has been featured on The Discovery Channel on haunted houses and buildings and FOX's World Scariest Places.   

I hauled a 67 XKE to Grand Junction Colorado around 2005. The owner pointed out a gas station that the Vanishing Point Jaguar sat next to. It was there all those years till about 6 months before I got there.