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One that got away...1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum.
After seeing the movie Bullitt in 1968 I was enthralled with the Dodge Charger, not the Mustang. So I hunted around and found one in 1970 and painted it black with a black vinyl top and Bob's your uncle.
Unfortunately I sold it in 1973.
Bullitt was a movie with the greatest car chase of its time, and maybe ever. The Director of Photography was William Fraker. I got the chance to talk to him for a while when he was using the bar I worked in to film a Whoppi Goldberg movie, Burglar in 1987.
No doubt. Best car chase ever filmed...at least that I know of.
I think that Volkswagen appears in almost as many shots as the action cars do!
How it was filmed....
Now Bullet was what you call a movie, no stupid CGI or special effects just real people doing really hard driving stunts.
I haven't seen the film in a very long time now but do remember going to the cinema to see it and loving every second of it. I mean come on fast cars Robert Vaughn, Steve McQueen and the beautiful Jacqueline Bisset plus an actual plot and story to the film how could anyone not love the film. I must have been 8 or 9 at the time and going to the cinema to see a big film was a really big deal. Being in the UK we didn't really get to see muscle cars like the Mustang or Dodge Charger our roads just weren't right for them but that didn't mean we couldn't appreciate them from afar. The closest I ever got to a muscle car was Jensen Interceptor that if memory serves me well had a big block Chrysler V8, would have loved to have driven a Dodge Charger even for a short while.
Marc
Back in the day we had a game we played where the driver put a 20 dollar bill on the dashboard....
and if the passenger could grab it, while the driver was going through the gears, he could have it.
The g force stuck you back into the seat and you could never quite grab it.
The g force stuck you back into the seat and you could never quite grab it.
Very frustrating.
My pal Berge had a '70 GTX 440 four-barrel . . .
. . . with the pop-up hood and a 4-speed. We're on our way to the Riverside 400, early 1973. The transition from the 605 to the 91 had just been completed - asphalt was thick and fresh.
We're tooling along ~ 80 mph. (Remember, in those days tires were bias ply and wheels were 15".)
What do we run into on the transition? A green '69 Charger R/T.
Berge pulls up alongside. First thing I notice is it's a Hemi. Next thing? Driver's a blonde. Wearing Raybans.
Berge looks over at her, she looks at him - dropping her Raybans.
They go for it. Within seconds she pulled two car lengths ahead of us. When Berge gave up the chase we were doing 120+.
And yeah, I was thrown back into my seat. Couldn't have reached a C-note taped to the glove box.
🤯
I imagine Carrol Shelby might have seen a few more 😉👍🏻
But I certainly hear you. Was a lot of money back then 👍🏻
Great chase scene, iconic actor and really captured the grittiness of SF back in the day.
my 2nd favorite chase scene has to be Ronin.