Hollywood's singular vendetta against 1968-1971 model year Mopar muscle cars

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So, caught the tail end of '74 Peter Fonda hick-chase film "Dirty Larry and Crazy Mary". And the moment I noticed that our hero was driving a Charger, I knew bad shit was gonna happen. Sure enough:

FONDA & CHICK & SHOULDER-MASSAGING BUT PLATONIC MALE FRIEND (paraphrased): "Yeah we got the loot now let's drive all the way to San Francisco and live our lives in luxury hooray!"
TRAIN: HONK HONK
CAR: SPLAT, EXPLODE

This also happened in Bullitt (culprits: Steve McQueen; gas station) and The Fast and the Furious (culprits: large truck & Vin Diesel's short attention span), not to mention the off-camera destruction waged on about two dozen General Lees during the filming of various Dukes of Hazzard episodes. Couple that with the Challenger that gets exploderated in Vanishing Point, the GTX that gets ruined in Tommy Boy, and some maybe-Cuda maybe-Challenger that gets destroyed in one of the Phantasm movies and I'm led to wonder if there's any film that prominently features a late '60s Dodge/Plymouth muscle car that doesn't get destroyed.

Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 24 February 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

kramer vs. kramer

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 24 February 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

And yet, Herbie always came out fine. Curious.

Huk-L, Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I knew this would be a Patrin thread.

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, the Challenger in Vanishing Point does not 'exploderate.'

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 February 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)


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