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    Author Topic: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds  (Read 6801 times)

    Offline Scat Pack Fever

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    Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « on: June 08, 2011 - 07:08:32 PM »
    I was watching the 1974 version of Gone in 60 seconds and am puzzled about the red challenger. It has 70-71 side markers, 72-74 tail lights, a 72-74 grill with 1970 headlight bezels. It also has a 70-71 ralley dash and a bumble bee stripe with a challenger R/T emblem. They would've had to install a 72-74 tail light panel on a 70-71 challenger. IT seems like a lot of work especially when there were plenty of challengers around. Anyone have any ideas on this? Did the real early 72's have 70-71 side markers??????????

    I am guessing it was cheaper to find a 1970 because it was a few years old and then he tried to make it look like a late model.
    « Last Edit: June 08, 2011 - 07:20:35 PM by Scat Pack Fever »
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #1 on: June 08, 2011 - 07:54:48 PM »
    Quote from: Scat Pack Fever on June 08, 2011 - 07:08:32 PM

    I am guessing it was cheaper to find a 1970 because it was a few years old and then he tried to make it look like a late model.

    Talk about being heading in the wrong direction!

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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #2 on: June 09, 2011 - 03:55:59 AM »
    That is absolutely what happened. You have to remember, Gone in 60 Seconds came out in 1974, so in keeping with the current times, the 1970 Challengers were facelifted to look like a newer challenger. Also, with almost four times the amount of '70s on the street compared to '73-'74s, it was very logical to make that move.

    In the first scenes, the Challenger stolen from LAX had it's VIN swapped, with a wrecked challenger bought at auction. If you pause the movie, you will see that a Real Deal 383 R/T was destroyed! I can't remember off the top of my head, but I believe that car was an LA built R/T as well...

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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #3 on: June 09, 2011 - 05:10:04 AM »
    Havent een the original gone in sixty seconds. but now i have alot better excuse to see it! Always sadens me to hear they destroy classic cars for movies, i believe they went through 6 Trans ams in smokey and the bandit.
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #4 on: June 09, 2011 - 06:56:35 AM »
    i wish i hade it now lol :bigsmile:
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #5 on: June 09, 2011 - 08:21:40 PM »
    Just think of all the chargers they killed for the pukes of gizzard (dukes of hazzard).   
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #6 on: June 10, 2011 - 07:42:05 AM »
      they where only around for 3 years 68-70 in that body style .what a waste
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #7 on: June 10, 2011 - 08:40:05 AM »
    Quote from: D70challenger on June 09, 2011 - 05:10:04 AM
    Always sadens me to hear they destroy classic cars for movies, i believe they went through 6 Trans ams in smokey and the bandit.
    Burt Renolds can't drive, anyway, only 6? They are like flies, swat one down and another takes its place.  Destroying Chargers now that is serious, 3 Challengers destroyed in Vanishing Point original, makes me angry but still a great movie.   :bigsmile:
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #8 on: June 10, 2011 - 09:52:11 AM »
    It makes me wonder why moparts are still being destroyed. Dukes fest- they destroy a 69 charger every year. Deathproof- they destroy how ever many chargers and challengers. I think its time to move on to a different type of car other than a classic mopar.
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #9 on: June 10, 2011 - 10:03:06 AM »
    Quote from: Scat Pack Fever on June 10, 2011 - 09:52:11 AM
    It makes me wonder why moparts are still being destroyed. Dukes fest- they destroy a 69 charger every year. Deathproof- they destroy how ever many chargers and challengers. I think its time to move on to a different type of car other than a classic mopar.
    I agree but at least it is putting the MOPAR brand out where it has earned the right to be, way out in front of the rest. Remember Steve McQueen in The Getaway, he shot gunned a Plymouth Fury who didn't hurt anybody.   :villagers:
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #10 on: June 10, 2011 - 10:44:32 AM »
    i think back in the day they had to really crash a car now they can just use a computer it does suck tell them to take out some fords instead lol :bigsmile: :roflsmiley:
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #11 on: June 10, 2011 - 01:53:48 PM »
    I didn't know they only trashed three challengers in the Barry Bostwick vanishing point,  thought it was more.

    Anyone ever notice the door window frames on the challenger in death proof?  Weird.

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    « Last Edit: June 10, 2011 - 01:59:50 PM by CID440 »
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #12 on: June 10, 2011 - 08:50:37 PM »
    Quote from: CID440 on June 09, 2011 - 08:21:40 PM
    Just think of all the chargers they killed for the pukes of gizzard (dukes of hazzard).

    Yep, there was something like 90K Chargers built in 1968, around 60K in 1969, and another 30-40K in 1970...And to think the Dukes destroyed 300 of 'em in just 7 short years...Wow, and more were destroyed through drunk driving, crushing, sitting in backyards awaiting idiots with a wad of cash, collectors hoarding them in barns again, waiting on the same idiots with that same wad of cash....What a waste....
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #13 on: June 10, 2011 - 09:50:56 PM »
    Quote from: Aussie Challenger on June 10, 2011 - 08:40:05 AM
    Burt Renolds can't drive, anyway, only 6? They are like flies, swat one down and another takes its place.  Destroying Chargers now that is serious, 3 Challengers destroyed in Vanishing Point original, makes me angry but still a great movie.   :bigsmile:
    in the end of vanishing point  the challenger turns into a 68 camaro and blows up!
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    Re: Red Challenger in gone in 60 seconds
    « Reply #14 on: June 10, 2011 - 10:11:45 PM »
    Theres a point in the chase where they drive past a green 72-72 Barracuda that is wrecked in the original gone in 60 seconds
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