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on: 08-18-2001
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| #21 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:34:47 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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I wouldn't know, I've never driven one, but those things were torque monsters. Most of the power comes in low, so there wouldn't be much point in getting that high up. I'd guess the practical redline is between 5 and 6 grand. Of course, that's stock, and Eleanor was modified to hell and gone - it had a Mopar starter, if you listen close enough ;-) There were / are lots of drag cars that run 428CJs, and they spin the 351 Windsor up to 9000 in Winston Cup, so I would guess that the potential is there for 7 grand redlines, but it would have to be SERIOUSLY modified.
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| #22 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:36:51 PM |
| Posted By : CRXtrackguy |
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Mopar starter, huh? I'll have to check that out. I did like his custom gauge pods...
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| #23 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:37:30 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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I liked the nitrous switch. If I ever put giggle-gas on a car, I'm getting a switch like that for sure.
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| #24 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:37:59 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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And jumping a Shelby over a truck, landing from a height of at least 12 feet, with ALUMINUM RIMS is not somthing you drive away from........
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| #25 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:39:35 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Just for once, I want a car chase movie that doesn't play the real gearheads for total fools. I'll suspend disbelief for a movie, but the whole nitro deal with that car was askin' wayyyyyyyy too much
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| #26 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:39:46 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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No, the car didn't really have a Mopar starter on it, they just foleyed in that sound in post-production because they needed a starter noise. But since the cars on film all had small-blocks in them, we can assume that maybe the "real" Eleanor had a Mopar starter. Incidentally, they actually built one "real" Eleanor... functional side pipes, fuel filler door, 428 Cobra Jet, the works... and it never showed up in the movie. They gave it to Jerry Bruckheimer, but it's in the Petersen Automotive Museum now, I believe.
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| #27 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:41:07 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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"Bullitt" and the Mad Max movies are pretty realistic car chases, if you ignore the on-off blower and the Night Rider's rocket plume in the crash scene in Mad Max. Neither one of them really had the money or technology to do anything egregiously fake.
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| #28 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:41:42 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Notice the flub in the film, he hot wires eleanor to steal her, but when he stalls her out later, he just reaches down and turns the ignition to re-start (off screen) like there's a key already in it!
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| #29 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:43:09 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Only prob with Bullit is if you count , the Charger loses about 6 hubcaps during the chase, and they pass the same Green VW BUg 3 times, but that's minor :-) Notice how Steve McQ knocks out the right-front wheel on his Stang' when he power brakes it to a stop at the end. ....
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| #30 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:43:23 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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Well, that's about where the wires would be to hotwire it again... but I'm rationalizing here, it was a screwup.
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| #31 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:44:04 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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Yeah, but those are film errors, not blatant car stupidity like you find in GI60S and Fast and the Furious.
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| #32 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:46:11 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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I could be wrong, but I think Cage just reaches down one-handed and turns it, and the car fires up, he could do this if he punched the lock cylinder, but as is shown, he didn't do that, once again, minor, but I love spotting film flubs
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| #33 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:47:25 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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I have to give that film some credit... it was one of the finest pieces of automotive pornography I've ever seen, and it didn't show enough detail on the boosts to show 16-year-olds how to steal my Mustang.
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| #34 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:49:11 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Problem is almost anyone can steal a car, few people know how to drive one with a lot of power, that's why you see so many new Mustangs and F-Bodies wrapped around trees
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| #35 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:50:09 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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My 'Stang would be pretty damn tough to steal... seeing as how I take the steering wheel and coil with me when I park it someplace I don't trust...
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| #36 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:51:31 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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whats the statistic, somthing like 50% of all stolen cars had the keys in THEM at the time??? I'm lucky I live where I do, my car is in the driveway, with the keys in it, unlocked, no one has ever tried to steal it.
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| #37 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:52:50 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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I dunno, but most of the time when you see a pursuit of a stolen vehicle on "Cops," it's a total POS.
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| #38 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:53:46 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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putting a hidden electrical relay under the dash that's close enought to the top that it can be activated by a pocket magnet was one of the more "stealthy" anti-theft provisions I've heard of. Homemade hidden kill switches are good, since most guys wont' waste time lookin' for em.
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| #39 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:54:55 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Rememeber the one episode where the cops were chasing a solen Bentley? It was worth more than all the Crown Vics chasing it were put together.
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| #40 |
3-13-2002 @ 05:56:12 PM |
| Posted By : Mad Max |
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Damn, that's a good one. Next time I have the dash off, I'm putting one of those in. The QD steering wheel is a pretty good deterrent, though, wouldn't you say? "Daaaaamn, ese, this whip ain't got no steering wheel, let's jack this Civic wit' da keys in it, yo."
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