Back when car chases were real cars and not CGI! You had to give it to the stunt drivers. They could do things with 6k lbs cars no one would think of in a 3k lb car today!
@@1970sthrowback Inspired in that they used real cars on real streets and kept mistakes in the final cut. But that's where the inspiration ends, in my opinion. Bullitt was not just more well known, but a better overall scene by orders of magnitude and the movies were only a year apart in release (1967 vs 1968).
3 tons of metal, bias ply tires, drum brakes. What could possibly go wrong? As a kid I saw so many of these get beaten to death at 311 Speedway in Madison, NC. They had races called "Blunderbust " where a field of almost exclusively Chryslers of this vintage mixed in with a lone Impala and a Ford LTD or two raced an oval trying to shove each other off the track. All they did was cut off the exhaust, smash out all the windows, and cover them in silly spray paint schemes. A few beers and a helmet and you were ready to go. I never liked it. I wished they were preserved instead. Those cars were beautiful.
Ah well, back then they were just cars. Weren’t classic yet. lol. Although with that frame of mind, I don’t think anyone will be calling a Nissan Versa “classic” in 50 years
Can't BELIEVE I haven't seen this flick before. I'm old ass hell! No CG or budget. Superfly, Cleopatra Jones and such were the benchmark back then. This is classic.🤜 This just in, first recorded 14:46 Ear-bite👂🦇
We had a Chrysler Newport with the 400, could bury the needle going down a hill on bias ply tires! Had a weak transmission though, dad never understood why it was slipping, oops!
Didn't see my favorite ride. The BUICK ELECTRA 225/DEUCE & UH QUARTER! Miss those rolling yachts. Along with MUSCLE CARS!, 🇺🇸 America ruled the car industry then.
I had one of those boats in the '80s. Must've taken all that the stunt driver had to make it fishtail, because in hard turns they would plow like draft mules.
Flow-Thru Ventilation was a Thunderbird feature since 1964. The GM version was in the trunk lid and poorly-designed. In winter, water would infiltrate, the weep holes were too small and clogged, and then water would freeze your trunk lid shut. Also had a tendency to collect car exhaust. Lasted one year.
As new meaning at the end to a rack of ribs. That must been some soul brother acupuncture! But man why they have to wreck that blue 64 Impala ragtop? The 62 Chevy red station wagon as well. Probably in neighborhood of at least 75,000 for the pair nowadays. In any case those are great old movies. A little more raw in some ways the violent ways then what they are now.
I've never seen a car chase so reminiscent of GTA before, from the civilian cars getting in the way all the time to the car jackings and wacky acting of the pedestrians. Just gold.
The stunt driver who piloted the '70 Thunderbird and the '73 Chrysler was amazing. The Chrysler mus have weighed 4700 pounds - even modified, to drive it that well was almost a miracle. The T-Bird too.
Those cars did exactly what they were designed to do they weren't designed to be stunt cars or sports cars they were designed to be slow luxurious straight line yachts. What they're doing is the equivalent of taking an aircraft carrier and putting it in a boat race
@@sludge8506 nah most of em had disc brakes by the early 1970s. Drum brakes actually stopped well, until they got too hot, thats where discs shine, they dissipate heat much better.
Yea ok I know the 73 Chrysler New Yorker is the star of this video, but the real treat here is seeing the 70-71 Thunderbird!!! That's a real nice personal luxury performance Coupe!! Now I've had these birds in my family, new back in the 60's when my grandmother would buy a new one every two years! That was after her Mercury with the power rear window that I remember as a kid. But the cars I really remember was a beautiful all black 69 4dr, with alligator vinyl landau top! That my dad bought when she bought a new 71 4dr, that was nice but in metallic green, inside and out, but the black one was beautiful! That was the first car I ever drove even though I had no license, my dad let me drive it around his trucking co terminal area! Until he caught me doing donuts!!! But Kate on, in the early nineties I found and bough a 71, 4 Dr, the same colors as the Coupe in this video! It only had 48,000 miles and was totally rust free! Up here in New England that's saying something about these cars! Cause that black beauty I mentioned above? Ended up in the hands of my dads best friend, a Judge in town, that had sons that were friends of mine! I remember going out cruising with in the black beauty as we all called it! That car was fast! No to mention we beat the crap out of it! But it ran great and never broke down, but what did end up happening? Is a rusted chassis! Not so much in the body, but the chassis got so bad, you could not open and close the rear doors!!! So it was parked, till someone with a Mustang he was rebuilding needed a powerful engine and trans. But those two generations Of Thunderbirds were amazing cars!! Much nicer that the Mark they were built on!
I do love how much life seems to be in these massive street scenes. People gawking at fights or bystander's verbally responding to the car accidents gives it a more realistic tone despite the corny 70's aesthetics.
i had a baby blue 70 t-bird in 1979. 429 thunderjet ...premuim fuel only 11to1 compression. replaced it with a 69 roadrunner 383 stick. those were the days !...i still have the roadrunner to this day!
Same director as The Gumball Rally (1976), the one and only Charles Bail, who was also a hell of a stunt co-ordinator as evidenced in Freebie and the Bean (1974). Chuck got into network television directing in the 80's and 90's and directed 7 episodes of "CHiPs", 4 episodes of Knight Rider, and among other things directed 22 episodes of Dragnet in the late 80's and early 90's. Eddy Donno was the stunt co-ordinator in this movie :)
They had a fucking lion in the bar . I'll say it again . They had a fucking lion in the bar. Great car chases , cool dudes , cool dialogue , great fight scenes , hot chicks and a guy with an enormous stick ( big cock analogy ? ). But I still can't forget that fucking lion . Even if it was probably pumped with a gallon of tranquiliser it's still a fucking lion.
Back then; those were just old cars, especially in SoCal.................today: most of them would be worth some serious coin. Too; I also miss the music and clothing/hair styles from that era.
Most of these were 4 doors worth little to no value today. That 2door t-bird with some nice magnum 500 rims/white letter fatties heavy duty suspension in the rear for some lift and that 429 thunderjet under the hood with minor engine mods would be a terror.
I had a black 73' Chrysler newport with a big block 400 before I got my license. I'd pull it out front of the house and do insane burnouts. I pulled out once and this boat hit the tree acrossed the street because it got sideways. Story goes the car ended up getting a small ding in the bumper and killed the tree. Miss that beast!
Ah, nothing says 1970's America like slamming through piles of old metal garbage cans in a big ass four-door with a crushed velvet interior, all to a disco beat. If you aren't squealing tires and spinning out, you aren't driving fast enough!
greaseitandsqueezeit that's because a 1980s car would be totaled if it hit a metal garbage can. Cars from the era this movie was made in could knock down a brick wall and just need a few scratches compounded out.
Absolutely. Those cars would ride up on the curb and would absorb all the shock, you would barely know you ran over a curb. Today's cars, even the so called luxury ones, your head will go through the ceiling if you roll over a speed bump.
@@RustOnWheels Actually, the roads were better then. They went to shit in the 90's because the politicians realized they could keep the sheeple paying into their "funds" by endless promises to fix the roads that never got fixed.
@@muziklvr7776 thank Reaganism for that. He single-handedly destroyed gvt, media, wages, the middle class and democracy and let America slowly bleed to death for over forty years. He even got the Dems on board with the Third Way.
Now that's what you call a real American made cars right there love that big boy 73 Chrysler good ass cars back then compare to this crap on the road today go Chrysler
@@rexjolles and Stellantis owns Chrysler and all of the Chrysler divisions so they aren’t an independent American automaker anymore. Stellantis is a merge between Fiat, Chrysler’s former parent and Peugeot.
The editing was so bad back then that sometimes the number of people in the car changes in the middle of a chase. Maybe they fell out, ran to catch up and got back in....lol
@@jeffferoce8757 Remember "Bones" in the Burt Reynolds movie, "Gator"? Bones was so tall he had to drive The Continental Mark IV with his head sticking out of the sunroof.
Flying hubcaps, tail spins, tire squeals, bouncy suspension, severe understeer... Way better than any car chases today
...and nobody yielding to pedestrians
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Yeh, and they never even had to break the speed limit ;-)
Props to the pedestrian stuntman at the 1:35 mark. Genuinely looked and sounded like he bounced off the side of that land yacht.
Damm love that Thunderbird personal luxury and that Chrysler New Yorker Brougham 73
Yachts with headlights
That triple rep butt slap at 4:16 was awesome!
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when they punched that guy for his station wagon, I laughed my ass off 🤣
And don't forget the guy that was pulled out of his white Cadillac who ran after them and his car...🤣
Me too
Man they laid that guy flat out in the street.
I wish they still made movies like this!
Why
Carol Speed was smokin’ hot! Sadly she passed away in January 2022 at 76 rip
These cars handle better than any of todays suvs or crossovers would
Probably not , any corner at speed results in no tyres and you in a ditch
Back when car chases were real cars and not CGI! You had to give it to the stunt drivers. They could do things with 6k lbs cars no one would think of in a 3k lb car today!
I can already hear & feel the A727 Torqueflite on WOT 2-1 kickdown...
The way the car chase scene in 1968's Bulllitt was shot SURE did spark a decade of inspired car chases!
The Bullitt chase was inspired by the car chase in 1960s British crime movie Robbery but Bullitt would have been the more well known one obviously
@@1970sthrowback Inspired in that they used real cars on real streets and kept mistakes in the final cut. But that's where the inspiration ends, in my opinion. Bullitt was not just more well known, but a better overall scene by orders of magnitude and the movies were only a year apart in release (1967 vs 1968).
Peter Yates directed "Robbery" and "Bullitt " @@BPoweredLove
The acting in this whole clip is just amazing!!!
Wow, I thought I was the only one enjoying this!
I was an 80s driver I love these old cars :) Joel
2:16 ty for that double take bro I’m a subscriber !
I realy love this chanel just the best
Love those Chryslers!
Got to love all that body roll
Man those Buick Specials and Skylarks are so rare today and even they are actually worth something too
Worth watching for the bikes!
2:37 Poor Thunderbird. It was in two shots, then hit.
The best car chases always begin with a good stiff drink.
3 tons of metal, bias ply tires, drum brakes. What could possibly go wrong?
As a kid I saw so many of these get beaten to death at 311 Speedway in Madison, NC. They had races called "Blunderbust " where a field of almost exclusively Chryslers of this vintage mixed in with a lone Impala and a Ford LTD or two raced an oval trying to shove each other off the track. All they did was cut off the exhaust, smash out all the windows, and cover them in silly spray paint schemes. A few beers and a helmet and you were ready to go. I never liked it. I wished they were preserved instead. Those cars were beautiful.
I had a 73 2 door brougham . It was bronze with a white vinyl top and i put baby moons on it, loved/ hated it.
I am pretty sure this movie never got oscars..
A guy named Oscar might have watched it.
Nice 440 in that big Chrysler !
7:18 I can’t believe they crashed those two classic two door impalas, their are classic cars all over this city!
Ah well, back then they were just cars. Weren’t classic yet. lol. Although with that frame of mind, I don’t think anyone will be calling a Nissan Versa “classic” in 50 years
Just late model used cars back then.
It’s a 70’s Carsploitation movie.
4:12 that Lincoln was
A BAD
ASS sleeper! Don’t
Play with that ride there brohan
Can't BELIEVE I haven't seen this flick before. I'm old ass hell! No CG or budget. Superfly, Cleopatra Jones and such were the benchmark back then. This is classic.🤜 This just in, first recorded 14:46 Ear-bite👂🦇
That fight was soooo good!!!😆😆😆🤜💥
Real coordinated stuntes with real cars driven by real people
The punch in the ass and that scream was hilarious😂
This is what a car chase looks like when you use the stock engine and suspension lol
i had a green ford ltd with a 429 big block. Learned to drive in it and pushed locked gates open to get into the side entrance to the drive in.
There were a ton of green ltds lol
The best bad acting I've ever scene
It was hilarious 😂
That 64 convertible hurt my heart
We had a Chrysler Newport with the 400, could bury the needle going down a hill on bias ply tires! Had a weak transmission though, dad never understood why it was slipping, oops!
Busy Saturday afternoon.
@Car Chash Wonderland 2
Finally, something good to watch on RUclips! Thank you!
No problem!
Didn't see my favorite ride. The BUICK ELECTRA 225/DEUCE & UH QUARTER! Miss those rolling yachts. Along with MUSCLE CARS!, 🇺🇸 America ruled the car industry then.
I just knew it would involve a speeding car crashing into cardboard boxes lol, and there was only one boss in this movie and that was the feckin Lion
This is an Anti Break System Commercial, “Think of the Possibilities without restrictions”.
The engine in that Imperial and the 1958 Gran Fury sound identical!!!!
I had one of those boats in the '80s. Must've taken all that the stunt driver had to make it fishtail, because in hard turns they would plow like draft mules.
Is that a Soul Pole sticking out of your sunroof or are you just happy to see me?
The OG Chrysler 300.
This here is the real GRAND THEFT AUTO!
That early 70’s t bird - look below the rear window at the vents - forced air circulation for when windows were closed down -
GM had this in 71
Flow-Thru Ventilation was a Thunderbird feature since 1964. The GM version was in the trunk lid and poorly-designed. In winter, water would infiltrate, the weep holes were too small and clogged, and then water would freeze your trunk lid shut. Also had a tendency to collect car exhaust. Lasted one year.
Thanks for the 3 slaps
Bad ass cars!
Rare car with the sunroof option. A lot of rare beautiful cars ruined.
As new meaning at the end to a rack of ribs. That must been some soul brother acupuncture! But man why they have to wreck that blue 64 Impala ragtop? The 62 Chevy red station wagon as well. Probably in neighborhood of at least 75,000 for the pair nowadays. In any case those are great old movies. A little more raw in some ways the violent ways then what they are now.
thy staff and these hands comfort me as i pummel these fools to the curb.....
8:13 oh man! John smith -REAL SCARY DUDE!
what movie was this?
Ghetto card of today, the wheels are worth more ,than the whole car
What movie is this?
me watching realizing its a thunder bird when i own a 76 t bird .... f yeah
wow now we know where colin kapernick got his inspiration,
Wich movie this?
That Chrysler was
A real powerhouse huh? All 140 horses LOFL
A lot of inexpensive 1960s used cars got trashed for these scenes.
Wow didn't know that Chrysler offer a Sunroof on their cars in the 70s. Was that an Imperial or a New Yorker?
Was this a movie or a series, if it was a movie what was the name please.
I remember seeing the yellow car 🚕crash into the train 🚆in the opening credits for the fall guy staring Lee majors
I've never seen a car chase so reminiscent of GTA before, from the civilian cars getting in the way all the time to the car jackings and wacky acting of the pedestrians. Just gold.
Exactly what I was thinking as I watched the bad guys wreck car after car and keep jacking the next lol
Pretty sure GTA took after this movie lol
u blew my mind
Ooofffff maybe ya think that GTA was based off chase scenes and movies like this??? Just a thought
What's gta?
Back then cars were so massive they started braking in one movie and stopped in another.
This movie is 1970s GTA.
M. Sergio Armendáriz R. LMFAOO, wtf
Best comment ever!!! 🤣🤣🤣
You tube comment of the year! LOL!
😂😭😭 hahah yeah when they hop out and hit dude 😂😭😭 and take his car 😂😭
🤣😆🤣😆😁
I just love 70s land yachts all that sliding and it managed to keep all its wheel trims superb!!!!
The stunt driver who piloted the '70 Thunderbird and the '73 Chrysler was amazing. The Chrysler mus have weighed 4700 pounds - even modified, to drive it that well was almost a miracle. The T-Bird too.
I love seeing that huge Chrysler boat drift around
Power sunroof on that 73 Chrysler s such a rare option...so many neat cars wrecked...but at that time they were worthless....
Not worthless, but certainly more plentiful!
Christopher Marks You beat me to the sunroof comment. Had know idea that a power sunroof was an option on the New Yorker back then.
Christopher Marks the prius too will be a rare and classic car one day too
Then you haven't watched 60 seconds. Cars wrecked like swatting flies.
Now a BEAT 1999 Honda Civic goes for $3000
The cars back then....their unstable suspensions, and their big, powerful engines...
Those cars did exactly what they were designed to do they weren't designed to be stunt cars or sports cars they were designed to be slow luxurious straight line yachts. What they're doing is the equivalent of taking an aircraft carrier and putting it in a boat race
Not to mention drum brakes. 🤪🤪🤪
@@sludge8506 nah most of em had disc brakes by the early 1970s.
Drum brakes actually stopped well, until they got too hot, thats where discs shine, they dissipate heat much better.
@@twoeightythreez Thanks for that information, 283!!!! 👍👍
That is what made them fun. You actually had to know how to drive.
RIP to all those cardboard boxes that gave their structural integrity so we could have 70's car shows
Z X RIP to three innocent drivers.
Hahaha
Excellent 👍
So groovy, baby. Had to pick up my Fender bass and jam with the brothers. Right on.
I had a white 73 New Yorker brougham coupe with white leather bucket seats, sunroof and 440 engine. Fast and floaty.
ME TOO ,But didn't have a sunroof.
Thank god the Chrysler had a sunroof or I don't know what he would have done with that stick
Yea ok I know the 73 Chrysler New Yorker is the star of this video, but the real treat here is seeing the 70-71 Thunderbird!!! That's a real nice personal luxury performance Coupe!! Now I've had these birds in my family, new back in the 60's when my grandmother would buy a new one every two years! That was after her Mercury with the power rear window that I remember as a kid. But the cars I really remember was a beautiful all black 69 4dr, with alligator vinyl landau top! That my dad bought when she bought a new 71 4dr, that was nice but in metallic green, inside and out, but the black one was beautiful! That was the first car I ever drove even though I had no license, my dad let me drive it around his trucking co terminal area! Until he caught me doing donuts!!! But Kate on, in the early nineties I found and bough a 71, 4 Dr, the same colors as the Coupe in this video! It only had 48,000 miles and was totally rust free! Up here in New England that's saying something about these cars! Cause that black beauty I mentioned above? Ended up in the hands of my dads best friend, a Judge in town, that had sons that were friends of mine! I remember going out cruising with in the black beauty as we all called it! That car was fast! No to mention we beat the crap out of it! But it ran great and never broke down, but what did end up happening? Is a rusted chassis! Not so much in the body, but the chassis got so bad, you could not open and close the rear doors!!! So it was parked, till someone with a Mustang he was rebuilding needed a powerful engine and trans. But those two generations Of Thunderbirds were amazing cars!! Much nicer that the Mark they were built on!
I do love how much life seems to be in these massive street scenes. People gawking at fights or bystander's verbally responding to the car accidents gives it a more realistic tone despite the corny 70's aesthetics.
The way they car jacked that station wagon was fucking hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂
i had a baby blue 70 t-bird in 1979. 429 thunderjet ...premuim fuel only 11to1 compression. replaced it with a 69 roadrunner 383 stick. those were the days !...i still have the roadrunner to this day!
Same director as The Gumball Rally (1976), the one and only Charles Bail, who was also a hell of a stunt co-ordinator as evidenced in Freebie and the Bean (1974). Chuck got into network television directing in the 80's and 90's and directed 7 episodes of "CHiPs", 4 episodes of Knight Rider, and among other things directed 22 episodes of Dragnet in the late 80's and early 90's.
Eddy Donno was the stunt co-ordinator in this movie :)
I learned to drive in a 1973 Newport Custom, in moss green - just like this one! Awesome car for a 16 year-old.
They had a fucking lion in the bar .
I'll say it again .
They had a fucking lion in the bar.
Great car chases , cool dudes , cool dialogue , great fight scenes , hot chicks and a guy with an enormous stick ( big cock analogy ? ).
But I still can't forget that fucking lion . Even if it was probably pumped with a gallon of tranquiliser it's still a fucking lion.
I scrolled down the comments to see if anyone would comment on the lion.
That's what I call handlin'😀.
Back then; those were just old cars, especially in SoCal.................today: most of them would be worth some serious coin.
Too; I also miss the music and clothing/hair styles from that era.
Most of these were 4 doors worth little to no value today. That 2door t-bird with some nice magnum 500 rims/white letter fatties heavy duty suspension in the rear for some lift and that 429 thunderjet under the hood with minor engine mods would be a terror.
Big Block Chrysler Puttin the Hurt on the Chase Cars!
I had a black 73' Chrysler newport with a big block 400 before I got my license. I'd pull it out front of the house and do insane burnouts. I pulled out once and this boat hit the tree acrossed the street because it got sideways. Story goes the car ended up getting a small ding in the bumper and killed the tree. Miss that beast!
Ah, nothing says 1970's America like slamming through piles of old metal garbage cans in a big ass four-door with a crushed velvet interior, all to a disco beat. If you aren't squealing tires and spinning out, you aren't driving fast enough!
Mista Butterworth did you notice the garbage cans were brand new on the inside. some spray paint on the outside
In the 80"s they switched to slamming into empty cardboard boxes
greaseitandsqueezeit that's because a 1980s car would be totaled if it hit a metal garbage can. Cars from the era this movie was made in could knock down a brick wall and just need a few scratches compounded out.
And smacking knicker-wearing women's asses. You know, if I ever invent a time machine I know what decade I'm going back to first lol
Remember the early 80s show police squad ?
Every time they pulled up to a scene the garbage cans flew everywhere 🤣🤣
Holy shit the suspension roll
Yup but you couod drive over curbs and corollas and hardly feel a thing
Absolutely. Those cars would ride up on the curb and would absorb all the shock, you would barely know you ran over a curb.
Today's cars, even the so called luxury ones, your head will go through the ceiling if you roll over a speed bump.
The roads weren’t as good as today. You didn’t need speed but comfort.
@@RustOnWheels Actually, the roads were better then. They went to shit in the 90's because the politicians realized they could keep the sheeple paying into their "funds" by endless promises to fix the roads that never got fixed.
@@muziklvr7776 thank Reaganism for that. He single-handedly destroyed gvt, media, wages, the middle class and democracy and let America slowly bleed to death for over forty years. He even got the Dems on board with the Third Way.
My folks had a 73 New Yorker, it was green with a white vinyl top. Monster boat, it cornered like a dinning room table
2:15 - Drift was so good they showed it twice!
Now that's what you call a real American made cars right there love that big boy 73 Chrysler good ass cars back then compare to this crap on the road today go Chrysler
Is chrysler still in business, champ?
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@@sludge8506 yes lmao they own jeep and a bunch of other companies
@@rexjolles and Stellantis owns Chrysler and all of the Chrysler divisions so they aren’t an independent American automaker anymore. Stellantis is a merge between Fiat, Chrysler’s former parent and Peugeot.
@@andrewcolsen but it's still a company
Fightin' with the pimp cane. LMAO!
.... 'Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me...'
The editing was so bad back then that sometimes the number of people in the car changes in the middle of a chase. Maybe they fell out, ran to catch up and got back in....lol
rotflmao
This video clip was worth the 16 minutes of my life.
The convertible is 63 Buick Skylark. by far the best handling car here
73' Newport Coupe...they sure dont make tanks no more...these cars today hit a curb and considered totaled..
Vic Salone it's a Sedan and it's a New Yorker the trim is too high level for a Newport.
I would give this car chase 4 out of 5 stars only because it looked weird with the staff sticking out of the sunroof LOL
I though the staff looked like there was a 3rd person in the car who had a super long neck and abnormally tiny head.
@@jeffferoce8757 Remember "Bones" in the Burt Reynolds movie, "Gator"? Bones was so tall he had to drive The Continental Mark IV with his head sticking out of the sunroof.
@@lincmerc1581 Ha! Too funny.
I love me some 60s and 70s Chryslers...but they wouldn't be my first choice as a getaway car.