Around 1:35 you can see where they removed the lower spoiler, note the Trans Am white paint underneath, and fitted two towing eyes to allow this car to be pulled behind the camera car. One Pontiac stays like this pretty much throughout the movie. From what I can work out they had three of them.
I love both cars but unfortunately you cannot buy either of these two cars today at a reasonable price and they did not make that many Trans-AM from 1970-3,197 units. 1971 to 1973 Trans Ams were less due to UAW strike at the time. I wonder which car was higher performance in their stock form 0-60 and top end speeds at the time in 1968 Charger 440 and the 1970 Trans-AM 400, and 1971-1972 455 HO, 73 455 Trans-AM?
The one I have the remains of is 74 I think. When we stripped it out and sold it for parts I couldn't get insurance for it. My Dad tried to get insurance for it and his name as if he owned a car nobody want to ensure that car with that factory 455 in it. It was the same color gold as that one when he raised the trunk lid originally. We sprayed it with the largest gold medal flake you can find at the time. It was shortly illegal after that. Not metal flake entirely just that size and metal flake. Still got sitting down back. Unfortunately the trunk rotted out after all these years and so did most of the floorboards. But there's not even a piece of wire left in that dash. At time I actually sold the parts for twice what I could sell the car for. What a shame all because I couldn't get insurance. But I'm still alive to tell the story. That rear window never did sell and I didn't want to sell the rear axle assembly. With hubs on front it'd be a roller. Anyway enough 50 years it'll be a builder and people be talking about it haha. Because a lot of what they call builders today weren't any parts cars 20 years ago. I say the Dodge charger would be faster from experience especially in a quarter mile lining up against them back in the day. I lined up against these trans ams and Firebirds too. But there wasn't anything to beat me back then. The firebird and the charger are both beautiful cars.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 I don't know what year but it sounds like this was back in 2002 when you couldn't get insurance on it? These F-bodys were known for rust. Since there aren't many around the only other choices are the 1993 to the last 2002 which is the last year of the T/A in a different bodystyle. Your chances of finding one of these is better though I do not see many of these neither. You may see more Z/28 as usual in this newer generation 1993 to 2002 in fact these cars are probably faster than the big blocks of the early T/A cars as these newer cars came with LS-1 350 Corvette motors pushing real world 300+ net horsepower?
@@microminiskirt go back another 20 years. The outlaw that large metal flake cuz it's like a mirror when you looked at it and the sunlight. Ironically the TV show CHiPs had something like that under episode and made mention of it. I think that was before they actually outlawed it had to be because that was back in the seventies. Yeah the Firebirds they didn't get them right again until Mr Obama shut him down. They had to get rid of Pontiac and the less profitable divisions and the only reason they kept Buick is because it's highly profitable in China. But even then it doesn't turn that much of a profit compared to overall world sale numbers. Back in day no turbos nothing no gas bottle that is in my 327 was turning out about 400 horses. And I can still run it in the stock class because I had all my receipts because everything I bought was right across the counter at the local Chevrolet dealer. But it was far from stock. Had all the wrist pins rattling in that thing by the time I sold that engine. Anyway honestly somebody could build that car but when we sold the parts out of it it was amazing every last little bit of wire and everything. It only took one summer and that car look like a carcass of an animal to buzzard's eight out in the desert. I ain't going to build it. I like the first generation Firebirds the second generation and then I guess it'd be the final generation whatever number that was. But the numbers at Pontiac put out was always smaller than their Chevrolet counterparts. Up to about 5 years ago the 74 wasn't that well sought after. I ain't got a 73 charger I bought off the original owner back in the '90s probably about 1991. I moth balled it. I know where there's a number of old cars setting various places. If you want a charger it almost has to be a 66 or 7 to buy it worth the money. As far as the Firebirds go even the one I've had sitting on my trailer that I wasn't going to use trailer anyway and have them for about 8 years that's how long it's been setting on it. I put the pieces together and it's a roller 1968 and the body's fantastic best floor plan I've ever seen on something that wasn't a survivor or replaced. And it's a good $8,000 car. For another $5,000 I know we can buy a rust bucket with a 326 driving gear complete. Heck I'd give you the guys phone number if you're serious and wanted it that's a 68. As far as the Camaros go oh I still got a couple of shells of them for my we used to build them. I was a kid we used to cut him chop them weld them together. Back then I thought everybody did all that. Now I realize I had a privilege childhood.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Well at least you have the mechanical skills. I don't. I would just have to purchase the best car in the best condition or one that has had a total restoration. That 68 Charger is untouchable as far as I am concerned especially when these cars cost more than new cars of today that can outperform these cars with no problem. The newer 2002 T/A would be the easiest and lowest cost to obtain. Those other 1970 - 1973 Trans Ams are beautiful but have problems with rust and cost too much and very difficult to find one and one would have to be cautious of counterfeits or firebirds made to look like a T/A. The Camaro 1970 1/2 Z/28 to 1973 Camaro Z/28 might be easier to find and more affordable. Same goes for those 2002 Camaro Z/28 cars just because they made more of those and they are newer.
@@microminiskirt well watch RUclips and do what they do. Pick a good channels David v excellent engine builder. He's putting out secrets that people would kill to protect years ago. And then he puts out more secrets I don't think people even thought of doing years ago especially on small block Chevys I seem to be his thing. Those older cars as long as you got a place to keep them and patience and willing to take the time. You can follow ride along with some of those channels. I'm just trying to be encouraging because I want to see the car hobby grow. If somebody really wants a car I'd like to see them get it. Other folks and I'm getting closer to that for just to look at them. If I was going to get a late model ta it'd be the last couple of years and they're kind of pricey anyway. The 70 73s Camaros have always been on the pricey side. In 1969 anything for whatever reason seems to be highly sought after. Of course air pollution controls and things like that starting with 1970 has a lot to do with it. If you need a Massachusetts there's a nice 67 maybe it's 66 I believe it's 67 red black interior sitting in salvage yard. Another guy had it on his channel. I think the engine is gone. But if you really want to eat the guy up next to you and spend much tailpipe find yourself a wreck charger state patrol car. Make sure it's an interceptor. Take that drivetrain out and put it in that old charger and you'd be very hard to beat especially if you could get off the line quick. some of these guys with their own channel that you might think have vast knowledge well they do but then others they don't. Now without saying who it is this other guy summed it up perfectly. He's not super mechanically inclined he has his own channel and is developing a good following. But he rather work with the cars than to work on them. I understand that. You know if people weren't going out to look at the cars it wouldn't be any car show so everybody plays a part in the car hobby. By the way that guy he's learning. I can tell by the way he's putting it out there. That's not the guy that featured that charger on his channel. Uncle Tony's garage, kiwi classic customs or something like that he's more into mustangs they work on them all. They're both down the street more or less in Tennessee from each other. David v. But they all speak for each other as well. They work together on builds. In their own unique way. Now bring them back alive / Denny Savage Salvage he'd been around a long time. Not necessarily muscle car guy unless you want to count to try five Chevys and things like that. They're great cars but Dodge charger from 1968 or 9 will just spin them out the tailpipe. And I'm a Chevy guy but I appreciate all of them. And if you like old pickups from the fifties and early 60s classic truck rescue although he's right now spending more time building his building but he does try to make every third one something about a truck. He's more into the bigger Chevy trucks than the pickups but he has them as well. There are several others. One thing about Denny or Dennis he'll tell you right where the car is at and give me a phone number with the permission of the owner. And he's been doing this for years. So you can go back through several episodes and find something you like. There's a 1964 Ford galaxie 2-door hardtop and I've owned them before but they have a big draw for last few years and I don't understand why. But I'm glad everybody likes different cars. Mr Good pliers he's out in Kansas. By the way Wichita Kansas that's Southeastern part of Kansas Pittsburg Kansas fantastic place to look for them. It's farm community so you're not going to find chargers and things like that laying around. There's a couple salvage yards up in Minnesota and one in Ohio and one in Michigan worth looking at and right now I can't think of the names. Down in Southern Alabama a lot of rust but that's where I got that firebird not far from the Alabama Florida line so there are exceptions where it's a little dryer for whatever reason. Western North Carolina on Indianapolis mountains you can find decently priced cars. We'll talk about the older fixer up ones and this whole list I give you. That's basically Coast to Coast. Of course there's Turner's out in California but I never recommend to go to California or nevada. There's cars out in Arizona outside of the four corners where Navajo Nation is. There was a 68 firebird sitting in the salvage yard. There's a Indian on base sorry farmer military and Indian on out there in Navajo country they don't call a reservation it is absolutely huge I've been all over that place. But this car scattered through there. Go down by fort Leonard Wood Missouri and you'll find a lot of cars sitting up through there. Some of them price fair and even cheap. Then you can improve your mechanic skills if you so desire. Honestly a lot of army Post and Marine post but they're usually not as big will have old cars scattered around from the years of GIS being transferred and just ditching their cars. They'll sell them cheap and if you buy something cheap it breaks you know you can buy another one why fix it. There's plenty I don't know. The trick is getting in with a good group of guys who have knowledge and being the person that's willing to learn. Even if you buy one that's been redone there's always work to be done on these cars. And the secret other than everything I just told you the secret to wife I've had a few of them is because I lived through the right time and had a place to put them and kept them in the barns. Now I know that's a lot but if it Kindles your interest and you stick with it fantastic. But I've always appreciated a good ball game but I've never good at catching pitching or hitting the ball. I'll still watch a game once in awhile. Spectators always need it and appreciate it. Go to car shows Mom and pop's watch Craigslist and I guess marketplace. But who has these cars the old guys. Old guys tend to use Craigslist. I was at a car show and I had a 56 Chevy two door hardtop fall right on my lap. I did not buy it. He sounded like he would taking maybe 6,000 but probably definitely 8,000 for it. Older restoration and I could sold that for $18,000 easily the way it's set. Why didn't he? I don't know. Now in his part of the country that car wouldn't bring more than 10 or 12,000 dollars. But I wasn't from his part of the country and we already had a car on the trailer. We were wanting to watch the car show and the demonstrations so I kind of cut it short. I could have insured it with haggerty and put it in a storage locker place preferably sneak it in it after dark. Then I could have gone back and picked it up. Anyway my point is if open to what kind of car you can want to get you can find one. It may not be the car that you prefer to have but you like it. Factor in your age and if you got enough time then you can always trade up if you bought it at the right price. And by the way I wouldn't try to chisel that guy either I even told him I said it's worth more than that. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy that was eavesdropping in on our conversation purchased it.
Hey Mr Car Did you have a nice Christmas and i hope you have a Grand New Year finding your Dream cars and TRUCKS .... well that was some Write up about cars to Mr XXX WOW .... i did notice at 6.58 the Charger was a one wheel peel out Queen since you love older mussel cars any reason why that Charger did not have posi traction ???
@@rogerstlaurent8704 well posi trac is a Chevy term. I use positrack regardless of what brand I'm speaking of as well. Chrysler used term sure grip. The ones stamp 489 probably a cone type on the older ones. Of course they had clutch type as well. I'm assuming the clutch type is rare or at least more rare than the cone because they bring more money. Now when I was a kid like a lot of people if you can smoke your tires then you have a horsepower and it was good for showing off. There's a lot of flawed thinking in that. But I was a kid. The point is it's easier to spend one tire then both of them. I used to put a slick by supply on the side that didn't like to spin and then on the side that would spin put a slick by snow tire. It worked it got them both to spin. But that was on a Chevy truck kind of a side story. Anyway Christmas is good. We had some cold days of about 15 below and wind chill of -35. Of course since then it's been in the upper 60s a time or two. 30 some odd degrees tonight Fahrenheit. It's supposed to be right about 60 through New years again and I'm good with that. Any plans for New years on your part? How was your Christmas? Santa didn't leave a big block under my tree but those chunks of coal kept us warm haha.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 OH yes Did I get coal for Christmas And I Love It yes very cold where i am - well Below zero Flipping wind Blowing 50 to 65 MPH YUCK today 50 outside WTF LOL .... Hey good Idea on the Snow tire thing with an open diff just by thinking of it YES that works ... so i am guessing ??? the sure grip was not as reliable as a positraction ???
@@rogerstlaurent8704 I'm sorry. I'm a clarify. Pause the track is used by general motors the Chevy guys. The sure grip by the Chrysler Mopar crowd. Same principle same idea. But they didn't want to sound so much like each other. I try to think of what Ford used to call it. On the open differentials the snow tire bias ply with the slicker regular street trade bias ply was when I was 16 or 17 years old. I don't know if I can take credit for coming up with that idea. They were also 16 in six lug Chevy rims stamped rims. They didn't have bead lock or anything else on it. And it's all too hard too find them back then being 16 in cuz usually there are 15 in as far as it's just a standard rim. We had cut some holes or slots through the rim to run the chain through it. I don't know maybe 6 chains looped around the tires instead of having regular snow chains. Now that idea came from my dad because we did it with the tractors. The tractor rims just take a large piece of threaded rod are a large carriage bolt and a link to chain that's just enough to go around the tire and be just maybe one link or two links loose without air in the tire. Then you air them up and they fit relatively tight. But back then they had tubes in them. Tubeless tires have been out for a long time. But like anything else takes about 10 years for the old guys to switch over. The very first hemi engine that Chrysler put out in the early to mid-50s would nothing like to hear me say put out 5 years later. And none of them are anything like the hemis that are found in the cars today. When I say there nothing like it the improved horsepower because of improved designs. Of course hemi hemispherical So that basic facts remains the same. And of course where the spark plugs holes are at in the heads. In the United States there's not a bunch of Dodge chargers being drove around by bone to Bo and Luke dukes going yeh Haw. There's his fellow that's probably a thousand miles from me or close to it. I know I'm really well and yeah he's in the cars. He's got a mid-60s short bed Chevy truck with a blower sticking out of it. Assuming it hasn't sold it yet. But that's not how we got to know each other It's just coincidence that we're both car guys. He has a friend with two twisted and I do mean twist it shells of 68 and 69 chargers completely stripped. One was a hemy car and the other one was a 440 car. They have been wrecked rolled flipped and stripped. The vin tags are still there. In the hezese cars and I know another guy that is wanting to rebuild them put them back on the road. This is what he does he'll take the most twisted wreck you've ever seen and put it back on the road. He's really good at finding cars that were smashed when they were just a couple years old and people hung on to them and passed him down a generation or two. I share that story because you may be interested. But also demonstrate that Dodge chargers 6869 and 70 especially are quite rare now days. I've often joked but it's true That the guys I ran around with and myself we wrecked a million dollars in cars before they're worth anything. That was some time ago
More inferior Hollywood editing. Davids car is shown with a stick, (in the scene when he downshifts to ram into the charger) Then at the end, when he falls asleep at the wheel, and rolls it, you can see the TH400 oil pan. "Well... which is it?" :D
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Funny thing the tire that was shot at was a wheel with a hubcap...not a rally wheel...lol
I really dig the '68 Charger!
Me too! One of my favorite cars! 🔥❤️
Around 1:35 you can see where they removed the lower spoiler, note the Trans Am white paint underneath, and fitted two towing eyes to allow this car to be pulled behind the camera car. One Pontiac stays like this pretty much throughout the movie. From what I can work out they had three of them.
I just watched that guy in "Deliverance" 🐖🐷🤣thanks for the "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot" bonus clip love that scene to! 😘👌
Classic
Damn, they must've really hated that Trans Am
Gotta have the obligatory car explosion of course! 🤣
Love that movie
I've just noticed 2 steel metal arms with holes either side looks like a towing device for camera shots inside the car 👍😁
Bonus Thunderbolt and Lightfoot footage
1:03 Those little white bunnies didn’t do nothing to nobody. 🤣👉🐇
I love both cars but unfortunately you cannot buy either of these two cars today at a reasonable price and they did not make that many Trans-AM from 1970-3,197 units. 1971 to 1973 Trans Ams were less due to UAW strike at the time. I wonder which car was higher performance in their stock form 0-60 and top end speeds at the time in 1968 Charger 440 and the 1970 Trans-AM 400, and 1971-1972 455 HO, 73 455 Trans-AM?
The one I have the remains of is 74 I think. When we stripped it out and sold it for parts I couldn't get insurance for it. My Dad tried to get insurance for it and his name as if he owned a car nobody want to ensure that car with that factory 455 in it. It was the same color gold as that one when he raised the trunk lid originally. We sprayed it with the largest gold medal flake you can find at the time. It was shortly illegal after that. Not metal flake entirely just that size and metal flake. Still got sitting down back. Unfortunately the trunk rotted out after all these years and so did most of the floorboards. But there's not even a piece of wire left in that dash. At time I actually sold the parts for twice what I could sell the car for. What a shame all because I couldn't get insurance. But I'm still alive to tell the story. That rear window never did sell and I didn't want to sell the rear axle assembly. With hubs on front it'd be a roller. Anyway enough 50 years it'll be a builder and people be talking about it haha. Because a lot of what they call builders today weren't any parts cars 20 years ago. I say the Dodge charger would be faster from experience especially in a quarter mile lining up against them back in the day. I lined up against these trans ams and Firebirds too. But there wasn't anything to beat me back then. The firebird and the charger are both beautiful cars.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 I don't know what year but it sounds like this was back in 2002 when you couldn't get insurance on it? These F-bodys were known for rust. Since there aren't many around the only other choices are the 1993 to the last 2002 which is the last year of the T/A in a different bodystyle. Your chances of finding one of these is better though I do not see many of these neither. You may see more Z/28 as usual in this newer generation 1993 to 2002 in fact these cars are probably faster than the big blocks of the early T/A cars as these newer cars came with LS-1 350 Corvette motors pushing real world 300+ net horsepower?
@@microminiskirt go back another 20 years. The outlaw that large metal flake cuz it's like a mirror when you looked at it and the sunlight. Ironically the TV show CHiPs had something like that under episode and made mention of it. I think that was before they actually outlawed it had to be because that was back in the seventies. Yeah the Firebirds they didn't get them right again until Mr Obama shut him down. They had to get rid of Pontiac and the less profitable divisions and the only reason they kept Buick is because it's highly profitable in China. But even then it doesn't turn that much of a profit compared to overall world sale numbers. Back in day no turbos nothing no gas bottle that is in my 327 was turning out about 400 horses. And I can still run it in the stock class because I had all my receipts because everything I bought was right across the counter at the local Chevrolet dealer. But it was far from stock. Had all the wrist pins rattling in that thing by the time I sold that engine. Anyway honestly somebody could build that car but when we sold the parts out of it it was amazing every last little bit of wire and everything. It only took one summer and that car look like a carcass of an animal to buzzard's eight out in the desert. I ain't going to build it. I like the first generation Firebirds the second generation and then I guess it'd be the final generation whatever number that was. But the numbers at Pontiac put out was always smaller than their Chevrolet counterparts. Up to about 5 years ago the 74 wasn't that well sought after. I ain't got a 73 charger I bought off the original owner back in the '90s probably about 1991. I moth balled it. I know where there's a number of old cars setting various places. If you want a charger it almost has to be a 66 or 7 to buy it worth the money. As far as the Firebirds go even the one I've had sitting on my trailer that I wasn't going to use trailer anyway and have them for about 8 years that's how long it's been setting on it. I put the pieces together and it's a roller 1968 and the body's fantastic best floor plan I've ever seen on something that wasn't a survivor or replaced. And it's a good $8,000 car. For another $5,000 I know we can buy a rust bucket with a 326 driving gear complete. Heck I'd give you the guys phone number if you're serious and wanted it that's a 68. As far as the Camaros go oh I still got a couple of shells of them for my we used to build them. I was a kid we used to cut him chop them weld them together. Back then I thought everybody did all that. Now I realize I had a privilege childhood.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Well at least you have the mechanical skills. I don't. I would just have to purchase the best car in the best condition or one that has had a total restoration. That 68 Charger is untouchable as far as I am concerned especially when these cars cost more than new cars of today that can outperform these cars with no problem. The newer 2002 T/A would be the easiest and lowest cost to obtain. Those other 1970 - 1973 Trans Ams are beautiful but have problems with rust and cost too much and very difficult to find one and one would have to be cautious of counterfeits or firebirds made to look like a T/A. The Camaro 1970 1/2 Z/28 to 1973 Camaro Z/28 might be easier to find and more affordable. Same goes for those 2002 Camaro Z/28 cars just because they made more of those and they are newer.
@@microminiskirt well watch RUclips and do what they do. Pick a good channels David v excellent engine builder. He's putting out secrets that people would kill to protect years ago. And then he puts out more secrets I don't think people even thought of doing years ago especially on small block Chevys I seem to be his thing. Those older cars as long as you got a place to keep them and patience and willing to take the time. You can follow ride along with some of those channels. I'm just trying to be encouraging because I want to see the car hobby grow. If somebody really wants a car I'd like to see them get it. Other folks and I'm getting closer to that for just to look at them. If I was going to get a late model ta it'd be the last couple of years and they're kind of pricey anyway. The 70 73s Camaros have always been on the pricey side. In 1969 anything for whatever reason seems to be highly sought after. Of course air pollution controls and things like that starting with 1970 has a lot to do with it. If you need a Massachusetts there's a nice 67 maybe it's 66 I believe it's 67 red black interior sitting in salvage yard. Another guy had it on his channel. I think the engine is gone. But if you really want to eat the guy up next to you and spend much tailpipe find yourself a wreck charger state patrol car. Make sure it's an interceptor. Take that drivetrain out and put it in that old charger and you'd be very hard to beat especially if you could get off the line quick. some of these guys with their own channel that you might think have vast knowledge well they do but then others they don't. Now without saying who it is this other guy summed it up perfectly. He's not super mechanically inclined he has his own channel and is developing a good following. But he rather work with the cars than to work on them. I understand that. You know if people weren't going out to look at the cars it wouldn't be any car show so everybody plays a part in the car hobby. By the way that guy he's learning. I can tell by the way he's putting it out there. That's not the guy that featured that charger on his channel. Uncle Tony's garage, kiwi classic customs or something like that he's more into mustangs they work on them all. They're both down the street more or less in Tennessee from each other. David v. But they all speak for each other as well. They work together on builds. In their own unique way. Now bring them back alive / Denny Savage Salvage he'd been around a long time. Not necessarily muscle car guy unless you want to count to try five Chevys and things like that. They're great cars but Dodge charger from 1968 or 9 will just spin them out the tailpipe. And I'm a Chevy guy but I appreciate all of them. And if you like old pickups from the fifties and early 60s classic truck rescue although he's right now spending more time building his building but he does try to make every third one something about a truck. He's more into the bigger Chevy trucks than the pickups but he has them as well. There are several others. One thing about Denny or Dennis he'll tell you right where the car is at and give me a phone number with the permission of the owner. And he's been doing this for years. So you can go back through several episodes and find something you like. There's a 1964 Ford galaxie 2-door hardtop and I've owned them before but they have a big draw for last few years and I don't understand why. But I'm glad everybody likes different cars. Mr Good pliers he's out in Kansas. By the way Wichita Kansas that's Southeastern part of Kansas Pittsburg Kansas fantastic place to look for them. It's farm community so you're not going to find chargers and things like that laying around. There's a couple salvage yards up in Minnesota and one in Ohio and one in Michigan worth looking at and right now I can't think of the names. Down in Southern Alabama a lot of rust but that's where I got that firebird not far from the Alabama Florida line so there are exceptions where it's a little dryer for whatever reason. Western North Carolina on Indianapolis mountains you can find decently priced cars. We'll talk about the older fixer up ones and this whole list I give you. That's basically Coast to Coast. Of course there's Turner's out in California but I never recommend to go to California or nevada. There's cars out in Arizona outside of the four corners where Navajo Nation is. There was a 68 firebird sitting in the salvage yard. There's a Indian on base sorry farmer military and Indian on out there in Navajo country they don't call a reservation it is absolutely huge I've been all over that place. But this car scattered through there. Go down by fort Leonard Wood Missouri and you'll find a lot of cars sitting up through there. Some of them price fair and even cheap. Then you can improve your mechanic skills if you so desire. Honestly a lot of army Post and Marine post but they're usually not as big will have old cars scattered around from the years of GIS being transferred and just ditching their cars. They'll sell them cheap and if you buy something cheap it breaks you know you can buy another one why fix it. There's plenty I don't know. The trick is getting in with a good group of guys who have knowledge and being the person that's willing to learn. Even if you buy one that's been redone there's always work to be done on these cars. And the secret other than everything I just told you the secret to wife I've had a few of them is because I lived through the right time and had a place to put them and kept them in the barns. Now I know that's a lot but if it Kindles your interest and you stick with it fantastic. But I've always appreciated a good ball game but I've never good at catching pitching or hitting the ball. I'll still watch a game once in awhile. Spectators always need it and appreciate it. Go to car shows Mom and pop's watch Craigslist and I guess marketplace. But who has these cars the old guys. Old guys tend to use Craigslist. I was at a car show and I had a 56 Chevy two door hardtop fall right on my lap. I did not buy it. He sounded like he would taking maybe 6,000 but probably definitely 8,000 for it. Older restoration and I could sold that for $18,000 easily the way it's set. Why didn't he? I don't know. Now in his part of the country that car wouldn't bring more than 10 or 12,000 dollars. But I wasn't from his part of the country and we already had a car on the trailer. We were wanting to watch the car show and the demonstrations so I kind of cut it short. I could have insured it with haggerty and put it in a storage locker place preferably sneak it in it after dark. Then I could have gone back and picked it up. Anyway my point is if open to what kind of car you can want to get you can find one. It may not be the car that you prefer to have but you like it. Factor in your age and if you got enough time then you can always trade up if you bought it at the right price. And by the way I wouldn't try to chisel that guy either I even told him I said it's worth more than that. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy that was eavesdropping in on our conversation purchased it.
That was a great movie
Hey Mr Car Did you have a nice Christmas and i hope you have a Grand New Year finding your Dream cars and TRUCKS .... well that was some Write up about cars to Mr XXX WOW .... i did notice at 6.58 the Charger was a one wheel peel out Queen since you love older mussel cars any reason why that Charger did not have posi traction ???
@@rogerstlaurent8704 well posi trac is a Chevy term. I use positrack regardless of what brand I'm speaking of as well. Chrysler used term sure grip. The ones stamp 489 probably a cone type on the older ones. Of course they had clutch type as well. I'm assuming the clutch type is rare or at least more rare than the cone because they bring more money. Now when I was a kid like a lot of people if you can smoke your tires then you have a horsepower and it was good for showing off. There's a lot of flawed thinking in that. But I was a kid. The point is it's easier to spend one tire then both of them. I used to put a slick by supply on the side that didn't like to spin and then on the side that would spin put a slick by snow tire. It worked it got them both to spin. But that was on a Chevy truck kind of a side story. Anyway Christmas is good. We had some cold days of about 15 below and wind chill of -35. Of course since then it's been in the upper 60s a time or two. 30 some odd degrees tonight Fahrenheit. It's supposed to be right about 60 through New years again and I'm good with that. Any plans for New years on your part? How was your Christmas? Santa didn't leave a big block under my tree but those chunks of coal kept us warm haha.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 OH yes Did I get coal for Christmas And I Love It yes very cold where i am - well Below zero Flipping wind Blowing 50 to 65 MPH YUCK today 50 outside WTF LOL .... Hey good Idea on the Snow tire thing with an open diff just by thinking of it YES that works ... so i am guessing ??? the sure grip was not as reliable as a positraction ???
@@rogerstlaurent8704 I'm sorry. I'm a clarify. Pause the track is used by general motors the Chevy guys. The sure grip by the Chrysler Mopar crowd. Same principle same idea. But they didn't want to sound so much like each other. I try to think of what Ford used to call it. On the open differentials the snow tire bias ply with the slicker regular street trade bias ply was when I was 16 or 17 years old. I don't know if I can take credit for coming up with that idea. They were also 16 in six lug Chevy rims stamped rims. They didn't have bead lock or anything else on it. And it's all too hard too find them back then being 16 in cuz usually there are 15 in as far as it's just a standard rim. We had cut some holes or slots through the rim to run the chain through it. I don't know maybe 6 chains looped around the tires instead of having regular snow chains. Now that idea came from my dad because we did it with the tractors. The tractor rims just take a large piece of threaded rod are a large carriage bolt and a link to chain that's just enough to go around the tire and be just maybe one link or two links loose without air in the tire. Then you air them up and they fit relatively tight. But back then they had tubes in them. Tubeless tires have been out for a long time. But like anything else takes about 10 years for the old guys to switch over. The very first hemi engine that Chrysler put out in the early to mid-50s would nothing like to hear me say put out 5 years later. And none of them are anything like the hemis that are found in the cars today. When I say there nothing like it the improved horsepower because of improved designs. Of course hemi hemispherical So that basic facts remains the same. And of course where the spark plugs holes are at in the heads. In the United States there's not a bunch of Dodge chargers being drove around by bone to Bo and Luke dukes going yeh Haw. There's his fellow that's probably a thousand miles from me or close to it. I know I'm really well and yeah he's in the cars. He's got a mid-60s short bed Chevy truck with a blower sticking out of it. Assuming it hasn't sold it yet. But that's not how we got to know each other It's just coincidence that we're both car guys. He has a friend with two twisted and I do mean twist it shells of 68 and 69 chargers completely stripped. One was a hemy car and the other one was a 440 car. They have been wrecked rolled flipped and stripped. The vin tags are still there. In the hezese cars and I know another guy that is wanting to rebuild them put them back on the road. This is what he does he'll take the most twisted wreck you've ever seen and put it back on the road. He's really good at finding cars that were smashed when they were just a couple years old and people hung on to them and passed him down a generation or two. I share that story because you may be interested. But also demonstrate that Dodge chargers 6869 and 70 especially are quite rare now days. I've often joked but it's true That the guys I ran around with and myself we wrecked a million dollars in cars before they're worth anything. That was some time ago
Hey pal you should do the van scene from blades 1989
The clown playing music in that Charger made it almost impossible to get through this film.
See how the expert changes the tire without a cat
Yeah, we found a blooper at 3:16 mark as our hero miss shift the trans am 😅.
More inferior Hollywood editing. Davids car is shown with a stick, (in the scene when he downshifts to ram into the charger)
Then at the end, when he falls asleep at the wheel, and rolls it, you can see the TH400 oil pan. "Well... which is it?" :D
That's not the same firebird when Redman kicks the front lights in ....this firebird has the lower lip front spoiler intact .....
Guys they never wrecked the hero cars they wrecked clones
Dumb movie - to wreck both the Trans Ams - Charger got wrecked too going off a bridge - Cannonball T/A Driver Won the Race in a borrowed Mustang :)
That was boring
The trans am with a 455 was a killer. Not so sure