Killer Cars: Death Car on the Freeway

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  • Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
  • Fun little 1970's romp with no shortage of action.
    They don't make em like they used to!
    Legal stuff: I do not own the movie footage or music used in this vid.
    Theme and background music courtesy of audionautix.com
    Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

Комментарии • 118

  • @EngineerDaylight
    @EngineerDaylight 3 года назад +28

    That scene where the van flies through the air on fire is just unbelievable, I've never seen that done in any other movie

    • @jamesnoble3502
      @jamesnoble3502 2 года назад +4

      I like how the van immediately exploded into a giant fireball midair for really no reason whatsoever other than it was the '70s and everything exploded back then

    • @rf396
      @rf396 2 года назад +2

      @@jamesnoble3502 On California highways that was doubly true!

    • @laqundrabarnett4141
      @laqundrabarnett4141 2 года назад

      I believe there are other movies where cars explode and fly in the air. This isn't the only film that does that.

  • @jamesnoble3502
    @jamesnoble3502 2 года назад +8

    I want that crazy fiddle music as my new ringtone 😀
    I remember taping this off of network TV in the late '80s and watching it with my friends

    • @Sean-hn1vt
      @Sean-hn1vt 5 месяцев назад +3

      That music literally slaps

  • @davidsmith2033
    @davidsmith2033 3 года назад +10

    at 5:02....the Dodge van diving off the side of the overpass....man!! Stunt people from the 1970's were gritty as f***!!!

  • @jwjeepx
    @jwjeepx 4 года назад +10

    I saw this on TV back when it was new, one of my favorites.
    This is one of your funniest commentaries yet -- delivered with a great dry style -- thanks man! Keep it going!
    "...where the hell are Jon & Ponch when you need them..." another TMV classic quote!

    • @MorristheMinor
      @MorristheMinor 2 года назад +2

      @@TMVarchive I can see the planning meeting for this movie - 'Well, we can't afford Jon AND Ponch, but we can manage one third of Charlie's Angels.'

  • @Mr_Hillbilly_weeb
    @Mr_Hillbilly_weeb 4 года назад +26

    I love how the hero car is an old Datsun 240Z aka Nissan fairlady s30 probably one of the most beautiful cars of the time these cars dont get enough love

    • @pancudowny
      @pancudowny 4 года назад +2

      And, if you note: The only car The Fiddler attacks that has a respectable power/weight ratio, and is built with good brakes and a true sports-tuned suspension by design.

    • @thetransportationguy7930
      @thetransportationguy7930 3 года назад +2

      I thought it was a Toyota 2000gt

    • @Mr_Hillbilly_weeb
      @Mr_Hillbilly_weeb 3 года назад +3

      @@thetransportationguy7930 are you serious or making a joke

    • @Frankeinstein10
      @Frankeinstein10 2 года назад +1

      this was tuned to reach over 300kmph and this cnt out run a van 🤣

    • @Frankeinstein10
      @Frankeinstein10 2 года назад +1

      this once was the devil z of the wangan highway in the anime world.....aahh the good old days ❤

  • @ericamichelle99
    @ericamichelle99 4 года назад +7

    I saw this movie for the first time about 2-3 years ago and was mad that I hadn’t seen it/didn’t know about it sooner. Pretty decent cast (Peter Graves and The Riddler...I’m all in). I could watch these made for tv gems from the 70’s all day.

    • @vorelordjr9019
      @vorelordjr9019 3 года назад

      Not a killer car if the car has a driver

    • @ericamichelle99
      @ericamichelle99 3 года назад

      What does that have to do with my comment?

  • @Mayala285
    @Mayala285 4 года назад +7

    1:32 *the guy on lower side of the freeway* "hey lady get the fuck off the freeway, did you play with any balls to get your license?"

  • @54GodzillaFan
    @54GodzillaFan 4 года назад +7

    Good flick from Hal Needham! Decent crash stunts for a low budget TV movie! Though bluegrass wouldn't have been my choice. Blast Van Halen or AC/DC.
    Also, one of the best cliff dives to end a killer car movie.

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  4 года назад +5

      Yeah, not sure what was up with the weird fiddle music. I originally used AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" for the outro but RUclips blocked it.

  • @theflorida806
    @theflorida806 2 года назад +4

    I like when that psychopath charge up the song

  • @thatoneskyline
    @thatoneskyline Год назад +5

    "Maybe she made him wear a dress to school or whatever" I can relate

  • @peterparker6584
    @peterparker6584 2 года назад +5

    There's a few movies out there you may have not seen. One I'm still trying to remember the name of myself I think it's called the van I know it's not creeper van that's a whole another movie. Basically it's saw with a Dodge panel van. This guy is a serial killer and he's got a van that he trips out with all sorts of gory traps and kills people when they get in the van. In some cases the guy was targeting car thieves as an example I think during the film he booby-trapped other people's Vehicles as well was about four or five years ago when I seen the movie. At one point he puts the van up for sale tool or somebody else in do test driving the van. If I remember the movie correctly it was a crappy looking white Dodge cargo van.
    A movie from the 1970s you may have seen or or overlooked small budget film called cars that aren't Pirates hopefully I'm not butchering the title of the movie it's pretty obscure. Basic plot of the movie is a town of people who kill Outsiders who travel through the town by making them crash their cars and then they strip the cars down and sell the parts to make money and it's supposedly in the storyline a big business.
    Another one from the 1980s is called the ambulance it's about a serial killer driving around in an ambulance.
    I'm sure you seen all the Death Race movies there's five I think at this point maybe 6 I'm not exaggerating they've done quite a few Death Race equals most of them the most people don't even know about because they were kind of slid under the door. Honestly some of the Death Race movies are not that bad David Carradine was in the first one and he's in a couple of the sequels.
    More than likely you seen the Mad Max movies and just don't want to devotecontent at them because pretty much everybody's probably done Mad Max.
    Doing this with a soul crushing migraine so there's a handful of movies right now I can't remember the name of.
    Guy that did the original Gone in 60 Seconds I believe was the guy that did the movie junkman assuming you haven't seen it you might want to look that movie Up. Kind of a demolition derby car chase type movie. I think that was the one he died while filming or died after filming it. Guy that did the original Gone in 60 Seconds did a handful of karthi movies before he died in the 80s. Another one I'm sure you seen was repo not the Opera I mean the original repo movie was called Repo Man people keep dying trying to repo the car in the film.
    The second Knight Rider movie might be something else you want to look into it's kind of hate Mad Max knock off I think it was called Knight Rider 2020 typical post-apocalyptic future and Guy out for Revenge builds a tank car. And they slapped the term Knight Rider on the title LOL.
    Trying to remember the name of the one about the semi from the 1980s basically the guy is a private contractor with a custom-made semi who was hired to do a transport of a nuclear bomb or something across the u.s. Under the radar by the government yeah the movies as campy as it sounds you got to remember I was like 10 when I seen that movie and the name of it Escapes Me. They put extra long smokestacks on the rig to deflect heat-seeking Rockets as an example LOL. Maybe it was called War rig or War truck battle truck that was it I think they basically in the movie built a custom semi with bullet-proof material and so on truck was specifically custom-built to do the delivery run of whatever the hell the goddamn top secret missile bomb thing was pretty sure they were supposedly delivering a nuclear warhead across the u.s. Or some new type of nuclear weapon. Blood Salvage you might want to look into it's more of a slasher film bunch of inbred rednecks that run a salvage yard are kidnapping people to cut them up for organ donation on the black market basically causing them to have accidents and then kidnapping them.
    Black dog with Patrick Swayze might be in your wheelhouse although it's not really killer cars for say it's more along the lines of a trucker enthusiastic action movie one of the last movies done by Shwayze.
    Ice Road is another one of those type of movies more recent had Liam Neeson as one of The Trackers.
    Honestly hard to find movies where it's a killer car in the most literal sense like Christine you actually found one called the car 2 which I'd never even heard of.
    Sometimes they come back and the sequel Sometimes they come back again based on a Stephen King story about a ghost car with a group of ghost occupants kind of a couple of obscure movies so you might not be familiar with them.
    If I can think of any more I'll post on another one of your videos

  • @kingstyle7314
    @kingstyle7314 4 года назад +8

    I was watching all the videos in this channel a few days ago because I loved the movie vaults videos and was so upset to see he is no longer here and this was one of my favorites I was tempted to suggest it be reuploaded next I’m so glad it was

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  4 года назад +4

      I'm still here dude. Just had to start a new channel.
      Glad you like.

  • @pancudowny
    @pancudowny 4 года назад +9

    Note how the cars or all the victims the Fiddler attacks are either small, trim-models with paltry/weak engines, have poor handling & lackluster brakes standard... like a large, quick predator chasing a smaller or slower prey that can't out-maneuver or get away quickly.

  • @davidsmith2033
    @davidsmith2033 3 года назад +16

    i appreciate the archiving of the videos from the old channel The Movie Vault. i hear you may have re-recorded some of the original voice-overs from the videos. i used to watch them so much, i basically memorized every nuance of the videos. they were just fun to watch. thank you.

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  3 года назад +5

      Glad u like.
      Yeah, part of the aim of this channel was to re-edit or completely remake some of the old vids. I'm slowly putting together another one as time allows.

    • @chasechildress2720
      @chasechildress2720 2 года назад +1

      @@TMVarchive what happend to the original guy and channel.

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  2 года назад +1

      @@chasechildress2720I'm right here bro. The channel was yanked for some b.s. and this is the replacement. See the story on my other account: ruclips.net/video/yhzRvoO8h_c/видео.html

    • @chasechildress2720
      @chasechildress2720 2 года назад +1

      @@TMVarchive ohh that sucks but I'm happy your back I loved the killer cars series back in 2016 or so and still love it today.

  • @jean-lucpicard5510
    @jean-lucpicard5510 Год назад +3

    Like how the other driver's just ignore the vehicle manslaughter happening right in front of them.

  • @carolinawestern3875
    @carolinawestern3875 3 года назад +7

    I've always loved cars of the 70's so I recall the first one well. It was a
    "CHiP's" episode called, The Highway
    Fiddler! Aired around the time a movie called "The Car" was released. About a Satan possessed 73 Mark IIV Lincoln,
    Continental, that goes around driverless & killing people.

  • @ul7185
    @ul7185 2 года назад +1

    Killer Cars (6 @ 6 Segments from WGN Morning News Only)

  • @chriscarpenter3370
    @chriscarpenter3370 4 года назад +10

    *sees cars exploding on impact*
    bruh

  • @arrived255
    @arrived255 2 года назад +4

    Is nobody talking about how the cars have like 100s of thousands of miles

  • @TTGTO288
    @TTGTO288 2 года назад +5

    That was some off road RACE van ... lol. Sounded like it had a 70s NASCAR engine in it, but yet could off road and drive down large embankments ... I would guess that 240 Nissan could've out ran it in a heartbeat if this wasn't Hollywood.

    • @EngineerDaylight
      @EngineerDaylight 4 месяца назад

      The van used was a 1974 Dodge B100. The V8 models came with a 318 or a 360 ci Engine.

    • @TTGTO288
      @TTGTO288 4 месяца назад

      @EngineerDaylight Again, the 240 would out run it.

  • @alexandraroman4121
    @alexandraroman4121 8 месяцев назад +2

    Fun fact:the truck (van,I mistaken this for duel 😂😂😂)driver was supposed to be the driving instructor for the reporter,he apparently hates woman because his wife was killed by another woman in a drunk driving accident but at last minute the freeway fiddler was stated to be a mystery of who she/he is

  • @seatspud
    @seatspud 2 года назад +4

    Fun fact: there's a fan-made video utilizing clips from this movie backed by a remastered version of "Takin' Off/Hell on Wheels", a song from Cheech and Chong's Next Movie.

  • @ivanondrive7608
    @ivanondrive7608 2 года назад +1

    People with civics before V-TEC was maded

  • @husq48
    @husq48 2 года назад +2

    I vaguely remember this movie...

  • @TheBrooklynbodine
    @TheBrooklynbodine 4 года назад +3

    This originally aired 9-25-79 on CBS and starred Shelley Hack from "Charlie's Angels."

  • @列車青煉改紅城聖司
    @列車青煉改紅城聖司 3 года назад +3

    サイドブレーキの使い方上手い(笑)

  • @keithlestrange4249
    @keithlestrange4249 4 года назад +3

    Love that expression knuckle dragger

  • @TheBrooklynbodine
    @TheBrooklynbodine 3 года назад +5

    2:47-Generally about as useful as a fire extinguisher full of gasoline. Never heard that one. That was Morgan Brittany in the opening, wasn't it?

  • @memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346
    @memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346 3 года назад +7

    And the stunt driver driving the van is the same man who drove the infamous tanker truck in Duel. The small barely noticeable burn scar on his left arm and a small sticking scar on the right arm are more than a bit of a give way.
    And this guy must have several vans to crash with.... A Blue Ford Transit , a Grey/White Bedford Van and a Black with flames Ford Caravan Or also known as a A Team Van.
    Did he steal the A Teams van and put flames on it. It looks like it.

    • @jamesnoble3502
      @jamesnoble3502 2 года назад +4

      It was shown in the movie that he repainted his van after every attack but due to the continuity the van also magically changed makes and models between scenes

    • @eerikwiren1532
      @eerikwiren1532 Год назад +1

      The van was a 1974 Dodge Tradesman

  • @only257
    @only257 3 года назад +2

    Love this movie 🎞

  • @CRWNVCTRA
    @CRWNVCTRA 4 года назад +2

    I was waiting for this one

  • @hotrodeldorado811
    @hotrodeldorado811 3 года назад +4

    What's the name of the song the guy in the van plays? I like it

    • @mercoid
      @mercoid 2 года назад +2

      Weee ga wogga Weee ga wogga Peeeny weeeny ween-a-wogga. By Hillbilly Joe and the Murderers.

  • @eerikwiren1532
    @eerikwiren1532 Год назад +3

    The movie you called "cars that aren't pirates", was called Cars that ate paris. You were pretty close to the actual name:)

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  Год назад +3

      What? I'm aware of the movie (Mad Max style demolition derby) but I'm sure I've never mentioned it..

  • @kimiwo288
    @kimiwo288 2 года назад +3

    whats the music that the van keeps using?

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  2 года назад +1

      Some kinda bluegrass whisky fiddle music.
      Hence the "Freeway Fiddler" reference.

    • @Sean-hn1vt
      @Sean-hn1vt 5 месяцев назад

      I don't think it actually exists. I wish it did though. You won't find OSTs on RUclips for a movie like this.

  • @AlbertAraiza-t1n
    @AlbertAraiza-t1n 6 месяцев назад

    I remember looking for this movie because I remember that fiddle music wean I was smaller

  • @Willchannel90
    @Willchannel90 Год назад +1

    Lucky no killer drivers mess the wrong drivers, otherwise it got a bazooka launcher to blew up a strange vehicle what attacks to.

  • @Ed-ty1kr
    @Ed-ty1kr 2 года назад +2

    The ending clip would have been awesome if you had combined the shot with the burning van flying through the air, with the song you played just after, and ending it with the last "burn" combined with the moment the van hits the ground.

  • @TheBrooklynbodine
    @TheBrooklynbodine 4 года назад +2

    As I just posted, this movie originally aired September 25, 1979. That was the 5th anniversary of the 1st airing of "The California Kid."

  • @zackschulz6448
    @zackschulz6448 4 года назад +6

    Can you do The Ambulance (1990) and Highwaymen?

  • @sticks_studiosHQ
    @sticks_studiosHQ 4 года назад +6

    The car gently smashed into a cop car and it explodes

    • @oregonrailfan7046
      @oregonrailfan7046 3 года назад +2

      Guess it was a pinto

    • @jamesnoble3502
      @jamesnoble3502 2 года назад +1

      In that era of movies and TV any car that even had the most minor of accidents or rolled over immediately exploded multiple times from multiple angles

  • @wesleyrodgers886
    @wesleyrodgers886 3 года назад +8

    You can't ...
    Dodge this killer.
    (I'm sorry).

  • @thetransportationguy7930
    @thetransportationguy7930 3 года назад +3

    Do you hate it when you bump into the car in front of you going 6mph and then your car explodes

    • @thetransportationguy7930
      @thetransportationguy7930 2 года назад

      You accidentally bonk your elbow on a car door and instant combustion randomly happens.

  • @LightningTheLMS3FJinty2020
    @LightningTheLMS3FJinty2020 3 года назад +3

    The Insane Driver Apparently Repainted His, Or Her's Van (We Never Actually See The Driver: So I Can't Assume The Actual Gender) Everytime. The Van Must Be The Work Van Belonging To The Automotive Shop. And The Police Really Need To Lead That Van Right Into A Spike Strip (Have Someone Be The Decoy) Making Sure Van Can't Drive Away, Or Have The Van Chase You, And Then Swerve Out Of The Way Causing The Van To Crash Right Into A Road Blockade Causing The Van To Go Air Born Which In Turn Causing The Van To Explode Into A Fiery Inferno.

    • @alexandraroman4121
      @alexandraroman4121 9 месяцев назад +1

      I call the van driver a girl,(even though the van driver is stated to be male) but is it wrong to?

  • @LamboRacer-nq9re
    @LamboRacer-nq9re Год назад +2

    If mr beast gave you a Lamborghini that had one owner that was murdered inside the car would you take it

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  Год назад

      Well sure. It's a free Lambo...I don't care if a gorilla had diarrhea in it.
      Hose it out, rip around in it for a week and sell the bitch to the first mofo who shows me some mad $$.

  • @edjones9291
    @edjones9291 4 года назад +2

    can you notice how the second car seemed to be swerving when I was on the hitch that hitch ain't that long and that's how you know that was act cuz ain't no way that hitch would pull that car it rips up and off

  • @Sean-hn1vt
    @Sean-hn1vt 9 месяцев назад

    Does anyone know the name of the song that he plays on that cassette?

  • @bonehead2768
    @bonehead2768 3 года назад +2

    I just noticed- in one scene the van is grey,in another it's blue- did I miss something??

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  3 года назад +4

      The dude painted the van several times and swapped the plates to throw off the cops.

  • @wildman510
    @wildman510 4 года назад +3

    No mention of the van constantly changing color?

    • @eerikwiren1532
      @eerikwiren1532 Год назад +2

      Cause the killer repainted the Dodge 3 or 4 times during the movie

  • @WheelStuff15
    @WheelStuff15 3 месяца назад

    What is the name for the dodge van (the death car)

  • @mercoid
    @mercoid 2 года назад +1

    I want death car
    I need death car
    I’ll not be denied death car
    I want it now
    If I do not receive death car….
    there may be SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES!
    We’ll just leave it at that for the time being….. Okay.

  • @mogensschmidt2498
    @mogensschmidt2498 2 года назад +3

    1.can be any worse than needhams 90s tv movies 2.well needham did directed megaforce with barry bostwick and the biker movie rad

  • @Iwantmorecars1
    @Iwantmorecars1 Год назад +1

    He must really hate women 4:52

  • @King_Dummy_Yt
    @King_Dummy_Yt 4 года назад +3

    Me when I get beat up on the side walk by other adults but I don’t use a van I use a semi
    -> 5:19

  • @mikey1995able
    @mikey1995able 4 года назад +2

    awesome as always movie vault dude have caught any of my streams yet ?

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  4 года назад +2

      I thought Dirt 5 looked like fun.

    • @mikey1995able
      @mikey1995able 4 года назад +1

      @@TMVarchive yeah one down side about the game no actually rally stages like wtf

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  4 года назад +2

      Maybe someday I'll have a Saturday off and get to speak to you live.

    • @mikey1995able
      @mikey1995able 4 года назад +1

      @@TMVarchive nah man your fine you have a job understandable i have live disable and a check every month your doing better than me lol

  • @Thinker669
    @Thinker669 4 года назад +2

    Why wasn't anyone stopping that van?

  • @LightningTheLMS3FJinty2020
    @LightningTheLMS3FJinty2020 4 года назад +1

    Did The Driver Of The Van Change The Paint On The Van Every Time He, Or She Goes On The Freeway To Cause Trouble???!!!

    • @kuahmelallah
      @kuahmelallah 4 года назад +1

      The killer must have owned a paint & body shop and went killing women on his lunch hour.

    • @alexandraroman4121
      @alexandraroman4121 8 месяцев назад +1

      I’m agreeing,this truck driver(vans are kinda considered trucks) may have owned a shop at one point,and used her van from said shop to kill.

  • @dogboy1610
    @dogboy1610 4 года назад +1

    Hey man sorry I've been trying to catch up

  • @tonytone5856
    @tonytone5856 4 года назад

    I have this movie lol..

  • @Im_buying_a_samsung_next
    @Im_buying_a_samsung_next 4 года назад +2

    I’m actually curious what happened to my mans channel?

  • @johnmohr1850
    @johnmohr1850 3 года назад +2

    Driving a dodge. Hee hee

  • @trainiac365
    @trainiac365 Месяц назад

    0:58 bruh really the music like that and I know it works but really?

  • @Sean-hn1vt
    @Sean-hn1vt 7 месяцев назад +1

    5:10

  • @bradleycurtis7440
    @bradleycurtis7440 3 года назад +1

    Do some killer cars but new videos

    • @TMVarchive
      @TMVarchive  3 года назад +2

      I have an idea for one new KC vid when I get back to editing. You can also check out the "Road to Revenge" review if you haven't seen it.

  • @confusedredditor1660
    @confusedredditor1660 Год назад

    Panel van vs devil z

  • @列車青煉改紅城聖司
    @列車青煉改紅城聖司 3 года назад +2

    Zーー(笑)

  • @Janet71990
    @Janet71990 5 месяцев назад

    Do Spare Parts 1979