i have a 76 7.5L t bird daily driver yeah these works of art are amazing enjoy your safe cars ppl in fact go buy a souless tesla ... god what happend to this country ...
You actually got a more honest feel of the road, and didn't put as much faith in the electronics. That TBird probably felt like sitting on and riding on a pillow. You don't get that much in regular cars today.
That Thunderbird had a lot of modifications to the suspension for the purposes of this movie. Ford police springs and sway bars and lots more. These were sloppy handling but I loved these beautiful cars. I have driven plenty of them and they ride like a cloud but hit a deep dip in the road too fast and you will bounce the engine crossmember off the pavement.
For movie work; modifying (tampering with smog devices) the engines for some more power was rather easy, between opening up the exhaust, higher flow intake systems and, swapping in some slightly higher numerical rear ends i.e. going from the 2:50's up to 3:50's.............especially since achieving 100 MPH+ top ends was usually required.
I use to have a 73 & a 76. Never broke down. Always started on the 1st turn. They were such nice vehicles to drive. Both had 460 CI. The 73 I think was a 4 barel single exhaust and the 76 was a 2 barrel with duel exhause
Mine also had the power sunroof and the fuel efficient radial tires. It wasn't bad on gas either considering the size of the engine. Couple years before I wrote the car off the sunroof would leak so I had to silicone it because parts were hard to come by. I sure miss looking at those long noses at front when driving. King of the road....
cougstang: I got my first speeding ticket in a 74 Thunderbird. White w/ blue vinyl roof and blue interior. 460 ci. with single two barrel and single exhaust. I was happily motoring down the road thinking my speed was around 55. When I noticed flashing blue and red lights behind me. I looked down at my speedometer and the needle was sitting at 75... The cop cut me a break and only wrote me up for 15 over the limit.
i got to chaffeur mr keach in a pick up truck some years ago. i collected him at an airport, we spent several hours together. i've always taken it as a compliment to my driving when the passenger feels safe enough to take a nap, like he did.
Me to, especially when they take that side road that goes parallel with the highway to outrun the tractor trailer, same as one of the opening scenes in Duel! I wish they had used a landyacht like this in Duel instead of that puny Valiant.
Fastest tanker ever while on twisty up hill grade. Both cars pass it at the bottom of the grade, then somewhere pull over, have lunch, few smokes, pass the same truck again later on the same twisty grade. Fantastic editing for the movie and excellent addition to the chase collection.
The Thunderbird had the 460-v8 in it. I guess that's why it caught up with LTD. The LTD should have been the landau model with the 460-v8. There is nothing like a 1970's car chase scene in a movie, especially when it's 2 of my favorite vehicles of all time.
My dad considered buying one of those Thunderbirds, but was dead set on a Lincoln instead and ended up buying a 73 Continental which I ultimately learned to drive on. I think the T Bird would have ultimately been the better choice. The car chases in this era were far more real than today, not to mention the ability of the stunt drivers to handle all of that body lean. I have tried watching movies from the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but have never been able to stay engaged beyond five minutes of the computer generated crap.
The biggest reason, a lot of the car chase scenes, from the 60's & 70's, seemed so realistic was because a lot of the times, the filmmakers pretty much well used guerilla-style techniques when filming. Some chase scenes were filmed without permits from the city they were in, nor did they block off streets, where the scenes were being filmed. So you ended up with actual traffic and pedestrians nearly getting reamed FOR REAL. That's what happened, during the filming of The French Connection. The scene, where the Pontiac, Gene Hackman is driving, accidentally t-bones a car, that pulled out in front of him, was for real and completely unplanned. Some innocent person was just driving normally, and unwittingly pulled out in front of Gene, because the street hadn't been blocked off, and got reamed. The scene was kept in the movie.
11second69nickeynova have you ever drove in a 60s or 70s full size car on stock wheels clearly not you think nothing of stopping from 60 Within 100 feet that doesn't happen with old cars you think going around a curve like that in a Honda Civic yeah you can do 60 in a Honda Civic I guarantee if you were in one of these beasts you be doing 15 miles an hour anything over 40 unless you're highly-skilled you're going to crash you're going to oversteer it's going to understeer and your wind up flipping around and crashing I own a 1970 Buick Skylark I've owned a lot of old cars let me tell you back in the day doing stuff like this in one of those cars was insane if you ever look at the car chases from things like The Seven-Ups and the French Connection if you truly ever drove these cars you would understand it takes a highly-skilled stuntman and Driver to even attempt any of this the problem is newer cars are so much better but you're forgetting that that's all there was back then they were basically floating marshmallows that weighed 5000 pounds and trust me once they broke loose they're loose and that five thousand pounds is going to go wherever the hell it wants to stunt drivers doing stuff like this right at the edge aware it's even possible amazing. There's a reason why the car chase scene in The French Connection and The Seven-Ups which was done by the same Stunt Driver we're held as the greatest car chase scenes because back when the movies came out everybody that saw them knew exactly what cars were like back then and said how did they even do this. That are of stunt driving is gone because cars have gotten too good but there was a time where it took a true professional to do this
Nova 2006. Totally agree. I once owned a 1971 Dodge Charger and that thing sometimes tried to break away from me even when turning at very slow speeds! When the road was wet or an unseen oil spill that thing was lethal. It aquaplaned once at 50 mph and I ended up travelling sideways for who knows how many yards fortunately without hitting anything. Chrysler's power steering system offered NO feel through the steering wheel so you spin around before you know what's going on!
@@Nova-ne1il Exactly. Many years ago, while still in SoCal, I took a 1973 Ford Galaxie (LTD body) a bit too fast on Topanga Canyon Rd up from Woodland Hills and, also lost control whipping a hard left turn, the rear end slid out. Needless to say; I was more careful since then.
my second car was a 74' T-bird, with the 460, speedo strangely went to 120, but there was room for more with lines, so it did, to roughly 130, then it pegged. but it still went faster, got a ticket for "over 120" by texas state police, cause their radar malfunctioned at high speeds, judge let me off with $200 fine, told me not to appear before him again.
Dan K Had a ‘70 T-Bird 429 Thunderjet - think my speedo was like that . Highest was 110 on a straightaway rode beautifully for a 16 year old car . Stopping wasn’t too bad either. Looking for another one . Not as brave anymore to drive that fast though🤕
@@sludge8506 You're kind of right, there were ALOT of "lemons" in the '70's, but you didn't have all that "electronic" this, and "computerized" that, and they were easy to repair, and for the most part, a average person could work on their car themselves, not like today's cars that are expensive "rolling spaceships" that require specialized equipment for even a simple tune-up.
They were beefed up for the chase scenes. Its scary to think that these cars with that atrocious handling handled better than any stock '75 Tbird could dream about.
Its a shame....the continuity errors are bad with this one. Even good car chases have them though. Love how the charger in "Bullitt" loses 4 hubcaps during the chase and still can lose 2 more at the end when it crashes :D
“Must have something special under there!” Ya a 460……..200HP and 450 TQ LOL! I had a 78 LTD Landau with a 400M. That was a great car. I miss it except for the 8 mpg.
That 429 in the t-bird was so anemic by the mid 70’s. Same with the 400 in the Ltd. almost painful to watch. They had to speed up the film to make it look like the cars were moving at.
Electric Hellion Yes, and to make matters much worse, Ford (probably for cost reasons) insisted on putting anemic 2 barrel carburetors on even 400 cid engines, while GM put its high capacity Quadrajet on engines as small as the 305 Chevy, which allowed better performance, good driveability, fuel economy AND better emission control. My parents 1979 Electra with the 350 And 4 barrel would smoke our 1978 Econoline with the 351 And two barrel. The Buick has like 30 additional horsepower even though it was breathing out through the catalytic converter. Inverting the air cleaner lid on the Buick yielded wonderful Quadrajet music when the secondaries opened.
It's something else watching these old movies and seeing cars get thrashed and bashed all willy-nilly like because they were expendable back then. Nowadays you're lucky if you see any of these anymore.
1970s car chase rule #7 If a car is going to crash into a body of water.......there must be at least 1 guy sitting by the water fishing who just happens to get out of the way at the last second.
Noticed a little error in the movie. The scene where the Thunderbird gets rear ended by the semi and has a good amount of damage. In the next part of the scene, the rear end is still in perfect condition.
Movies simply didnt have the multimillion dollar budgets they have now, and they didnt have CGI. the footage of the shootout was probably supposed to be in a different order than seen onscreen, and they couldn't just go close the road down and reshoot the scene with the damaged car (which was probably no longer running anyway, there's no way they launched that car into the ocean full of fluids.)
Awesome chase his comment must have something special under that hood echoed something many ignored in the US at the time, handling. You will need something special in those wheel wells if you plan to do anything effectively except accelerate in a straight line.
Ah yes. American cars from the 70s. Nothing like 6 liters to get 120hp, 0-60 in a dozen seconds, single digit fuel mileage, road holding to rival the Titanic, grossly over assisted steering, 18 feet long yet smaller inside than a Fiat 128, panel gaps you could put your pinky into, and quality that ensures you’d get at least 60,000 miles out of it as long as you took meticulous care of it and body panels that would rust halfway away after 3 Midwest winters.
Biased crap. Most American cars in the 70's were much better than the imported that really did rust away in a few Midwest winters. Mercedes was one of the few that came close, but wasn't much quicker and as far more expensive. The only thing the imports ( assuming u mean Japanese) had was low prices and better fuel economy in most, but not all cases. I'm tired of the BS .
I had a 75 L.T.D. it was like driving a couch down the street.
red tomatoes My dad had a 70,73,76, and 79. Company cars, but so nice. His best friend had a 72 Mercury Monterey. I miss those big girls..
Lol.
I miss the days of big steel bumpers.
The bumpers were needed because there was no handling to speak of
@@twoeightythreez The bumpers were needed to protect the bodywork.
I still have one. A 80 Delta 88. Looooove it every mile
i have a 76 7.5L t bird daily driver yeah these works of art are amazing enjoy your safe cars ppl in fact go buy a souless tesla ... god what happend to this country ...
Those days? For sure.
But you can keep the railroad tie bumpers.
Almost cried to see that beautiful Thunderbird get wrecked......Rare silver interior option.
HUSKEY BOY my uncle had a 76 Tbird, looked almost identical to this silver one but it was emerald green.
Respuetas
me too that is one pretty car.
Don't mess with BIG OIL
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Wow, just imagine for a second how hard it was to keep these things on the road with the handling they had
Eran lanchas con ruedas sin control de estabilidad sin abs y dirección asistida imprecisa.
@@marceloacosta1742 and they driving them they they're civics lol. Crazy.
@@bennybop5387 Hay que ser un piloto experto para dominar estos autos si te descuidas ¡¡wak!! Te muerden😈
Not to mention on bias ply tires!
You actually got a more honest feel of the road, and didn't put as much faith in the electronics.
That TBird probably felt like sitting on and riding on a pillow. You don't get that much in regular cars today.
Love the way the weather changes from sunny (for the scenes with the tanker trucks) to cloudy (for the jump into the water)!! Poor Alfa, too
You've obviously never been to the SF Bay Area where those scenes were shot...
@@malibuconv1968 Yes, I soon learned to always take a sweater with me even on a warm sunny day.
Roger probably thought it would turn into a submarine
A scene like this is shot over several days.
I love watching clips of movies I've never heard of...Its like going back in time!
Yeah I love this shit too
I miss this world. Who knew it would go away so fast.
Ain't that thr truth.
thank goodness they got it on film
amazing what 168 horsepower could do in 1975.... that yellow AMC Matador wagon just kept showing up!
Нешают не только силы, но и огромный момент этих моторов!
That Thunderbird had a lot of modifications to the suspension for the purposes of this movie. Ford police springs and sway bars and lots more. These were sloppy handling but I loved these beautiful cars. I have driven plenty of them and they ride like a cloud but hit a deep dip in the road too fast and you will bounce the engine crossmember off the pavement.
No green screen shot just old school car chase
Wow it's just awesome 😎
Beautiful T-bird.
Gotta love that super long hood on the Bird. You could fit a building on that.
It's too bad they couldn't get the performance a little higher on these smog engine T-Birds. They were a solid built car in 1975.
For movie work; modifying (tampering with smog devices) the engines for some more power was rather easy, between opening up the exhaust, higher flow intake systems and, swapping in some slightly higher numerical rear ends i.e. going from the 2:50's up to 3:50's.............especially since achieving 100 MPH+ top ends was usually required.
I love the way the t bird bumper goes to smashed to fixed lol
'75 Silver Luxury Edition. Rare 'Bird.
6:33: The "rare bird" became a "water bird".
I use to have a 73 & a 76. Never broke down. Always started on the 1st turn. They were such nice vehicles to drive. Both had 460 CI. The 73 I think was a 4 barel single exhaust and the 76 was a 2 barrel with duel exhause
I had a '76 also, and it was a fun car to drive and reliable. I miss the power sunroof.
Mine also had the power sunroof and the fuel efficient radial tires. It wasn't bad on gas either considering the size of the engine. Couple years before I wrote the car off the sunroof would leak so I had to silicone it because parts were hard to come by. I sure miss looking at those long noses at front when driving. King of the road....
They got decent gas mileage for a car their size if you didn't go over the speed limit, but it was so easy in those 'birds to speed.
cougstang: I got my first speeding ticket in a 74 Thunderbird. White w/ blue vinyl roof and blue interior. 460 ci. with single two barrel and single exhaust.
I was happily motoring down the road thinking my speed was around 55. When I noticed flashing blue and red lights behind me. I looked down at my speedometer and the needle was sitting at 75...
The cop cut me a break and only wrote me up for 15 over the limit.
thunderbird66613 Great America cars
i got to chaffeur mr keach in a pick up truck some years ago. i collected him at an airport, we spent several hours together. i've always taken it as a compliment to my driving when the passenger feels safe enough to take a nap, like he did.
Attack of the Land Yachts ! Loving it
the scene with the tanker trucks reminds me of duel. even the land,area looks the same
Me to, especially when they take that side road that goes parallel with the highway to outrun the tractor trailer, same as one of the opening scenes in Duel! I wish they had used a landyacht like this in Duel instead of that puny Valiant.
@@tyler2610 The driver could barely keep that tiny Valiant on the road, he would've absolutely wrecked a large car!
Oh those old humongous American cars with their marshmallow suspensions!
is this normal ? the suspension softly ?
@Burleon 😮😮😮
Big old couch in a big boat just a-floating down the road!
@@satomon Whats scary is these cars actually had the suspensions stiffened up for the car chase filmography. The stock suspensions were even SOFTER
Beautiful thunderbird best looking style
How many times they gonna pass that yellow AMC Matador?
Roger Moore must have looked at that T Bird and said, "My God, not another boat chase!"
With the awesome handling of these great old cars its miracle any of us are still alive.
It's fun seeing them almost scrape off the rocker trim moulding in turns.
T Bird had a massive 460 in it.
LTD probably the ol' 351.
Can't go wrong with a car chase
Moore is probably thinking “where in bloody hell is my Aston Martin?”
Fastest tanker ever while on twisty up hill grade. Both cars pass it at the bottom of the grade, then somewhere pull over, have lunch, few smokes, pass the same truck again later on the same twisty grade.
Fantastic editing for the movie and excellent addition to the chase collection.
The Thunderbird had the 460-v8 in it. I guess that's why it caught up with LTD. The LTD should have been the landau model with the 460-v8. There is nothing like a 1970's car chase scene in a movie, especially when it's 2 of my favorite vehicles of all time.
Exactly, nothing beats 70's car chases!
those cars had some long hoods. but they still weighed about 700 lbs less than a 1965 Continental
we put a 460 in an old 70 two door cougar. thing would burn rubber for a mile
Marquis Williams The 460 4V was an option on all big Ford models. The 460 was an option for the Landau.
I just, loudly, screamed "Stacey Keech!" In a very quiet library.....thanks for that.
Manufacturerer's plates on the T Bird. Nice of Ford to let them use it!
They stood out like sore thumbs on both cars being black and yellow in the '70's.
I love that T bird, big nice car, allmost the same like Lincolns Mark V
Almost? They ARE the same.
@@johndrake2729 Well, same platform but diferent front and back
We had a 1971 and then a 1976 LTD. Vinyl Bench Seat. Holy Crap.
Wear your seat belts kids.
I remember doing 115 in my 75' LTD. Smooth.
Loving these car vids. Surprisingly how much music in these that I grew up with too.
Thanks and keep watching
My dad considered buying one of those Thunderbirds, but was dead set on a Lincoln instead and ended up buying a 73 Continental which I ultimately learned to drive on. I think the T Bird would have ultimately been the better choice. The car chases in this era were far more real than today, not to mention the ability of the stunt drivers to handle all of that body lean. I have tried watching movies from the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but have never been able to stay engaged beyond five minutes of the computer generated crap.
Kenneth Southard الله يسامحك
The biggest reason, a lot of the car chase scenes, from the 60's & 70's, seemed so realistic was because a lot of the times, the filmmakers pretty much well used guerilla-style techniques when filming. Some chase scenes were filmed without permits from the city they were in, nor did they block off streets, where the scenes were being filmed. So you ended up with actual traffic and pedestrians nearly getting reamed FOR REAL. That's what happened, during the filming of The French Connection. The scene, where the Pontiac, Gene Hackman is driving, accidentally t-bones a car, that pulled out in front of him, was for real and completely unplanned. Some innocent person was just driving normally, and unwittingly pulled out in front of Gene, because the street hadn't been blocked off, and got reamed. The scene was kept in the movie.
Fast and Furious is such trash compared to movies like this.
@@Arklay_Ishimura , you know what is trash? The answer is your comments!
@jimmy haze , says the person that has took one too many LSD trips.
I had a 74 fairlane, once you tighten the suspension one of the best handling cars I've ever owned
Michael Blandford Ford did not make a Fairlane in the US in 74. Are you from Australia?
if you want to see a great 70s car chase. the best car chase in all of movie history, watch THE SEVEN UPS
Especially when that Pontiac Grandville plowed through those police cars!
The days when cars bounced in comfort.
Great wheel shots way before GoPro.. 70's had some of the best stunt drivers. Tossing those monsters around
Too bad they don't make car chase smash-up movies anymore. Must be the price of cars these days and NO, CGI won't do!
With the cheaply built cars of today they'd destroy 100 of just the hero car tryin' to film one 3 minute chase scene.. 😂
Good thing for the Five Mile an hour bumpers!
The T-Bird must have weighed close to 5000 pounds - great stunt driving by someone.
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11second69nickeynova have you ever drove in a 60s or 70s full size car on stock wheels clearly not you think nothing of stopping from 60 Within 100 feet that doesn't happen with old cars you think going around a curve like that in a Honda Civic yeah you can do 60 in a Honda Civic I guarantee if you were in one of these beasts you be doing 15 miles an hour anything over 40 unless you're highly-skilled you're going to crash you're going to oversteer it's going to understeer and your wind up flipping around and crashing I own a 1970 Buick Skylark I've owned a lot of old cars let me tell you back in the day doing stuff like this in one of those cars was insane if you ever look at the car chases from things like The Seven-Ups and the French Connection if you truly ever drove these cars you would understand it takes a highly-skilled stuntman and Driver to even attempt any of this the problem is newer cars are so much better but you're forgetting that that's all there was back then they were basically floating marshmallows that weighed 5000 pounds and trust me once they broke loose they're loose and that five thousand pounds is going to go wherever the hell it wants to stunt drivers doing stuff like this right at the edge aware it's even possible amazing. There's a reason why the car chase scene in The French Connection and The Seven-Ups which was done by the same Stunt Driver we're held as the greatest car chase scenes because back when the movies came out everybody that saw them knew exactly what cars were like back then and said how did they even do this. That are of stunt driving is gone because cars have gotten too good but there was a time where it took a true professional to do this
Nova 2006. Totally agree. I once owned a 1971 Dodge Charger and that thing sometimes tried to break away from me even when turning at very slow speeds! When the road was wet or an unseen oil spill that thing was lethal. It aquaplaned once at 50 mph and I ended up travelling sideways for who knows how many yards fortunately without hitting anything. Chrysler's power steering system offered NO feel through the steering wheel so you spin around before you know what's going on!
@11second69nickeynova Nope, keeping control, that is though.
@@Nova-ne1il Exactly. Many years ago, while still in SoCal, I took a 1973 Ford Galaxie (LTD body) a bit too fast on Topanga Canyon Rd up from Woodland Hills and, also lost control whipping a hard left turn, the rear end slid out. Needless to say; I was more careful since then.
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My aunt had a76 and that car was luxurious and so comfy
they don't chase cars that way anymore..stunt drivers way dangerous
That is one sweet T-bird.
Seeing those cars skid into the dirt was frickin dope and so was listening to those tires squeel.
the sun risees quick in these parts
Filmes da decada de 70 tem perseguições de verdade..... da hora GTA
Thank you for posting brings me back memories.
my second car was a 74' T-bird, with the 460, speedo strangely went to 120, but there was room for more with lines, so it did, to roughly 130, then it pegged. but it still went faster, got a ticket for "over 120" by texas state police, cause their radar malfunctioned at high speeds, judge let me off with $200 fine, told me not to appear before him again.
Dan K Had a ‘70 T-Bird 429 Thunderjet - think my speedo was like that . Highest was 110 on a straightaway rode beautifully for a 16 year old car . Stopping wasn’t too bad either. Looking for another one . Not as brave anymore to drive that fast though🤕
Funny thing, now most mid sized average cars will do that!
Cars from the good ole' 70's, when cars were still made mostly out of steel, & they had metal bumpers.
Those rust buckets were death machines. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@sludge8506 You're kind of right, there were ALOT of "lemons" in the '70's, but you didn't have all that "electronic" this, and "computerized" that, and they were easy to repair, and for the most part, a average person could work on their car themselves, not like today's cars that are expensive "rolling spaceships" that require specialized equipment for even a simple tune-up.
@@chrisrobinson3494 👍👍👍👍👍
Wow Mike Hammer and James Bond together.
I didn't know about this this must have been a real box office hit
7:26 Incredible stunt work X_X;;
Try that now and the plastic bumpers would fall off
Sargent Stedenko giving James Bond a tour of San Francisco..... very cool :-)
Here I’m thinking it’s Mike Hammer and the Saint.
5:17 back of the car destroyed ,
5:38 now the back of the car magically fixed!!
6:32 again back side is destroyed!!
A Szicíliai kereszt című film, szerintem nagyon jó film. 😊
A LTD and a Thunder Chicken.
The Bird got 8.5mpg
Ford on Ford VIOLENCE!!😋
70s Ford products don't usually handle that well!! It was sad to see the T-bird get trashed. Those LTD sedans used to be everywhere!
They were beefed up for the chase scenes. Its scary to think that these cars with that atrocious handling handled better than any stock '75 Tbird could dream about.
The ‘75 Thunderbird’s steering was so overboosted, there was no way anyone could have made those turns.
The LTD had the 460 under the hood like the Tbird to move like that!
That Tbird went from having a banged up rear end to a straight rear end bvack to a banged up rear end
Stacey Keach had something special under that hood…
love how the T bird gets rear ended and is all smashed up then in the next clip its fine xD
Its a shame....the continuity errors are bad with this one. Even good car chases have them though. Love how the charger in "Bullitt" loses 4 hubcaps during the chase and still can lose 2 more at the end when it crashes :D
“Must have something special under there!” Ya a 460……..200HP and 450 TQ LOL!
I had a 78 LTD Landau with a 400M. That was a great car. I miss it except for the 8 mpg.
Nobody cared about HP in these barges anyway.
10:38 RIP poor Alfa Romeo :'(
You can almost hear theses cars screaming "I'M NOT MEANT TO DO THIS WTF?!?!"
My grandpa had a 75 LTD standard optioned, Brown, with a 400 coupled to a bullet proof C6 with lock up T/C. This was back in 84.
R.D. STAKXXX LLC. Almes C6 did not have a lock up converter.
Watching a couple of behemoth Fords beating the living crap out of each other - It doesn't get any better than that!
. . . And hearing the tires squealing in the dirt!
Oh, that poor Alfa Giulietta!
That T-Bird had what, like a 7-liter motor with 190hp?
That 429 in the t-bird was so anemic by the mid 70’s. Same with the 400 in the Ltd. almost painful to watch. They had to speed up the film to make it look like the cars were moving at.
Electric Hellion Yes, and to make matters much worse, Ford (probably for cost reasons) insisted on putting anemic 2 barrel carburetors on even 400 cid engines, while GM put its high capacity Quadrajet on engines as small as the 305 Chevy, which allowed better performance, good driveability, fuel economy AND better emission control. My parents 1979 Electra with the 350 And 4 barrel would smoke our 1978 Econoline with the 351 And two barrel. The Buick has like 30 additional horsepower even though it was breathing out through the catalytic converter. Inverting the air cleaner lid on the Buick yielded wonderful Quadrajet music when the secondaries opened.
I'm not sure about the LTD but that T Bird had a 460.
Electric Hellion 75 TBird had a 460. LTD could have had a 351, 400 or 460.
Steve Payne 2bbls yielded more torque at a lower rpm. The econoline was much heavier than the Buick.
That era T bird was very similar to the Lincoln mark IV.
It's something else watching these old movies and seeing cars get thrashed and bashed all willy-nilly like because they were expendable back then. Nowadays you're lucky if you see any of these anymore.
The key to a good car chase scene is to pick two oversized American cars that handle like shit
Should of let Bond drive. LOL! That was a nice Thunderbird too. My uncle had one like it a '74.
theyre really treating these big chunks of steel like muscle cars are they
Truckers just couldn't resist and had to get in on the action. The good old days.
All due respect to the stunt drivers , those are massive !
Heh, As Roger Moore starts shooting, is the rear bumper not any more crushed.... A funny mistake.
Yes, the rear of the coupe had been caved in moments earlier and suddenly it had popped out again!
that's bad ass. I had an old Ford Granada. Great style cars.
It wasn't big, but it had that 70's flair to it.
Battle of the big bodied Ford's!
That's right its a 351 Cleveland under that hood.
AMC sold a lot of Matadors in SF. that year
You need a Dramamine to ride in that Thunderbird
1970s car chase rule #7
If a car is going to crash into a body of water.......there must be at least 1 guy sitting by the water fishing who just happens to get out of the way at the last second.
Noticed a little error in the movie. The scene where the Thunderbird gets rear ended by the semi and has a good amount of damage. In the next part of the scene, the rear end is still in perfect condition.
I left your mom's rear end in less than perfect condition after I destroyed it last night ✌😝👍
Movies simply didnt have the multimillion dollar budgets they have now, and they didnt have CGI. the footage of the shootout was probably supposed to be in a different order than seen onscreen, and they couldn't just go close the road down and reshoot the scene with the damaged car (which was probably no longer running anyway, there's no way they launched that car into the ocean full of fluids.)
Awesome chase his comment must have something special under that hood echoed something many ignored in the US at the time, handling. You will need something special in those wheel wells if you plan to do anything effectively except accelerate in a straight line.
They could have dubbed in something that didn't sound like a 4cyl stick shift for the 460 T-Bird.
Ooh Ya!! My son says it's James Bond..🥂😀
1:38 Come on they couldn't even take the MFG plates off of them for the filming?
always support the local car wash.
351 & 460 engines.. that was power
These cars, and the Monte Carlo in this movie probably weren't out of the factory for 6 weeks. Probably the only drive time they ever got.
Man, Keach can drive!
Beautiful cars!
AMC Matador, "Sunshine Yellow", in the background!
Dad had 76 tbird 460 and leather smooth
Ah yes. American cars from the 70s. Nothing like 6 liters to get 120hp, 0-60 in a dozen seconds, single digit fuel mileage, road holding to rival the Titanic, grossly over assisted steering, 18 feet long yet smaller inside than a Fiat 128, panel gaps you could put your pinky into, and quality that ensures you’d get at least 60,000 miles out of it as long as you took meticulous care of it and body panels that would rust halfway away after 3 Midwest winters.
I'd still take them any day over the $hit they make today.
They are a damn sight better than the crap they put out today.
Biased crap. Most American cars in the 70's were much better than the imported that really did rust away in a few Midwest winters. Mercedes was one of the few that came close, but wasn't much quicker and as far more expensive. The only thing the imports ( assuming u mean Japanese) had was low prices and better fuel economy in most, but not all cases. I'm tired of the BS .