[BOPcollector]

In the beginning of "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" from 1973, there is a scene with a new Trans Am that ends up crashing through a barbed wire fence.

[Overkillphil]

I hate that when they show a car travelling with the gear shifter obviously in "Park"! I remember seeing that in "The War of the Roses", when Kathleen Turner was trashing the place with her truck and the shifter was clearly in Park.

Seven-ups was good, I remember the car chase especially.

[65gto69]

Maybe the car was a column shift and it was in second gear......

Just kidding. Love watching the older b rated car movies and picking out all the flaws.

Mark

[Big Mike]

That looked like a very young Russel Crowe driving the bus.

I think they used the same sound track for the Ventura as they did for the Mustang in Bullit.

That big Pontiac must have been a handful to drive even for an experienced stunt driver!

[79TA455]

Originally Posted by Big Mike

That looked like a very young Russel Crowe driving the bus.

I think they used the same sound track for the Ventura as they did for the Mustang in Bullit.

That big Pontiac must have been a handful to drive even for an experienced stunt driver!

It is funny that you say that as I thought the same thing and the stuntman/actor driving the Grand Ville is the same one who drove the Charger in Bullitt.

[77 Canamman]

Bill Hickman is the name of the famous stunt car driver.

[goatwgn]

Bill Hickman drove the Charger in Bullitt, The Lemans for Gene Hackman in The French Connection, and the Grandville in this movie. The top stunt driver at the time IMO. My favorite part of this chase was the Grandville driving through the roadblock with the two Chevies, knocking them completely out of the way. My second favorite part of this was the Grandville knocking the 67' Plymouth police car with its annoying siren into the path of a Chevelle. There were plenty of other Pontiacs in this movie as well. A couple of new Catalinas, a few new Safari wagons, and even a 73 Lemans (during the chase) that they passed a couple of times.

[77 TRASHCAN]

Originally Posted by goatwgn

Bill Hickman drove the Charger in Bullitt, The Lemans for Gene Hackman in The French Connection, and the Grandville in this movie. The top stunt driver at the time IMO. My favorite part of this chase was the Grandville driving through the roadblock with the two Chevies, knocking them completely out of the way. My second favorite part of this was the Grandville knocking the 67' Plymouth police car with its annoying siren into the path of a Chevelle. There were plenty of other Pontiacs in this movie as well. A couple of new Catalinas, a few new Safari wagons, and even a 73 Lemans (during the chase) that they passed a couple of times.

Bill Hickman reminds me of the actor that played Dennis the Menace's dad on the TV show.....

anyone else???

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by 77 TRASHCAN

Bill Hickman reminds me of the actor that played Dennis the Menace's dad on the TV show.....

anyone else???

your right!

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by goatwgn

There were plenty of other Pontiacs in this movie as well. A couple of new Catalinas, a few new Safari wagons, and even a 73 Lemans (during the chase) that they passed a couple of times.

Yeah, there is a short scene with a close up of a 73 Grand Safari wagon (non-woodgrain) and before this scene starts it shows that car (with the guy in the trunk "Ken Kercheval") is a 73 Catalina 4dr hardtop... it shows it going through the car wash scene and if you look close, you can see its a high optioned model... even looks to have the auto climate control A/C! They do race it out of the car wash lot and into the parking garage, but they dont really trash it except when the shoot the trunk lock.

That Grand Ville in this movie was a very high optioned car as well... even had the "sway bars" you will notice on some of the shots of the back.

Oh speaking of the French Connection, I have never seen it, but on the automotive IMDB it shows a pic from that movie and it looks like the same Grand Ville in a chase scene... I wonder if those were same shots from that movie?

I could have used that weather stripping and some of that bright trim off of that Grand Ville for my car.. lol.

[goatwgn]

Originally Posted by Tennesseestorm

Yeah, there is a short scene with a close up of a 73 Grand Safari wagon (non-woodgrain) and before this scene starts it shows that car (with the guy in the trunk "Ken Kercheval") is a 73 Catalina 4dr hardtop... it shows it going through the car wash scene and if you look close, you can see its a high optioned model... even looks to have the auto climate control A/C! They do race it out of the car wash lot and into the parking garage, but they dont really trash it except when the shoot the trunk lock.

That Grand Ville in this movie was a very high optioned car as well... even had the "sway bars" you will notice on some of the shots of the back.

Oh speaking of the French Connection, I have never seen it, but on the automotive IMDB it shows a pic from that movie and it looks like the same Grand Ville in a chase scene... I wonder if those were same shots from that movie?

I could have used that weather stripping and some of that bright trim off of that Grand Ville for my car.. lol.

Couldnt have been same car. French Connection was in 1971, the 7 Ups were in 1973. There used to be a lot of full size Pontiacs around everywhere until the "Gas crisises", even when they didnt purposly use them in movies, you could see them quite frequently in the background. By the way, there are 2 nice 61' Pontiac ambulances in "The Disorderly Orderly" (1964) with Jerry Lewis.

[455Grandville]

Originally Posted by BOPcollector

In the beginning of "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" from 1973, there is a scene with a new Trans Am that ends up crashing through a barbed wire fence.

What was with the red hood scoop in there ?

[68lemansman]

i remember that movie it was a good movie. I like roy schneiders movies.Its weird seeing that many old cars on the road. big difference from now and then.

[Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by 455Grandville

What was with the red hood scoop in there ?

That was a 'day two' car. Obviously some individual had a brain storm to paint the shaker red, during the car's infancy.

The Driver starring Ryan O'neal was another great movie car chase with lots of Pontiacs. There is one scene where you can even see a Pontiac dealer sign clearly in the background as they are driving around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNh3G8qodCQ