[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!

[77 TRASHCAN]

Originally Posted by Tennesseestorm

your right!

I don't think he spoke a word in Bullit, if he had yelled "Dennis" one time in Bullit, we'd have known it was him...........LOL

[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.

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by goatwgn

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.

Yeah and went back and looked, someone had posted the wrong title on the car pic. lol.

oh, here is that 73 Grand Safari that had a small part in the movie 7-Ups...

[Tennesseestorm]

Originally Posted by Tennesseestorm

Yeah and went back and looked, someone had posted the wrong title on the car pic. lol.

oh, here is that 73 Grand Safari that had a small part in the movie 7-Ups...

The 73 Grand Safari wagon in the movie appears to be the "burma brown" which is the color as my Grand Ville, which is also very close to the color of my 72 Chevy Kingswood Estate wagon, which on the Chevy was called "golden brown".