Mopar Trivia

[Mopar426power]

Who can name the specifics of this picture?

 

[1972 AAR Cuda]

Vanishing Point?

 

[Mopar426power]

yes, but more specific... what is going on?

 

[Challenger RTA]

Right before the dozer impact and there is an other vanishing point.

 

[Challenger RTA]

So where is the other metaphorically one.

 

[Mopar426power]

That would be it. Kinda comes around around a bit of a bend, sees the dozers and cracks a smile…

 

[MoparCarGuy]

A LINK to a podcast for the 50th anniversary of Vanishing Point that I was on as a Mopar Car Guy.

You can watch the original 1971 Vanishing Point movie HERE and also download the movie as an MP4 movie file (1.37 GB).

 

[Challenger RTA]

Shall we play a game? Name this maniac mechanic. what just happened that lit him up. I will post the season and episode on or about the new years.

 

[Xcudame]

I liked the original Vanishing Point the best. The second/remake made more sense story wise.

Sorry, when I think of Manic Mechanic, I see three guys and two of them play guitars and have long beards.

 

[MoparCarGuy]

Steve Dulcich, Mopar extraordinaire. Fourth of July show where they crashed cars off a cliff. No idea why Steve was mad.
He has been a Mopar magazine tech writer for decades.

 

[mrmopar340]

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They call me by his name at work.
Remember OA-5599 Colorado.

 

[EW1BH27]

Wasn’t there a cut-away/daydream where Kowalski didn’t hit the dozers but slammed on the brakes and turned around or went around them on the shoulder (can’t remember which). Maybe that’s why he was smiling, because he saw himself getting away.

 

[Mopar426power]

OA 5599 license plate, I have a replica.
Don’t remember alternate finish….

 

[EW1BH27]

It wasn’t an alternate finish just kind of a dream sequence before impact.

 

[mrmopar340]

I think the car destroyed in the final scene was a Camaro. I guess they knew back then which one had better value..

 

[jt4406]

You're correct, final scenes in the movie, it was very obvious. I doubt any of the cars used in the film were viewed as valuable after they were through with them, it was 1970, they, and many others like them were everywhere. As special as they are now, seems impossible that they were "just a car". Built to be "used up" and replaced, nobody worried about what their value would be in 50 years. I love the car show scene (don't participate though, don't enter my car in any show competition) and "cruise nights", but I'm old enough to remember when we bought them for cheap (hardly anybody wanted a gas guzzler), beat the living h%#@ out of them, got rid of them, found another and did it again, and I stand by my opinion, "they were a lot more fun when they weren"t worth nothing". jt

 

[mrmopar340]

You're correct, final scenes in the movie, it was very obvious. I doubt any of the cars used in the film were viewed as

Mine Isn't a show car either so here is a pic of mine and I would love seeing yours.

 

[TomIGo]

I have heard that one of the Challengers - I believe Dodge borrowed them 4 or 5 1970 Challengers for the film - played a very important role in the final crash scene. It is said that a cable with a break-away was anchored to one of the Challengers and it pulled the Camaro into the bulldozers at a relatively high rate of speed!!

 

[Mopar426power]

Yea from what I understand there were a couple 440 challengers and 318s. Don’t think they actually had a hemi challenger…

 

[Mopar426power]

Here is another one.