Has anyone noticed the effect that hollywood has on the car crazes that happen around America and canada? In the movie" Gone in 60 Seconds " you had Elanor which happened to be a Shelby GT 500. Before the movie came out I can remember looking at prices of similar cars ranging from 40,000 to 50,000. I always liked the Shelby's 350 & 500 from 67-69 but figured I would never be lucky enough to find one affordable enough. These days you can't find one for under 100,000 and a lot I see the asking price averages 135,000. The GT 500's are always advertised as Elanor replica's. The craze now with the young stupid kids is street racing in beefed up japanese cars influenced in part by hollywood movies? Even video games are mostly hot japanese cars so that's what kids have been growing up wanting because they have become "cool". Maybe we should try to get hollywood on board in selling american built cars cause I am sure there are models now that can be beefed up. I AM NOT PROMOTING STREET RACING ONLY THE APPEAL OF THE AUTOMOBILE TO YOUNG PEOPLE.

 

Make that the AMERICAN automobile!

 

I say let them glorify the foreign cars, that way when they make the "TV" programs and the movies they can trash as many as the want. When they had the "TV" sieies and made the movie with the "General" dodge charger they trashed so many of them. Remember the movie "KingPIN' with the OLDS cutlass, they trashed a couple of them and burned it to the ground in the end. How about the red '70 442 they trashed in the "stalone" movie. Too many american cars are being tore up or trashed. remember the movie "Christine" who knows how many of those car got tore up. I say let them glorifiy the foreign cars and tear them up as much as they want.

Gene

 

I'd cry if someone stuck my baby in a movie rodded her around, smashed her into other cars, shot at her, then blew her up in a firey explosion just for the sake of action! Makes me tear up thinking about it!

I watched Demolition Man and the most recent version of the Hitchhiker movie where they trashed both of those 442s and I had to stop watching!! They killed the reason I watched in the first place, no use after that!

I agree, smash up the plastic cars!

 

I agree, but those tiny jap cars are death traps even for the actors...
I like seeing them mangled... Go to wreckedexotics.com to see lots of them wrecked in real life!

 

Rice burners, I see them broken down on the freeway every day, why mostly Hondogs? Maybe it's that mandatory big buck timing belt service nobody does?

This is the worst thing to ever befall an American automobile in the history of the silver screen.

I'm not biased at all.

Notice anything weird??

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Chevys fancy duds

and its a 70 driving down the road and a 72 thats crushed

 

Ouch that smarts

 

Yeah, different cars, different wheels, etc.

 

That sucks about the wagon.

Maybe these will cheer us up...

 

I didn't know a civic could go fast enough to do that kind of damageSucks to be the driver of that one

 

It probably did not even take that much speed.
You know you CAN tear a beer can with your bare hands...

 

Unfortunately thin metal and plastic is the way of the future for all cars it seems. last night I had to pull a 96 Grand Prix out of the ditch just up the road and I had a hard time finding anything I could hook a chain around. Finally I just told the kid to crawl under it and find something soild then I just put the tractor in 1st and let out the clutch. I just left the tractor on idle and had no problem dragging him out slow so as not to bust anything.

 

There's a reason why the plastic cars don't last...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLw7C3w7c0A

 

Now that was funny. Notice they were all young.New cars only have those stupid tubes they put the bumper on. 4 wheel independant suspension on new vehicle also means you have to watch out hooking a chain or strap around there. Plus a lot of vehicles have a fully encased belly pan like my moms lincoln. that's why towing companies have had to change the way they pick up and tow a vehicle. New cars are not designed to be towed. One other thing about that video , never pull it out through the snow , I always pull them out the same way they went in. In frontwards out backwards and viceversa. Less resistance being the key.