We could sit for hours and talk about which movie car is the best, which movie car one of us should own, which movie car sucked the most, which one scared the shit out of us as a kid (thanks, Christine…) and so on until we pass out. But today, I want you to consider the cars we don’t normally think about that were on film. Take, for example, the ratty and purposefully pissed-off appearing 1974 Dodge Charger. Outside of the Dukes of Hazzard scrap pile, have you seen a more beater Charger? It was featured in the 1990 movie “Wheels of Terror”, a campy made-for-cable-television movie that basically was Christine…if you trade out the classic Fury for the dirty and beaten Dodge, and replace the unholy anger spirit with that of a perverted creeper. The movie’s only real notable contribution to anything is the final scene for the Charger, where it’s launched off of a cliff into a pit mine, landing on the explosives shed.
Other cars come to mind as well. Lots of cars from the “Fast and Furious” franchise have their fans, but there are certain cars that aren’t well loved or even remembered. I’ll spare you my fascination with the Imperial from the fourth installment and go straight for a car that is easily worth mentioning: the 1987 Chevrolet Caprice from Furious 7. Love or hate the movie, you had to love this Chevy, slammed to earth with a NASCAR look. It wasn’t on camera much but when it was on, we were watching…mostly writing down details to suggest to Brian for Buford T. Justice.
But those are only two cars. Stay away from mainstream stuff…we all would like the Charger from Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry or the Ford from White Lightning…but what other cars do you remember from some forgotten B-movie that are worthy of their place here?
Well for me even though its kinda standard, the Mercury that Stallone drove in Cobra was always my favourite. Meaner than hell
What about that Jaguar Mk2 from the excellent Withnail and I?
Semi-matt grey paint with rusty acne, steel wheels and one headlamp – a car that you can almost smell as it is actually decaying before your very eyes.
Combine that with the full-speed run back to London with the drink and drug crazed Withnail at the wheel to the sound of Voodoo Child and you get the creepiest car ever in a movie!
If none of you have seen the movie – well all I can say is that you are in for a treat. “Let him get his drugs out” indeed……..
The 428 PI in the four door Torino they plowed through the Hollywood sets with and ended up slow rolling in Hooper… as a kid, the prop guy talking with the stunt crew made it sound way cooler.
“I drove that thing last week and it’s fast as hell, what’d you do to it?”
“It’s got a 428 Police Interceptor, balanced and blueprinted… it’s plenty hot”
yeah so I didn’t know what the hell that meant at the time but it sure sounded cool.
Good call on the Torino! I always thought it was cool.
I’ll go with the demonic 71 Lincoln Continental, customized by George Barris, that James Brolin fought in “The Car”, as B-movie campy as it gets.
Dammit, Now I had to go and purchase that “Wheels of Terror” movie off ebay!
My favorite car was the ’70 Cuda from “Phantasm”. “Pepe” the Bronco from “Romancing The Stone”.That’s a Ford I can learn to love!
you mean “my litlle mule”!
The carousel red ’69 GTO from “My Science Project”. Of course, they had a 6-71 blower that turned on and off.
T-bird’s epinomous car from The Crow. It’s just dripping with menace.
Movie called “hot rod” guy slams a hemi into a primered Willys
Gators Ford from White Lightning
The Plymouth From “Hot-Rod Rebel of the Road”
The Willys From the same movie
The Torino from Hooper
The T-Bird from The Crow
57 Chevy in Return to Macon County
Corvette from Hot Rods to Hell
The Hot Rod from Hot Rod (1950)
Black ’67 Camaro from Better Off Dead! Just had a sinister look.
I would like to use this opportunity to recognize the Furry Dog Van from the movie Dumb and Dumber.
Tell me you wouldn’t shit if you saw that in the rear view.
Or the 1949 Hudson Commodore 8 from the movie Driving Miss Daisy.
Completely forgotten classic.
The Silver Hornet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V2V5tes6YY
The ’55 Lincoln Premiere from Moonshine Highway.
The NASCAR-style ’70 Monte Carlo from Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift with the 632 BBC under the hood. It looked and sounded nasty and shoulda devoured that Viper.
Chrysler Interceptor concept from The Wraith
Jason Statham movies to many cool,evil.badass cars to list.
Phantasm “71 Cuda, Gran Torino from the movie Gran Torino, ’68 Dodge Charger in Christine.
The 55 Chevy in Stephen Kings ” Sometimes They Come Back “
The grey Pontiac Ventura in The 7 ups. Car takes a huge beating and just keeps hauling ass.
What IS up with that Caprice from Furious 7? I wanted to know more about it from day one.
The ’73 Trans Am with the red shaker from Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
Newbomb Turk’s Pie Wagon from Hollywood Knights or Duke’s ’57 Chevy or Jimmy Shine’s ’40 Ford or Newbombs brother’s El Camino or the GTO or the Cobra or the Rail job or…or…or…
Helloooo. Ya. Hi. Duh.
Dax Shepherd’s ’67 Lincoln Continental burnout machine in the movie Hit’n’Run.
If you like cars at all, go watch it.
To live and die in LA that 1982 Chevrolet Impala 9C1
What 70’s b-movie had the slightly custom stepside chevy pickup? Had a big warehouse chase scene if I remember correctly..
Nice chopped 50’s Buick in a low budget detective movie called “MALONE”.
How about terry bradshaws Mailbu in cannonball run? Or “Mad Dog’s” dually in Cannonball Run?