Oh yea, it is time to put a pair of Camaros into the BangShift ring of doom and destruction to see which one will limp out alive! We’re pulling Camaros from two classic comedy movies today and making you decided which one will be victorious. But first, let’s check the results of yesterday’s total dud of a fight between Uncle Buck’s Mercury Marquis and Henry Hill’s 1979 Caddy from Goodfellas.
[box_dark]This one certainly captured no one’s imagination yesterday!
Uncle Buck’s Mercury DEFEATS Henry Hill’s 1979 Cadillac
Hill lost his position in the underworld and now he loses his Cadillac. Poor bastard![/box_dark]
His name was Charles Jefferson and he was Ridegmont High’s star football player. He drove around in a cherry 1979 Camaro Z/28. Sure in modern terms this car is a slug in stock form, but back in the late 1970s/early 1980s this was hot factory iron. All was well with the car until Jeff Spicoli takes it out for a cruise while smoking some doobies and manages to absolutely destroy it by crashing it off the end of a loading dock an into a waiting pile of bricks. He manages to turn this to his advantage though and escape detection by dropping the car off in front of his school and painting it up as though a rival high school vandalized it. Jefferson was so pissed that he mauled them all at the big game and Ridegmont won. We have to admit that the Camaro looks pretty sweet prowling the streets in the movie. It was interesting that they used a Camaro a couple years older than the film for such a role. The actual car that was crashed is not the one you see cruising down the street. Of course the most famous line from this whole debacle is post wreck when Spicoli says, “Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.”
Now in this corner we have the complete opposite story. The 1967 Camaro from the movie Better Off Dead was a forlorn hunk of iron living under a tarp at the end of Lane Myer’s driveway. Throughout the film it sits there as a physical representation of Lane’s attitude and generally bad outlook on life. Remember, the kid was suicidal (in a funny way?!) after his girlfriend dumped him. It took the help of a pretty French girl from across the street to get the car running and polished up again for action. Once the car was on the street again, Lane quickly regained his mojo, beat the Japanese guys in the Falcon at the stoplight grand prix and then went on to defeat the awesomely named Roy Stalin on the ski slopes to become the coolest guy around. The Camaro is a 1967 SS 350 and is currently owned by a guy in Colorado who knows everything about it and the movie. It has perfect 1980s street machine looks, right down to the Mr. Gasket air cleaner lid.
YOU KNOW THE CARS, YOU KNOW THE MOVIES NOW WE NEED TO KNOW WHICH ONE SURVIVES A BATTLE TO THE DEATH! COMMENT BELOW AND TELL US WHICH OF THESE CHEVROLETS LIVES AND WHICH HEADS TO THE SCRAP HEAP!
Better Off Dead first gen (and year) all the way! Both are great films though.
I want my 2 dollars AND that 67 Camaro!
Truly a sight to behold. Going Better Off Dead FTW!
I love the Better Off Dead Camaro, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen that movie. I would love to get/build a clone some day. Black, with the red interior, SS/RS, hideaway headlights, all of it. So cool. It made a big impression.
camaro is french for wee wee hoo hoo
That goes a long way toward explaining the pungent odors around some Camaro drivers . . . .
(Silly me, I though “Camaro” was a synonym for “mobile meth lab”)
Better Off Dead Camaro by a long shot. Still in my top 5 for movies and the car is the star as far as I’m concerned.
Better off dead Camaro.
Guy gets the girl and the car in the end.
Neither movie or car are worth a crap. But I’d take the 67 over the smog machine any day.
Better off dead for the win, great movie and Classic car!
That’s my skull.
79 Z28 for me, seat in the wayback machine. They outnumbered the cockroaches at my high school.
Maybe they WERE cockroaches . . . .
“My brother makes this killer eggnog,….with lighter fluid”
“DO YOU REALIZE THE STREET VALUE OF THIS MOUNTAIN”
“Man, its a shame when somebody be throwin away a perfectly good white boy like that”
better off dead FTW
First gen. Better off dead
There was a great VH song involved, better off dead!
“. . . yesterday’s total dud of a fight between Uncle Buck’s Mercury Marquis . . .
This one certainly captured no one’s imagination yesterday!”
Man, I’d rather vote for UB’s Merc again that either one of these “Camaro Craft” fugitives. Did Jeff Smith pick today’s “Death Match?” Is “none of the above” a valid option? Can we vote for the Falcon?
But if we have to vote for one of these sleds, just say no to drugs, Mr. Spicoli, and build yourself a ’67 Camaro . . . .
(BTW any Falcon that loses to a Camaro is:(a) a lousy Hollywood prop, (b) built wrong or (c) wrenched on by the Chevyphiles at Car Craft magazine. Just sayin’…
Sorry man, I am a Ford guy but would take the Camaro over a 4 door Falcon
I’ve never seen Better Off Dead, but it can’t be better than Fast Times. That said, I’ll take a 1st gen over a 3rd any day. Come to think of it, I’ve owned 1 of each and the ’67 was vastly superior.
Some time before this death match deal is over you need to pit the van from Teen Wolf against Spicoli’s bud’s VW van. Begs the question “Beer or weed?”
IMHO ? ‘ Weed ‘ … again hands down ! Even though I hated the stuff myself and prefer a good micro brew . thing is …. I love those VWee Micro Buses !
67 Camaro …. hands down ! The 79 being more than a bit of a GM pastiche attempt at copying a Ferrari Daytona or the old Jaguar XJS
And errr sorry Shawn …. but other than the Mustang and the GT/GT40 I’d take any Camaro over a Fix Or Repair Daily
The 79 has nothing to recommend it, not even a disco ball.
The vote, is for the ’67.
The 67 Because it has it’s own website.
http://betteroffdeadcamaro.com
Better off Dead 67′
And Piston Pete its Better off Dead WAY better than Fast Times (IMO)
In the spirit of open-minded-ness (is that a word?) I will seek out and watch Better off Dead. If I enjoy it then I’ll feel better about my vote for the ’67, but between Spicoli stoned and Jennifer Jason Leigh naked it will take a lot to sway me.
“My brother is going to !@#$,he’s going to kill us”
“make up your mind dude,is he going to !@#$ or kill us?”
“Both! First he’s going to !@#$ ,then he’s gonna kill us”
But the ’67 over the ……whatever……
If something gets in the way of your 1st gen Camaro, turn!
Better Off Dead, and somebody just restored it
Everybody wants some….
’67 Camaro for the win.
The Better Off Dead ’67 is the Camaro I’d want if I was a Chevy guy.
Better Off Dead Camaro.
duuude i had an 81 berlinetta with silver vinyl in it loved it- and im a mopar guy! jefferson for the win!