Today it is two police mo-chines getting after it which is a far happier situation than Friday’s battle which was set in a world that had been completely decimated by nuclear weapons, wars over natural resources, and that had no mention of the glorious internet that Al Gore created. The fight on Friday was a lopsided win and we’ll tell you for whom below.
[box_dark]It was the giant Landmaster from Alley of Damnation VS The Interceptor from Mad Max
Mad Max DEFEATS Landmaster
Mad Max kicked ass yet again. This time it wasn’t a weirdo band of leather clad killer but a lumbering tank that appeared in an awful movie. Rock on Mad Max![/box_dark]
The first half of today’s death match was involved in one of the coolest car chases in movie history. This 1973 Pontiac Ventra Sprint was piloted by Roy Schneider and abused in grand fashion while chasing another Pontiac through the city streets, onto the highway, and ultimately into the back of an eighteen wheeler at full tilt. Whoopsie doodle. While the Ventura was clearly an automatic, the sounds of a stick shift car were dubbed in for the movie. Bill Hickman drove the car and did his normal level of awesome stuff by jumping it, sliding it, and tossing it around at high enough speeds to cause some pucker factor on screen. Most likely this car had a 350ci Pontiac engine with a 2bbl on it from the factory. Something tells us that Hickman and the boys hot rodded it at least a little because the car does appear to have some sack in the film. We’ve got video of the chase below and you need to watch it because it truly is one of the best in movie history.
The second car in today’s police car death match is the 1984 Dodge Diplomat cop car from the movie Short Time which, like the Ventura was used and abused in a car case. Like the Poncho, there wasn’t a whole lot left of the thing when it was all said and done. Diplomat police cars are kind of a forgotten cousin to the 9C1 Chevy and Panther platform Ford cruisers people remember from the 1980s. Equipped with 360ci engines, sporting a shorter wheel base and lighter weight, they were certainly capable cars and have as devoted a following as the other two previously mentioned cop cars. The chase in Short Time, like the chase in The Seven Ups is considered the best in movie history by many. Amazing that the starring cars in these two awesome sequences are unlikely heroes in a Ventura and a Diplomat!
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Gonna go with the Pontiac
Ventura…
need a Bradymobile v. That 70’s Show Vista Cruiser v. Family Truckster v. Lethal Weapon mom buggy tag team standoff …. pffft.
I loved the Seven-Ups Ventura when I was a youngster. “Tuff” car. Go Pontiac!
Taking the Diplomat. The Ventura stopped after the first wreck. The Dodge kept going until the Grand Ville crashed through it. And the guy came out of the car screaming afterwards.
Anything with a Thermoquad gets my vote.
Ain’t noway that Pountiac could’ve taken the beating the Dodge took and keep running.
The Diplomat.
poncho
The Pontiac sounded so much better than the Diplomat in the film!
The diplomat got the bad guys in the video above, so going with the diplomat, but it was close the ventura was cool.
The Pontiac for sure second best chase scene next to Bullitt
Michael
Ventura all the way! And not just because I drag race a ’73 model!!
Pontiac
Diplomat
Isn’t the driver of the bonneville the same driver of the charger in bullit?
You are correct! Bill Hickman drove both cars and also the Pontiac in the French Connection.
Even though the car chase in “Short Time” is one of most underrated chases ever put to film; I have to go with Roy Scheider’s Ventura. Those ten and half minutes of Short Time are the best of the movie. Don’t bother with the rest, it sucked.
Ventura
pontiac
So far this was the toughest choice for me…
1973 Pontiac Ventra Sprint