Car chases

[Remspoor]

What's up Doc? (1972)

This shows the start of the chase....

 

This caries on....

I can not find the full chase...... Thankfully🙂

[Austat]

An Italian film set in the UK, uses Mallory Park Racing Circuit in one scene:

Cars include a Ford Corsair in one chase, followed by a larger chase featuring a Fiat 127, Austin Cambridge, Vauxhall Velox (which turns into a Cortina MK3 in some scenes) & a Jaguar Mk.X.

[Missy Charm]

On 16/03/2022 at 16:54, Remspoor said:

What's up Doc? (1972)

This shows the start of the chase....

 

This caries on....

I can not find the full chase...... Thankfully🙂

I quite enjoyed those!  A reminder of the good old days of films that attempted nothing more complicated than entertaining the audience.  It also calls into question why SCHWEET DOOOD DRIFFTT BROOOS (and sisters) put so much effort into making Supras and the like slide about when American sedans on crossply tyres do it twice as well in factory trim.  

[New POD]

Have we had this. 

 

 

[New POD]

On 22/12/2019 at 10:25, Twiggy said:

A  good one:

"Fear  is the key car chase" on you tube.

I`ve no idea how to get it from you tube to here !

Maybe someone a little more computer savvy than I could do it please ?

 

[Austat]

An Australian movie I haven't heard of before, Deathcheaters from 1976:

 

[Remspoor]

On 4/14/2022 at 3:26 PM, Austat said:

An Australian movie I haven't heard of before, Deathcheaters from 1976:

 

With a IMDb rating of just 5.3/10 i can understand why this one has passed us by.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074385/

 

[Austat]

Another car chase shot in Sydney, interesting vehicles in this.

Mini Clubman vs Citroen ID 19 "Parisienne":

 

[garethj]

I must have missed the update in the Roadcraft book where it suggests police drivers should handbrake it as often as possible 

 

[ETCHY]

Seems fitting to post this based on yesterday's news about Dennis Waterman.

 

[Remspoor]

Miami Vice:   Porsche 906 v Ferrari Daytona Spyder

Or if stories are true Porsche 906 v Corvette Daytona replica.

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

The Priests Wife, Innocenti Mini Minor Mk3, driven by Sophia Loren, verses Fiat 850.

Sophia Loren - La moglie del prete -The Priest’s Wife 1971 - English w/Italian subs - YouTube

[MiniMinorMk3]

The French Taxi films

 

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yes Daytona was a kit/replica

[horriblemercedes]

4 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Yes Daytona was a kit/replica

On the occasional interior shots (rare that you saw this), you could even see it had an automatic gearbox, which proves the replica thing

[warren t claim]

1 hour ago, horriblemercedes said:

On the occasional interior shots (rare that you saw this), you could even see it had an automatic gearbox, which proves the replica thing

And the odd interior shot showed that it also had a digital instrument cluster as well.

 

They did have a real Daytona for static shots in the first episode. 

[Ghosty]

Yep, the Daytona is well known to be a kit - there were two used for filming. Ferrari asked them to stop using them and offered them access to the Testarossa, they said yes as long as they could keep the kit Daytonas to write them out of the show, which is where it gets blown up. But only an empty shell did - both screen cars are still out there. 

 

[Metal Guru]

Just watched Baby Driver. Opening scenes he’s driving an Impreza WRX but less interesting Yank stuff throughout the rest of the film.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Rendevous

 

 

[warren t claim]

 

[Richard_FM]

18 hours ago, warren t claim said:

 

I remember seeing that with my brother when I was young & we made a replica of the car within a van out of Lego.

While it's light-hearted it would be hard to take seriously with Michael Crawford in it, I would be expecting him to get into some Frank Spencer style scrapes!

It looks like the fitted some Ford Pintos with Porsche 911 bodywork!

[D.E]

Big American boat keeps up with a smoking XJS

 

[Metal Guru]

46 minutes ago, D.E said:

Big American boat keeps up with a smoking XJS

 

It the same with Fast and Furious  films. Police cruisers and old muscle cars keeping up with EVOs etc. They'd be lost at the first corner but I don’t suppose that would go down well with American audiences., where 2 litre cars are for school kids and turbos are the work of the devil.

[eddyramrod]

34 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

 2 litre cars are for school kids and turbos are the work of the devil.

You mean something different is actually the case?  Or even possible?

[MiniMinorMk3]

 

[De Selby]

 

Did we have the brilliant Richard Loncraine directed film 'Bellman and True' yet? Complete with that line about "the basic laws of physics"

 

[Remspoor]

18 hours ago, D.E said:

Big American boat keeps up with a smoking XJS

 

Sittard.

[Remspoor]

A lesson on just how to make a  car chase look totally ridiculous.

Drive.

 

 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

A lesson on just how to make a  car chase look totally ridiculous.

Drive.

 

 

Most car chases lose my interest when the chased car is going backwards at 60/70/80+ mph. We all know how it’s done , stop it!

[chaseracer]

6 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Most car chases lose my interest when the chased car is going backwards at 60/70/80+ mph. We all know how it’s done , stop it!

DAF transmission...? 😉