Posted on 01/04/2014 11:06:36 AM PST by virgil283
"McQueen was determined to have “the best car chase ever done,” recalls Carey Loftin. “I told Steve I knew a lot about camera angles and speeds to make it look fast....“The Charger ran rings around the Mustang"... In an interview with Motor Trend magazine, Steve McQueen related his desire to bring a high speed chase to the screen. “I always felt a motor racing sequence in the street, a chase in the street, could be very exciting because you have the reality objects to work with, like bouncing off a parked car. An audience digs sitting there watching somebody do something that I’m sure almost all of them would like to do.”...{hat tip FRer : amazed }
(Excerpt) Read more at selvedgeyard.com ...
>> “I got some special rear springs, what you call a high spring rate, a flat without any arch in it,”
That would be leaf springs.
Have you ever noticed that they must have been stopping and putting hubcaps back on? Now you see it. Now you don’t. Now you see it again. ha
I had a ‘69 Fury with a 318 that would haul ass. When it comes to the long haul, MOPAR couldn’t be beat. But I was really loved Fords. Had a few of them, too.
Thanks D.R....you met some great people...We listened to every thing the ‘Beach Boy’ recorded......If you have any stories you would like to tell, please do....’V’
Is your computer plugged in?
I don’t know why it took McQueen so long to catch them with them stopping five times to put those hubcaps back on.
It was a great movie but I must say “continuity” is a pet peeve of mine. A guy has a glass that’s full, then it’s half full, then it’s full again. Or he lights a cigarette and 10 seconds later it’s burned down to the filter. Or someone in the back ground keeps disappearing then reappearing. I watch for the screw ups
Good Continuity Directors don’t get enough credit. They used to take polaroids to try to remember everything for the next take. Now they have digital cameras. It should be easy.
As for continuity, anyone familiar with SF knows that they would be on one side of the city in one scene then one the other in the next, then on the other in the next and so on...
Did you catch the mistake made by Jerome Cowan in the Maltese Falcon? It’s at 1:40 in this clip. You have to watch the 30 second commercial.
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/376963/Maltese-Falcon-The-Movie-Clip-Spade-And-Archer.html
He enters the office with a cig in his mouth, removes it with his right hand, then the camera cuts to Bogey. When it cuts back, you can see Cowan has palmed the cigarette, and has another one stuck in the left side of his mouth. Apparently they wanted him smoking with his left hand.
As he walks toward Bogey, he flicks the palmed cigarette to the floor but the camera catches it. Very strange they let that get through.
In 1969-70 the NYPD bought had a huge fleet of Furys. I met an NYPD detective who restored a couple of them at a car show in the Bronx.
All this and no mention of the original “Italian Job” ... http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9E892DAC6B307E3E
The Mustangs in Bullitt were small block cars for the driving around town scenes and big block for the chase scenes... what they said about them is totally believable ,, the Mustang just isn’t tough enough for jumps and such ,, it’s a unibody ... the Mopar was body on frame...
But...it started to rain and we couldn’t get the ignition on the MoPar engine to engage.
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The “new” resistors you buy are made in China and have modern components hidden inside that ugly ceramic block... they work in the rain... but what real Mopar men did was they simply put a stripe of duct tape over the top of the resistor block to keep rain from running down the firewall and inside the (hollow) back of the block ,,, which of course shorted it out..
Reading your post made me start humming the song “Racing in the Streets.”
A 429? In a Cobra? In 1966?
Perhaps you meant a 427?
We Built it, it was one of a kind.
The heads were from blank castings that Doan Spencer got from Ford and machined for us.
We also had an in with Ford since we ran Johnie Parsons Nascar Ford for them in 1956.
It was good enough that we blew off Shelby’s Cobra every week.
Ah so. Very cool!
I wish I still had mine. It was what I called “silver blue”. I bought it in 1973 for $800. I had it a few years and never put a wrench on it.
I long for the days when you could by a 4 year old car for a fraction of the original price. And back then a four year old car was considered really old. Now the looks never change so a ten year old car can look new. And you won’t get it for a fraction of the list price, either.
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