[Jim W N]

Best classic/muscle car I haven’t driven: 1968 high performance Mustang driven by Steve McQueen in Bullitt.

Next best classic/muscle car I haven’t driven: 1971 Dodge Charger driven by Barry Newman in Vanishing Point.

Best classic/muscle car I’ve driven: 1966 Corvette.

[moose07]

CARS Ping.
On or off, just FR Mail.

[T. Rustin Noone]

Sorry, but the car in Vanishing Point was a Challenger, not a Charger.

[Jim W N]

Best classic/muscle car I haven’t driven: 1968 high performance Mustang driven by Steve McQueen in Bullitt.

Next best classic/muscle car I haven’t driven: 1970 Dodge Challenger driven by Barry Newman in Vanishing Point.

Best classic/muscle car I’ve driven: 1966 Corvette.

There fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.

[gigster]

In Vanishing Point, Newman drove a white 1970 Challenger R/T, probably equipped with a 440 Magnum. In Detroit, where I grew up, my high school car was a 1971 Dodge Charger S/E with a 383 Magnum, Slap-Stik 727 Torque-flight transmission, and a 8 3/4 inch 3.55 Sure-Grip differential. Also, when I lived in Detroit in 1985 and had a business in Mt. Clemens, I drove my buddy's 1970 340 Six-Pack, 4-speed Hemi Orange AAR Cuda. Getting on it, and opening the center six-pack carb was an experience that not too many people will ever have. As an aside, in the Vanishing Point official trailer, he says the car is "Supercharged." Dodge never made any factory supercharged cars in the seventies, or beyond.

[headstamp 2]

“1971 Dodge Charger driven by Barry Newman in Vanishing Point.”

You mean a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440

[gigster]

Being a Mopar guy, I have a keen, and vested interest in the iconically classic Bullitt chase scene. As most fans know, Frank Bullitt’s car was a obviously well- used 1968 Ford Mustang GT, equipped with a 390 4 speed, and American Racing Mags. The assassin’s black ‘68 Dodge Charger R/T had a 440 Magnum with a console shifted 727 Torq-flight transmission, and is one of my dream cars. Bill Hickman was the stunt driver and coordinator and I read in a Mopar magazine that they took both cars out to the near-by airport one day and thrashed them. I guess the Charger, with the 440 would walk away from the Mustang with the 390. Still an all-time classic chase scene, by any standard.