I think they promoted that original Gone in 60 Seconds with promos that said something like “come watch 95 cars get destroyed in 30 minutes”.
The guy who did it owned the biggest Hollywood junk yard, he supplied all the big studios junk cars they could destroy on film. Supposedly a lot of the amazing stuff in the original Gone In 60 Seconds was done on open streets. The part where he nails a phone pole was an accident on an open street, if I recall.
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