who likes Bullitt?

[GeeTee]

Just found this while getting some background:

The famous Car chase from Bullitt revisited, 2013 style!

[73coupe]

Love to have a go at that !

[achjimmy]

good find GeeTee. but I just watched the original chase after that, damn the fastback sounded good.

[Swannie]

Great movie

Swannie


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[singo-26]

The dark dark dark is missing from a few scenes. 

[berlitza]

pretty dam good, still prefer the original gone in 60 seconds chases though

[Teabag]

Ronin has the best car chase IMO but Bullit with Steve McQueen was pretty dame good....:-)

[achjimmy]

Ronin has the best car chase IMO but Bullit with Steve McQueen was pretty dame good....:-)

+1 Absolutely, help if you like gun ( rockets)  fights too.

[speewa158]

Note to Self  " Don't lend your car to anybody " 

[achjimmy]

Remember this? Not a car chase, reckless but awesome.

Make sure the volume is up for that V12 (think)

http://youtu.be/Qw4SU2JcnqM

[GeeTee]

.. ah yes.
Let's make this the 'classic car chases/driving' thread 

[Marschy]

Blues Brothers has got to be up there. Had the most cars wrecked in a car chase in the history of movie making, until Blues Brothers II.

[duggie]

Bullitt - Steve McQueen Famous Car Chase

Bullitt - Steve McQueen Famous Car Chase

Chased by the Cops - The Blues Brothers

Chased by the Cops - The Blues Brothers (7/9) Movie CLIP (1980) HD

cheers duggie

[berlitza]

Some aussie cheese, long forgotten movie with a few  brilliant car scenes
along with running on empty, metal skin

Running From The Guns

[duggie]

Hey Teabag, found this for you.

Ronin [1998] - Car Chase - BMW vs Peugeot

Ronin [1998] - Car Chase - BMW vs Peugeot

cheers duggie

[WilSurf]

The first clip:
- Where is his seatbelt when he is upside down?
- cars don't blow up.

[Pipeliner]

If they were revisiting the original Bullit chase, why didn't the pass the same parked VW Beetle 3 times?

[Mace]

Have both the VHS and DVD of the movie, and also have an original movie poster that I begged of the owner of the Star Theatre in Mansfield at the time (I was about 14 then)

Some other interesting bullit facts:

The total time of the scene is 10 minutes and 53 seconds, beginning in the Fisherman's Wharf area at Columbus and Chestnut, followed by Midtown shooting on Hyde and Laguna Streets, with shots of Coit Tower and locations around and on Filbert and University Streets. The scene ends outside the city at the Guadalupe Canyon Parkway in Brisbane.[11]

Two 1968 390 V8 Ford Mustang GT fastbacks (325 hp) with four-speed manual transmissions were used for the chase scene, both loaned by the Ford Motor Company to Warner Bros. as part of a promotional agreement. The Mustangs' engines, brakes and suspensions were heavily modified for the chase by veteran car racer Max Balchowsky. Ford also originally loaned two Galaxie sedans for the chase scenes, but the producers found the cars too heavy for the jumps over the hills of San Francisco. They were replaced with two 1968 375 hp 440 Magnum V8-powered Dodge Chargers. The engines in both Chargers were left largely unmodified, but the suspensions were mildly upgraded to cope with the demands of the stunt work.[citation needed]

The director called for maximum speeds of about 75–80 miles per hour (121–130 km/h), but the cars (including the chase cars filming) at times reached speeds of over 110 miles per hour (180 km/h). Driver's point-of-view shots were used to give the audience a participant's feel of the chase. Filming took three weeks, resulting in 9 minutes and 42 seconds of pursuit, first of Bullitt by the hitmen then the reverse. Due to multiple takes spliced into a single end product, heavy damage on the passenger side of Bullitt's car can be seen much earlier than the incident producing it and the Charger loses five wheel covers, with different ones missing in different shots. Shooting from multiple angles simultaneously and creating a montage from the footage to give the illusion of different streets also resulted in the speeding cars passing the same cars at several different times. At one point the Charger crashes into the camera in one scene and the damaged front fender is noticeable in later scenes. Local authorities did not allow the car chase to be filmed on the Golden Gate Bridge, but did permit it in Midtown locations including the Mission District, and on the outskirts of neighboring Brisbane.[citation needed]

McQueen, an accomplished driver, drove in the close-up scenes, while stunt coordinator Carey Loftin hired stuntman and motorcycle racer Bud Ekins and McQueen's usual stunt driver Loren Janes for the high-speed part of the chase and other dangerous stunts.[12] Ekins, who doubled for McQueen in the The Great Escape sequence where McQueen's character jumps over a barbed wire fence on a motorcycle, also lays one down in front of a skidding truck during the Bullitt chase. The Mustang's interior rear view mirror goes up and down depending on who is driving; when the mirror is up McQueen is visible behind the wheel; when it is down Ekins is driving.

The black Dodge Charger was driven by veteran stunt driver Bill Hickman, who both played one of the hitmen and helped with the chase scene choreography. The other hitman was played by Paul Genge, who had ridden a Dodge off the road to his death in an episode of Perry Mason – "The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise" two years earlier. In a magazine article many years later, one of drivers involved in the chase sequence remarked that the stock Dodge 440s were so much faster than the Mustang that the drivers had to keep backing off the accelerator to prevent the Dodge from easily pulling away from the Mustang.[citation needed]

One of the two Mustangs was scrapped after filming due to damage and liability concerns, while the other was sold to an employee of Warner Brothers.[13] The car changed hands several times, with McQueen at one point making an unsuccessful attempt to buy it. The Mustang is rumored to have been kept in a barn in the Ohio River Valley by an unknown owner.[14]

[Mallory Black]

Aparrently Steve requested that his 'stang have an open diff and got the locker/limo slip turfed

[Mace]

Aparrently Steve requested that his 'stang have an open diff and got the locker/limo slip turfed

And it still couldn't keep up with the 440 magnum in real life! Mopar rules!

[Mrs smith]

Good movie that one, I recon this one's also a good watch.
More Mopar.

Vanishing Point Trailer

[achjimmy]

While we are lamenting the great Steve McQueen , another favorite is Lemans.

[Mace]

While we are lamenting the great Steve McQueen , another favorite is Lemans.

Yep, got that on both formats too, along with an original movie poster conned from the same theatre!

Hope this link works!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhDKFhfEgg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7zhDKFhfEgg

Part two!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=relmfu&v=Klyb7K8S7L0

Did any ne spot the Fiat 500.

[Mace]

And unfortunately Webbers Le Mans crash in 1999 wasn't caught on film, but his team mate Peter Dumbreks was:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=KqGq9OnHLHs

Well, yes it was, but not the actual flip!

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=O9EU8JH03gE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DO9EU8JH03gE

[GeeTee]

If they were revisiting the original Bullit chase, why didn't the pass the same parked VW Beetle 3 times?

Didn't you notice the green VW? ... a very nice touch, I reckon!


Keep 'em coming folks, this is great