Thanks Bill Hickman for the Memories from Bullitt ,The French Connection and The Seven Ups ,Great movies ,Great stunts and Pure action to Beautiful American Muscle Cars ,R I P 🙏🌹
I had a 75 Trans Am. Had T-Tops, custom paint with the reapplied Firebird decal,rec cam and radial TAs. This was in 1984. It was stolen and wrecked. I have owned some very cool cars over he years but of the American cars, none drove as well as this one.
Apparently as well as bill Hickman, Bud Atkins, Steve McQueen I heard that another stunt car driver also played a part in the car chase for bullit, Cary Lofton, who did some of the tricky stunt driving in the bullit film, though I don’t know if that was true? But one thing is certain, it really did result in the most iconic car chase in movie history, that still stands out today. Along with the seven ups, French connection, to live and die in LA, to name a few. It’s sad that these guys are no longer here, R.I.P to them all, 🙏🏾but their legacy in stunt car driving will always be remembered and respected 👍🏾👏🏾👌🏾.
OMG! I've never seen this! I've never seen Bill Hickman talk so much!! He's usually just hauling tail being chased by somebody. As great as that 73 Firebird is, I bet he still prefers the '68 R/T Charger he drove in Bullitt.
Why would Pontiac wanted to compare the Firebird to the similar GM F-Body Chevrolet Camaro? It makes no sense here. They said the Firebird had more selection of engines than the Camaro. Even though each GM car division built their own engines, a lot of Pontiacs were equipped with engines produced by Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, and Buick. Then they compared the interior design and body between the two cars. The F-Body was designed, engineered and built by Fisher Body Division-silly comparison!
Not in 73. This video is about 1973 Firebirds, and in 73, they only used Pontiac V8 engines. The only non-Pontiac engine available in 73 Firebird was the Chevy 250 cid 6 cylinder. The Firebird had 5 Pontiac V8 choices. The Camaro had 4 Chevy V8 choices. And both had the same Chevy 6 cylinder available for the lesser models. It wasn't until 1977 that Pontiac replaced the Chevy inline 6 cylinder engine with the Buick V6 engine, and started using Olds and Chevy V8's, mainly for California that year, but with Pontiac 301, 350, and 400's available for the other 49 states.
The divisions were truly their own entities back then which actually led to sucess,as the 70's progressed GM became a cookie cutter car maker and truly lost its way in the early 80"s where all cars looked alike. Pontiac engineers saw Chevy as competition not cousins. Wished it would have stayed that way as Pontiacs were always better looking than Chevy's
