30+ Iconic 80s Vehicles - Where are they now?

Подписаться 13 тыс.

Просмотров 3,9 млн

50% 1

Ever wondered where the vehicles from the 80s tv and movies are now?
We have some answers for you
A follow up to the Iconicon - Iconic 80s Vehicles panel
Make sure after the video to check out the following:
Iconicon - Iconic 80s Vehicles
• Iconic 80s Vehicles, I...
Knight Rider Historians:
/ knightriderhistorianso...
F.L.A.G. Semi Restoration:
gofund.me/390731cb
Science Fiction Archives:
ScienceFictionArchives.com
RetroBlasting Dragon*Con Panel:
• Dragon*Con 2019 - Vehi...
Corvette Forum Stingray:
www.corvetteforum.com/forums/...
Green Goblin Head:
/ greengoblinhead
Want to support the channel?
Please subscribe to the channel and follow GenX Toys Geek on
Facebook: / genxtoysgeek
Twitter: / genxtoysgeek
0:00 Intro
0:27 Dukes of Hazard
1:10 Blues Brothers
1:50 Galactica 1980
2:28 Magnum, P.I.
3:22 For Your Eyes Only
3:56 The Last Chase
4:27 Mad Max 2
5:41 The Fall Guy
6:11 FireFox
6:40 Tales of the Gold Monkey
7:14 Knight Rider
8:29 Blue Thunder
9:18 Christine
9:53 Hardcastle and McCormick
10:38 The A-Team
11:33 The last Starfighter
12:07 Ghostbusters
13:01 Airwolf
14:00 Riptide
14:33 Miami Vice
15:18 Streethawk
16:06 Back to the Future
17:01 Stingray
17:35 Big Trouble in Little China
18:10 Maximum Overdrive
18:57 The Wraith
19:49 Cobra
20:35 The Living Daylights
21:32 The Highwayman
22:20 Batman 1989
23:15 Back to the Future II
24:10 Outro
24:30 Fun Fact
25:18 End Screen
Hashtags:
#iconic #vehicles #where_are_they_now #tv #movie #trivia
#airwolf #ateam #bttf #backtothefuture #back_to_the_future #timemachine #batman1989 #batmobile #bigtroubleinlittlechina #porkchopexpress #bluesbrothers #bluesmobile #bluethunder
#christine #stephenking #cobra #sylvesterstallone #dukesofhazard #dukes_of_hazard #generallee #general_lee #fallguy #firefox #galactica1980 #ghostbusters #ecto1
#hardcastle_and_mccormick #coyote_x #highwayman #jamesbond #james_bond #007 #for_your_eyes_only #living_daylights #lastchase #laststarfighter #starcar #madmax #magnumpi #magnum_pi #maximumoverdrive #happytoyz
#miamivice #riptide #screamingmimi #scraming_mimi #stingray #streethawk #tales_of_the_gold_monkey #wraith #the_wraith #corvette #delorean #ferrari #lotus #astonmartin #aston_martin
#iconicon

Развлечения

Опубликовано:

31 май 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 7 тыс.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Each movie / tv show segment starts of with a ~5 seconds clip taken from that show / movie. See if you can guess which show or movie and which vehicle will be included in the segment. Read Below before commenting please: You are free to comment on what your favorite was which I missed, but PLEASE stop telling me what I missed in the video. NOTE: I said the Coyote X stunt car ended up as the Knight Rider 2000 PILOT, as in the series, with the Knight 4000. And that's correct.

@xazylsclubhouse 2 года назад

Fingers crossed for Mad Max Interceptor 🤞

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@xazylsclubhouse Yup it's in there, well the Mad Max 2 Pursuit Special

@miniexplosian1231 2 года назад

Bandit trans am or Fall guy pick up.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@miniexplosian1231 bandit will be 70s, fall guy is in the vid

@miniexplosian1231 2 года назад

Smokey and the bandit 2 and 3 were 80s. Does anyone know what happened to the other cars in Dukes of hazard ?

@shikarbabulall3897 2 года назад

I personally think Airwolf is the most beautiful helicopter up until this day! , the music , that sleekness, the beauty , that howling sound , the turbo blast the way she sits on her wheels and the way she retracts them when taking off, the chain guns and the cannon and the way she let's them out for combat , the speed and the way in which she flys so smoothly , the secret cave where shes hidden and the way Hawk flys her and drops the vizer on his helmet before blowing up the enemy!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

NAILED IT

@hotblackdesiato7340 2 года назад

AMEN!!

@Zzus321 2 года назад

I thought Jay Leno owns all of them 😀😀😀

@jasoncummings7052 2 года назад

Totally agree.

@166userp 2 года назад

I agree.....

@MrDieselmadkins 2 года назад

Was gonna say, you missed The Rubber Duck, The Bandit and Snowman, but then I realized that these were all in the 70's. Now I realize that I'm just old.

@MrDieselmadkins 2 года назад

But you did miss the Cannon Ball Run Lambo

@edwardmorriale9358 18 дней назад

Bandit 2 and 3 were in the '80's. I'm partial to the '81 Turbo Trans Am

@tysonatkins2236 Год назад

I loved Knight Rider, The A Team, and Airwolf! Those were some great TV shows, and nothing today will ever be as iconic as they were!

@catfishandwhitetails Год назад

same here. A child from 79 lol

@TheRealMr22 Год назад

Never missed an episode of any of them

@Michael-jj9bd Месяц назад

1973 kid. A-Team, and Knight Rider were my shows.

@gmain1977 Год назад

80s was best time to be a kid by a mile. Huge Knightrider fan

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Follow KnightRider Historians :)

@gmain1977 Год назад

@@GenXToysGeek I do 👍🏾👍🏾

@juliusdream2683 Год назад

Absolutely right. Nothing like being a kid in the 80’s.

@heylarry633 Год назад

Even better being a teenager in the 80s

@72ocutter 2 года назад

Still get goosebumps when I hear knight rider theme. Born in 72, Such a great time to grow up.

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

likewise!

@juliusdream2683 Год назад

I said something similar I’m born 76 and love that theme song. The only rival for me is Miami vice . That was almost as good.

@charlescarmichael1124 22 дня назад

👍🏻72. Me too.

@Brian.Weimer 2 года назад

You left out one of the coolest TV cars of the 80's, Automan's super car, a Lamborghini Countach LP400. The definitive car of the future!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

there was no info to be found on that...

@ldogg4life964 2 года назад

I was thinking about auto man myself lol

@toadford 2 года назад

I came to the comments to mention automan as well

@trustworthy5054 2 года назад

@@toadford Ditto....

@Alhana_E 2 месяца назад

Double ditto!

@Michael-jj9bd Месяц назад

A-Team and Knight Rider were my favorite. 1973 kid. The best of times.

@davehenderson6896 25 дней назад

Back when kids were kids.

@thefish8002 2 месяца назад

There were a lot of cool vehicles from the cannonball run films. Might be worthwhile to do a video on them. Also, hands down, The General Lee!

@carltonbanks2865 Год назад

Street Hawk was one of my favorites in the mid 80's. I'm almost 45, pure nostalgia, thanks for the memories...

@jaysmith6327 Год назад

Yes mate u remember street hawk too...I loved that show and the theme tune....

@GlenDevan1970 Год назад

@@jaysmith6327 the Street Hawk main theme is the song "Le Parc" from the album of the same name from the band Tangerine Dream :)

@iainwilliam3187 Год назад

I saw it here in New Zealand at a display,good childhood memories

@fuzzblightyear145 2 года назад

so glad i was a kid in the 80s. There are just no shows like these being made anymore in the last 20/30 years

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

could not agree more!

@markraymo997 2 года назад

I was born in 81.loved watching the A-team and Dukes of Hazzard the good guys beating up the bad guys and out smarting the police or whoever is chasing them . Out running them with the black van with BA behind the wheel or General Lee out fixing sheriff Rosco

@KP-xi4bj 2 года назад

Welcome to the woke generation/era. LOL

@KP-xi4bj 2 года назад

@SciFi Author B.L. Alley Yup, it's pretty much woke. LOL

@ranekeisenkralle8265 2 года назад

@SciFi Author B.L. Alley "[...]treat the audience like we are all stupid[...]" - to be fair, the vast majority ARE stupid enough to just mindlessly consume whatever garbage they are fed by the so-called "entertainment"-industry. Why else would we see remake after remake after reboot after remake? And don't even get me started on the whole in-your-face socio-political BS shoved into today's "entertainment". There's a reason I have been hoarding pre-2000s physical media - books in particular.

@vladyvhv9579 Год назад

One of the things that many people seem to skim over or not pay enough attention to really notice about Airwolf: She has a learning computer and adaptive computerized flight controls. As seen in Moffett's Ghost and Mind of the Machine, the computer is linked to every system. Combined with a few moments involving Dom, who often talks to the copter as if were a person, and the occasional times when you can hear snarling/growling, it's possible that the onboard computer may be developing a sort of AI of its own, or have some basic one and is buiding on it. I've always thought that was particularly cool.

@cybercat29 7 месяцев назад

I wondered about that. I will have to rewatch the DVDs that I have of Airwolf. Too bad the show did not develop that part. It would have been something for Stringfellow, Dominic, and Archangel to have Airwolf start talking to them using two word sentences which would have had Dominic start helping Airwolf develop the ability to use full sentences.

@NDR-hn3ue 5 месяцев назад

Yes it was the definition of true A.I.

@gh05tr1d3r1 Год назад

What a great selection of 80's vehicles of all types. The General Lee will always be my favourite. The 80's will always be the very best decade to have grown up in. Not only did they have the best TV shows, but films, music etc etc.

@juliusdream2683 Год назад

No doubt about it. There will never be a decade like that. The general Lee is tied with the Trans Am from Smokey and the bandit in my opinion both gorgeous cars.

@chazellmoore Год назад

I'm from S.C. and I love the General Lee. I hated All the controversial stuff that led to the flag being removed. I grew up with the original GL and color shouldn't matter but I'm African-American and a flag ain't never done nothing wrong to me. Yeah it sucks they took the Duke's of Hazzard off.

@eavdmeer 8 месяцев назад

I am trying to decide whether it's just old man nostalgia in me or those times were really that good. I'm leaning towards the latter. General Lee is in stiff competition with K. I. T. T. for me. Too close to call. And that union jack is inseparable from it. Being Dutch, I'm not sure I'd be allowed and opinion on it these days though 😂

@matthewiles5714 2 года назад

I loved this list. It's pure nostalgia. I was born in 1979 so grew up with a lot of these iconic vehicles. Thank you for a great trip down Memory Lane.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Frank009-fl 2 года назад

Totally agree. Im from 1977

@EchoesDaBear 2 года назад

Born in '78, and this video just rehashed my childhood!! KITT was and forever will be the car I want, and Airwolf if I need to take to the skies!

@matthewiles5714 2 года назад

@@EchoesDaBear same here. I alway wanted to have KITT for my car too

@rwieber79 2 года назад

Same here man, Sept 12th of 79. Loved growing up in the 80s. Only thing I feel like I missed that I was born earlier to see would have been Elvis alive. But hey you cant have everything, lol

@dannyr2976 2 года назад

It has to be Airwolf for me, such a stunning lookin' bird. To quote Dominic Santini _"No matter how many times I see her, she still takes my breath away...."_ An iconic 80s TV vehicle not included was Automan's Lamborghini and Helicopter, it would be interesting to know what happened to those.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

NAILE D IT

@juliusdream2683 Год назад

From cannon ball run the black Lamborghini countach?

@Juliajingo Год назад

Great List! The 1979 Dodge Power Wagon from Simon & Simon was my favorite.

@ahhamartin Месяц назад

EXCELLENT video. Thanks for not neglecting TC's chopper and Cutter's Goose. EDIT; you even included Stingray! NICE.

@earth2006 2 года назад

The jump the truck did over the sports car in "The Fall Guy" is still classic.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Indeed

@handymansteve 2 года назад

how the suspension didn't just collapse on landing is beyond me..... (granted, the magic of editing makes that easy to conceal)

@bazzyg 2 года назад

For me the Holy Trinity is Airwolf, Knight Rider and Street Hawk. The three most amazing 80s vehicles. Since I was 5 years old and still a little obsessed to this day.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

great pick

@lootent-dan 2 года назад

I can't pick only 3. Lol Love the general Lee, knight rider, Christine, magnums Ferrari, facemans Vette, fall guys truck...man, lots of very cool rides.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@lootent-dan never said you only need to pick 3 :) There are too many cool vehicles in the list to limit it to only 3 :)

@lootent-dan 2 года назад

@@GenXToysGeek I was replying to a comment.

@gregrdyer Год назад

Hey, I was looking forward to seeing the vehicles used for Automan. There was this sparkly ball called "Cursor" that would make Automan's vehicles. Glad to see Wraith was in your listing too. Good memories.

@chrisbiggerstaff3083 Год назад

I liked that show and kept wondering why they took it off the air

@Xererer 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, I was waiting for Automan's Countach the whole time.

@LilBlighter 8 месяцев назад

I was going to say exactly the same, too. Yep, they would have been good ones to see. Also the original 60's Batmobile.

@dalriada 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the retrospective. Not only were the cars cooler than what we have in modern times but the shows were too.

@just82much51 2 года назад

The 80's was the decade of decades and I'm so grateful to have come of age in that time, so I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane! My choice for most iconic 80's car has to be Keaton's Bat Mobile followed by the BttF Delorian. Thanks so much for putting this video together!!!!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@jim-stacy 2 года назад

You ought to take a look at casey putch's real jet powered batmobile

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@jim-stacy just did, sweet!!!

@rachelgonzales90 Год назад

I know it she was called Airwolf, but I always thought that she looked more like an orca that swam through the air.

@franckbrink4685 2 года назад

I wish, I could take the DeLorean DMC12 to go back to the awesome 80ties and never come back. For me these three iconic movies gave me the best memories. A great compliment to you for making this video. Thanks for that👌🏻

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@juliusdream2683 Год назад

I’d do the same. Notice how much love all us 80’s kids have for the best decade ever.

@1928ModelA1931 Год назад

The Stingray coupe was sold and back around '89-'90 I worked in a classic auto store in Langley BC Canada. The store shared space with a trucking company that hauled primarily for a BC owned grocery retailer. The trucking company was and still is noted for their owner-operator pristine red trucks and trailers. The drivers were very well paid and many had classic and custom cars including the owner of the company. One driver, I recall purchased that 'Vette coupe. He was in the shop frequently as he was an acquaintance of one of my co-workers and although or store didn't specialize in Corvette parts we sold him a few items to keep that car healthy. It could be seen often in the driver's parking area when the owner was on the road. I laugh now recalling as none of us in the store knew the TV show very well, we looked a bit baffled when he told us it was the car from "Stingray". Memory served us when he reminded us of the show. It was a cool looking 'Vette for sure. It may still be in the Langley BC Area today though I haven't seen it since the early '90s.

@powerbar1981 2 года назад

I stand with Airwolf. The sound maneuver, 80s beat sound and Trademark theme is perfect synchronize. But the iconic howling Turbo jet blast seems like no elite heli fighter can escape from being overwhelmed by just one lone wolf in the sky. Mannn... No anti radar needed for this

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Great pick

@JohnMGreiner 2 года назад

And character names like Stringfellow Hauk….

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@JohnMGreiner Stringfellow Hawke :) Who doe name his kid Stringfellow though?

@stuartj1234 2 года назад

100% Airwolf for me. Recently been on TV aswell.

@carlos64030 2 года назад

K.I.T.T. and AIRWOLF are definitely my two favorites. The replica of AIRWOLF hasn't been on the roof of that mansion for probably two years now. It's currently withering away at the 'Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum' in Compton, CA. I wish I could afford to buy it and have it restored because that museum it's sitting at isn't taking care of it at all.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

That I did not know. And agree, would love to own that one myself

@etsequentia6765 2 года назад

That mansion has more swimming pools than some hotels and resort centers by the looks of it.

@retrogamer33 2 года назад

I love KITT and Airwolf too, they look so beautiful.

@EddieLopez711 2 года назад

Try contacting the who built it 18 years ago so much work went into it it would be a shame to let it rust away like all the iconic working vehicles, not the Airwolf but rescue it.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@EddieLopez711 sure, got any contact details?

@paulobro891 16 дней назад

Knight rider, Airwolf and street hawk were my favourite, as a kid was blessed to go to the cars the star museum in the lakes! Was devastated when it closed!!!! Great video!!!

@forgetmea9361 17 дней назад

I love them all! But my absolute favorite is Stingray. Im simply gagging over that Corvette! That is when I first fell in love with them.

@nick4733 2 года назад

This has to be one of the best well presented and nicely researched you tube programmes I've seen. This is such an enjoyable nostalgic trip through 80s tv, especially if you grew up then. No CGI or other digital effects. Just great looking vehicles and stunt men and women. My personal favourite was the Fall Guy truck. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for posting.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@thomassparks8294 2 года назад

My favorite is the General. Fall Guy truck is a close second.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@thomassparks8294 great picks

@hennyverheij5969 2 года назад

I still love the GMC van of The A team.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

would love to own one

@NDR-hn3ue 5 месяцев назад

*Loved the video a FULL LENGTH trip to memory lane but there is a vehicle missing .................The Kenworth Truck from BJ and The Bear*

@nvmchurch9320 4 месяца назад

Your work and dedication to creating this are outstanding! I've watching every video you've put out.

@kratoscraken5614 2 года назад

Sigh! The A-Team van and the General Lee my true loves. Bloody hell thank you for making this mate 👍😍👍

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@zarnistastudios 2 года назад

This is an amazing video. This tugs right at my heart. Amazing to see what happened to some of our favorites. I have a huge tv/movie vehicle collection. And the 1980s is a big part of it.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

I see some on yer youtube. subs+1 will be goin through yer videos

@sdcraig 2 месяца назад

Great video. It's another reminder of the fun TV shows we had in the 80s.

@nonyanonya3667 Год назад

This was a great selection, thanks for that. Several other 80s movie vehicles were left out that you could make another video about. I'm thinking the M577 Armored Personnel Carrier from Aliens 2, the Truck and Trans Am from the Smokey and the Bandit Sequels, Wolff's Scrambler from Spacehunter adventures in the forbidden zone (along with many others), The Hovercraft Car and Racing Hydrofoil from Condorman, The cars of Cannonball Run, Tom Cruise's motorcycle from Top Gun, Buckaroo Bonzai's Jet Truck MK III, the National Lampoons Family Vacation Ford LTD Family Truckster, The EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle from Stripes, Axel Foley's car from Beverly Hills Cop, The Porsche & Ferrari from Against All Odds, Vehicles from The Junkman, The Terminator Motorcycle, Ferris Beullers Ferrari 250, Goonies Ford Mustang GT, The VW Bug from Herbie Goes Bananas, The Karate Kid Ford Super Deluxe, the My Science Project Pontiac GTO, The Black Moon from Black Moon Rising, The Armed SUV from Tango & Cash, The Police Interceptor Bikes from Chips, The 1953 Messerschmitt KR175 from Brazil, The Chevy Malabu from Repo Man, the spinner flying car from Bladerunner & Trancers, Ernest Borgnine's Taxi from Escape from New York, the truck from Metal Storm, the semi from Battletruck, the Megaforce bikes and quads, and the Porshe 928 from Risky Business.... Thats a few just off the top of my head

@juliusdream2683 Год назад

Yea I’m not the only one who pointed out the Trans Am from Smokey and the bandit it definitely belongs.

@juliusdream2683 Год назад

You also remembered cannon ball run. The Lamborghini in that movie was sick.

@georgeerhard1949 Год назад

CHiPs used Kawasaki KZ1000C patrol bikes, the same as what the actual California Highway Patrol was using at the time (nope! Not Harley-Davidsons... in the 80's H-D was still owned by AMF and their bikes weren't well regarded). Subsequent "TV Movies" used BMW police bikes, also the same models as what was in use with the agency at the time of filming (1990's).

@LRTrack Год назад

Man! All that off the top of your head and more besides.

@thecorinthianguy 6 месяцев назад

@@juliusdream2683 I saw the Lambo from the Cannonball Run sitting in the showroom of one of the few remaining Delorean dealerships in Florida about 15 years ago! "Not For Sale"

@davedavies6518 2 года назад

I loved many of the movie cars of the 80s, but one of my favorite was the Dodge M4S for the movie Wraith. I'm a dodge fan and back when the movie came out I already knew about this car. Dodge wanted to see if they could build a 200mph 4 cylinder car. They made this prototype sports coupe with a 2.2L twin turbo twin intercooler. This mid-engine car had a tested and confirmed top speed of 194.8 mph. But big thumbs up for Ecto-1, DeLorean and the V8 interceptor. I was waiting for the truck from "B.J. and the bear" TV Series 1978-1981

@mr.mothgurgle 2 года назад

Was about to mention that car.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Great picks

@byronbrown1978 2 года назад

The mack truck in the movie Convoy was my favorite

@jerrycrook4434 2 года назад

I worked for the company that made the airwolf choppers for 3 years

@jeffouellette9946 2 года назад

Yep BJ mckay and his best friend bear.

@KEEPINGitREAL213 2 года назад

Airwolf, General Lee, and KITT are my three favorites of the 80s! Those three vehicles were the main actors in their respective television series. Very seldom have we seen the vehicles of a movie or television series, be more important than the main actors or actresses themselves. There's two late 70s to early 80s television shows that deserve mentioning because of the vehicles.... and that's Starsky & Hutch with their 76 Ford Gran Torino. And CHiPs, with their Police Interceptor Motorcycles.

@williamporche4799 2 года назад

Add the Ateam and u have mines

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Great picks

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Great picks

@Mk156 2 года назад

What about Smokey and the Bandit.. Bandit's Pontiac Firebird is a bas ass car too, imho..

@Joesmusclecargarage 2 года назад

@@Mk156 The first SATB was filmed in 1977. Get it together.

@sypoth 8 месяцев назад

One of the surviving General Lee's is in an auto museum in South Dakota just off the I-90, it's worth the visit as it's not just a museum for cars but also for many other bits of nostalgia and Americana. Either way Dukes of Hazard is the sole reason that almost every one of that car model from that year is either scrap metal or sitting in a museum unless it was one of the very, VERY few that made it into someone's hands before the producers could buy them up.

@virtuactual4087 9 месяцев назад

Great round up! Would loved to have found out a bit more about the vehicles in the 1983 TV show 'Automan' ... like the Tron-ified Lamborghini!

@ll7868 2 года назад

Blue Thunder vs Airwolf, the crossover we all wanted and never got.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

agree!

@firstknight6057 2 года назад

Airwolf all day

@JetseTurner 2 года назад

Great Video, I watched all of these Shows and Movies. Good Memories. I always loved AirWolf, Night Hawk, Magnum and Miami Vice theme songs.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Thanx, Glad you enjoyed!

@CarsCatAliens 2 месяца назад

I LOVED AIRWORLF !!! I had no idea wtf was going on in the show, but loved seeing the choppers

@LiterallyCensoredDaily Год назад

This video was both a straight up nostalgia-gasm, and an introduction to some more obscure stuff that I now need to watch. Thanks, friend.

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@Fifury161 Год назад

ha ha ha - I was thinking the same!

@spankeyham 2 года назад

Damn, I remember sitting in and talking to KITT when I was 5 years old at World Expo 88... better times.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

sweet

@morganm1667 2 года назад

Airwolf was the best looking heli of all time imo! The story goes, that after filming, the White Lotus submarine car nick-named 'Wet Nellie" from The Spy who Loved me went on promotional tour, then shipped to put into 10 year pre-paid storage in Long Island New York. After it ran out, it wasn't claimed and the undisclosed storage locker contents went to auction. The winner of that auction won it for $100, occasionally exhibited it between 1989 and 2013 and restored the exterior. In Sept 2013, the owner put it up for auction through RM auctions, Battersea, south west London. It sold for £550,000. The buyer was Elon Musk and at that time he was said to be planning on using Tesla motors electric drive train to convert into a functional car-sub as depicted in the film. Pretty sure I have seen another one in 2012 at Beaulieu car museum in the UK when they had a Bond car exhibit. Not like I'm a huge Bond fan, but wanted to contribute. Keep it tuned for another useless factoid, same time tomorrow! 😂

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Guess you'll see if yer facts are correct if I do a 70s version of this vid.

@morganm1667 2 года назад

@@GenXToysGeekIf not I'll be glad to stand corrected. Your research goes deeper than my quick Google! Interesting stuff, TY for the content

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@morganm1667 glad to be of service

@panzerichi3837 2 года назад

I had the blue thunder helicopter I loved that thing 😂

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@panzerichi3837 that toy is on my wishlist

@scottjohnson2184 4 месяца назад

Memory lane. Thank you for this video!

@kornfreak78 10 дней назад

Airwolf will forever and always be my favorite 80's vehicle.

@cjk5115 2 года назад

This was a fantastic video and I loved all the background you tracked down. Lots of great, fun memories, especially of "The Lady" - Airwolf!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Thanx, glad you enjoyed!

@Happymali10 2 года назад

13:35 It can be noted that the former Airwolf-copter had taken a severely injured girl from Berlin to Cologne for specialized treatment and crashed on the way back, so it didn't go down for nothing. Unfortunately, the three occupants on the way back didn't survive the flight into the side of a quarry

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

I did say it crashed :)

@bnetolldnataman 2 года назад

RIP…😪

@ropeburn6684 Год назад

A sad but appropriate end for an iconic vehicle. It died a hero, and so did its crew.

@angiedawnmoody3519 Год назад

What a shame,I'm pleased it transported the young girl though. RIP to the people that lost their lives

@theemaxheadroom7797 4 месяца назад

this brought tears to my eyes!!!love the content,very well done!!!!

@d.a.1230 Год назад

Thanks for the fun and very informative video! I was able to get pictures with and sit inside the drivers seat of both of Knight Rider's KITT and Doc Brown's Back To The Future DeLorean at the Greater Cleveland International Auto Show at the I-X Center (International Exposition center) in Cleveland, OH! And some of the programs and movies you have mentioned- like Street Hawk and Hardcastle and McCormick- I have not seen them but I know of them from Trivial Pursuit trivia game question cards as well! Really enjoyed your video- thanks for putting it out there and thanks for being so concrete on the information on what you featured! Very fun and very informative and brought back a lot of good memories!

@lukesmialkowski7870 2 года назад

I remember growing up in Poland and watching Airwolf.I always looked forward to watching the next episode.One of the most amazing aircraft designs of all time

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Great pick

@redwolf76 2 года назад

Airwolf. For me that is the helicopter I always remember. Thanks for the video.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

She's a beauty!

@vladimirharkonnen458 4 месяца назад

Thanks for making this video. The thumbnail photo at 08:45 is mine. I took this while on vacation at what was then MGM Studios. I had added all of the photos of Blue Thunder I had taken in 1999 to the then merger entry for the film. Only two of these photos still appear.

@ViewpointProd 2 года назад

Keep in mind, Ecto-1 was restored using donor parts from Ecto-1A (GBII) And 1A was unfortunately left to rot on sony's backlot. People have confirmed that Ecto-1A was used for Afterlife and partially restored/weathered up for the film

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Great intel!

@PiDsPagePrototypes 9 месяцев назад

Isn't one of them owned by Dan Akroyd?

@TheLobstersoup 2 года назад

I'm the most impressed that someone revived the Highway Man-truck. That's such a short lived show, but I remember exactly watching it as a kid and admiring that truck the most. My favorite part though was the "sportscar" that would slip from under it. It has a really cool look and I always assumed it was designed off an airplane tug. Would be interesting to see if that survived, too. Also: props to Stallone for getting his car back. He could easily have bought ten similar ones.

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

It kinda did, but in really poor shape, if not completely demolished by now...

@jaminallen3119 6 месяцев назад

Great fun, thanks. Thoroughly enjoyed that.

@TommygunNG 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for discussing the Screaming Mimi of “Riptide.” One of the few vehicles, if not the only one, discussed here still in practical use.

@oculusangelicus8978 2 года назад

All of these bring back a part on my life I remember with great fondness, but of all of them, the one that I love the most is Airwolf, the Bell 222 helicopter. Although the Australian Ford Falcon GT Coupe in Mad Max comes in a very close second!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Gotta love that 80s trip to memory lane :)

@Hannah-py9cj 2 года назад

Watching this with my morning cuppa Jody - and what a joy! so many happy childhood memories tied up in this video. Very, slick production too! an amazing amount of knowledge and work has gone into this. Great job!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

many many thanx, glad you enjoyed this,

@hookreelfishing Год назад

Dang good job!! You covered shows I wouldn't had thought you would and some I never ever heard of. You pretty much nailed my entire childhood... maybe C.H.I.P.S.

@garydaniels5495 9 месяцев назад

The 80s was the decade for great TV shows and movies. My favorites were Airwolf, Blue Thunder, and the Dukes of Hazzard. I imagined myself flying those helicopters, and I loved the way the Dukes always triumphed over Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe. As for other vehicles (and I'm being somewhat obscure here), how about Boss Hogg's Cadillac convertible and the station wagon from Karate Kid (that needed a push start when it broke down)? Just a thought.

@sandman_says_runrunner4701 5 месяцев назад

Staying with "The Karate Kid" you could include the "1947 Ford Super De Luxe" (the car Mr. Miyagi gives to Daniel).

@dinamo5415 2 года назад

One of the best videos on this subject I've seen. Well done.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Wow, thanks! You are too kind!

@Paul_Davies77 2 года назад

I remember when Chris Bromham acquired the Street Hawk bike and all the restoration he did, luckily I was there to see it being done. It only had a tiny fuel tank so wouldn't be able to go very far! Was also at his house the day he loaded it onto the trailer to drive it to the cars of the stars museum.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Oh wow!!!!

@fridaycaliforniaa236 Месяц назад

This is actually a good thing the Blue Thunder Alouettes were not sold to random people, cause it was said they were a pain in the xxx to pilot, as the frontal kit was heavy asf and offset the center of mass by a big amount, rendering the chopper really nose heavy and unstable on fast maneuvering takes...

@roybradley5532 Год назад

That was great. I have a lot of memories popping back into my head. Thank You!!

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@ZeroHunterToys 2 года назад

Great video Jody. Bring back load of memories and shows and films I had forgotten.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

glad you enjoyed!

@jenniferbeyer6412 2 года назад

Great film. My favorite from your list is the Greatest Helicopter: AIRWOLF.. If I could afford it I would buy a Bell 222 and convert it into AIRWOLF.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

likewise

@Jaw0lf Год назад

A wonderful trip down memory lane, so thank you so much for your video. My favourite has to be Airwolf and I still have a poster of her in my study!

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@KeyKiller74 Год назад

For sure the 80's had so many amazing vehicles but on your list has to be for me Air Wolf had a great time watching that T.V. show. Also love to see the Black Lamborghini from Cannonball 81' made your list. Still to this day I dream of this beautiful Iconic car. Great video & thanks for the trip back. I ❤80's😎👍

@miamimatt2010 2 года назад

I grew up in the '80s. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I couldn't wait to watch Knight Rider and Airwolf so those two are my choices. I loved the starship in the last starfighter myself. Deathblossum anyone? Oh wait it's a weapon of last resort.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@BamaBoy_Davis Год назад

Don't forget StreetHawk

@obsidiansands 2 года назад

Fun fact: Airwolf's "cosmetic" additions to the helicopter actually made the aircraft more stable to manage and fly. Blue Thunder's "cosmetic" additions made the damn gazelle so heavy that it made it SLOW, and list off to one side - this is very obvious when you see it coming straight for the camera. All of the practical stunts done with the Blue Thunder helicopter was sped up to give it the false illusion of it being super fast - when in reality, it was slower than someone's grandma on a suped-up wheelchair scooter equipped with a nitro boost.

@tubewatcher97 2 года назад

well ok , but , the Out of the characters these machines play Blur Thunder kicks more ass. All Airwolf had was weapons and speed , Blue Thunder had dozens of tricks up its sleeve!

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

You are absolutely correct

@obsidiansands Год назад

@@tubewatcher97 uh, Airwolf has about nearly the same abilities Blue Thunder had in terms of stealth - according to the show runners, Airwolf also has espionage and counter-espionage capabilities despite them being rarely used as the primary role for Airwolf was straight up long-range stealth & combat. Overall, comparing Airwolf v Blue Thunder is like apples to oranges - their roles are very different. Blue Thunder's role was more limited to an urban setting, hence a slightly more robust intelligence-gathering capability. As far as I can remember, BT never used missiles - it's only combat capability came in the form of a chin-turret chain gattling gun, and it couldn't outrun a long-range missile from a nearly-invisible stealth combat helicopter like Airwolf.

@carolynward5567 2 месяца назад

Knight Rider: Kitt will always be my favorite.

@fatkido1369 3 месяца назад

I was happy to See the HighwayMan truck/copter listed as most of these lists forget about this show.

@DCJammer 2 года назад

"240 Robert" was my all time favorite 80's series. It featured a Shariff's Dept on the west coast that did a lot of rescue work including underwater and cliffside rescue. Morgan, the hlocopter pilot was The Best using a Hughes 500 modifide for air ambulance. "Trap" and "Fib" would drop from her landing legs over water in full SCUBA gear.

@chubbywombat7402 2 года назад

The synth tune of Airwolf just brought a huge grin to my face… There‘s a K.I.T.T. sitting alone in our huge underground parking garage. Just four spots down from my parking bay. Sitting there with a Knight Rider plate in the windshield. Never seen it being moved in over three years. Seems it doesn’t belong to any tenant here. Every day I walk by it and every day my heart starts bleeding because of the huuuge layer so dust on the car. Every now and then someone writes something in the dust like „Hello“ or „Pig“ or „K+C“. What a waste, what a shame….

@DonnieDarko1 2 года назад

❤ Where is this?

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Sad indeed...

@jaywhittemore5878 Год назад

Really enjoyed the video of all the iconic cars from my childhood. Great job thank you

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@GUNMETALGUYUSA Год назад

Thank You. A wonderful nostalgic journey on video. All The Best To You.

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@andysutton1 2 года назад

Airwolf is and always will be the perfect helicopter for me. The sound it made when hitting mach 1.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

exactly

@joshuafreedman7703 2 года назад

Hooooooooowl!!

@laurendoe168 2 года назад

I also like Airwolf immensely... but it is impossible for a helicopter to exceed Mach 1.

@happycanayjian1582 2 года назад

The Bell 222 has to be the best looking chopper of all time. In grade school, while my friends were busy fawning over KITT, I was enamoured with Airwolf. That was my jam!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Right on

@ChristopheMICLO Год назад

me too !!! airwolf never die :)

@SWIFTO_SCYTHE Год назад

KITT and Airwolf are my two favorite vehicles ever.

@Porsche.Boxster Год назад

同時期に日本でも「AIR-WOF」「ナイトライダー」が放映され、男子中高生を中心に人気ドラマでした。(At the same time, AIR-WOF and Night-Rider were aired in Japan and became popular dramas among junior and senior high school boys.) 私は今でもAIR-WOLFが好きです。(I still like AIR-WOLF)

@rojoloco3911 11 дней назад

I love how you refer to height as length. Totally makes sense. I just haven’t heard it put that way.

@maverickslb80 7 месяцев назад

Knight Rider's KITT and Blue Thunder helicopter have such perfect designs!

@UrMomsChauffer 2 года назад

Awesome video. I respect the amount of effort you put into researching these vehicles, and what happened to them after their prime time. Thanks. I loved this video.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Many many thanx, glad you enjoyed

@siggyretburns7523 2 года назад

Well. If he had researched gyrocopters more, he would have found theyre much more safer than he gave them credit for.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@siggyretburns7523 I know they are safe, but taking an open cockpit into a battle is not so safe!

@siggyretburns7523 2 года назад

@@GenXToysGeek Oh yes. About that. Indeed. I thought you were talking about the craft in general. My apologies. If I remember correctly, didnt he drop a molotov on himself while flying? Or somebody threw one up at him.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

@@siggyretburns7523 he did :) good memory! Before he was shot down...

@jeisenbraun1 2 года назад

Great list. Thank you. I've been rewatching some of these with my son over the last several years - he's 10 now. I love how his imagination and enthusiasm for vehicles are encouraged by these shows and films. I've looked up Lane Meyer's Camaro from Better Off Dead before. I even looked up his station wagon. One of my favorite movies, if not #1. Would love to see that in another video, and am curious as to which clips you would use! Buckaroo Banzai would be fun too.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you liked it!

@georgeerhard1949 Год назад

Definitely would love to find out more about Buckaroo Banzai's Jet Car (which basically was a Ford F150 pickup truck, with the bed removed and a jet turbine/intake fitted to the frame.)

@renatoigmed 9 месяцев назад

11:33 I know that probably even here in this niche very few people will remember this movie but I was very surprised that it highlighted one of the fictional cars that I was most impressed with at the time (when movies were watched on VHS) among the movies I most loved. I loved it in the 80s. Thank you very much and congratulations on your commitment to research!

@The_Arby Год назад

Cool video, brought back memories of my childhood watching tv and cinema films 🙂

@53summer 2 года назад

thanks for this, really well done! I have a few you might remember that weren’t as much a feature of the shows/movies, but still iconic to me as a teen growing up in the 80s. Mindy’s Jeep CJ5 that Mork rode around in upside down, and speaking of Jeeps, all the great Willy’s Jeeps in MASH were cool to see with some great episodes that featured them. I would add the car from Rainman… the Toyota SR5? 4x4 pickup at the end of Back To The Future, and for something really far out there and esoteric, Lady Jane Felsham’s green Range Rover in the UK series Lovejoy was a really nice ride. Thanks again for taking me down memory lane!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Thanx, Glad you enjoyed!

@Willysmb44 2 года назад

Thanks for posting this. I saw the Blue Thunder mockup at Universal in the 90s, I'd wondered what happened to it, as a friend of mine got buzzed by the helicopter during the filming of the short-lived TV series. As for the 'highwayman' truck, I'd often wondered about that. Not many people even remember the TV movie or series today!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed. I wonder as well what happened to that cockpit. Hope it's still alive!

@coolcat6303 2 года назад

Btw, the 2 Gazelle helicopters used as BT were also used as Soviet choppers in the ABC miniseries Amerika a few years later.

@coolcat6303 2 года назад

Not sure what happened to my original post but just to ket you guys know, there’s a cool die cast model of BT for sale. I bought one on eBay and it looks fantastic

@wetwes1 2 года назад

Highwayman truck and Kitt made by the same person - Jon Ward.

@lgbm777 Год назад

GREAT Video ! Thanks for posting ! 😎💚🌟

@GenXToysGeek Год назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@Cypress078 Год назад

80s best decade for tv ever, period. The dukes, A team, knight rider, fall guy, hunter, Simon and Simon, macgyver and others the decade cant be best.

@oldarcadeguy9412 2 года назад

I was a teen in the 80s and remember pretty much every vehicle you showcased here. Thanks for the memories! By far, my favorite is Christine!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@8Nguy1948 Год назад

It's a shame that so many were destroyed making the movie. I always hoped that they used mock-ups .

@BradColemanisHere 2 года назад

Amazing video! I had forgotten about a couple of these and the memories came rushing back. I was a big airwolf and knight rider fan, so those get my vote for the best. Hard to pick though.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@bigdeal6852 Год назад

It's amazing how some of these notorious Movie and T.V cars get destroyed or scrapped. They should have a Museum for "ALL" of these vehicles....since some of them are just as much more famous than the movies themselves. 👍

@cholasimmons Год назад

because of you i'm now downloading all seasons of Knight Rider

@FullersFigures 2 года назад

This is brilliant and so well researched and delivered. I’m going to have to go with Airwolf for my favourite. With BA’s van a close second.

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it! I love Airwolf

@FullersFigures 2 года назад

@@GenXToysGeek yeah such an iconic vehicle from our childhoods.

@volcanicash4893 2 года назад

That was Excellent. Well researched, well written and delivered. Thoroughly enjoyed!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@tigsalottolo4571 2 года назад

This brought back some great memories of my childhood. Thank you for this video!

@TheSaturnV Месяц назад

Nice list, another good entry would have been "Simon & Simon." There was a 1982 Camaro Z28 with the T-top modified to be a targa and then of course the 1979 Dodge Power Wagon pickup and occasionally a '57 Bel Air convertible would turn up. Would be nice to see if any of these survived.

@shammon1 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the Street Hawk info. greta clip.

@Raketenmaulwurf 2 года назад

Earlier this year when I was looking for a new car, I actually thought about buying a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. I loved Knight Rider back when I was a kid. Even without all those modifications it is still a nice looking car. But to be honest... Having Airwolf as a personal helicopter to fly to work everyday would be awesome aswell :) Nice video! Thx for all the research you did!

@GenXToysGeek 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed