Hahaha,thanks again friend. This is one of my favorite Burt Reynolds movies,and I just love that Custom 500. The full movie used to be on RU-vid and I made it my business to watch it at least 3 times a month. Sadly,it was deleted :( And I haven't had a chance of seeing any of the good chase scenes until you uploaded them friend. BIG Thumbs Up and Thank You,Thank You for this.
Missed a great scene.. The chick and Gator were alone in the car, and she asked him, "'What are you always writing in that little book.? Gator: Story of my life, darlin'. Chick: Am I in it? Gator, as he looks at her foot stroking his leg- "You're workin' on it'.. Classic..
With a majority of parts that would carry over from one car line to another, it is possible for a 4 speed swap to have been done back in the day. But cost wise on filming certain shots in certain cars was far cheaper than modifying cars to be what they weren't. Most movies back then were filmed, cut & released for under 100k maybe up to 200k.
Friend of mine from HS his pop had a 73 that he put a 429 Super Cobra Jet into. Upgraded brakes cooling rims/tires and still had cool A/C blowing. It was the ultimate sleeper until you hit WOT. Thing had to make 500 crank easy back then. First time I got laid was in that car which I sneakily ‘rented’ from my friend when the Dad thought he had it. Great memories, all three min of it lol
Did anybody else notice how far forward those strut the towers were in the Underhood shot?? Clearly not this car for that shot. With those Towers being so far forward it was either a Mustang or cougar or something like that
The birth of Smokey and the bandit and Dukes of Hazard . Bad sheriff , fast car , bootlegging , good ole boys in the south. They probably owe their creation to the success of this movie .
I am not talking about the age old story of moonshiners and fast cars everyone knows that. I am talking about how the filming and production of these movies and their success most probably contributed to the financial backing and later production of movies like Smokey and the bandit and TV shows like the Dukes of Hazard .
Danny Zuehlsdorf that under hood shot they showed is not that car. The strut towers are way too far forward. That was an under hood shot of a Mustang or cougar
Our uncle had an LTD the same color just like it only had a 351, It still would roast the tires pretty good, They also had '73 Grand Torino 2 door almost like the one in the Clint East movie only it was a plain Jane model with the bench seat and the police style hub caps
We had a 1974 LTD with a 400 small block, 2V. We used to beat that car, and it was tough. We burnt one of the valves over revving it in the snow. Still ran great but we had to replace the plug in that cylinder more often. Man I remember those big bumpers. Lots of chrome.
Outstanding job on the the video, Dude. All the great sounding car scenes and enough of the drama to get an idea of the story. Add a little humor and replace Ned Beatty with Jackie Gleason as Sherriff... Smokey and the Bandit is born... and cash continues to be counted. At some point, you realize how much more entertaining the original, creative real world is compared to the pretentious, remixed virtual world
Back when the stunt men where cowboys & tough as nails, & @ the end of the day licked, there wounds with hard liquor &:a handful of pain pills, & the cars where all the Big Block Muscle Car engines left over from the Good Ole days, Unlike today where a lot of stunts & what few car chase's, there are now day's other than a James Bond movie where the stunts & car chases, are done with Computer generated CGI, effects & None of its real like then .. back then you had to actually possibly break a nail & bleed a little bit for a Damn, Good Scene. ....Only thing that sucked, then was like in this one there was know car diversification, ever car in the movie was the samething, like in this one there all 2 ton ford LTD's....
Actually it was a 429 Police Interceptor/Cobra Jet engine with a single 4bbl. Or should I say at least *one* of them had the 429. Funny how some scenes show Burt shifting that Top Loader 4 speed and then others show him putting an automatic column shifter in park before he gets out of the car.
This 71 Ford, and the Charger in Bullitt, are my two favorite sounding cars in chase scenes. Of course Gumball Rally had some great scenes and sounds also. At 2:50 you can hear the secondaries open up ... Nice Video!!! Also great lines -- I'm only afraid of two things, women and the police --- and would you like to try my recipe for "Shaker Pudding"?. Classic!!!
There's a dude who built one of these cars in Jersey, I seen it at the Wildwood car show in South Jersey,not the Snookie Jersey shore in North Jersey!!!
Man. That old LTD sounds good they never had short thro 4 speeds. But Muncie 4 speeds could fit any thing. Alot of muscle cars were fed there deaths on dirt tracks
Burt is laminating that it is a 429 with dual carbs.......why would they let him say this when the viewer has a head on look, and those are not 429 heads, and that is a single carb (lol, the double-pumper fuel feeder has only one side hooked up (?))..that's Hollywood for ya
I guess it is the price of being old, A fella realizes this young bunch dont know nuthin ,. LOL, FORD DID build and would puta 429 in any and all 2 dr and 4dr galaxie ,mercury marquis and monterey chassis from 1969-1972 .They could be special ordered with a 429, that was before low compression engines. Those Cars Ran HOT and were sometimes hard to start if it was run hot and put up wet You can still find decent Mark 3 Lincolns on CL for around 2500 that the good ol Granpas that knew their shyt kept in the garage and now the shyttie pants gran kids dont want the old car , 429 engine was standard equipment from 69-71, i have a triple black 69 Marquis convertible that came standard with a 429 -4 barrell. It Delivers over 370 HORSES with vacuum style advance..AND without electronic ignition .that car is over 19 ft long . in 1972 the Mark 4 had a 460 hi compression 4 barrell , Elvis had one . My Marquis can get 20 mpg, or less than 8 if you drove it like burt reynolds .casual driving i get about 14 . it passes anyone as if it were inhaling .
yeah he's banging gears with a top loader 4 speed then when he pulls up to his daddy's house for the first time from the right rear of the car you see him put the car in park.
DWH BOI exactly we used soup up anything that had a V8 and turn it into n animal 63 Chey Biscayne bell air it was the cheapest down grade of the Impala there was but with that 409 4 speed in there look s we're deciving
Love the movie but why big Fords and Mercury? I realize you have to have some room for the whiskey, and maybe the sleeper factor, but man, big Ford? Even if it was about all Fords' sponsorship, they've got a 71 Torino Cobra and Mercury Cyclone right in front of them with the 429 that wouldn't have needed much hot rodding. And the other guy 'Rebel Yell' with a 4700lb Mercury Grand Marquis. Huh? Those were not 'built for speed' at aaaallllllll. You can see them floating and pitching just coming to a stop, let alone on the corners.
With the possible exception of the 'Vettes and some import cars, there were no decent handling cars back then..Nor braking, either..Certainly not by todays' standards, for sure..You're right, they had huge trunks and looked like family cars, drawing less attention from the five oh, I suppose..But the cops knew who they were before long, no doubt..Also, the tires sucked..heh..
Point is, lighter and stiffer sprung '71 Torino Cobra was right there in front of them. It was a 'standard sized' large intermediate in the Dodge Coronet mold, but it would certainly out handle the Custom 500. It would've been big enough for the load of moonshine - and maybe with 3.00:1 gears for crazy top speed. I could see the Mustang not holding enough payload. I'm assuming Ford paid the bills here so we're limited to just Fomoco. "Rebel" Mercury could've been one of these st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2012/08/mscp-1205-1971-mercury-cyclone-spoiler-000.jpg
