Featured Hot Rods Script writers don’t know how to research?

It not just the movies, this news feature calls a 30/31 Model A a Model T.

 

But not impossible.... That's why God invented wrecking yards!

 

My wife gets pissed at me for noticing the wrong cars in a movie! But one thing for sure I can usually date a movie by the cars. That is if I see a 1958 Ford in a movie….I know the movie was not made in 1956! And it was made close to 1958.
One of my rare talents…..that is completely worthless!





Bones

 

My 327 in my 59 ElCamino was cast in 1961. Certainly an early production vehicle could have been wrecked. There is also midnight auto supply. Hot rodders were hooligans

 

Yep, the line should probably have been “jacked up GTO”, but “shackled’ flows better or something.

 

When you see a really well detailed movie or show, it's a treat. When MadMen came out it was so similar to real life ad man life that I'd get so worked up watching it that I couldn't get through season 1. The crazy impossible effing clients, the insane and often debaucherously reckless creative types. Smoking and drinking in the office. All too real. I'd be wrung out.
The set dressers who are responsible for the furnishings, the accessories, the details of the offices and homes went miles and miles overboard. Just fantastic work.
Now, it's not often the case that a set dresser is nails on automotive stuff. It's a tall ask. I saw a video of someone driving down a busy street in SoCal in about 1964. It looks nothing like any scene in any movie. A wild mix of mostly late '50s and early '60s cars, not all the popular models, a lot of fairly ugly cars and not all in great condition.
Picture Car Industries license plates (those with PCI in them) jump out at you too. Like all the phone prefixes being 555.
Distracting.

From the web - The California DMV allows film and television productions to use specific sequences that haven't been issued to the public. "PCI" is one such series that's been set aside for this purpose.

 

I was watching Dark Shadows today and one of the characters pulls up and I hear straight 6 and I'm thinking, because the character was rich, they'd be driving a British sports car or something but nope it was a 65-66 Shelby.

 

I was watching a Western movie which took place in the 1800's. In a scene a group of rough looking cowboys were sitting around a table gambling. It all looked legit until they showed a close-up of the coins on the table, the oldest coin was a 2009 quarter. I laughed until I cried.

Larry

 

Did I miss it, or has no one mentioned the completely different '55 that Falfa rolls on Paradise Road? Even the chrome reverse are spray painted steelies.
And a good friend of mine gave me the SK book, "It Came From a Buick 8", with a
'53 Buick on the cover. The story revolves around a '54 Buick. Not a big deal, unless your name is fatassbuick, and you drove a '53.

 

My wife hates watching movies with me because I call out all the bullshit. Wrong era wheels on cars, wrong years, wrong makes or when they use the same car in multiple scenes throughout a movie.

"They crashed that car in the background an hour ago, how is it in a scene at the end of the movie?"

 

The T.V. show M*A*S*H* features a bus that was made in ‘54 - AFTER the war was over…..

 

Every now and again you'll see a Dodge Power Wagon or other military vehicle in a war movie with locking front hubs.

 

Just trying to wrap my head around the date. My great uncle(s)? were in Korea and my grand parents were married a few years after the conflict.

 

War "ended" July '53.

 

Also "My Science Project" - guys are in a G.T.O. and one dude says "Hit the blower". Either it's working or it isn't!

 

Also, not sure it has been mentioned, but you will see the same old cars in every scene all over town! Can’t remember the movie , but I kept seeing a light green/blue Edsel in about every street scene! I kept going” there’s that Edsel , again! “ She got pissed! Then I quit! For awhile….then I said “ there’s it is again”…..Thankfully the movie ended shortly after that!




Bones

 

In the movie " The Last Picture Show" , set in 1951, has one scene where Dwayne, Jay Cee and
Sonny are coming from the Rig-wam drive-in and they roll down the street past a '69 Impala
in someone's yard.A shadowy image of the same car appears in the dance hall scene. Just like Falfa's car transforms from a V-8 4 speed into a 6 cyl. Automatic single exhaust during the rollover... just like the country singer bimbo who
"Got my left foot down on the accelerator", have you ever driven a car in America? Are the gas pedals on right or left in the UK & Oz?

 

No doubt after they saw Mel Gibson "kick in "
The blower in Road warriors

 

If you want to see repetitive cars watch a few episodes of Highway Patrol. There was one black 53-54 Plymouth tudor wagon that made it into several.
And how many of you watched frame by frame as Tim Allen's red 55 nomad got crushed in an episode of Tool Time. At the last second the nomad turns into a regular wagon. That one saved a heart attack for me having owned two red 55 Nomads as a teenager.

 

RHD cars have the same throttle right, brake middle and clutch left as LHD cars. I have Australian Utes and they are RHD, and the pedals are same orientation as US cars. Shifting is with left hand though.

 

i learned to drive on dad's '62 SS, which had a 250 hp 327, and an alternator!