movie cars and how fake they are

Ok i was just watching WALK THE LINE this weekend and it was great looking at all the old tin driving around in the beginning. But when Johnny cash finaly gets up the balls to go over to the recording studio he crosses the street infront of a 54 or 55 ford wagon
it had AMERICAN RACING WHEELS ON IT
POLISHED TORQUE THRUSH
thats a little too new for that year
i am a youngin so maybe im wrong
check it out and let me know
TOM

movie cars are funny

 

it can be fun pickin apart movies. there are ALWAYS mistakes if you watch close enough (TV too). you just gotta look past it and unless it's REALY obvious you just gotta let it go.

 

Yep, I noticed that too...

In the movie Rush Hour in one shot the black vette has Spoke Daytons and in the next shot its back to the ralleys.

Only us car geeks catch it, I think

 

98% of people will never notice the wheels on the car. 1.5% of those that do won't think they're out of place. The .5% that do will reply to this post.

 

i notice alot of car mistakes on tv and in the movies too. there used to be alot of them on home improvment which disappointed me cause tim allen is supposed to be a car guy. it also makes me wonder how many mistakes there are in areas i dont know a thing about, stuff that flys over my head like car stuff flys over alot of other peoples heads.

 

I got to drive from Denver to the California border in one of the Challenger stunt cars from the Fox TV movie "Vanishing Point."
The car I was in was beat to hell. The dirt on movie cars is actually spray paint. Got to driver over Donner Pass during a blizzard, with non-working high-beams, and the regular beams half painted over with brown paint.

In one scene from the movie, the Challenger was supposed to power slide around a corner, tag a 55-gallon drum, tip it over and take off. One of the prop geeks thought there should be water to splash when the car hit the barrel with it's quarter panel. Nobody told the stunt driver. In the movie, you see it hit the barrel and water splashes, then the car keeps going. In real life, the car hit the barrel (now several hundred pounds) and caved in the quarter panel. They beat it out with a 5-pound sledge, frosted it like a cake (bondo), repainted it and put the car back in the rotation.

-Brad

 

In "Grumpy Old Men" or maybe grumpier I can't remember Jack Lemmon drives a 68 dodge polara that randomly switches from 4dr hardtop to 4dr Sedan.

It's one of those things you only notice when you go "ooh that's my car" everytime it's on the screen.

 

i dont want to offend anyone here ,but it buggs me how in american graffiti the pharohhs merc is so high.

 

What offended me was that Myth Busters had to do a whole show to see if you could actually rip the rear end out from underneith a car...................

 

Funny you should mention that, I just watched that last night and noticed that. Ironically, they had hupcaps on the front of that wagon and then the custom wheels on the rear. I suspect the camera angle was supposed to be different to exclude that. The other part interesting was the old 40 Ford on the whitewalls in front of the recording studio -- those tires were way too wide/modern for normal old bias ply tires of the era. I suppose my comment annoyed my wife -- oh well.

 

FUNNY you should mention that,,, one night i was watching the Tonight Show with Jay Leno,,,and Tim Allen was the guest,,,Jay handed Tim a Holley carb (as a GIFT)and Tim just looked at it like he had never saw one before!??!?!?!?!

this was along time ago,,but ever since i remeber seeing that,,i never thought of Tim Allen the same way,,,besides,,,Home Improvment was pretty gay!!!

 

tie her behind the car and drag her...................

 

It also had tinted windows. nice.

 

Welcome to Hollywood.
Home of fake everything.

 

I pointed that out to my parents when I watched at their house. First thing out of my mom's mouth "only you'd notice something like that" Maybe its me, but I thought it was kinda obvious. That was the first thing I noticed in that scene.

 

Other examples include the fampus "Good Guy's" 27-shot six shooter.

I'm a science teacher who grew up in "Tornado Alley". That movie "Twister" was so full of errors I ended up with sore ribs from my wife elbowing me for laughing at the wrong times.

One of the famous "car chase" scenes is "infamous" because of the number of hubcaps seen rolling off the good guy's car -- seems it was 12 or 15.

(The production crew has a person in charge of "continuity" that is supposed to keep track of all those details -- like the 4-dr vs sedan -- but since they often shoot scenes out of sequence sometimes they slip. )

 

I noticed the wheels also, the funniest thing i remember in a movie was in the fast and the furious when ever they're on the highway you seem em' up shift a good 20-30 times!! plus their in a rice rocket so it makes em' stupid too!!

 

you left out the fact that it took them 5 minutes to run the 1/4

 

If I ever meet Tim Allen I'm going to kick him in the balls. He's a fag and an embarassment to car guys. Leno had him on a show another time, and Tim was showing him his new 56 Nomad. Tim said, "Here's my 55 Nomad!" Jay said, "It's a 55 huh?" "yep." Jay left it at that.

Tim wouldn't know a carb from a exhaust manifold if you shoved them up his ass one at a time.

"Uh, I think that's the Holley -OOOHH!, maybe? Let's try something else!"

 

Its funny this thread comes up as we were just talkin the other night, a few of the guys and I, about this and how many of us picked out the wheels as being wrong in that movie "Walk The Line"... It was funny as ever since i can remember i always try to pick out cars that are too new for a movie year or things like the wheels, and so in this movie i was sittin there, watchin the movie, and i saw the wheels, and said to my girlfriend, "whoa those werent invented yet haha" and she said "just watch the show, like anybody would notice? " Well all you guys, my friends and I did so ...haha!! Good to see I am not the only one. I also was lookin at that 40 thinkin that the back wheels looked way deeper then a stock 40, as well, it seemed a tad low for a stocker so i thought it was KOOL!!

 

Its always been depressing to me that the Interceptor (Mad Max's Falcon) had a FAKE blower on it. I mean, why oh why....

 

LOL... Way too funny! you crack me up...

 

no only swedish car geeks catch it

and maybe canadian aswell hoho

j/k

 

saw one swedish movie
that was supposed to happen around 1964 or something like that
and they had an 68-69 caddy convert. that one of the main characters drove around in... lamer then wrong hubcaps for sure...

 

LMAO, that was good.

 

Fake moviecars.... tell me about it.
This is my moviecar, a fiberglass shell with only one door cut out.
Man picking this up at the dock really made me laugh

 

Not so much mistakes, but I remember in high school, I was about 17 @ a friends house with our girlfriends and mess of Rolling Rock...we watched my cousin Vinny. I think the car was a Tempest? and laid posi tracks in the photo...I said "I really doubt any Tempests were made with posis..." Little did I know it had any relevance to the movie.

I seem to remember Good Fellas with Ray Liota @ the airport in 1963 leaning up on the trunk of a 65 Chevy? I might be wrong but I dunno...

 

Hollywood...fake cars...fake bikers...fake tits.....fake everything. But ya gotta remember...movies are fake.

 

im just glad to see that i am not the only one that got the big nudge from the wife for wanting to rewind the movie to see if i was correct or not.

i think she was pissed because she hates it when i'm right

tom

 

I seem to remember Good Fellas with Ray Liota @ the airport in 1963 leaning up on the trunk of a 65 Chevy? I might be wrong but I dunno...

Yes, I made it a point to say something. 4 or 5 of us were watching it when I pointed that out..........Crickets.

I can't remember what movie it was in but the setting was 60's-70's and what should happen to pass in the background, a Nissan Pathfinder.