I was watching the chase scene from my "Bullitt" DVD and got some screen captures I though maybe you guys might like to see.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
I'd have to disagree on that one. Yes, it's a neat car, but IMHO, the greatest movie car of all time award goes to the primered '55 Chevy in Two Lane Blacktop. Terrible acting, no story, but that '55 was the Real Deal. It ran 10's in the quarter mile just as it sat in the movie. From what I've read, the driver of the Charger had to slow down to alllow the Bullitt Mustang to keep up in certain scenes. Sorry, just what I've read...
After some thought, I'm going to give this some perspective. Dyno Don Nicholson ran an A/FX '65 Mustang fastback in '68 that was powered by a carbed, 427 SOHC. The thing ran on very skinny slicks and ran high '9's. By '71 street cars could run LOW 13's stone stock. That is to say on skinny, bias-ply tires, cast-iron manifolds, power steering and street gears. The guys who race in the F.A.S.T. series must run all the same stuff and recently one guy put a '69 L88 Corvette into the 10's. And you think it's unrealistic to say a '55 with a killer 454, fiberglass front wrap, doors and trunk lid, plexiglass windows, completely gutted with steep gears and slicks couldn't run in the 10's? I'd bet money it did.the 55 was the same car in american graffiti, however i seriously doubt that it was a 10 second car, especially when even pro stock cars were barley hitting 10 second times back then. it may have been a low 13 or high 12 second car at best.