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This is my favorite old car movie... one of them anyway. This one is from 1973 and these were brand new cars when this was filmed. I have a Pontiac just like the big blue one in this chase. Such great cars. 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville. I have had mine for 13 years, never a problem.
Nice. It looks just like the Catalina. I had a green 74 and loved it. I enjoy the pre-CGI car chase scenes a lot more. You wonder how they pulled it off driving like that in New York. Saw couple of Ramblers, a Torino, a bunch of New Yorkers and one Pinto. They jammed every cliche scenes, like driving on the sidewalk and hitting the fruit stand. How did a single blast of the shotgun blew the hood clean off? The sound track is interesting. I don’t know of any Nova that sounded like that!
Nice. It looks just like the Catalina. I had a green 74 and loved it. I enjoy the pre-CGI car chase scenes a lot more. You wonder how they pulled it off driving like that in New York. Saw couple of Ramblers, a Torino, a bunch of New Yorkers and one Pinto. They jammed every cliche scenes, like driving on the sidewalk and hitting the fruit stand. How did a single blast of the shotgun blew the hood clean off? The sound track is interesting. I don’t know of any Nova that sounded like that!
Yeah, it (that Grand Ville) is really nothing more than a "fancy" Catalina (more chrome, wood-grain interior trim, posher seats, etc) with a formal roof-line like the Olds 98, Buick Electra and Cadillac DeVille of that era.
We used to have a blue '74 Catalina 4dr sedan back in the 80s. Had a crash in it in 1985, engine was saved and car was sent to the junk yard. It was my grandmothers car in the 70s.
Yeah, that hood blowing off when the bullet hit it was overkill. My dad is always like, "yeah right!". lol.
Yeah, no music in the chase that I recall, so that was interesting and I don't think that car (the car chasing) was really making that sound. It was a new car with single exhaust, it should not have been any louder than that Grand Ville. I guess they did that to make it more dramatic. That car was actually the Ventura, the Pontiac version of the Nova.
There was also a Buick (Apollo, then Skylark by mid 70s) version, as well as an Oldsmobile version (Omega).
Often when I watch movies from the 70s and 80s, I pay more attention to the street scene and the cars more than the movie plot. It instantly takes me back to my youth and college days. I am amused how people so nonchalantly get into heir Pintos, Vegas and LTDs and think nothing of it. Then of course there is the street scene. Stores, people, traffic, Checkers. One of the best is Taxi Driver and the New York scene in late 70s.
absolutely yes, that's part of the reason why I love watching these movies, I love seeing cars like Chevy Monte Carlo's, Ford LTD's, Chevy Impala's, Oldsmobile Cutlass's, Chevy Nova's and Ford Granada's in the background.
That's pretty much the whole reason to watch Vanishing Point (1971). It's 1.5 hours of a 1970 Dodge Challenger driving across the desert.
The part that sticks in my mind is the final collision with the front loader. Talk about immovable object. That thing didn’t move an inch. I think all 70s era car chases use the same exhaust sound track!
I always liked the 71 Cadillac in the classic film "Superfly"
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It was my grandmothers car in the 70s. 
