Mad Max Replicas

[Express]

You see in a lot of action movies when a car flips there is no drive train, no exhaust and the like.

HD TV and the ability to stop and analyse movies frame by frame makes it easy to see.

Good thing they strip them out or these days use replicas and other CIG tricks, why destroy perfectly good cars that are classics or may end up being one?

That Monaro in Mad Max was in very poor condition with every panel dinted and in the ‘70’s it would have been a cheap throw away.

These days they should know better.

How many ’69 Chargers went to the boneyard courtesy of the Duke of Hazzard?

[WHYME]

@Express - Except for Fast and Furious movies as of late. I watched the making from the company that creates the cars and he mentioned he had to cut up a lot of complete, perfectly good cars like a few R35 GTR's in order to shoot better camera angles from inside the cars for the movie. He also said a lot of other cars were cut up but he didn't get too specific about which cars he was talking about. When asked if he got emotional when he had to cut up these cars for the movies he said "some I do, and some I don't". Considering that the 1970 Plymouth Road Runner is a major car in the series, I think I know which car he felt emotional about cutting up and destroying ;].

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by Express

You see in a lot of action movies when a car flips there is no drive train, no exhaust and the like.

HD TV and the ability to stop and analyse movies frame by frame makes it easy to see.

Good thing they strip them out or these days use replicas and other CIG tricks, why destroy perfectly good cars that are classics or may end up being one?

That Monaro in Mad Max was in very poor condition with every panel dinted and in the ‘70’s it would have been a cheap throw away.

These days they should know better.

How many ’69 Chargers went to the boneyard courtesy of the Duke of Hazzard?

Back then it was "just another Monaro". No big deal. In 1982 a mate of mine bought a very good XY GT in gold with black stripes, just repainted, black interior. It was $4100. About six months later I bought a VH Valiant Charger (265 hemi, rare factory four speed) for $1600 from a big car yard.
They just weren't that expensive back then..."just old cars"...

[Kieron]

Originally Posted by Express

You see in a lot of action movies when a car flips there is no drive train, no exhaust and the like.

HD TV and the ability to stop and analyse movies frame by frame makes it easy to see.

Good thing they strip them out or these days use replicas and other CIG tricks, why destroy perfectly good cars that are classics or may end up being one?

That Monaro in Mad Max was in very poor condition with every panel dinted and in the ‘70’s it would have been a cheap throw away.

These days they should know better.

How many ’69 Chargers went to the boneyard courtesy of the Duke of Hazzard?

I believe the Munro was actually in decent condition when purchased and was driven through bush to rough it up.

@Tex, can't find my book to check, but I thought it was written after the movie? If the smokey XA was a late addition, then it wouldn't have been part of the original script. Agreed on the faster Munro though, in the movie it would have been at the same level as the black MM car so the lower spec yellow cars had no chance until it failed

[Tex Scrotum]

Legend has it that the original Mad Max movie was heavily censored and a lot of material cut out of the original movie.
I'm not sure how true that is and I assumed the book was written before the movie or at the same time using the script.
From memory the book does follow the script very closely except that there are entire sections (scenes) missing from the movie.
I was about 15-16 years old when I first saw the movie in the cinema in 1980.
It was R rated and a mates brother who worked at the cinema snuck us in.
Good Times 😃

[Express]

Sure in days gone by the cars were considered cheap and disposable and I’m aware they still destroy cars to make movies today and in the case of the Fast & Furious franchise they use the excuse of authenticity in filming.

I’ve also seen ‘The Making Of’ some movies where many of the vehicles are CGI and you can't tell, the Bad Boys movies are a good example which takes me again to my point, these days they should know better and save the classics and potential classics and not waste them in the name of making a movie when there are other good movie making techniques available.

As far as the Fast & Furious goes, they must be pseudo car guys to be able to destroy a batch of beautiful machines when it isn’t necessary.

[aussie muscle]

Originally Posted by Express

That Monaro in Mad Max was in very poor condition with every panel dinted and in the ‘70’s it would have been a cheap throw away.

The guys who built it said they dented every panel on it by taking it for a drive through the bush, then by dragging a concrete brick over it's panels.

How many ’69 Chargers went to the boneyard courtesy of the Duke of Hazzard?

301 were used, about 20 were saved. They used the old ones to fix up others, to save on money.