The California Kid (1974) carchase 3

[BigBishop1]

my first car was a 57 plymouth bought it in 67 for 35 dollars

[The1200r]

I need a guy like sheriff Roy to handle all the drunks in my town.Send him with that cool old car too

[CamaroAmx]

FYI: the California Kid 32 Ford was the inspiration for the ZZ Top Eliminator 32 Coupe (they are basicaly the same except for the paint job and rims.

[1968DodgeCharger440]

great (= no more to say

[Menolifee]

Wow what a shame. I was hoping for the uglyass rod to get destroyed

[blackhogb]

does any one know what size steel rims, the california kid was running

in the movie

[racefan32]

@blackhogb era-correct steel wheels and Ford hubcaps

[Mayala285]

hey that tunnel looks like from the movie duel

[racefan32]

@Mayala285 probably is the same one

[radmaxxxx]

Yeah!!Die filthy pig!!

[Conurelover1]

Kudos for "Christine's" blue & white distant cousin...

[coolo39919]

3:04 , look how close he is to getting ramed!

[coolo39919]

@lheard8664

ya it sucked, but still grate movie!

[8124charles]

Christine é uma viatura!

[lheard8664]

The policeman played in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larr as a cop as well

[CamaroAmx]

@lheard8664 yup. "Clown to franklin, Clown to Franklin." "maybe your one of those roundy-rounders? or maybe you just wish you were."

[coolo39919]

wow that cop knows how to drive , but still NOT AS GOOD as the california kid!

[coolo39919]

who destroys a Plymouth Fury?! :(

[lheard8664]

@coolo39919 In Christine they destroyed a many :(

cool movie though

[Statimtek]

The tunnel at 2:11 looks like the one used in Duel, 3 years earlier.

[redmr2na]

Good Man Sheen, you did your homework. Any good fast driver does his homework before challenging an advisary on their home turf. You knew the cop was a dirtbag, asshole, crooked son of a bitch, who was deliberately killing people by pushing them past the limit of what their cars would do and the skill level of the drivers themselves, while staying within the limits of what his skill level was and what his car could do. Fast driving can kill, but then it doesn't help to have someone with a ven

[6907lankershim]

On my way to work in the morning I'd drive down Lankershim past Universal and for a week or more, every morning there would be a car hauler full of 57 Plymouth police cars heading out. When the movie came out I knew what I'd been seeing.

[doevicente]

Actually I'd say people leaving town ! As they were thinking they could make the county line !

[wazzapee69]

yeah to right that is a 32 ford for memory hahahah and yeah 200 bucks for each wheel nut darkkonelives

[greg55666]

The opening of this scene was fucking awesome! But man the rest of the chase was terrible.

[22red23]

why is this chase so chill?? lmao

[Maxdwolf]

One of the worst choreographed chases/car duels I've ever seen.

[dirttrack61]

I saw this movie when it premiered on ABC in 1974, the next day at school all my friends were buzzing with talk about how cool Martin Sheen's car was.

What I wouldn’t give to be thirteen again.

[BackInTheDay17]

WINNING!!! Oh wait, wrong Sheen.

I love how the rear bumper on the hot rod is just a piece of steel C channel.

[onlyweknow2]

My Dad had a 57 Plymouth Fury, sucker was fast.

[Sodiumreactor]

that hot rod sounds like a Nascar racer!

[buixrule]

@dorkhunter1 I know, I was just thinking the same thing.

[rodbuoy]

that old mopar would have had torsion bar suspension and probably would corner better than anything back in the day if it were true to life.and what was with those tacky side pipes on the Cal. kid. They must of been added for the movie but in poor taste

[r8wing]

Such a poor movie. Anemic conflict, no tension, the villain is not odious at all... The hotrod saves the day more than Martin Sheen.

[punisher9510]

why are they only doing 30 mph ?

[rocketman50]

@punisher9510

What ??? You have to Kidding !

[ThePowerWithinMe]

Dammit, now I have to download the movie to see if the cop lives, dies or ends up a cripple.

[r8wing]

@ThePowerWithinMe

Save it, it's not worth your time or hard space.

[youWILLlose2012]

yea well that old "land yacht" happened to be one of the fastest production cars coming off the line ..stock ...and this one was not stock lil young lad ! in 1974 probably before "dark loin boy" was produced , this was a classic ! so get off your x-box , step outside and smell the aroma of what surely will be your certain demise....ass jester !

[jaguwerforme]

The "kid"s car must have been really shit to not be able to pull away from that old Plymouth land yacht.

[seizetheweakened]

gayest way to wear a cop hat EVER

[harleyrdr864]

someone please start a face book campaign to remake this flik,

while both sheens are still alive,

jack Nicholson can be the crazy ass cop, ,

[BuzzDyou]

Hay buoy! I'm gonna pull yur ass over for not wearin' yor seat-belt !!!

How come Charlie Sheen can't drive like his old man??

Is that Azusa Canyon Road near the old gravel quarry..?

[captaincabosanlucas]

Did you notice Nick Nolte in this filck ?

[82thetots]

haha omg i still have this on tape!

[fattony252]

Thats a blown engine in the Ford, both the car and the driver. (Martin Estevez)

[fattony252]

The girl had her necking licensce that sherrif roy required.

[Deader87]

Amazingly enough I cannot find this movie anywhere on Netflix(What a shame)

[toddcharry]

Martin Sheen should have had a vasectomy long ago.

[dogboy161]

looks like Marin Sheen 'the kid' and Vic Morrow 'the cop'.

[RazorUltraPro11]

godamn petje72 where do you find all these chase scenes?

[RazorUltraPro11]

more like the california adult

[zjbeast]

charlie sheen?

[wediko15]

@zjbeast no his dad 

[zjbeast]

@wediko15 Yea,, lol

[Cziczaki]

Jak on to zrobił, że na prostej się wywrócił?! O.o

[superbird426]

the cop car is a plymouth belvedere 1957

[fiddlerpin]

There are two errors in the movie. when the kids are in the gas station and Sheen says to the one he can drive the car - when he comes back you can see thru the top of the door into the car.. No weatherstrip. When Sheen tells the cop his tires are taller than stock when he's getting a ticket the Cops speedometer should have been slower not faster.

[CycolacFan]

@fiddlerpin

in the scene where the cop asks to see the engine you see a shot of the small block Chevy from the '32 Ford in American Graffiti since the engine in the Kid was a 302 Ford and too modern for 1958.

[fiddlerpin]

@CycolacFan Cool CycolacFan I'll check it out. Fiddler

[gearhead2k6]

They sure don't make them how they used too. That cop car didn't have a dent on it.

[Jackspinout]

im pretty sure that they exeeded 30mph... :S

[hicks727]

A little wah wah can go a long way

[badgerbuddy]

these are like my 2 favorite cars... they're both in my top 10 anyway

[zincorbie]

The late great Vic Morrow. He was cool but never found the right character outside of his Sgt Saunders in "Combat!".

[Chris1141992]

is this the Duel tunnel?

[mengle2004]

Christine 2...now the killer car has a badge LOL

[pattyaaron]

Does anyone remember a drag racing movie from the 70s where the tow heroes had to steal parts from a speed shop for a "big race" and after winning returned the parts? I remember the song "I fought the law" playing in that move. Ring any bells?

[1971SuperLead]

@pattyaaron I believe you are referring to the 70's movie "Hot Rod", where a guy beats the town's corrupt king pin's son in a root beer sponsored drag race in a 1941 Willys coupe. They steal a hemi motor from a cop car and borrow a super charger from a speed shop. He also steals parts from a auto museum.

I love that movie. A primer gray 41 Willys gasser found in a barn get resurrected with a blown hemi to wipe out corruption in a small town.. Classic!

[pattyaaron]

@1971SuperLead

WOW!!!

You described what a remember EXACTLY! That has to be the movie, at the end the guy leaves town with the pretty girl and they have to push start the car right?

[1971SuperLead]

@pattyaaron That's the movie! Corrupt small town cop writing the guy in the Willys coupe ticket after ticket.

"Hot Rod"

He rolls a Chevelle at the beginning of the movie. That's how he gets stuck in that town.

[pattyaaron]

@1971SuperLead right on! thanks!!!

[1961slam]

Vic Morrow........a super BAD GUY.

[gracie2570]

My great-uncle, Jerry Slover, now owns The California Kid, The Kid II, and Jake's Car...We have watched this movie many, many, many times!

[ROTTINGDEAD]

Strange how the music reminds me of the British Horror film "Psychomania".

Very cool,70s style.

I cant believe the Plymouth is fast enough to keep up with "The Kid".

[eindhovengorecity]

that 59 plymouth is awsome,.. to bad it gets wrecked

[Shaggyshadric]

@eindhovengorecity too bad it's a 57' plymouth ;p this is nothing, check out the movie"christine" She's the most badass 50's plymouth ever! She looks alot like this one, cept not a cop car and 1958 so a few design tweaks ;]

[Del350K4]

That coupe was pretty...

[MrLugnut43]

me and my dad built a car similiar to the cali kid car...back in the eights....but had to sell it ,,,my dad and mom needed the money....ever since i have built other rods..over the years and i stoped for a while cause of  a car wreck but i am looking for another one to start again..

[leonardgoodwin25]

GO MARTIN SHEEN!!!!LOOKIN GOOD!!!!!

[Lukedawg1984]

Always good to watch!!!!!

[62rome]

yeah the california kid.

[DA90027]

These old TV Movies of the Week were better than most of the crap they show theatrically now.

[ThunderAppeal]

What brand of shocks and sprigs does the Chrysler have. Its very flat and steady on the roads. I doubt they were bilstiens. But the way that car seems to be handling I'd say if those were American made shocks, the ones built back then were far suprerior to the crap American shock makers build today.

[trickdodge]

what's happend in last scene, how and why the plymouth '58 crashed? is the low aerodynamic?

[ThunderAppeal]

@harley1450000 I find it hard to believe that Koni had made any headway in to the American market in the 1970s. Or is Koni an American shock maker? Because I thought they were Japanese.

[ThunderAppeal]

@harley1450000 Ok, so it appears to me that youre not taking my inquiry seriously.

First you said it had koni, now you say it had sears. Next you will tell me it had wilwood disk brakes. I'm all ears.

[harley1450000]

@ThunderAppeal ok it had a straight front axel,independent rear

[ThunderAppeal]

@harley1450000 Youre a fucking idiot and your mother is a whore.

[harley1450000]

@ThunderAppeal hey cum belly leave my mom out fo it

[ThunderAppeal]

@harley1450000 Sorry, after seeing that you deleted your previous replies I realized youre just a dipshit gutless coward.

[arizonaresident1]

@ThunderAppeal Old Chryslers had Torsion Bars up front, not springs, and leaf springs in the rear. AFCO, Bilstein, QA1, and Carrera, and PRO all make as stiff a shock as any Japanese company out there but they don't belong on a highway cruiser going the speed limit. And if you think someone on here knows what brand shocks were on that car you're dreaming. Chances are they were stock and they sped the film up.

[1971SuperLead]

@arizonaresident1, Addco was a popular street and racing aftermarket suspension parts company back in the 70's. They manufactured and supplied front and rear sway bars and gas shocks for almost every American made automobile.

[1971SuperLead]

Perhaps the greatest 4 minutes hollywood ever shot.

[Reedynn]

Now hook your car up to the tow-truck and scoot!

[BrotherJulien]

The Ford was ahead then--it's still ahead today!

[jeba189]

I can remember watching this over and over on when came home from school.:)

[XBGTinterceptor]

The story says it's 1958. Anyone can tell why the Ford has 70s style sidepipes?

[DDAY191]

Now we know What "Christine" did after Arnie Died. She became a cop car

[84Bronco351]

but this was 9 years before the novel and movie Christine

[brokencherry16]

fuck the c kid that cop and the plymouth would have smeered his ass all over

[wediko15]

what a dumbass you are lmao

[jamesjdb]

@brokencherry16: Nah, That FIAT didn't stand a chance against The Ford and The Kid.

[racenemo]

Haha great to see it again

Nice car, LOL

[kevinabalo88]

This film could suck the shell off a tortoise.

[darkkonelives]

This movie must have had a budget well in excess of $200.

[MiracleMile90]

@darkkonelives: Oh, LOL. 

[papcrap2]

@darkkonelives That it did Budget $1,000,000.00 must have spent 990,000 of advertising and the rest on the film.

[edslittleworld]

That car just cracks me up, it's so cool! That wonderful noise, too.

[Necro0000]

Man, that poor Belvedere... I would like to have that "Golden Commando" out of it....

[Greg9942]

The PoPo did a no-no. I'd like to see that happen to one of these cops that chases some scared kid and makes him wreck. On one of the police video shows last week, I saw a cop chase three kids until they wrecked. They were 15, and one had taken his grandmother's car. The cops knew that, and chased them until they went off the road. One boy ended up with a spinal injury that put him in a wheelchair.

Three kids, too scared to stop.

[PupuTheClown]

Groovy movie !, it was easier in the 70s to find cars from the 50s to film with.

[MsGreenful]

You show him California Kid ! Bitch.

[broadjumper1]

That's a young Nick Nolte @ 3:20

[johncartelli]

this was a cool movie though.premise was sherrif was pushing speeders off sharp corner and he killed martin sheens kid brother..so he came to town to see what happened and give it back...

[johncartelli]

I bought this video about 4 yrs ago...way cool....the sherrif got killed doing a movie with a helicopter and it crashed... kinda weird seeing him in this movie and knowing how he was gonna die before he did....

[broadjumper1]

I remember watching this as a kid, but your comment just gave me pause to consider the following:

Vic Morrow plays an hardass cop who dies in an auto wreck...then plays another hardass cop who chases "Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry in a helicopter who die in a car carsh...then plays a hardass bigot and actually dies during filming...decapitated by a helicopter.

[ltyr2001]

Youtube is amazing. I just thought of this, and saw it last like... thirty years ago.

Good Gaad!

Thanks for posting it.

[426brandon]

another fine mopar wrecked by HOLLYWOOD! why??

[Ryoku75]

By wreckd you mean dented a little? That thing had to have had a rollcage in it.

[426brandon]

oh ya, i imagine it did! but that thing is still beyond repair!

[Ryoku75]

I don't think so, Jesse James fixed up a rusty Beetle that had been sitting in water for years, I think a decent restorer could bump out a few dents. How much ya wanna bet this Belevedere was used in Christine? They did use some 57's and most of the beat up cars were already in bad shape.

[harley1450000]

@426brandon holy hell man it was 1974,not 2010

[TheAudiRS4man]

Awsome movie. I saw it when i was around ten and liked it since the evening i watched it :P .

[PontoSetenta]

Caramba!!! Assisti esse filme a "milhões de anos atrás" e não me lembrava o nome. Muito bom, valeu!!!

[assgod1]

anyone else notice that the cop car is the same kind of car as christine

[angusandleigh]

Actually the cop caris a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere, and Christine was a 1958 Plymouth Fury but close enough ;)

[wediko15]

Nope its not that cop car is a 1957 plymouth belvedere and christine is a 58 fury

[ROMANEMPIRE69]

@wediko15 Actually there was some 58 belvedere's used for the movie

[rayrayholland]

@assgod1 the asshole cop is the same as in "Dirty Mary Crazy larry" too.

[onebigkahuna69]

@rayrayholland he was the sargent in The 60's Tv show Combat.I saw that(dirty mary crazy larry) movie recently and he was in a helicoptor and he was killed sometime later when they were filming the movie Twilight Zone by a helicopter.

[badgerbuddy]

@assgod1 the way the car behaves is like christine too... killing speeders, driving fast etc

[tropicjester12]

@assgod1 similar but not a fury,probably a savoy

[Logik426]

@assgod1 yeah its 1957 Plymouth Fury \

[horseboyken]

@assgod1 that was a 57 belevedere Christine was a 58 fury, similar bodies

[preistofdeath666]

bad cop! no donut!

[General1lol]

Wow reminds me of Christine (The book, not the movie).

[Artshayarsha]

Petje, you have an awesome selection of cool flicks!

[phuckmerunnin06]

that ford was talkin shit. gotta love them hot rods.

[texacobigred42]

bye bye Christine...

[handonrip]

one of my favorite movies ...70's genre....

[DJALEXT13]

HA... thats filmed at Angeles Crest... i practically lived right off of there... LOL its a 40 mile canyon road.. fun to drive on ...

[htwhls00]

you can't beat a smallblock Chevy!

[ZorbinEUR]

didnt expect that plymouth to keep up with the hot rod

[deaucey]

its a fucking hemi of course it will keep up

[bunklefee]

christ! could you get worse music? lol

such chesey crap and annoying music

[boofheadrules]

What a waste of the coolest cop car...

[jennymylover]

lol thats was pretty cool!!!! 5/5

[MyLuckyCars]

He race with the sheriff?

[MrStarzky]

poor Plymouth=(

[JetRanger0007]

The Actual Street Rod that Sheen is driving is down the street from me at Pete & Jakes in Kansas City

[MisterMasterShafter]

In case some don't know since it's been decades since this movie aired, the California Kid is the older brother of the guy in the car Sheriff Roy killed in the beginning. He doesn't just happen into town and meet the sheriff, he goes there to meet his little bro, then finds out what happened, then sets out to plan the finale and the sheriff's turn to go over the cliff.

[natesurfswell]

theres a youtube where someone brings a car like the cop car to the demolition derby look up 1957 chevy crash and yes i know its not a 57 chevy its a late 50s mopar

[rmdm1990]

sounds like porn music

[rahulvinal]

lol

[fwebel]

Wen I was a boy I saw this movie in a TV channel in Brazil.(1977, I think) Was love at first sight for the hot rods. 30 years after I still loving this cars

[yippee42]

BADASS 3-window coupe beat that faggot cop at his own game.

[CyDaSnake]

So in other words this is Christine meets Buford T Justice?

[jehuhippi]

anyone knows,what song is that in 0.06 ???

[retroolschool]

Shame about scrapin that '57 Plymouth...

[chuckbabygorilla]

Compared to just about any car chase ever, this was pretty boring. The Masters Touch is better; Bullett was better. Actually any chase scene from Chips was better than that. The car might be cool, but that movie really was butt.

[bigdaddymascaras]

i remember watching this on t.v. back in the day. along with duel, niagra, etc.. does anyone know where this movie was filmed?

[MrOrlandoRus]

HOW did he do that???? How did he manage not to fall down???

The lighter car? O_o

[Caliart]

My favorite Movie... great car!

[floppysfollies]

Hey Bro,help me out if you can.I remember an old hot rod movie about a couple guys in a willys gasser on the road to a dragstrip,at least thats how I remember it.Its not 2 lane blacktop or race to manecoon county,I hate the fact I cant remember more,like I asked,help me if you can.Thanks. Great clip by the way,love M Sheen in his youth...

[petje72]

That a look at Hotrod (1979), might that be the movie?

[floppysfollies]

THANKS bRO...

[jimdsnow]

@floppysfollies Return to macon county is the movie your looking for...starred Nick Nolte and Don Johnson. Great Flick!!

[trickdodge]

DEAD MAN´S CURVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hutchinson60]

The rod sucked? That's an old school rod, that's how they built them back then, chopped, lowered, even the flames are authentic.

[CyDaSnake]

Yea, now they do the same except they usually leave them rotty and call them "rat rods". I myself prefer a true hot rod with some ffort put into it.

[KUSTOMKULTURE666]

pete & jakes 34 ford coupe