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  • The original is a great movie, It has that "real" feeling to it, not line the holly wood stuff of these days.

  • rip H.B.

  • Well, there goes my insurance...

  • That Car is easy to restore!!

  • @erichnonne Needs a new body, new frame, possible new engine and thats about it.

  • That rattled his fillings.

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  • Damnit I know I have this movie and I can't find it. It's pissing me off.

    Best car movie ever made.

  • H.B. Halicki broke several vertebrea filming this epic film. Nicholas Cage has nothin on him.

  • H.B.Halicki Was And Always Will Be The God Of Car Stunts, R.I.P. Crash King!

    ...Goddamn I Love this!, why did they make a stupid fucking remake? JUST PLAIN DISRESPECTFUL!

  • Ahh Back when cars were made to last. You do that with a car today and it would prolly crack in half from all the plastic. By far best movie ever made aside from bullit.

  • @48jeep4x4 Cars aren't and shouldn't be designed to jump over other cars.

    Modern cars are safer and stronger than the this car. The survival cell and side impact protection would shame an American car from the '70s (which used plastics heavily).

    The fronts of cars are built to expend energy during a collision instead of just passing the buck all the way to to cabin and occupant.

    Do you think it's harder to just throw a girder in there than it is to design a controlled collapse of structure?

  • @JeefCakes Old cars are tougher, while modern cars are in many ways more reliable. A new 'Stang couldn't survive that jump, and the car used for the film still exists and runs, without any modifications after filmaking. A very different story is to find an unharmed driver in a wrecked new mustang instead of a mush of meat and broken bones in a structurally intact old mustang after they both had the same crash.

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  • @machone7I Whoops, I misread your comment right there. Yep, you're right.

  • Fucking. Ford. Mustang. Mach-motherfucking-1!

    This is what made the movie so fuckin' awesome, the raw power of the Mach 1.

  • the absolute greatest part of this movie is when miraculously a random woman is driving the same car so he "gta's " it and continues on with a fresh start. epic. but in all seriousness vanishing point is the best............ mopar or no car

  • the original Eleanor was practically a rebodied Nascar racer... it had a full, if crude, roll cage and was built with a full chassis, one tough number. Toby's widow still owns it, and it's usually on display at the Petersen Museum in L.A. To answer another post, Toby was pretty sloppy with safety precautions, and that's what got him killed.

  • Too bad the sound effects are so generic... the original release was far superior, changed because Toby's widow didn't want to pay music royalties to Toby's family members.

  • the picture looks like its a 18 wheeler loke kenwood or something ^^

  • this car chase just shits on the 2000 remake. however they used a nicer stang in the remake, wish they kinda used the 67 shelby in this one, or at least a 69 or 70

  • What;s not to like ...11?

  • The final jump seems to be slower than what I remembered on my VHS. No matter, overall most epic and awesome. No CGI here, nor probably any safety precaution like a roll cage.

  • @silverdraggin the guy driving this car was killed while filming the sequel. Safety just wasnt much of a priority back then.

  • this stunt is much better than the similar scene in the remake...look at the car`s roof at 0:55 !

  • The 73 mustang looks better with that dent in the front than it does normally.

  • 9 people drive a Camaro.

  • great scene remake was great too

  • id love to see what a modern plastic car would look like after doing a jump like this or the pole kiss eleanor gave to a street light

  • The remake is way better

    

  • Man consider that suspicion raped.

  • this.

    was.

    fucking.

    AWESOME!

  • Watch that roof buckle at 0:54!!!!

  • The new Gone in 60 seconde is better than the 1974 version. In this one the driver scrap the car very hard and that's why I don't like it and this version of the Shelby gt500 thwy take in the new version is very hot than this one.

  • @190nine

    You again you stupid troll.

    Did you ever take part in English class in school? "the new version is very hot than this one" Fail.

  • Vanishing point

  • this ford never will die

  • the most badass thing about that car is how hard he nose dives that shit into the pavement twice and when they were done making the movie, that car was still drivable, rediculous!

  • too much slow motion crap, the new version rules

  • @pyramidhead138 have to disagree with you on that the new one aint got nothing on the original done by h.b halicki. i dont see nicholas cage jumping the bridge for real all i see is a bad cg crap animation of a car jump

    the slow motion worked brilliantly in this scene as it shows how much damage the car took when it nose dived into the ground you could not see that at normal camera speed can you?. GI60S and GI60S 2 the junkman will always be my favs but the new GI60S does not cut it.

  • didn't he get injured doing that jump? I heard something like that, it was totally awsome

  • @royaloreca He wasn't injured in the jump, but there is a scene where the car hits a pole as he tries to exit the freeway. That's the one he was injured in.

  • @day500champ08 Thanks dude, I knew he was injured but I guess I got it mixed up with another race injury, Kudos ;-)

  • @day500champ08 Actually, he wasn't particularly injured in that scene - which was a real accident, not supposed to happen.

    If you look, you can see that either he or the other driver miss their mark, the cars actually make contact, and he goes spinning out of control. That was a real light post.

    First thing he said when he came to was "Did we get coverage?"

    He was considered to be pretty much a loose cannon by real stunt men; took too many unnecessary risks.

  • @fairportfan2 Yea, I can't remember where it was that I remember that, but I do remember him saying that.

  • @royaloreca i heard he shattered a few vertebrae doing this stunt, and he actualy died in a stunt for the sequel

  • @hairmonster12 Spinal compression. Gave him trouble the rest of his life.

    It wasn't a stunt that killed him - it was an accident while he was planning a shot when a cable holding up a water tower that was supposed to fall when they did the scene broke and it fell on him.

  • H.B.Halicki and his "Eleanor" are the LEGENDS!!!!  pure classic!

  • remake was way better!

  • love the movie the original more better cars

  • these actually took them two tries. The spinning out was a mistake, but because they were on a low budget and didnt have a stunt driver, no special FX, they made a mistake, they are all throughout the movie, actually making it more realistic. The one where he doesnt spin out is the second try. This is THE BEST movie ever made. love love love loveeee it remake, just terrible

  • death proof was the best

  • THE ORIGINAL WAS THE BEST

  • @Liamautomechanic This is the original.

  • @TeckDuder i know buddy. great film. it was.

  • @Liamautomechanic The original IS the best!

  • God Damn you Nicholas Cage

  • My favorite car chast after the one from Bullitt!

  • Probably the greatest car-chase movie of all time...it´s a shame that they removed the classic 70´s soundtrack when they made the DVD-version. The original music brings up the cool-factor a lot! The story repeats itself in HB Halickis "The Junkman"...the original music is great but its missing in the DVD-version aswell.

  • i like how they put the part where he lands it and loses control IN the movie.. then they play the good landing after it..

  • Still cant believe he was killed during the making of this film so sad..

  • @Transinater He actually got killed during the follow-up film to this one. It happened in 1989.

  • @maxrobinson yeah i know it happened in my home town Buffalo Ny i remember when it happened, i met the guy who was trying revive him and pulled the pole off of him, really a tragic death

  • Ahh..they just don't make them like they used too..

  • This car was so awesome in the movie. This bad boy and any Trans-am with the 6.6 in it 68-79! I still think Smokey and the Bandit has it over this one though!

    Also the new Gone in 60 was rubbish. They just dont make'm like this anymore. Sad.

  • @fragglevooper my uncle had a 79ta with the 403 olds, great car. Nicholas cage ruined the new movie, guy cant act

  • @fragglevooper Smokey and the Bandit was the greatest movie of all time i think..

  • @fragglevooper

    I prefer "Vanishing Point" and the short (original) version of "Duel", but this and "Smokey" are great.

  • back when stunts and special effects where real and an art, now everything is all computers, pretty funny cuz I'm using one rite now, but anyway, thats why older movies are better and will always be better.

  • best car chase movie EVER!!!!! }:-)

  • why did the car in slowmotion do a 360 turn but the real time one didnt? :(

  • lol they put so much slow motion for a itsy bitsy,meaningless jump.typical '70....i've seen bigger jumps in a rally.

  • I feeel old because listening to the audio sucks so bad!I hated the digital remaster because it obliterated the original mono audio that made me fall absolutely in love with this movie.The worst of it is,Eleanor sounds the same thruoghout the movie,as the original has Eleanor purring with a quiet 351 cleveland and doesn't get noisy until after hitting the pole,and then after starting her back up does a short squawk while getting going.I've always loved that part.

  • The climactic scene was filmed in my old neighborhood in Redondo Beach, California. Anita St. (which becomes, more famously, 190th Street when you reach the city of Torrance) at Aviation Blvd. I was in the 7th grade when this film came out. Interestingly, it was released in San Francisco several months before it made its debut in L.A., so on a visit I had seen the film, and made sure all of my friends went, too.... Never bothered with the remake.

  • @KRLA1110 Excuse me, 190th Street runs west from Dominguez Hills and beyond and changes to Herondo Street at PCH.

    I know some of the spectators on the south side of the street in the film. They were there because they were at a BMX track just over that hill when they saw the film crew across the way.

  • Alright, so does ANYONE, ....REALLY know what kind of Stang this is?? I saw comments sayin 73, 73 Mustang II, and 71...so on. To ME, it looks like a Mach 1. Looks like same model used in the movie Born To Run....

  • @FonziHEY This is from imdb.com

    "The featured car in this film, affectionately named "Eleanor," is a 1973 Ford Mustang Mach I. "

  • @hotdog2020 And, if I recall correctly, got top billing in the movie.

  • @FonziHEY its a 71 mach 1

  • this film was made in a time and way that if you really wanted to do something Crazy for a movie you were taking a real risk. H.B. Toby Halicki the director producer and actor/stuntman compacter 10 vertabre when he did this jump while in the 2000 remake the car never even actually jumped

  • H.B. Halicki died on the set of what was to have been a sequel to this movie. A stunt went terribly wrong and Halicki died of injuries received. This was years before the remake that Nicolas Cage starred in.

  • scottieskittle 2009, a 1974 Mustang was actually a Mustang II. Not even the same car. The movie car was, indeed, a 1973 Mustang. It was not a Mach i, just had a stripe package.

    The car toured with the movie when it was first released. I saw it. It was a 1973. H.B. Halicki used three cars, I believe. The car that was jumped and crashed went on the movie tour.

  • @Wagonmaster74 Just as you say. I remember seeing the car in front of the theater before and after seeing the movie. That car was a Mustang II fitted with roll cage and camera mounting plates. I think someone still has that car locked up somewhere.

  • slam the brake? i wouldve hit the gas! and isnt that a 71 fastback?

  • @bayou250kid It seems to be a Mach 1.

  • Eleanor = Built Ford Tough.

  • that poor mustang mach 1

  • H.B> Halicki is a true stuntsman long live Toby and Eleanor!!!!

  • back when cars were made good, cars nowadays are shit

  • the true stuntman all real no fake cgi crap in this movie pure American Ford muscle raw power

  • the 73 mustang is an abortion compared to the GT 500 used in the remake. What a horrible ugly car. And a dog to boot.

  • 70-73 Mustang was the sexiest looking Mustang generation prior to the gas crisis if you ask me. 60s Mustangs were to puny ,IMAO.

  • @racerxjj67 But the GT500 used in the remake is not even a real GT500. It's just various 1967/1968 Ford Mustang Fastbacks made over to appear as Chip Foose' interpretation of a 1968 Shelby GT500.

    As far as I'm concern, both cars are great on their own. A Mustang's a Mustang, no matter what year model it is. Either way, it's 100% pure American muscle.

  • @codebreaker2001 aight look the shelby design was originally implemented in 1967 with the shelby GT 350 and GT 500 the GT 500 was so liked they kept her shelby however stopped actually making ford products bought the design from ford and continued making his own cars... the car you see in the movie is not a mach or a shelby my friends the 70-74 series mustangs are boss mustangs very similar to mach in fact almost the same thing except the machs come standard with a blower

  • @scottieskittle2009 wrong the shelby mustang was implemented in 65 bud and stopped in 1970 and mach 1s never had blowers some had ram air induction but never forced air induction

  • @codebreaker2001also one other thing the 67 shelby pulls close to 550 horses standard... the boss and mach mustang series about 375 hp so really get to know your cars before talkking... and as much as i love american muscle american muscle sucks...

  • @scottieskittle2009 You're entitled to your opinion and I respect that. But like I said before, "As far as I'm concern, both cars are great on their own." It doesn't matter how much power their engines put out, it doesn't matter how they look, it doesn't even matter what their paint jobs are like either. A Mustang is always a great ride to look at. Bar none.

  • @racerxjj67 The car used in the "remake" wasn't a real GT500 and doesn't even look like one. I once did a web page pointing out the differences.

    It's what a GT500 would have looked like if Ford and Shelby had had the foresight to contact the terribly brilliant jerk who was art director on the film.

    The GT350 was a better car all round, BTW.

  • Good/Year baby yeah

  • That poor, poor pony...

  • *guy looks at camera*

    Thanks, GoodYear!

    *thumbs up*

  • I was gonna say. Just when all seems lost our hero spies another Eleanor at a car wash & convieniently switches cars with the unsuspecting owner. Great scene.

  • One of the interesting thing was there is a part I'n the movie where he hits a pole well he wasn't supposed to and the coolest part was though it's in the movie the county never figured out who dented there lamp pole

  • it wasnt very much left of that fastback :p

  • When the film came out, they brought Elenor to the premier. I was able to crawl inside through the window and check it out. I was surprised the car could still run because it was so smashed and shot up. It had a full roll cage and the drivers seat was in the back seat. They took it away on an open trailer so everyone could see her. I'm so happy I broke the rules and got inside of The real Elenor...! It's something I'll never forget. In Part 2, Elenor is driven again and saves the scene...

  • @adjoshe69 Totally Jealous!! I'd love to see the original. Wish we lived closer, would have gone to see her at the Peterson when the remake came out.

  • this is far not the final scene of this movie.

    after that the guy changes his car in a carwash and left the cops

  • i saw this movie when i was 3

  • Well it is not only a Mustang. It is a Mustag Mach 1, wich makes that thing quite valuable and much more beautiful.

  • @Grafenfoto Not a Mach 1. Mach 1's came standard with decals and stripes.

  • unlike the remake. This jump is real!!!!

  • I remember i saw a car chase movie with a similar scene. It was something about 4 friends escaping from cops on freeway. It had a similar scene with a police roadblock and they smash trough it and escape. It was also in slowmotion and some dramatick music. If anybody knows this movie .... PLEASE REPLY. i badly want to know the name of the movie.

  • maybe it's "dirty harry crazy mary" 1974 with Peter Fonda and Suzan George

  • Halicki died in 1989 while making "Gone in 60 Seconds 2". His death didnt include cars.. something fell on and instantly killed him. This Sunday he would celebrate his 69th birthday. Rest in peace dude.

  • HB Halicki is the true stuntman all real no fake cgi crap in this movie pure American Ford muscle raw power  long live HB Halicki & Eleanor

  • One of the greatest chase scenes ever. Halicki did all his stunts and driving. Alot of the scenes from this movie were filmed from the dash and done illegaly on the freeways without permission.

  • Original movie is so cool and real compared to the remake. Only thing I dont like is that they changed all the original effects, engine noise and music when the put it on DVD. Go get it on VHS! Much better!

  • I totally agree, the original songs like "Gone in 60 seconds" and "lois lane blues" add to the film-like when the wife is yelling at him about the dog, the song playing the background is hilarious. I was lucky enough to get a copy of "gone in 60 seconds" the song, we will play it every time we take out Eleanor to shows once we get speakers and a radio installed! (we are building a clone of THIS Eleanor, there's a slideshow on our channel) I really wish he could have finished gone II...

  • which is better this gone in 60 seconds or the 2000 one? i never seen the 1973 but the 2000 one is hot

  • I wonder how many cars were totalled in this!

  • 93 if I remember right

  • does this have the same storyline as the 2000 year one?

  • Basically, steal a bunch of cars and deliver them. The funny thing is in the original version, they get paid more money for them!

  • in the second jump you can see they havent reparied the car (Eleanor)

  • also i dont get get the ending when they showed 2 different jumps

  • I've only read that Toby did the jump once - impacting several vertebrae along the way. What you see is the actual master take of Toby doing the jump, then spinning out. Through creative editing, the side shot is of the same take at speed, but once the car leaves the frame it's cut to another shot of Eleanor speeding away.

    We used the very same creative editing in my own Javelin movie. I did 4 different 180 turns. Take 3 I went full 360. But we made it look like one turn from different angles.

  • I think, MY OPINION, is that they wanted to show, what could have happened of the jump, was missed, and then showed what realy happened, if not, it was bad editing.

  • i knew a gy that tried that in a civic.

    but like i said. i knew.lol. ill try to post the vid.

  • HEY BILLIE, I think your car is on Fire...

  • AWESOME!!!!!!

    GREAT!!!!

    Nothing can compare...

    let's go back to original movie & real stunts!!!

    the new version is so fake... it's sad to see such TALENT in the past...

    with all the new technologies thats we have all we do is suck...

    (as for me)

  • @sinsin92 new technologies...suck...like being able to go online and watch movie clips and post comments..wait...lol

  • @sinsin92 While this may be true, i never knew about th orginal untill after watching the remake, and i bet im not the only one.

  • @sinsin92 come on man whats theirs only one thing that could possibly be fake on the new version is the final jump thats it...and Trust me a 1967 Shelby gt500 juiced up with nitrous can reach 160

  • @sinsin92

    You still have the old movies. No one is ogint to take them away from you, so whats the anger for?

    Dont like the remake? Fine, dont watch it.

    End of discussion :)

    p.s.: some remakes or sequels are way better than the original. example : Aliens, Batman - Dark Knight

  • @sinsin92 ya but new onw has shelby 67 so it puts up a good fight

  • see ya around billy! (thats my favorite line in the movie those stoner dudes make me laughevery time)

  • 190th Street at the Redondo/Hermosa Beach border area! I was one of those kids watching on the roadside!

  • Its true, he spun out for real after the jump, but damn look at the True Air he got.. He used the same Mustang through the whole movie and it still runs to this day. If you buy the DVD, you can scene select to "Let The Wrecking Begin"

  • they said in the documentary that he really fucked up his back in this jump. love the vid tho!

  • bellissimo, autentico, genuino: niente computer grafica, niente nos, niente effetti speciai! solo auto e piloti! nn ci sono più film del genere!

  • if that was the best part of the film then it must off sucked bare ass

  • Aint no way a chevy coulda done that! Ford the only true car!

  • FORD MACH1

    raw fuckin power, no nitro shit like in the new movie.

  • Wild.

  • when the car comes down,watch the Entire body flex...mad awesome! God Rest Hb Halicki,the true stuntman

  • para mi la mejor peli de persecucuion. BRAVO

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