People who voluntarily remove their defective DNA from the gene pool should be seen as a good thing.
This is an argument for MORE Fast and Furious movies.
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People who voluntarily remove their defective DNA from the gene pool should be seen as a good thing.
This is an argument for MORE Fast and Furious movies.
Well, I for one, enjoy the movies. They at least try to show some of the car culture. I like watching them bash up tons of cars in chase scenes. I enjoy the stunts. I am not expecting to see some Oscar performance or expect it to change my life, more like an arcade version for enjoyment. If one person bought something that was in the movie or referred to, it has helped the car, and as far as everyone on a G-body forum is concern aftermarket part, because we are not buying new cars.
In internet slang, killing oneself is called "becoming an hero." Perhaps this is why.
I used to collect Mopars. In Mopar culture in the 1980's/1990's, B-bodies were looked down upon. My mom drove a 383 4 speed charger for my grade school car pool in the 1970's. Std. B-bodies, including even road runners and R/T chargers were a car your dad thought was Fast/Cool. If you wanted to be fast/cool you had an E-body. Only the Daytona/Superbird commanded big bucks. Even rare '69 Charger 500's were relatively cheap.
Prices reflected the desire. Even rusty E-bodies could be restored for a profit.
When Don Johnson drove a '71 E-body convert in prime time in the 2000's, E-body prices went up another 2X. Cha-Ching.
The Dukes of Hazard beat the crap out of '69 Chargers all through the 1980's and the values never really went up that much.
I will give credit to the F&F franchise for finally making B-bodies worth restoring. High school kids today think Chargers are "cool". And unlike 20 years ago, you can now put $40K into the restoration of one and get it back out (instead of losing $20K)
Prices reflected the desire. Even rusty E-bodies could be restored for a profit.
When Don Johnson drove a '71 E-body convert in prime time in the 2000's, E-body prices went up another 2X. Cha-Ching.
The Dukes of Hazard beat the crap out of '69 Chargers all through the 1980's and the values never really went up that much.
I will give credit to the F&F franchise for finally making B-bodies worth restoring. High school kids today think Chargers are "cool". And unlike 20 years ago, you can now put $40K into the restoration of one and get it back out (instead of losing $20K)
Concur. My favorite car movies were on-ofs: Bullitt, Two-Lane Blacktop, American Graffitti (the exception), Gumball Rally, World's Fastest Indian, and Cars (the other exception). In Cars, man, they nailed the straight-six glasspack sound. I am building a GMC 270 and a Chevy 261 and I want to try to find that sound when done...
Cheez Whiz at its finest! Right-hand drive, no less!
Yup.
My parents' first car together was a jade green '63 Nova with a three-speed. Not quite so cool, and I was too young to appreciate it, but I hear ya!
I thought the Road Warrior has a more realistic attack on rigs than the first F&F. A ricer with a cartoon harpoon gun has no chance stopping a rig, it would end up getting towed and rolled like the marauder buggy in Mad Max 2. Not to mention a rig would likely just ram an attacking car out of its way. The most accurate rig attack would be in the Rockford Files episode Gearjammers, where crooks just stood out of their sunroofs with pump action shotguns and forced the rig driver to pull over.
I know Gone in 60 Seconds is pretty cheezy too but I like that movie. Not a Ford guy but how can you not like ELEANOR.
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