vanishing point poster

hemikev · HAMILTON, ONT

vanishing point poster

hemi43 · ONTARIO

If it's "one off", how can "they" be on sale soon?? I'm curious too.

I loved that movie, especially the end when the director used a Camaro instead of a Challenger to smash against the bulldozer. biggrin biggrin

-- Edited by hemi43 on Wednesday 27th of March 2013 11:11:50 AM

Chevypkup66 · NIAGARA on the LAKE, ONT

Cool. I have the dvd and the first issue 1/18 diecast so I will probably get one.

427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

hemikev wrote:
they ll be for sale soon.

Where? on here? on line? in stores?

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

They wrecked 5 cars during the making of that movie.

hemikev · HAMILTON, ONT

i meant 1 st 1 off the press ,, turned out beautifull ...any 1 who buys 1 will love it ,,,

427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

hemikev wrote:
i meant 1 st 1 off the press ,, turned out beautifull ...any 1 who buys 1 will love it ,,,

Online? instores? E-bay? Target? Wal-mart? confuse confuse

hemikev · HAMILTON, ONT

just something ive been working on , looks like it really turned out well ...

i had abunch , listed on kijiji , just sold last 1 .

atomsplitter · NEWCASTLE, ONT

So you own the rights to copy and sell then? or should I have not asked that question?

Dave Scott · ANCASTER, ONT

Atomsplitter wrote:
So you own the rights to copy and sell then? or should I have not asked that question?

biggrin biggrin biggrin

hemikev · HAMILTON, ONT

yep we good , i asked the guy driving the challenger ..

Chevypkup66 · NIAGARA on the LAKE, ONT

Will there be more or other ones?

hemikev · HAMILTON, ONT

More tomorow. around 4 pm

atomsplitter · NEWCASTLE, ONT

Sweet, are they signed too?

fatchuk · ST MARYS, ONTARIO

-- Edited by fatchuk on Thursday 28th of March 2013 10:42:22 AM

hemi43 · ONTARIO

YEAH !! The last 2 pictures clearly show that it was a 67 Camaro that was used for the final crash scene. It makes you wonder why the producers would do that??? Was it because they were on such a low budget, and this car was gotten cheap?? Or was it more of a symbolic gesture and they didn't want to ruin a beautiful Mopar??

Edit;

I found this picture, and an amazing story on the behind the scenes of the movie. Ya gotta love the internet !! smile

http://www.angelfire.com/id/newssection/VP.html

-- Edited by hemi43 on Thursday 28th of March 2013 08:46:29 AM

jarvis1 · COBBLE HILL, BC

The cars were loaned to the movie company. They bought the Camaro cheap.
I'm sure, at the time, that Dodge had the "Rapid Transit" thing going and this improved sales. I know one of the people that delivered the cars. Formerly from Hamilton, now living in LA.

Legacy 69 · PERTH, ONT

hemi43 wrote:
"YEAH !! The last 2 pictures clearly show that it was a 67 Camaro that was used for the final crash scene. It makes you wonder why the producers would do that??? Was it because they were on such a low budget, and this car was gotten cheap?? Or was it more of a symbolic gesture and they didn't want to ruin a beautiful Mopar??"

evileye Okay pretty much had enough of this crap. The REAL reason the Camaro was used was as follows:

After repeated failed attempts to get a decent shot of the driver committing hari kari as well as destroying a number of over priced Dudge Challengers. The decision was made to use a superior, built in Canada Chevrolet Camaro. Post production the directors revealed the real reason for the switch, "the Dudge would either pull apart or disintegrate when being cable towed towards the Dozer impact zone from what as later determined to be poor quality frame and body manufacture. After 10 failed attempts we used the Camaro and did the entire scene in one take. The added costs incured with the newspaper, duct tape and bondoing each of the then new Dudge Challengers took a toll on the production budget." Any fool can easily determine this is the truth as it is painfully obvious in the quality of the story and script.

-- Edited by Legacy 69 on Thursday 28th of March 2013 09:56:34 PM

DaveM · ONTARIO

That would be an ubber rare "built in Canada" '67 Camaro.

Pint and a Pound · AJAX, ONT

Let's all be honest here kiddies ... the REAL reason is they needed a car that would hit the target, not one that was gonna sway all over the road like a drunken cowboy driving a 3 wheeled stagecoach. THAT is why they picked the Camaro biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

(I got your back Legacy ... )

-- Edited by Pint and a Pound on Friday 29th of March 2013 03:05:00 PM

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

One of the reasons i don't watch movies, pretty phony stuff!

hemi43 · ONTARIO

Legacy 69 wrote:
hemi43 wrote:
"YEAH !! The last 2 pictures clearly show that it was a 67 Camaro that was used for the final crash scene. It makes you wonder why the producers would do that??? Was it because they were on such a low budget, and this car was gotten cheap?? Or was it more of a symbolic gesture and they didn't want to ruin a beautiful Mopar??"

Okay pretty much had enough of this crap. The REAL reason the Camaro was used was as follows:
After repeated failed attempts to get a decent shot of the driver committing hari kari as well as destroying a number of over priced Dudge Challengers. The decision was made to use a superior, built in Canada Chevrolet Camaro. Post production the directors revealed the real reason for the switch, "the Dudge would either pull apart or disintegrate when being cable towed towards the Dozer impact zone from what as later determined to be poor quality frame and body manufacture. After 10 failed attempts we used the Camaro and did the entire scene in one take. The added costs incured with the newspaper, duct tape and bondoing each of the then new Dudge Challengers took a toll on the production budget." Any fool can easily determine this is the truth as it is painfully obvious in the quality of the story and script.

-- Edited by Legacy 69 on Thursday 28th of March 2013 09:56:34 PM

A 67 Camaro built in Canada?? Better do a bit more home work !! Maybe it was one of those Chinese made Camaros?? Oh, wait!! They never had Chinese Camaros back then, but they do now, just like the one in your avatar !! aww aww aww aww

Legacy 69 · PERTH, ONT

Hemi43, resorting to insults is not necessary, my post was in jest (re: fun)

hemi43 · ONTARIO

Legacy 69 wrote:
my post was in jest (re: fun)

So was mine!! That's why I didn't use the scolding ( evileye ) emoticon.

hemi43 · ONTARIO

The Camaro was towed into the bulldozers with one of the four Challengers that were used for the movie. They used the 383 powered one because it was automatic and the other 3 were 440 4-speed cars.

Here's an excellent site on it.

http://www.angelfire.com/id/newssection/VP.html

-- Edited by hemi43 on Friday 29th of March 2013 05:34:51 PM

Legacy 69 · PERTH, ONT

Cool, let's get on with life.

BARRIE, ONTARIO

The truth is when the mope hit the ramp it just took off an cleared the cats like it had wings . So they looked around for another white car close at hand , an voila , there was a white Camaro nearby that the owner basically gave them . and the best point of using a Camaro , was it hardly had enuff power to get up the ramps , so they dint have to use that high tech slow motion camera for the final shots which in turn saved them money . its the truth , I got it from the intent ..77.

Legacy 69 · PERTH, ONT

Ha Ha, good one ^ ^ ^ wink

BARRIE, ONTARIO

That just backs up my post of a vehicle , even a bicycle , wont sway at 20 mph even in a side wind . Hence the use of a Camaro . Does any one remember that scene , where the two look at each other for a moment , cool shot , cool poster ..77.