The "BULLITT" car chase scene

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Sure we've all seen this this a 1,000 times. But what a great way to start the day with a cup of coffee watching it for the 1,001th time. And again notice that green VW they keep passing. Like the tortoise and the hare, that tortoise, or VW just seems to get ahead of the Mustang and Charger.


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That movie was on a few weeks ago, my wife was watching it, I told her to tell me when the chase starts, its the only part worthing watching. The guy that built the engine in the Mustang lives about an hour north of me.

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That was the greatest chase scene ever filmed.
It’s funny I just got my Haggerty’s car magazine and they did a full write up of that Mustang. Seems it’s been holed up in a garage in Kentucky all these years.
A guy bought it from a newspaper ad. He never really knew what he had and his wife was using it as a daily driver. Once he caught on he garaged it and left it sit.
The car was as original as in the movie. It still had all its dents and scrapes plus it had cutouts in the trunk for a smoke generator for when McQueen smoked the tires in that one scene. There were also hooks welded to the front suspension for camera mounting. These were some of the things that proved this car was the real deal.
The son now has it and documentation to prove what it is.
McQueen tried to buy it back several times but the guy refused his offers.He even offered to buy them one just like it and the guy still refused.
I know they found another one scrapped in Mexico. But this is the one McQueen drove. There were 3 Mustangs built for the movie and McQueen had all the badging and the backup lights removed. He wanted the car to look tougher than it was!
It was a very interesting story, it also spent some time here in PA. recently to get certified and documented.
This is one of my favorite movies to watch and that chase scene just blows me away every time.
I guess it will be making an appearance again for the 50th anniversary of the movie and I do believe Ford is making a 50th anniversary addition.
 
You know Henry Winkler rode that same motorcycle as the Fonz? He couldn’t ride the thing for real so all the scenes were shot of him riding with the bike on a trailer! :D
He just admitted that on his recent Better Late Than Never Show! :D
After seeing that show I can never look at him as the Fonz again without really laughing! :D
 
Here is a great three minute review of "Bullitt". The guy nails it, especially how he describe's Steve McQueen's brilliant way of communicating with his hot girlfriend, and she buys it.

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Of course “Bullitt” is the classic, but I also enjoyed the SF chase scene in “The Rock”. That cable car going airborne was a nice touch :)

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Spent 2 week-long vacations in San Fran in '82 and '83. Some SFPD veteran cops commented that the Bullitt chase scene took weeks to film, was it 3 weeks, can't recall. Love how Lalo Schifrin's music highlighted the initial 'cat/mouse' leading up to the chase. There is a then/now video on YouTube of the chase scene, interesting how the 'landscape' has changed.

As to the Seven-Ups chase scene. That had to be the longest car wash ever! The cars entered the wash in the Bronx on the Grand Concourse below 149th Street and left it in the 20s on the West Side of Manhattan.

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kaaskop49 said:
As to the Seven-Ups chase scene. That had to be the longest car wash ever! The cars entered the wash in the Bronx on the Grand Concourse below 149th Street and left it in the 20s on the West Side of Manhattan.

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Like the Bruce Willis film "Striking Distance" .......

car chase went in one of "The Burgh's tunnels........ came out another tunnel... on the other side of another river....... going in the opposite direction..............
 
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Watching "Bullitt" on the big screen back in '68 was the most fun I've ever had at the theater (Never mind what went on at the drive-ins... a whole different kind of fun. :D). I was rocking back and forth in my seat and getting that "floating stomach" feeling during the hi-speeds through those insane hilly street scenes!!!

Where's the Home Jumbo-Tron when ya need one? :rolleyes:
 
ExcitableBoy said:
Watching "Bullitt" on the big screen back in '68 was the most fun I've ever had at the theater (Never mind what went on at the drive-ins... a whole different kind of fun. :D). I was rocking back and forth in my seat and getting that "floating stomach" feeling during the hi-speeds through those insane hilly street scenes!!!

Where's the Home Jumbo-Tron when ya need one? :rolleyes:
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In the 60s when I was a little kid we’d cross the bay often to visit relatives. We always looked forward to my dad driving those streets making our stomachs bounce. this movie does achieve the exact same thing. Then I saw Bullitt about five times at the show. Admission was fifty cents. My entire allowance. They kept movies for weeks at the shows.
 
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If you are a Steve McQueen (1930- 1980) fan, you should watch the 2017 documentary from NetFlix: Steve McQueen - American Icon. The film investigator drives a Bullitt Mustang. I've seen older shows about him, but nothing like this one. From his dysfunctional childhood, time in the military, his movies, drug addiction, his fade away from society, his born again religious experience and his treatment for cancer in Mexico. He was a very lonely misunderstood complicated man. Nonetheless, he was Mr. Cool of his era and no one has replaced him.
 
Bullet chase scene

there was a series - I think it was Alcatraz - there is a re make of the Bullet chase scene in the series. It is a newer mustang and a newer Dodge Charger. It is a pretty good chase scene.
 
JamesArthur60 said:
If you are a Steve McQueen (1930- 1980) fan, you should watch the 2017 documentary from NetFlix: Steve McQueen - American Icon. The film investigator drives a Bullitt Mustang. I've seen older shows about him, but nothing like this one. From his dysfunctional childhood, time in the military, his movies, drug addiction, his fade away from society, his born again religious experience and his treatment for cancer in Mexico. He was a very lonely misunderstood complicated man. Nonetheless, he was Mr. Cool of his era and no one has replaced him.
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My first assignment after graduating from nursing school was the cancer ward at Walter Reed AMC, Washington, DC. One day, a bunch of the ward doctors were discussing McQueen's controversial cancer treatment using Laetrile - a drug derived from apricot pits. The docs were all saying what an idiot he (McQueen) was, and the only thing the Laetrile treatments were going to do for him was give him false hope, and lighten his bank account. Being fresh out of school, I pointed out to the docs that 2 of the oldest known therapeutic drugs, aspirin and digoxin were also synthesized from plants - aspirin from tree bark, and digoxin from the foxglove plant. That stopped the conversation for a few beats, and then the doctors remembered that a) they were doctors, and I wasn't, and b) this was the Army. So their response was quite telling: "shut the heck up kid and let the grown-ups talk" - er, that's the sanitized version that won't get me in trouble here.

Here is a link to a story about McQueen's laetrile treatment:
McQueen's Legacy of Laetrile - The New York Times

Regards,

Dave
 
Remember a movie with him in it as a bounty hunter using a shot gun that shot bean bags. Also as Max Sand in a western. If details are not accurate please excuse my dyslexia

Also With Ali Mcgraw in a movie with a shotgun and Slim Pickens in an old pickup driving them in Mexico
 
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