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Originally Posted by ram In the Steve McQueen movie, "Bullitt", which IMHO is the best car-chase movie in the whold world, Steve McQueen drives a 1968 Ford Mustang. The villains drive a 1968 Dodge Charger. In those days, there was no computer graphics. The cars were actually driven and filmed in San Francisco at 160 km/hr. Interestingly the Mustang was highly modified to perform. The Charger was just an ordinary off-the-showroom car and could run rings around the Mustang![/IMG]
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Actually, the Mustang was a GT390. To make the chase a bit more cool, they dubbed a soundtrack from the GT40 onto it!!!!
And another story is that after each scene where the cars jump and land a LOT, the Mustang needed cosntant fettling and repair to set it right wheras the Charger just chugged on unfluttered!!!
Thats why the Charger and Camaro are my favourite muscle cars. The only Mustangs I'm intersted in are the Boss 302 form 1970, and the original 1965 Shelby GT350 (the pure one before the luxuries started creeping in in '66 onwards).