If they are rebuilding wrecks of the hero car that are so good that he can tell them apart, then crashing those cars, they are still destroying cars that many of us would kill to have. I'd love to have a '68 Charger/Challenger even if it was made from 3 cars. There aren't anymore being made. Every time you crash one there is one less in the world.
Around 370 Chargers destroyed in Dukes of Hazzard, probably 25,000 General Lees saved and built by fans. The Christine movie wrecked 23 1958 Plymouths, but thousands more have been saved because of the movie. Smokey and the Bandit 1 and 2 between them wrecked about 10 Trans Ams... etc etc...
In the first smokey and they bandit, Pontiac gave them 3 cars, none survived, the director said they barely had one running at the end, but those cars were already popular before the shows or movies, granted In 1979 when dukes aired, none of those cars were sought after, they wer just old clunkers in the gen pops mind, in a way it helped you are right but only to the cars that were popular, for example the 2nd gen trans ams and camaros are the cheapest 74-81 still dont hold value unless completely original, 79 has the highest production year out of every other year of firebird because of the movies, but alot sit around, with the 74-76 Torino S&H same thing only they built alot less and only for 3 years
@@cloakedgt they had four Trans Ams and four police cars in the first Smokey, after filming they were all crushed by GM although one engine was apparently kept / stolen by someone on location. Being in a film or show is always going to raise awareness of a vehicle but it has to be an interesting one to start with.
The same reason why XA, XB and XC Ford Falcons are disappearing from Australian junkyards. All being resurrected for MadMax Interceptor and MFP Pursuit replicas.
1. Sweet info. I hope enterprising filmmakers are watching this. 2. The Fiero looks like one of the ones used by the Mythbusters in the car skipping across a pond episode starring the late Jessi Combs
Mr Craig, I don’t know half of what you say when you start that tech talk but oh my, are you’re videos fun and easy on the eyes! Thank you 🙏 Mr Lieberman 😘😘👍🤷♀️
I would love to still own my old fiero that car handle like it was on rails. It took a drunk illegal in a big car to take that dream car away from me. I have never found another one that was as good as she was.
so you mean the fact that they are sponsored by them makes real Challengers from back then live up again? even if they are completely away? Intresting.
I always wonder that myself. Makes it hard to watch shows like The Dukes of Hazzard, The Rockford Files, and almost every movie brought H B "Toby" Hallicki. Vanishing Point and Christine as well, as I used to own a 58 Savoy and a 70 Challenger R/T. Especially the 1997 remake, as they, unlike in the 1971 film, where the crashed car was a Camaro, really did destroy a 70 Challenger.
In films such as the Matrix trilogy and the Bourne and Bond franchises, many of the cars may look like expensive current models because they really are, but the secret is that they are supplied to the film makers gratis by the manufacturers as part of a mutually beneficial huge 'Product Placement' deal, or are new cars that were accidentally submerged in floodwater or seawater and then cannot be sold to the public due to their unroadworthy condition and potential unreliability, or because repairing them for resale would not be economically viable.
@@Gl-my8fw Yes indeed. And the forthcoming Bond movie "No Time To Die" has already recouped all of its $250,000,000 production costs from Product Placement deals alone, long before even one paying audience member has been able to see it. Much of that money has come from car manufacturers, who obviously feel that their investment will reap rewards. Showcasing current model vehicles in feature films has become a very successful form of surreptitious advertising.
Two decades after its inception, the FF franchise has had to move with the times in order to maximise audience numbers, by replacing the largely outdated focus on the street racing craze that peaked in the early 2000s with grander themes that are more topical and attractive to contemporary film audiences. In 2020 genres such as heist movies, espionage, international settings and high budget urban dramas are what the industry invests in and can make a profit on.
Hahaha EFast WFurious ! These videos are great. I still have more to watch from you. I love this movie so much that I'm so happy to have you give these insights .. thank you
Great chat on Vinwiki Craig. Also as a car and fast furious fan yes own all on DVD or blue ray, thank you so much for all you did. Also that chat with Vinwiki was to short 😜 😜. Also the terminology errors are classics now and part of the franchise, motec system exhaust etc and Nos exploding 😉. Thank you again
ok but what about the BACKGROUND cars that get destroyed?? like the nice 97 240sx in fast 5 that got wrecked during Braga's trial race? It was a quick scene and a nice desirable car destroyed that wasn't a car with heros or stunts. just a one time car. Is there a bias??
I believe the closest to that in the FF franchise would be the Lykan Hypersport. It's a fiber glass body replica of the real car mated to a stretched Porsche Boxter chassis.
To be fair a lot of cars that became famous in older movies were at the time new or old enough to be cheap second hand cars so supply or nostalgia weren’t exactly concerns when you could get a brand new one or find someone with buyers remorse
The boost gauges only worked on the Hero 1 cars as he has said many times. Vince's Maxima wasn't destroyed and they only used Craig's car for a few shots so it doesn't count.
So they used non turbo GT-R's later. That's interesting. Did they end up having to turbo any of them or were they all stock? Just asking since I'm thinking about buying a GTS R32 and building it
Crushing Prius & EV´s is a must, it´s a HAVE TO DO! ;) But especially the junk yard classics and also the beautyful american mid- & full size cars are so nice and however how high the values are, this cars doen´t be destroyed.... Also the people who crush classic cars from junk yards for any metal/scrap price is a crime, because i´m restoring, REAL RESTORING classic cars and i can´t tell you how often i had to rebuild the body with new hand/self made sheet metal panels. Because there is nothing to get, because the junk yard was closed and the rusty classics was crushed. so crushing cars is a crime i think... Especially when you think about how less metal is used for an Auto; you shold look at the metal what was used for military vehicles, or industrial things. Then we could speak about much metal what could be used for crush and recycle. The best RECYCLE for cars is to RESTORE IT! ;)
But what about red Challengers with dented quarter panels?!? Did any of those get destroyed!? Edit: I'm surprised more Mic Rigs weren't based on the FWD GMC Motorhome, and not that E350 or G20 vans
The thing is back in the day you could got to police surplus auctions and buy a cop car for a couple hundred bucks, back in 79 my fathers girlfriend's daughter and husband bought a couple of state police cars for 300 apiece. Which was a smoking deal, the cops took out the original motors, because they had removed the emission equipment and suped up the factory engines. Before they sold them they replaced the engines with brand new crate motors. The cars were only 2 years old at the time.
@@traviswalker8933 Actually they've gotten a little expensive, I know a guy who buys ex cop cars and suvs, refubishes them and then he sells them to small police departments, security companies and taxi companies, he says they pretty much tripled in price the last couple of years. Everybody seems to want them. I'm a mopar guy, I'd rather have a charger cop car.
Only one stunt car was destroyed and it wasn't completely destroyed. He explains that in the 2 Fast 2 Furious GTR video. It was restored right after the movie and sold.
@@ryanbaxter4401 the stunt cars had the racing stripes when they were doing stunts. Only one or two cars have that livery. The rest have a different livery now as the subsequent owners and Craig didn't like that livery.
Craig the fact that you had to explain this to audience members makes it obvious they know nothing about actual cars, and obviously have NOT seen any of your other videos that have addressed the amount of vehicles used. Nobody in their right mind would destroy classics not even for movies. But hey these are the same people who think Fast & Furious is whack and will never be Fast Fanatics. Thanks Craig,
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Haha that ending... e fast e furious destroying electric prius with an electric bus. Wow I loved it, replayed several times 9.56
Awesome 😂👌
Clip from a show called Roadkill. Check it out
9:56
5:21 nice to see human imperfection shown and corrected. Awesome series
@@zacfoo713 hopefully not.....just caught up in the moment
If they are rebuilding wrecks of the hero car that are so good that he can tell them apart, then crashing those cars, they are still destroying cars that many of us would kill to have. I'd love to have a '68 Charger/Challenger even if it was made from 3 cars. There aren't anymore being made. Every time you crash one there is one less in the world.
Around 370 Chargers destroyed in Dukes of Hazzard, probably 25,000 General Lees saved and built by fans.
The Christine movie wrecked 23 1958 Plymouths, but thousands more have been saved because of the movie.
Smokey and the Bandit 1 and 2 between them wrecked about 10 Trans Ams... etc etc...
In the first smokey and they bandit, Pontiac gave them 3 cars, none survived, the director said they barely had one running at the end, but those cars were already popular before the shows or movies, granted In 1979 when dukes aired, none of those cars were sought after, they wer just old clunkers in the gen pops mind,
in a way it helped you are right but only to the cars that were popular, for example the 2nd gen trans ams and camaros are the cheapest 74-81 still dont hold value unless completely original, 79 has the highest production year out of every other year of firebird because of the movies, but alot sit around, with the 74-76 Torino S&H same thing only they built alot less and only for 3 years
@@cloakedgt they had four Trans Ams and four police cars in the first Smokey, after filming they were all crushed by GM although one engine was apparently kept / stolen by someone on location. Being in a film or show is always going to raise awareness of a vehicle but it has to be an interesting one to start with.
The same reason why XA, XB and XC Ford Falcons are disappearing from Australian junkyards. All being resurrected for MadMax Interceptor and MFP Pursuit replicas.
And the occasional Monaro
ha! I remember seeing the original Mad Max at the drive-in when it first came out. Very cool movie in those days.
The roadkill prius crush love it
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS INFO- AS I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FURIOUS ABOUT DESTROYING THESE WONDERFUL VEHICLES... AND THEY REALLY DON'T
As long as they’re wrecking any Chrysler product, I don’t care
Love the fact that he included roadkill flatting a peris at 10:07
Bo Duke: *_Not enough partner!_*
when your Recommanded is faster than your notifications
1. Sweet info. I hope enterprising filmmakers are watching this. 2. The Fiero looks like one of the ones used by the Mythbusters in the car skipping across a pond episode starring the late Jessi Combs
I don't like when I see cars get destroyed in any movie that's related to cars or ANY movie ever
Regardless if films use cheaper versions of cars for crashes they still ruin an otherwise savable car that could've still been going
They used a scene from Roadkill
Literally uploaded right after vinwiki uploaded your interview 😂 both videos are top tier
Can you post the link?
Good video Craig!
The ending is spot on! 😂
I love the videos Craig! I am glad you were on VinWiki today, that was an amazing story!
Mr Craig, I don’t know half of what you say when you start that tech talk but oh my, are you’re videos fun and easy on the eyes! Thank you 🙏 Mr Lieberman 😘😘👍🤷♀️
Great one CRAIG! This really needed cleared up as I was one of many hurting when these cars are lost! 🤘TEXAS!!!
The fast 1 flip charger was later used in a junkyard scene in herbie reloaded
It's not gonna be the same with electric cars
So you’re saying they don’t destroy nice rare cars they just rebuild a bad one & make it nice again then destroy it
Love the Roadkill bit with the tank 😂😂
I would love to still own my old fiero that car handle like it was on rails. It took a drunk illegal in a big car to take that dream car away from me. I have never found another one that was as good as she was.
Their practically sponsored by FCA (Fiat Chrysler) and Dodge now so I suppose they can wreck as many of them as they want.
so you mean the fact that they are sponsored by them makes real Challengers from back then live up again? even if they are completely away?
Intresting.
E-fast and Furious...... LMAO
awsome information as always.
Love your videos keep up the great content
Most painful movie to watch for the destruction of cars was the original 1960's Italian Job. That hurts every time I watch that movie.
As kids my sister and I fell in love with Minis because of this movie. So much so her first car was a Mini... then it became mine later.
Not to be annoying but the blue Porsche was from fast 5 not 4. Love your videos Craig
I always wonder that myself. Makes it hard to watch shows like The Dukes of Hazzard, The Rockford Files, and almost every movie brought H B "Toby" Hallicki. Vanishing Point and Christine as well, as I used to own a 58 Savoy and a 70 Challenger R/T.
Especially the 1997 remake, as they, unlike in the 1971 film, where the crashed car was a Camaro, really did destroy a 70 Challenger.
In films such as the Matrix trilogy and the Bourne and Bond franchises, many of the cars may look like expensive current models because they really are, but the secret is that they are supplied to the film makers gratis by the manufacturers as part of a mutually beneficial huge 'Product Placement' deal, or are new cars that were accidentally submerged in floodwater or seawater and then cannot be sold to the public due to their unroadworthy condition and potential unreliability, or because repairing them for resale would not be economically viable.
Fast has a deal with dodge too. Notice the amount of new chargers .etc?
@@Gl-my8fw Yes indeed. And the forthcoming Bond movie "No Time To Die" has already recouped all of its $250,000,000 production costs from Product Placement deals alone, long before even one paying audience member has been able to see it. Much of that money has come from car manufacturers, who obviously feel that their investment will reap rewards. Showcasing current model vehicles in feature films has become a very successful form of surreptitious advertising.
@@johnstedman4075 well bond had to do that too because it will bomb horribly with the changes.
how come this movie all about the heist and not racing anymore😭
Two decades after its inception, the FF franchise has had to move with the times in order to maximise audience numbers, by replacing the largely outdated focus on the street racing craze that peaked in the early 2000s with grander themes that are more topical and attractive to contemporary film audiences. In 2020 genres such as heist movies, espionage, international settings and high budget urban dramas are what the industry invests in and can make a profit on.
@@johnstedman4075 and they dont do any of it well anymore anyways.
They worship coin than reality
Hahaha EFast WFurious ! These videos are great. I still have more to watch from you. I love this movie so much that I'm so happy to have you give these insights .. thank you
Great chat on Vinwiki Craig. Also as a car and fast furious fan yes own all on DVD or blue ray, thank you so much for all you did. Also that chat with Vinwiki was to short 😜 😜. Also the terminology errors are classics now and part of the franchise, motec system exhaust etc and Nos exploding 😉. Thank you again
Always Best Sir....... 🇮🇳
9:57 this just made my week. true tho
You are lucky sir to meet my idial hero paul walker 😔
Maybe one day u can met him to
maybe one day you two will learn how to spell.
@@51-FS take it easy bud. its all good. it was mostly the other guys spelling lol.
what do you do for work?
@@51-FS if that is your stock car then maybe. i have a few cars dude. check out my t bird.
I'm just a handyman... yes thats my car. This will be my first year racing
*My stance on the whole thing is that if you're gonna destroy cars ONLY USE CARS CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION.*
I'm sure I saw the blue porch in fast five....and the bmx orange was in fast 4.....what is it me wrong ?
7:55 doesn't this supra appear in Grandma's Boy.
Yes it did. I think Grandma's Boy was a Universal Picture as well.
It was also in Today You Die (2005). The Jetta from FnF1 and the RX-7 from 2F2F are also in it
Did you work on the last stand I loved that movie for one reason is the zr1 Corvette
ok but what about the BACKGROUND cars that get destroyed?? like the nice 97 240sx in fast 5 that got wrecked during Braga's trial race? It was a quick scene and a nice desirable car destroyed that wasn't a car with heros or stunts. just a one time car. Is there a bias??
The only car that still haunts me from these movies is the s15 from Tokyo Drift
In fast6 how many mk1 escorts cars where used and destroyed 😳 and saved???
I wonder if the FF-franchise ever did what the Need for Speed movie crew did and just built replicas from scratch, looking like the real deal.
I believe the closest to that in the FF franchise would be the Lykan Hypersport. It's a fiber glass body replica of the real car mated to a stretched Porsche Boxter chassis.
Tbh, the Agera Replicas looked terrible in Need For Speed. The rest of the exotic car replicas were very convincing.
To be fair a lot of cars that became famous in older movies were at the time new or old enough to be cheap second hand cars so supply or nostalgia weren’t exactly concerns when you could get a brand new one or find someone with buyers remorse
That's true for the Beemers and Hondas.
Hi sir first viwer sir sir make video on dodge charger fast five finel chase car please sir love frome india
you r not first, neither am I
Great video
Hey aren't the E39 540 6-spd manuals actually much rarer than M5s? I seem to remember a friend telling me that...
Depends on where you are in the world.
Where's vince maxima? Also craig. Did the boost gauges actually work in the 3 movies?
The boost gauges only worked on the Hero 1 cars as he has said many times. Vince's Maxima wasn't destroyed and they only used Craig's car for a few shots so it doesn't count.
Very cool
The Fiero is already a classic car
I really wish they would stop buying first gen chargers AND DESTROYING THEM!!
So you didn't watch the video?
So they used non turbo GT-R's later. That's interesting. Did they end up having to turbo any of them or were they all stock? Just asking since I'm thinking about buying a GTS R32 and building it
Crushing Prius & EV´s is a must, it´s a HAVE TO DO! ;) But especially the junk yard classics and also the beautyful american mid- & full size cars are so nice and however how high the values are, this cars doen´t be destroyed.... Also the people who crush classic cars from junk yards for any metal/scrap price is a crime, because i´m restoring, REAL RESTORING classic cars and i can´t tell you how often i had to rebuild the body with new hand/self made sheet metal panels. Because there is nothing to get, because the junk yard was closed and the rusty classics was crushed. so crushing cars is a crime i think... Especially when you think about how less metal is used for an Auto; you shold look at the metal what was used for military vehicles, or industrial things. Then we could speak about much metal what could be used for crush and recycle. The best RECYCLE for cars is to RESTORE IT! ;)
A automatic Toyota super go for $39000 Or $29000 if SE or if its GZ Goes for $50 dollars
In the late 90s/early 2000s it was much cheaper.
@@traviswalker8933 Here in Miami Florida there is a dealer that sells import cars And they have great deals
@@JoseMedina-hs9st you can get great deals on imports but you'd need to check if they are federally legal, if not you're screwed.
@@traviswalker8933 That's true
I'm confused. What's your point? 29k is not a lot of money.
Can you do a video on Sean’s Dads Mustang from Tokyo Drift???
Um he did
I guess I overlooked it then
Part of the reason the cars are worth so much is because of their place in pop culture.
2:00 what move is this scene from ?
Baby Driver
But what about red Challengers with dented quarter panels?!? Did any of those get destroyed!?
Edit: I'm surprised more Mic Rigs weren't based on the FWD GMC Motorhome, and not that E350 or G20 vans
How many of those FWD GMC motorhomes are readily available vs dime a dozen Ford/chevy work vans?
Why did you say the dead car carcasses
they are non-living things
Yes
What about the Orange Murcielago from f8 it got destroyed
I think Taravish brought and is fixing it up. Check out his channel
Smashing a dodge charger is against religion
Do you still have your supra and r34?
He sold them.
@@traviswalker8933 sad
@@mischievous8683 He explains that in the videos he made on those cars.
Ae 86?
Tokyo drift cars ??
i found out bro 7 of hans vielside rx7s were totaled.
The R34 that appeared in fast9 trailer, is a real GTR?
Yep. It was used for a couple of scene so it makes sense for them to use a real GTR.
What about the Blues Brothers? They destroyed many police cars.
Watch the video. It states how many cars they destroyed.
The thing is back in the day you could got to police surplus auctions and buy a cop car for a couple hundred bucks, back in 79 my fathers girlfriend's daughter and husband bought a couple of state police cars for 300 apiece. Which was a smoking deal, the cops took out the original motors, because they had removed the emission equipment and suped up the factory engines. Before they sold them they replaced the engines with brand new crate motors. The cars were only 2 years old at the time.
@@scottvincent3062 you can still buy retired crown vic cop cars for cheap.
@@traviswalker8933 Actually they've gotten a little expensive, I know a guy who buys ex cop cars and suvs, refubishes them and then he sells them to small police departments, security companies and taxi companies, he says they pretty much tripled in price the last couple of years. Everybody seems to want them. I'm a mopar guy, I'd rather have a charger cop car.
@@scottvincent3062 cops have upgraded to modern and nicer patrol cars so it's natural that the prices would go up.
You could argue that the r34s in 2 fast 2 furious were destroyed
Only one stunt car was destroyed and it wasn't completely destroyed. He explains that in the 2 Fast 2 Furious GTR video. It was restored right after the movie and sold.
@@traviswalker8933 I mean with American racing stripes
@@ryanbaxter4401 the stunt cars had the racing stripes when they were doing stunts. Only one or two cars have that livery. The rest have a different livery now as the subsequent owners and Craig didn't like that livery.
Are you here Craig????? Reply please
YOU ARE BEING MONITORED
nice
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@@mrb8584 nice
Craig the fact that you had to explain this to audience members makes it obvious they know nothing about actual cars, and obviously have NOT seen any of your other videos that have addressed the amount of vehicles used. Nobody in their right mind would destroy classics not even for movies. But hey these are the same people who think Fast & Furious is whack and will never be Fast Fanatics. Thanks Craig,
Yolo
Second
First
Who cares ... They are metal boxes on wheels.. They are inanimate objects.
yeah and mona lisa is just a drawing, who cares if i burn that paint
Obviously not a car guy and played with barbie dolls as a kid
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