I found this video while playing around on Youtube and man did it bring me back to when I was a kid. Hell, that could have been me in that box. I remember seeing the movie Bullitt when I was about 8-years old and man did it leave an impression. The low grumble of the Chargers 440 against the high revving 390 of the Mustang GT was music to my ears. This was my first real experience with a car chase and from that day fourth I WAS a car guy. So much so that I now own a 1968 Dodge Charger… but man, if I could only go back to being a kid again.
These are probably the best car chases to come out of Hollywood in the last 20 years. They’re fast and raw with some killer camera work. Plus the cars they use are stellar choices. I mean really, an Audi S8, BMW M5 and Mercedes Benz 6.9, these are the big guns of the worlds Super-Sedans.
“It’s got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas”
Believe it or not this car chase was one of the last really gritty car chases made. Oddly enough, this chase was actually supposed to be a spoof of what a great car chase should be and ended up being one of the best ones ever filmed. It also destroyed over 60 used police cars and made the “Bluesmobile” a movie icon.
