[Closed] 1968 Bullitt Mustang - Brooklin Deutschland Club model

I checked my copy of "Car Life" from August, '69, which has a lengthy article on the filming of the chase scene ("Filming the Frisco Flyers"). The Charger had whitewalls and full wheel covers, lots of those. I always wondered whose job it was to put new ones on the car after it tossed them off going around corners. I always look for the shot where the Charger takes out the camera in a blinding flash, which they left in the film.

Three different drivers piloted the Mustang, and stuntman Bud Ekins, pal of McQueen and long-time stunt driver, did most of the driving. He also did the famous motorcycle jump over barbed wire as McQueen in "The Great Escape."

The driver of the Charger was another long-time stunt driver named Bill Hickman, who really manhandled that beast. During one scene, the brake pedal went to the floor and Hickman threw the car into a broad slide, narrowly missing cameramen and SF policemen there for traffic control. None of the cameramen even moved. Real pros, all.

I give them credit, particularly on the Charger. That manhandled that car around those streets.

The Charger was a beautiful machine but it was large and heavy and not really at its best going around corners.

I have always thought that the Charger clipped that parked 66 Chevy at the point where you say there was a camera "flash". A story went around for years that the Chevy owner was bought a new Chevy by the movie company as compensation.

Bill Hickman also drove the big dark blue Pontiac in that awesome chase scene in the movie The 7-Ups....chased by Roy Scheider in a little silver Pontiac Ventura. It was a great chase!

Here it is

The 7-Ups

John, I have this movie, the 7-Ups. It is so realistic. I remember the first time I saw it, I went out and bought it. That car chase has got to be the greatest ever put down on film. I watched it a few times over the years. I really didn't think anybody else knew about it. It's been a long time ago. Roy Scheider played a great role, the whole part at the funeral home was very real and even now, without seeing the film again, I can remember how that went down. Great picture.

I'm going to watch it again. Thanks, Ray.

Saw this movie at a drive-in (that's appropriate). Hickman's French Connection driving

Was very skilled, too. And his character gets eliminated by Gene Hackman's "friendly fire" during the tense conclusion.

Funny that in both the New York-based movies newer Pontiacs were used. Hickman must have been an amazing driver. That 5000lb softly sprung Poncho would have been a handful.

I think Neo issued replicas similar to the Pontiacs used in these movies. Perhaps someone on this forum is now inspired to make a diorama, ha, ha.

I see there's an Opel Kadett Caravan that gets hit twice by the dark blue Pontiac

First as a light blue colored one, parked on the corner of the street where the children are playing, and then later as a (badly resprayed) red one after the traffic circle, when the baddies' car takes off its door. There must have been a limited budget for bashed cars in that movie!

Used to live in the town where the Charger/Mustang over the mountain chase into the flaming gas station took place. Guadalupe Canyon Parkway, on San Bruno Mountain, Brisbane, California.

No Neo Pontiacs like these. Not even close.

I guess if they had driven a station wagon. No Ventura or early 70s LeMans. Neo

Made a 73-75 Grand Am, but that was the next generation.

Actualy, am glad they didnt use a wagon. They seem to use those for comedies not serious action/dramas like this one.