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Originally Posted by Historybuff
I interviewed the director, Chuck Bail. They rented two real 427s, painting them the same color but still managed to prang one (you can see it in one scene still driving with a bent grille cavity if you look close). One was rented from a LA policeman (yes, a cop with a 427 Cobra!). They fixed and repainted his car after filming. Somewhere there's a picture of one of the cars with a huge apparatus weighing maybe 500 lbs. on the front of the car to film it as it drives along. The director was once a stunt man. As I was interviewing him, a young man stuck his head in the office and let Chuck know he had gotten the lead in a movie. His name was Gary Busey.
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Here is a clip from the movie when they were on the freeway...before they got into the river:
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Now as they are in the river:
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Notice the damage on the car before it enters the river that is not there after wards.