[HD] Greatest Hollywood Car Chase of All Time - Bullitt (1968)

british director peter yates wanted the movie to be as real as possible

For real. This is a lost art.

Sound fx made on a sound stage.

Words are unnecessary because the story is conveyed entirely visually, which is the best way to have done it.

Superior

Van Farley if it was like in the UK in the 70s, kids in the back wouldn't have any belts on at all ! Crazy really.

I still believe that scene saved more lives than any public service bulletin, us kids would always give each other a mean look when we buckled up, this was serious business and if you were driving a 60's car it was !

@@radioguy1620 Hi Radioguy, good point, I did not think about that but you are right, I am a Baby Boomer and when we wanted to "psychologically" impress someone, we would "buckle-up" just for the look of this movie. Peace be with you, Good comment, Ciao, L

Really cool 😎 black leather gloves - put belt on here we go 👍

Dittos

What a lame ass chase, should have added the Chevelle & GTO to it, that they passed. Try to push big fat charger off road w little mustang, who made this sheet up,?

​@@rogerdodrill4733 ok let's then have vin diesel star a chase made entirely with cgi

How many times did they pass that green VW Beetle?

@@TooTallDean I count 4. However, that seems to be the same street with different camera angles. Back in those days, they didn't close certain parts of area off for filming like they do today. I'm betting many people were surprised to see they got at least one second of fame in something like this.

​@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingForOk those movies were better anyway.....

Coolest car ever made. Mine was in black primer. It ran low 13's on street tires!

The hideaway lights are probably the best feature about it

A lot of Green VW beetles on the street that day. 😂

​@@JeffKopisElaborate, you vile fiend.

Everyone idolizes the Mustang. The '68 R/T is 100X sweeter.

And both were professional stunt drivers/ actors Steve McQueen and Bill Hickman who actually drove their own cars. Unheard of today.

@@firebir11Bill Hickman also did the majority of McQueens dangerous car stunts throughout his career too.

Agreed and this is the real thing,a real car chase.

Only the first Fast and Furious movie was any good since the action was mostly all practical stunts.

Except for the first fast and furious

Yep. He drove in the Porsche 917 in the racing movie Lemans...Steve was that rare breed of actors like Paul Newman, James Garner, the guy from Greys Anatomy, and Paul Walker that actually raced. And let’s not forget James Dean. Wonder how good he would have been...

Well that would be someone who could get a Ford to keep up with a Dodge then.

What's your opinion on the car-chase in 'Ronin'?

@@jonpayne4931 It’s very good. It’s just not as relatable to me personally. I have no interest in the vehicles used...

@@jonpayne4931 ronin is a classic of the modern age

All Mustangs used must have been destroyed... but I guess the green Beetle is still rolling around there!

i went to see Mrs. Doubtfire's house in SF on 2640 Steiner Street and around that time, there was a lot of R.i.p Robin William written all over the sidewalk

Was it safe in that area? I always wanted to go but heard it's super run down now. If it was, where was it exactly? Thanks

Ah, yes ... the good ol' days of REAL acting!

It's just a movie, Cleetus. And McQueen was a pencil-neck.

Little known fact. The movie studio originally planned to give the bad guys a black Impala SS coupe. The studio approached Chevrolet about donating a couple of those cars but, was turned down. GM didn't want their car associated with the bad guys. The studio then went to Chrysler and they were totally on board. For them, this was top quality advertising and they sold a lot of Chargers because of Bullitt.

@@BlackPill-pu4vi I've always been a Chevy guy, but I had a 1970 Plymouth Duster as my first brand new car when I was 21 years-old. Nothing wrong with Mopar back in the day! It's too bad Chevrolet 'dropped the ball'. A black Impala SS would have been a great match vs. the Ford Mustang.

@@felixmadison5736 Absolutely. No doubt the studio execs thought it would be a natural Ford vs Chevy match in addition to the good guys vs bad guys. But GM dropped the ball on that and Mopar swooped in and got the fame instead.

@@BlackPill-pu4vi apparently they got the message in time for the 7-Ups with cars supplied by Pontiac

Audi v10 on full noise, hell a v6 tdi driven by Not the owner

Trained racing driver he was !!

The OG badass

Lightning McQueen

But neither does the other driver, which is what makes the chase scene a bit comical , in a great and classic way😁 everyone has this serious grim gameface on, while driving two cool hotrods and making history 😁

@@Teknokill-jm2ub spot on.

1968 Dodge Charger R/T. The meanest looking car ever made

Director Peter Yates commented that he liked the look of the Chargers because it reminded him of a shark

As FrankensteinsMonster-1313 said, 1968 Dodge Charger. The 1968 and 1969 models were my favorite Chargers ever made. You can tell the one in the movie is a 1968 at a quick glance (besides of course the movie itself being 1968!) from the single grill that goes all the way across, which would become split in 1969, and the two circular taillights on either side, which became rather cool rectangular ones in 1969. I like the grill of the 1968 better, but the taillights of the 1969. Either way, killer freaking body style - a timeless, menacing-looking car for 60s movie hitmen!

​@@FrankensteinsMonster-1313Lincoln Continental Mark III begs to differ

It was Darth Vader before there was a Darth Vader!

i think baby driver's opening chase is gonna age like fine wine as the years go on

@eating sugar no papa no

@eating sugar no papa shut up bitch

He is at peace.

Love is eternal ♡

You're a good son.

yup the actors even burnt themselves to death for the last bit

@@WarrenZevonYT No man, I meant that the special effects weren’t overdone for every single scene like they are now.

@@GraysonMiller69420have you seen mission impossible fallout? Great driving in that

@@aidanfrancis2193 No man, but I will check it out.

@@GraysonMiller69420 you'll love it I think, cruise is a modern Steve McQueen

Me too and mine is a deisel

It's kind of like the first appearance of the shark fin in "Jaws". Trouble is here!

LOVE that shot!

Oh yeah. You knew it was gonna get serious then. Then when Bill Hickman fastened his seatbelt, you knew it was ON...

And there it remained... being the slower car, and I guess the pitt manouvier was unheard of.

@@42lookc fair enough he did drive faster

Hickman looks like he’s out for a Sunday drive.

Pretty much the two ultimate car chases scenes.

A lesser known third (and spiritual successor to The French Connection) is The Seven-Ups where Hickman is chased by Roy Scheider for nine solid minutes before Scheider's car has its top sheared off by a semi-truck trailer.

​@@wesleycook7687 Loftin was the truck Driver in Duel, when they did chsde scenes, he would have his friend Dale Vansickle drive the car both of them were the top stunt drivers to go to

He was also in a couple of episodes of Dragnet.

1 is said to be here in Ohio (The one that Steve wanted to buy) 1 was totaled and the 3rd was just found a couple years ago in a junkyard in Mexico. It had been painted yellow and most of the parts were gone.

Rumour has it that Steve McQueen's soul still drives around San Francisco's roads at night in a Mustang looking for Chargers to chase and drivers to kill

Naw, the hub caps are stuck in some that shit all over san fransico.

All as the mustang shifted like it had an 18 speed eaton in it.

The 1Pubeman and came off and returned and came off and... 🤣🤣

This and 1974 Gone in sixty seconds are the best.

Have to include the 7 ups as well but still cannot beat the original.

BLODWYN DAVIES i meant the original gone in sixty seconds not the nicolas cage one

Agreed...

Not sure I have see that one. Definitely haven't seen the NC one.

I know what you mean. Last time I went to San Francisco, I went downtown looking for a Woman. You know what I mean, I WANTED A WOMAN! I couldn't find no woman! I found a lot of MEN that LOOKED like WOMEN!

I agree, but I’m still trying to figure out how they got from outer Potrero Hill area to Pacific Heights in about three seconds. LOL!

Mourn what it has become??? What an ignorant, inbred hillbilly, trump loving thing to say. Grow up and pull your head out. No one is FORCING you to go there

If you can't handle being around gay or Trans people, stay in Mississippi with your sister wife where you'd be more comfortable

@@JesusChrist-xb7jq Teleporting. Enterprise was hovering in orbit.

Wait... is this legit???

Yes

@@franciscs1604 Yes, you can see it on KZhead for yourself. It's an interview with Bruce, the Pierce Something show.

Bruce Lee bought one of Steve’s porsches.

@@michaelf.douglas6798 Wait what…?!

The Charger also handled all the jumps with stock suspension, whereas the Mustang had to be modified to handle them. They built cars fucking tough back in those days.

Heard that 20+ years ago, the charger was too fast and had to stay slow for the mustang - you can hear it in RPM's, the charger is literally cruising and the stang is at 6000 rpm wide open. For the record 390 mustangs weren't fast, 440 Charger R/T's were - look it up

@@FrankBullitt390 the sound of the Mustang isn’t authentic though, it’s actually the sound of a GT40’s engine dubbed in, which is why you’ll hear it upshift about 12 times during the chase. Furthermore, I remember reading the top speed statistics on both, the Charger was only 2-3 mph faster, the difference was in traction, the charger’s immense weight kept the tires glued to the road while the Mustang, being lighter, did burnouts in reverse gear, as you saw in that one shot. It just depended on what road they were on really, tight, narrow, San Francisco streets full of traffic were perfect for the Mustang, being able to corner much better and not fish-tail as much. The countryside with the long, clear straights were where the Charger could absolutely fly.

110mph nowadays, well that's tractor speeds & so bleedin slow..... When 17 I had a silly wee 250cc motorcycle that would reach a hundred....

There's certainly reasons Chargers were used for so many car chases in so many movies and tv shows. It's like they were built specifically for it!

Yes i just saw it, that remind me about a similar crash during the making of Taxi 2

That camera's static, it's probably just a crash cam with no operator. I think it would be more well-known if someone died on that set. It's hard to believe but I doubt anyone did.

The cam didn't have an operator. I saw a documentary about the filming of the chase and the crash was caught on film from a different angle. Destroyed that camera though

I guess that’s why Ford has done several “Bullitt Edition” Mustangs since then, trying to play on the nostalgia. IMO, the only one that’s near as sexy as McQueen’s fastback is the most recent one.

@@cgraham6 If I bought one of those, the cops in my hometown would follow me around all day. Just waiting for their chance.

Lee hit that one out of the park.

McQueen did all the stunts. The man was a true badass. Nowadays it s all CGI.

@@miltontavares9506 he was not doing the driving, you only see closeups. Bud Elkins is doing the driving.

@@holdenmcgroin9774 And some should say to that Green beetle driver 'Get hell out of this scene'

@@mikkoranta8767 As I understand it, the green bug was one of several "safety cars" accompanying the stunt. The streets were blocked off, but they had to be prepared (insurance wise) to deal with any civilian car wandering into the scene.

That whole bit before the chase starts is peak slow burn.

Trent 6_3 Christine was its mother

😂

🤣🤣🤣

O Oh 😂😂😂

The other driver is so cool. A real pro

It was 1960s dude why would there be CGI?

@@glipk LOL I wasn't suggesting that there was CGI in the 60s, just that old films like this one without CGI are great. In my view, the obsession with CGI these days spoils a lot of films.

No CGI in Blues Brothers either. Way better.

Aye, cool jazz with roaring engines and screeching tires is very American. Best chase ever.

Yup. This was raw.

The good old stuff goes beyond holding up. Holding up suggests it's as good as contemporary offerings. It can be better in many ways. Something only possible in it's time. It gets better with age.

I don't wanna be 'that guy ' but in the city how many times did they pass the same cars in different scenes? The white Firebird the green Beetle ? But that aside. Fuking Epic

The editing is garbage lol - he passes the VW beetle 4 times at the same spot

Wouldn't say the editing holds up very well, but it's still an exciting scene

AWESOME TO THE MAX!!!!🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

I agree

LOL. My wife and I drove to North Beach one time, and I found a spot about three blocks away. My wife urged me to find a closer spot. I just laughed.

Lol

@@scottslotterbeck3796 Husbands don’t usually win those points. Well done.

Yeah, but you'd have Chargers sideswiping you so I guess six of one, half a dozen of the other

I worked for IBM in the early '80's repairing IBM Selectric typewriters (remember those things?!) and I had the Fisherman's Wharf / Ghirardelli Square driving territory. i became very good at making a U-turn in a flash whenever I spotted someone pulling out of a space. It NEVER worked to go around the block ... it would be gone by the time I made it around that block.

Especially the two absolutely beautiful cars.

Yes sir and used the clutch once ripping through the gears😂😂😂 - once, the dump of it!!!!

& Australia. Only way to drive a car is by stick shifting , pure thrill .

@@malcolmhector2641 yes it is. it's really fun when you have your R.P.M.s down pat where you don't need the clutch, except to dump it on take off. ☺

Miss those days

I still drive a manual scat pack.

Hahahahahaha those V8's are a dime a dozen, and you don't know shit about music or v8 sound. Idiot.

dehoe disc - yeah idiot, those V8’s from 1968 aren’t near as powerful as the latest V8’s, but in 1968, that was THE music.

@@mikestyles499 Horseshit, the point is that Hollywood sound professionals had total control over all the engine noise and tire screeching, and it has Nothing to do with technology. McQueen was pretending to shift a 4 speed when the car actually had an automatic. You children always get fooled by the pros. That's why they make the big money.

dehoe disc - wrong, the Mustang that Steve drove had a four spd, the Charger also had a four spd.

dehoe disc - Two identical Mustangs and two matching Chargers were used in the Bullitt chase sequence. So that the four-speed Mustang could run more easily with the brawnier four-speed 440 Magnum Charger, Hollywood engineer Max Balchowsky installed a racing cam on both Fords, milled the heads, and modified the ignition and carburetion systems. Additionally, Balchowsky bulked up the suspensions of all four cars for improved strength, handling, and control. One Mustang and one Charger were fitted with a full roll cage.

For me, the best part of The Getaway is the first sequence filmed in the prison in Sugar Land. The only actor there is McQueen. The guards are real, the inmates are real, the routine is real. It's like a snapshot of history.

Sounds like an angry t rex

The Mustang had to be highly modified including nitrous because it could not reach speeds the Director wanted. The Charger was NOT modified for power. It came with all the power needed. Fact.

Another fact: Check out tires on Charger. Smallest possible. Another way to help the Mustang.

My uncle had a satellite with the 380 and automatic and that fricking car was fast.

@@jjs777fzr actually they removed two spark plugs wires so the mustang could keep up enough for filming.

I was born nearly 40 years after this came out, and some of my earliest memories are of playing with my hotwheels on the tv cabinet pretending it was the cars in this chase while I was watching it. Still the best chase

Do you have photos of your mother?

No but there was plenty of undercranking and the sound effects were all dubbed in post.

@@thethirdman225 Yeah because it is difficult to relay sound in filmed footage.

@@bighands69 Errr... not really. Post synching is pretty straight forward. If you can't head slate it you can tail slate it. I'm not even convinced these are the sounds from these actual cars. But these are all done in post. I used to work in the film industry as a clapper loader and focus puller so it was part of my job.

@@thethirdman225 Cars do not sound the same when you listen to them through speakers. Music is the same when played through speakers. That is the reason when they do cars there is modifications of the sound or even replacement sounds. While you can record the event you will never capture the feeling of that sound hence why car sound is enhanced by different techniques.

@@bighands69 LOL!! Yeah, okay. Whatever.

I think the Gone in 60 seconds car chase is way better, and a lot longer.

You don't know what you're talking about. The engine sounds are just a generic American V8, dubbed over on a 30 second Loop with a couple gear shifts thrown in. They don't match up with the video at all. It's a poorly done sequence.

@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 Bullitt has inconsistencies and continuity issues, as has been pointed out for the last 56 years. (that pesky VW springs to mind). But, upon its release in 1968, it set the movie world on its ear. Gritty realism, innovative camera techniques, and antihero protagonists were all fresh innovations and combining them in a superb action film headed by Steve McQueen has made Bullitt an iconic film. Serious gearheads knew cars from the factory would never survive the abuse of that race. Furthermore, the glaring faux paus of portraying a 390 Mustang managing to keep pace with a 440 Charger was utter fantasy. But it doesn't matter. Bullitt does what all good art does. It captures its subject matter and portrays it in novel ways. That snapshot of the time, the place, the cars and the culture, which could have been so easily buried in some forgettable movie, was instead turned into legend. Half a century on it's still a thrill. As for the sound recording, let Mike Magda's eye-opening account, "Dangerous Pursuit: The Real Truth Behind the 'Bullitt' Chase Scene" (subtitled Steve McQueen and his green Mustang defined on screen car chases for a generation) in Motor Trend, June 20, 2005, cast some light into the murky recesses of the internet. Here's an excerpt-- "After Keller and Yates finished editing the chase, John Kean went to work recording and mixing in the sound of the revving engines and squealing tires. Kean and Bud Ekins took the cars to Willow Springs Raceway near Los Angeles for the recording. Some critics complain that the Mustang upshifts so many times it sounds as if it has a six-speed transmission, but most of the sounds fit the scenes perfectly, including the tires barking during gear changes and the rpm shifts during speed changes. Kean was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the film." --Mike Magda Bullitt remains the quintessential car chase scene. It is the most influential chase scene ever filmed and the chase scene against which all others are measured.

No effort whatsoever for the RT. Lol!

Right! The sound from inside the Charger is epic. Other than it being in the script, never understood why he didn't boot it to get away after McQueen 'hedged it' after the biker came off.

​@@nuntana2trying not to act suspicious

No SHIT

How was the Mustang right behind him after having to get around all those cars? Looks like he went down a different street. Magic Mustang.

The music of those big blocks was music enough for me .. 👍🏼

The cool music is fundamental. The heavy cars launching with just a blip and a burble showing the tractor like torque the engines had.

150 here bro😂😂😂

I have lost count😂

❤❤

Double that for me!

@@Metron65 😇🙂

Love the man... couple weeks ago I could watch at Amazon Prime Video "The Great Escape"

He was awesome. He was a great, man too.

Well said about the "King of Cool"

@@carlosfranciscohernandezuz8028 One of the greatest POW films ever made.

@Tupac Shakur Nice.

There was definitely music.

have to say the original mad max opening scene ties for that title

@@happilyham6769 The music set up the chase, but there was ZERO music during it. That is what Scott Ferguson is saying.

@@LCaddyStudios Nope.

kyokogodai reasoning?

I miss the plowing through farmers markets on the sidewalk....random motorcyclists w/black visors & automatic machine pistols....cop cars with cherries & berries. Hydraulic Gimbels launching automobiles cartwheeling 20 ft. in the air.

real cars real film making

54 years i was born in 68 but i do agree with your comment!

@@warrenofsherwooduk8328 feel honoured coming from a senior

You 55 years

Lalo Schifrin - composer. "Mission Impossible" theme too.

You mean the sax and jazz music at the start right ?

I know right away makes the beginning of the chase great

Absolutely!!

Yes. But the filmmakers were right in having the actual chase without any music. Lalo Schifrin even suggested to keep only the sounds of the chase intact.

Agreed man, the sound of that V8 is amazing.

That’s that classic 440 Big Block Mopar rumble !!

That Charger is my dream car

Owned one and if you read back story of movie the charger had to be held back never had chance catching it really. It wasn't even working that hard in this scene. So miss ours. Such a bad ass car.

That thing got a HEMI?

I want to create a movie ne day. I'll have a car chase with no music or diolauge. Only the roaring engines of a 1996 Chevy K1500 and 06 Mustang.

The car chase in the movie The Seven-Ups 1973 was just as good as this. Both are great.

And 4 times a green vw beetle + a car appearing out of nowehere at 6'44"

When Steve walked up and got in car...looked And music started...Just a Perfect Buildup !

@@lonerunner89 Yeah, it is a great chase, but they only dubbed the sounds from this

That was when you knew shit was about to get real

Yup!!👍👌👌👌 you got it spot on

I was just reading something on that. Bill Hickman, the driver, was a stunt driver in Hollywood. The way the seatbelts in the Charger were at the time had a tendency to keep you planted in your seat, so in fact, he did it to maintain control of the car. When he came around the one corner and smacked the parked white car, that car had a camera on it, and he wasn't supposed to hit it. But, yeah, he in fact did know what he was doing. He was a close friend to James Dean, and was only a few minutes behind Dean with Dean's stationwagon and trailer when Dean crashed. Hickman was the first on scene, and Dean died in his arms.

Most epic belt buckling ever.

wasnt James Dean instantly killed in the crash?

Ever since The Blob (1958). Steve Mcqueen has been a legend ever since

And the bad guys….. cool as cucumber drivers

effortless acting.

This iconic scene is master filmmaking.

@@miltontavares9506 indeed it is

You don´t need to study film to realize that. A real movie buff knows that.

Yes, they make them better

I'm gay.

Stuntman Driver Bill Hickman drove the Charger, He was close friends with James Dean and was driving the Station Wagon pulling the trailer about 5 minutes behind when James Dean was killed in his Porsche Spider in 1955. Dean actually died in Bill Hickmans arms. His last words were I don't want to die.

yeah I believe Bud drove the motorcycle.

How do you know bud ekins drove? I was 10 years old and talking to bud ekins on each scene.we were standing on the corner with bud and 2 girls right when they start going up the hill,I was wearing a white tee shirt and flood pants.bud has blonde hair,if you watch closely you'll see the four of us.i asked bud why he wasn't driving after he said he was Steve's stuntman and he said Steve does his own driving and he's there to fill in if necessary.

@@fahrbloosky Yes he did.

@@joematthewsparacino6844 I see you guys every time standing there on the corner on the left! Always thought that’s regular by-standers...kinda like the cabbie and the other guy in traffic who make Steve go around behind them...wow

I love old muscle cars their the best cars and the engine oooooff not like shitty plastic engines now

Jack Reacher

Oh there's plenty of music all right, it's just 289ci and tire squeal, perfect to me

@@myusdmcavalier390 for the Bullitt

Bill Hickman, who coordinated the chase sequence in The French Connection.

@@8avexp Thank you.

also drove bad guy car in 7 ups

Bullit, 7ups and French Connection...best car chases ever filmed

@@8avexp That scene was just mental.

Ever seen.. Le Man's... It's just amazing.. the filming.. camera mounted to chase cars and even to Hero Car's.. epic

I guess extra background cars wasn't in the budget.

4 times I think

@@steveblackburn9124 you are right

Those shots of the cars coming down the hill is the same scene as when they showed it from the top of the hill. They just replayed it from a different angle.

@@breakingcycles741 yea they repeated it for three times

100%

This movie did have a multi million dollar budget and iirc went way over budget, but its very good ratings made up for it

And some Badass Driving

🤦‍♂️ no

@@dilbertdoe601 yes

@@adrianwelgemoed9562 How many times they pass that dark green VW ?

@@dilbertdoe601 Hello!? 1968. No more words

Done over four days. That green Beetle was a film car.

ONE TAKE LMFAOOOOO

@@scottslotterbeck3796 yeah there's no way it was one take, you'd have to block off so many streets for one, but every car they drive around and dodge would have to be perfectly on cue. Doubt Steve McQueen did all the driving, I'm sure there was a stunt driver too.

@@MrFusion sSteve was like Paul Newman, James Garner, and a couple other actors. He was a real racer. Look up the movie Lemans, he drove in some of the scenes with the Porsche 917 at Lemans. Same type of photography. Cameras on race cars. Also look up, On any Sunday. The original. Steve is featured driving Baja racers and dirt bikes. He is as legit as the race car guy from Greys Anatomy TV show and Paul Walker...

One of the greatest

Crap for your breakfast, dude

The sound of the cars is really crappy. Not even close to reality.

Sorry for you, but the Mustang's sound was a dubbed race car sound, not its actual V8, unlike the Charger.

@@thegame6141 Stop the 🧢

@@harleyrider76 A damn lie. They sound RAW

My 8 year old son said... give this 10000 likes... saw this also after the Ronin chase which to me is the modern best chase while this is still my all time favorite.

My gramps showed me this as a kid, can't remember how old.. But I wanna say it was probably one of the first car scenes where I was like "woah... That was cool" lol. Ever since then, been the biggest car guy.

That car was a legend. You're fortunate to have had it.

hollywood prepared 2+2/302 , but sad to see limited slip rear

The double clutch always bothered me because BOTH cars IIRC were synchro...

@@johnwilliamson5191 Actually the 2 mustangs they used had 390's not 302's.

Wasnt the mustang engine sounds dubbed over? And also the 440 mopar was so much faster they had to stay out of it so the mustang could keep up on the highway scenes.

@@gordonsflash8612 believe that

Yes! I was born in SF, went to college there, in the 70's, worked in downtown for many years. Brings back fond memories.

The thing is too, a TON of these cars still are better than what's on the market today, not just how much abuse they can take, but also mechanically, they weren't as tough to fix, the old days really weren't all that bad, I just wish I could have been alive in that time to see a lot of these great films for the first time on the big screen, even though I am 26 now, I don't feel it

@@pilummurialis6490 yeah' and the modern car manufacturers have purposely made their cars complicated so that you will take them to the dealerships for maintenance and repairs ' on top of that they tell you that the automatic transmission fluid never needs changed 'that's dumb 'and they dont put grease nipples on anything' they dont want them to last too long. I've got my father's old 1971 Valiant ' he always maintained it himself ' the engine still runs great ' everything is simple' easy to work on and reliable.

@@barrycuda3769 thise cars were poison for our environment

@@Gmthekiller which car's were ' or are poison for the environment?

I'm pretty sure that if you watch the behind the scenes of the chase you can see that McQueen stopped because the Charger hit a parkes car that had a tripod on it and it launched the trypod off the car. McQueen didn't know if the Charger would keep going so he stopped in the intersection. When he saw that Bill Hickman wasn't going to stop after hitting the car he had to reverse and then go around the turn. The part where the Charger hit the other car is at 4:07 and you can see that the Charger disapears. The Charger struck the car and the camera stopped filming. They put the camera back on the car and cut out the part where it hit the ground. They did that while McQueen was in the intersection.

in any event., he just dumped it in ANGER into reverse...holy crap...then mercilessly hard into first....cringe at the abuse...but then again....heehee giv'er still the greatest chase scene ever ...imho

At least we know it was actually him behind the wheel

I love the way that wheels hops everywhere in reverse

Whats up with that 1 wheel skid mark at the end? Did that break the Y axle?

Vin diesel told him to do that

Right! Got annoying. No need for it.

@@cyclepowered8799 not to be "that guy" but 60s cars didn't have very good syncro mesh at high rpm and double clutching would have prevented a grind.

@@xox945 I owned a '69 Chevy Nova SS 350 4-speed as my first car in the 70's. Never ever did I have to double clutch. Slapped every gear in an instant without missing. If you have never driven or owned one, you would be "that guy". Ask anybody that owned a Muscle Car. No double shifting needed.

He had to be in 4th gear to go that fast