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> On Jun 15, 6:58 pm, Kruse > wrote:
>> On Jun 15, 2:50 pm, wrote:
>>
>> > BUT yest the car rocked. and the car chase.
>>
>> Not to knock the mustang or the movie here, (I'd view it again in a
>> second) but I recall an interview with some of the
>> people who set up both cars and in all the filming, the charger (or
>> chargers if they used several) held up real well and were a dream on
>> the set while the mustang or I believe mustangs had to be beefed up
>> and as far as holding up during filming, were a real POS. However,
>> maybe the interview was biased, who knows?
>>
>> But yea, the car in the movie rocked. Seems to me though that they
>> really screwed up with the sound effects. If I recall, the charger had
>> an automatic, but the sound effects were from a manual tranny,
>> correct? Or am I dreaming?
>
> I beleive that is true also. The mustang just couldnt handle the
> jumps. The charger is a bigger car isnt it? Probly came stock with
> stronger suspention. I know for sure that the sound effects from the
> mustang were actually from a V12 Ford GT, I beleive. That car chase is

V-12 GT??? Was there ever one of those?

After winning LeMans in late 1966, engineers From Ford's Advanced Engine
Engineering team wanted to build a 48-valve Vi 2 For the Ford GT Mark 4 and
humiliate the man who had so rudely rejected Ford's offer to buy his company
Four years earlier, Enzo Ferrari. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed, the
V12 was turned down, and the 1967 Mark 4 was fitted with a 427-[in.sup.3] V8
of the type used to win Le Mans in 1966. It won at a record pace.


> amazing in everyway, even the mistakes they made. The same white VW
> bug drives by them like 5 times!
>