Watched this film the other night.
What version of the Dodge Challenger was shown?
Badging suggests a T/A which a website reveals as having 290bhp (American Ponies no doubt) and being prone to severe understeer.
Maybe that is why the hero spent most of his time departing from the tarmac!
Sounded pretty nice but doubt it could have out-run a Jaguar E type in the right hands.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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I watched this and i thought i noticed r/t on the front wing area?
could be wrong.
Nice car but i will always prefer the charger (1968).
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So the R/T badging means a 426 cu in engine (7 litres plus?) with 425 bhp. In the film I think it was said to be 'good for 160mph'. And probably 5mpg.
Why bother to supercharge it? A supercharged version is not referred to anywhere except in the film.
Maybe the 'hood scoops' were considered to give a natural ram effect .
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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Looking in the Trivia section of the Internet Movie Database...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/trivia
The cars had 440 cubic inch engines.
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Surely Charlotte Rampling was a lot more intersting than the cars?
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I think R/T stood for Road and Track. The version on TV was probably the version without Charlotte Rampling, still not seen it, even my DVD is without her!
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I have not seen it though apparently she plays a hitchiker?
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Yeah, she plays a hitchhiker he has a fling with, sposed to be on UK DVD's, but isn't on mine! Last time I saw VP on ITV they even cut out the race with the Jag for some reason.
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The Challenger was a 440,which is 7.2 litre,they also came in 426 Hemi,383,340,318 (which I had) and a 6 cyl version.There is talk that Dodge are going to build a new Challenger,to go with the Charger.The film Vanishing point is my favorite film,ever.From the first time I saw it I had to have one...,curiously I also have an X1/9,but have never seen "Caravan to Vaccares",I just love em anyway!
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Kowalski said "yeah,its hopped up to over 160".... Dodge never built a supercharged version,and the 426 Hemi was very rare,these are worth $150000+ now. R/T stands for road and track,and the "Rallye" hood,with the scoops was an option on most versions.Story goes that Dodge weren't too keen on the film,after lending them the cars,because of drugtaking,nudity etc...It ended up being one of the biggest films of the year!Mine was a '72,which had an uglier front and rear end,and much less power.1970 cars such as the one in VP just keep rising in value,also to be seen in "Fast and Furious 2",and a nearly exact VP car in "Terminal Velocity"
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Probably one of the purest expressions of the 'coke bottle' profile ever. In the flesh, what strikes you is how low they are. The roof seems to be about waist-high. y******... There are a few very nice ones here in New Zealand too. I'd almost swap the Jag for one.
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Oops, what ever I said to indicate that I liked it, two three letter words both the same starting with a Y, must be an indecent word in Indonesian, or Tagalog or Mongolian. How silly of me not to know that.
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"but doubt it could have out-run a Jaguar E type in the right hands."
I doubt it also - in 1975/6 a Challenger spun whilst following me in a 1970 std Singer Imp going around the Shoreditch one way system. I do not claim any special driving skills and wasn't going particularly fast (std 875cc Imp remember!)!
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It wasn't a yellow one with a black roof was it? mine had a little "off" around that time,according to the previous owners son.. If it was the same car,its an interesting story!
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"It wasn't a yellow one with a black roof was it?" - Crumbs! I have trouble remembering my own name in the morning! It was dark and in winter; I was travelling with my friend, who was riding his Suzuki GT500 a little way behind me. I didn't see it spin, just noticed it had disappeared. My friend pulled alongside at the next set of lights and shouted how he had to brake to a stop and waited whilst it manoeuvered back to the right direction, no damage done (wide oneway section there).
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Is it the same car in both versions of the film.
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