This film is one of the reasons I bought my ‘79 Trans-Am. I saw this movie as a kid,and said to myself “One day I’m gonna get one!”…and I did. A BEAUTIFUL Solar Gold Trans-Am. Thanks Steve!
@@KGraceSpeaksKea1335 My neighbor bought BRAND NEW 1981 z28 Camaro Engine was high performance No t top DANG THING WOULD SNAP YOUR NECK IF YOU WERE LEANING FORWARD WHEN HE PUNCHED IT. Put it in reverse SMOKING TIRES 🛞 TRYING TOO BACK UP .
tim coker: I agree with you!! I had a 1979 Firebird Formula, changed the engine to a 350 4 barrel, and had a blast for many years!! That car was definitely one of the best cars I've had too! Never let me down, either!! I had it up to 155MPH with more to go!! If you don't believe me, ask the Porsche driver who's butt I kicked!! What a machine!! What a driver(me!)!!
mauserk98bnz44: Which 400 engine? 180hp or 220hp(T/A 6.6) ? Go for a 1971 400, great heads and 300hp(net),about 340hp gross AND 400 lbs torque(net!!)!! Enough to snap your neck!!!!
Nor Man it had this in it when I bought it and best I can tell you is that by the block cast numbers it is either a 75/76 and the heads have a 6A on them . I’m not totally sure but I believe it is not the 220 Hp engine but it is most definitely a 6.6 Pontiac engine. This car had a 301 going off the vin code and this will be a cloned T/A and a complete clone job.
mauserk98bnz44: You could always run the engine you have now while rebuilding a killer 400!! Then when your killer engine is ready, in it goes and....LOOK OUT!! You could also do the same for a tranny as well!! What is going to be the final ratio in the differential? 3.43 or 3.73 would be fantastic!! With all that Pontiac torque on hand, I think 3.43's would be good because you could still "go" on the highway & have lots of "oomph" for the city burnouts & take-offs!! Either way you're gonna have one hell of a killer ride!!!! I want to build a 1970 1/2 to 1973 Formula Firebird. It'll happen....one day!! Good luck, my 'Bird Brother!! PS: why don't you put up some vids of the car in progress? I'm sure all the Firebird fanatics(like us!) would love to see your work in progress!! Think about it...PLEASE!!
That’s true, The farmer that let them use his trailer for the last scene has it. The movie folks let him keep the remains so he can get the scrap money from it. He never brought it in.
Sad to think it's last time we ever saw McQueen. Just think if he was in Apocalypse now with Eastwood , or Close Encounters . Speilburg wrote Close Encounters for him.
they just found one of these trans ams from the movie it was the first one that they "blew up" it didn't come out as spectacular as they wanted so they had to do it a second time... it was given to the owner of the gmc truck and trailer at the end of the clip...as payment for moving the cars and wrecks around during production
That's a popular myth, and one the Steve McQueen himself corrected multiple times. He did SOME of his own stunts, particularly motorcycle riding (In 'The Great Escape' he even "chases himself" via editing, riding as both his own character and a German soldier, due his being the best rider on the set.), but for insurance reasons many other stunts were done by professional stunt men. The motorcycle jump in 'The Great Escape,' for example, was done by Bud Ekins, who also did the stunt driving in 'Bullitt.'
its obvious it was a 403 auto you can clearly see it on the trailer at the end after it was blown up...all 400 4 speed cars were in hi demand because 79 was the last available year they all were special ordered...because the engine was not made in 79 they were stock piled in 78 for the 10th anniversary and special ordered cars....
& the Fucking Look on the Rental Car Agents Face when she Saw What's Left of the Trans-Am on the Trailer! & Why they Destroyed the Damn Corn Field Also!
McQueen goes from double-clutching in Frisco, to not knowing how to work a console auto shifter (hint, push it towards the passenger seat then forward each gear) to being an expert with a Massey-Ferg.
Albert Gaspar the car was a 4 speed not n automatic with a 400 not the 403 does automatic s cud never smoked the tires like that or less being brake pedal Ed which it was not
Chad Kimmel finally someone with sense there's another dope who commented it was n 403 atuo it was a400 4 speed does automatic s never n I mean NEVER did hole shots like that I don't think Maqueen EVER wuld drive an automatic
+Carmine Annunziat0 yeah, if you look at the car at the airport after he backs up from the parking spot the reverse lights are on n he revs the engine. Something only possible in a manual.
Excally so many dummies who don't Shit about cars if they can't see THIS was a 4 speed 400 n so many scene s we're obvious u said the parking lot was 1 n when lit does tire's up he clearly dumped the clutch a 403 automatic cud never pull that off unless being brake pedal ed
A fine machine done over like that. Why didn't they kill a Camaro instead???? No, they're not quite the same car. The T/A & Formula had better suspensions & steering, and the Pontiac engines had more torque. and they were WAY sexier cars!!!! Deny it....I DARE YOU!!!!
Timothy Cote The car Maqueen was in at the airport was a a 400 4 speed he was grinding gear's n the car s tail light s blink only can be done with a 4 speed, then when he smokes the tires he dumped the clutch, the 403 was slow they used a second T/A with a roll cage in side which u can see when the car flip's that 1 was a 403 which u see on the flat bed the blue valve covers
I'd give some credence to a few cars being used here. During the explosion as the air cleaner rolls around, that appears to be a 403 air cleaner and not the W72 '79 air cleaner assembly. Plus as others have stated, the blue valve covers on the vehicle on the flatbed are a clear indicator of it not being a 400 (those had chrome valve covers in '79 as they were W72 cars). Of course, 301 cars had blue valve covers in '79, but it's very, very unlikely a 301 car would have been used due to the low power output.
Lone wolf, if you notice the destroyed T/A on the trailer you can see the Olds 10 bolt valve cover and the oil filler neck at the front of the engine....not even close to being a Pontiac!!
Wasn't the Pontiac distributor in the front? Know Olds and Chevy were at the back and Cadillac and Buick in the timing cover but am in the dark on where Pointiacs had it.
Actually the 79 Trans Am did not perform no way in that manner of course the car was rigged because of the movie they probably put in a 1971 engine in that one of course then it would do it
Christopher Caprio 175 wasn't alot of horse s but they Had great TORQE which mad them quic it's not always about horsepower any gear head wuld know THIS
This film is one of the reasons I bought my ‘79 Trans-Am. I saw this movie as a kid,and said to myself “One day I’m gonna get one!”…and I did. A BEAUTIFUL Solar Gold Trans-Am. Thanks Steve!
great movie , great scene ...rest in peace steve mcqueen
Back then THEY DROVE THOSE
T/A s to DEATH 💀
Hard pressed to find one that had several engines and transmission replaced.
Car just screams BURN OUT !
Handled like a dream too🤗
@@KGraceSpeaksKea1335
My neighbor bought
BRAND NEW
1981 z28 Camaro
Engine was high performance
No t top
DANG THING WOULD SNAP YOUR NECK IF YOU WERE LEANING FORWARD WHEN HE PUNCHED IT.
Put it in reverse SMOKING TIRES 🛞 TRYING TOO BACK UP .
@@bandpassmess I remember. The z28 back in the 80s was one the fastest stock cars. 👍
Never seen the movie but man I feel sorry for that TA 😔
Always loved Steve Mcqueen. I doubt he ever made a bad film.
tom horn, Enemy of the People, Junior Bonner....
@@CaptainSpalding72 The Blob
I had a 79 T/A back in the day. one of the best cars I have ever owned!
tim coker: I agree with you!! I had a
1979 Firebird Formula, changed
the engine to a 350 4 barrel, and had a blast for many years!! That
car was definitely one of the best
cars I've had too!
Never let me down, either!! I had it
up to 155MPH with more to go!!
If you don't believe me, ask the
Porsche driver who's butt I kicked!!
What a machine!!
What a driver(me!)!!
tim coker currently restoring a 79 T/A but has a 400 Pontiac and a Th-400 Transmission and these cars are not cheap to redo
mauserk98bnz44:
Which 400 engine?
180hp or 220hp(T/A 6.6) ?
Go for a 1971 400, great heads
and 300hp(net),about 340hp gross
AND 400 lbs torque(net!!)!!
Enough to snap your neck!!!!
Nor Man it had this in it when I bought it and best I can tell you is that by the block cast numbers it is either a 75/76 and the heads have a 6A on them . I’m not totally sure but I believe it is not the 220 Hp engine but it is most definitely a 6.6 Pontiac engine. This car had a 301 going off the vin code and this will be a cloned T/A and a complete clone job.
mauserk98bnz44: You could always run the engine you have now while rebuilding a killer 400!!
Then when your killer engine is ready, in it goes and....LOOK OUT!!
You could also do the same for a tranny as well!! What is going to be the final ratio in the differential?
3.43 or 3.73 would be fantastic!!
With all that Pontiac torque on hand, I think 3.43's would be good because you could still "go" on the highway & have lots of "oomph" for the city burnouts & take-offs!!
Either way you're gonna have one hell of a killer ride!!!! I want to build a 1970 1/2 to 1973 Formula Firebird. It'll happen....one day!!
Good luck, my 'Bird Brother!!
PS: why don't you put up some vids of the car in progress? I'm sure all the Firebird fanatics(like us!) would love to see your work in progress!!
Think about it...PLEASE!!
Steve Maqueen will always be the King of cool, no matter what
Fucken aye lone ^5
* McQueen.
AMEN, Brother.
My brother had one just like that.. Dam I miss that car
Pretty cheesey but McQueen is still the man ... I heard they just found the original Transam in a barn near where they were shot this scene
That’s true, The farmer that let them use his trailer for the last scene has it. The movie folks let him keep the remains so he can get the scrap money from it. He never brought it in.
So that solves the mystery of crop circles.
note the damage to the right side of the trans am roof is gone when the trans am exits the corn field but before
it's clearly noticeable 👍
then the damage re-appears when the bad guys are backing up just before getting blown up.
Multiple cars destroyed for the film.
Also this trans am exists today ....exactly as shown in the movie destroyed n wrecked .......
Steve McQueen's last movie apparently Steve was battling terminal cancer sadly died in his late 50s
And now we know where “Crop circles” come from.
Sad to think it's last time we ever saw McQueen.
Just think if he was in Apocalypse now with Eastwood , or Close Encounters . Speilburg wrote Close Encounters for him.
Wow, news to me about those movies!
actually The hunter was
Mcqueen's second to last movie, Ton Horn was his last movie,, Yeah I'm a movie geek.
The death of that trans am was hard to watch.. I remember hating it as a kid. I was hurt. You don't kill trans ams..
I wonder if that farm is still there
I love how McQueen goons up drivin a stick, lol.
Not a stick in that car ...Olds 403 auto...
Cant Drive a Trans Am but Masters The Corn Cutter 🤙🏻 RIP Steve!
stive ma-queen great films always watched 60 70 great man
This was a painful chase to watch. This poor TransAm was literally tortured. Then blown up. Sad.
Looks like about what we did to them during high school in the '80s
Jim Fisher So TRUE except I had n 86 Mustang 5.0 5 speed every time I left I just had to light the tires up thinking I was Steve Maqueen
@@lonewolfmcquade1079 hahahaha it seems some of us never grows up! I still think that today so I'm driving my Trans Am like that too! :-)
It was only a 79 T/A,,, one of thousands made, at least they didn't kill a real classic muscel car.
Just think all those ariel shots done with a chopper can be done with a $100 drone nowadays.
Sad loss of a beautiful car but great film 😁
At least it wasn't Steve's fault.
they just found one of these trans ams from the movie it was the first one that they "blew up" it didn't come out as spectacular as they wanted so they had to do it a second time... it was given to the owner of the gmc truck and trailer at the end of the clip...as payment for moving the cars and wrecks around during production
Last movie for the King of Cool. Will be missed, always. He did his own stunts. Never relying on someone else to do his acting for him.
That's a popular myth, and one the Steve McQueen himself corrected multiple times. He did SOME of his own stunts, particularly motorcycle riding (In 'The Great Escape' he even "chases himself" via editing, riding as both his own character and a German soldier, due his being the best rider on the set.), but for insurance reasons many other stunts were done by professional stunt men. The motorcycle jump in 'The Great Escape,' for example, was done by Bud Ekins, who also did the stunt driving in 'Bullitt.'
Tom horn was Mcqueen's movie, but thats easy to forget
McQueen’s last movie
The 403 automatic...she does a great 360, but after first gear it's all over with that powertrain...
Wil Andersen That trans am had to be 4 speed u can tell when he first got in it the way it was jumping I definitely don't think it was n automatic
Wil Andersen I don't MaQUEEN ever drove n automatic
I don't think Maqueen EVER drove n automatic
Which if it was a stick car! Which I think it was it would be a 400 Pontiac motor under the hood and not the 403 Oldsmobile engine with the auto trans
its obvious it was a 403 auto you can clearly see it on the trailer at the end after it was blown up...all 400 4 speed cars were in hi demand because 79 was the last available year they all were special ordered...because the engine was not made in 79 they were stock piled in 78 for the 10th anniversary and special ordered cars....
79 TA is a spectacular machine... I know... I had one for 13yrs....
Massey Ferguson chase scene😂
1:08 the first drifter, perfecting the sport.
Should have played the Combine Harvester song by the Wurtzels when he was chasing the car...
Guys in the trans am were related to the guys in deliverance
Вспомнил этот фильм по ролику.Спасибо,посмеялся на славу)
At 1:04-1:14 I watched the filming of this scene outside of Chicago in the southwest suburb of Lemont Illinois.
& the Fucking Look on the Rental Car Agents Face when she Saw What's Left of the Trans-Am on the Trailer!
& Why they Destroyed the Damn Corn Field Also!
Im on the hunt for this dvd..
Just think what a 79 Tran Am with only 78 miles would be worth today.
I prefer the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am car over the 1969 Ford Mustang used for the movie "Bullitt" (1968).
McQueen goes from double-clutching in Frisco, to not knowing how to work a console auto shifter (hint, push it towards the passenger seat then forward each gear) to being an expert with a Massey-Ferg.
Albert Gaspar the car was a 4 speed not n automatic with a 400 not the 403 does automatic s cud never smoked the tires like that or less being brake pedal Ed which it was not
It was supposed to be n inside joke of Maqueen not knowing how to drive stick that week which we all know he was ONE of the GREATEST
Love any year transam I have a 73
That would've been funny if this was the intro, and they ended up spelling 'The Hunter' with the car ;)
I had one just like that but with T-tops differance with mine it didn't get blown up.
Back when they actually used stunt drivers instead of blue screen fakeness generated by computer.
Pointless watching "action" movies now imo
I liked this scene, but the one I liked the most was when he blasted that fool with the shotgun beanbags.
Only the BEST anti-T-top vid EVER
Odd how the damage to the passenger roofline is gone near the end scene where the the trans am exits the corn field
At 3.16 you can see the car has lost its hood/bonnet. Great movie!
How the hell do you grind gears with an automatic!?
pancudowny i was thinking the same
It wasn't an auto, it's a 4 speed, the joke is that McQueens character can't drive stick.
Chad Kimmel finally someone with sense there's another dope who commented it was n 403 atuo it was a400 4 speed does automatic s never n I mean NEVER did hole shots like that I don't think Maqueen EVER wuld drive an automatic
+Carmine Annunziat0 yeah, if you look at the car at the airport after he backs up from the parking spot the reverse lights are on n he revs the engine. Something only possible in a manual.
Excally so many dummies who don't Shit about cars if they can't see THIS was a 4 speed 400 n so many scene s we're obvious u said the parking lot was 1 n when lit does tire's up he clearly dumped the clutch a 403 automatic cud never pull that off unless being brake pedal ed
Here's to all the classic cars destroyed by Hollywood.
Steve McQueen,the king of cool!!!
Thank you! "where did he come from!...
Steve McQueen before his death in 1980.
How old was he when he died in 1980?
50
Man like to have that brand new 403 at the end
The yard looks like a place American Pickers would freak out over!
Did he actually like that car?
With only 185 hp look at all that torque .
where is the big bird on the hood ?
Hood bird was ALWAYS an option. A radio was optional too! & console too ! - at least as late as '74.
A fine machine done over like that.
Why didn't they kill a Camaro instead???? No, they're not quite the same car.
The T/A & Formula
had better suspensions & steering,
and the Pontiac engines had
more torque.
and they were WAY sexier cars!!!!
Deny it....I DARE YOU!!!!
They also did awesome burnouts as well. Firebird T/As were the best rear tire burners.
Looking at that corn field, it is pretty obvious it was aliens...
What gets me is hes popping the clutch in the T/A but it shows an olds 403 engine at the end which u couldnt get with a 4spd
man that poor trans am, and poor starsky and hutch torino,
That TA has the ws6 wheels on it. What a shame.
it was a brand new ws6....rare too with the hood bird delete and hard top....shame it was a 403 automatic but i wouldnt have thrown her outta bed.....
Timothy Cote The car Maqueen was in at the airport was a a 400 4 speed he was grinding gear's n the car s tail light s blink only can be done with a 4 speed, then when he smokes the tires he dumped the clutch, the 403 was slow they used a second T/A with a roll cage in side which u can see when the car flip's that 1 was a 403 which u see on the flat bed the blue valve covers
I'd give some credence to a few cars being used here. During the explosion as the air cleaner rolls around, that appears to be a 403 air cleaner and not the W72 '79 air cleaner assembly. Plus as others have stated, the blue valve covers on the vehicle on the flatbed are a clear indicator of it not being a 400 (those had chrome valve covers in '79 as they were W72 cars). Of course, 301 cars had blue valve covers in '79, but it's very, very unlikely a 301 car would have been used due to the low power output.
Why do so many of u think THIS car was n 403 automatic it was clearly a Pontiac 400 4 speed
Lone wolf Mcquade watch the end thats a automatic transmission on the truck n it looks like a 301 motor,
Lone wolf, if you notice the destroyed T/A on the trailer you can see the Olds 10 bolt valve cover and the oil filler neck at the front of the engine....not even close to being a Pontiac!!
Wasn't the Pontiac distributor in the front? Know Olds and Chevy were at the back and Cadillac and Buick in the timing cover but am in the dark on where Pointiacs had it.
I WISHD ID HAD BLACK TRANSAM SOME DAY
That teachers them a Lessing!
YEAH! What you said...
That's one of the more thorough ways to lose your deposit on a hire car...
Now days the only new vehicles I will purchase are Ford because they did not sell out to a tyranical government like dodge and chevy did.
Now we know how crop circles are made
Poor car they shoulda gave it 2 me!
Le meilleur. ....rip
Would had liked him on top gear to drive the car round the track, also Paul Newman and James Gardner.
dang
Atleast they did not destroy a T top Trans am !
Actually the 79 Trans Am did not perform no way in that manner of course the car was rigged because of the movie they probably put in a 1971 engine in that one of course then it would do it
Luckily he had taken the insurance.😆😆😆😆
"LE DYNAMITE, LE DYNAMITE!!111!!!1!11!!"
After he drove the T/A he bought one
I never got when McQueen drives this car so badly other than a take on bullit.
It was for comedy. He was a race car driver among other things in real life.
It was supposed n inside joke that he cudnt DRIVE a sports car that was quick with a 4 speed mean while he was of GREAT s
Trans am's without T tops are parts cars from the factory.
Useful Entertainment wrong Trans Am hardtop are the ones you want way more rare then a weak t-top car. And this one is a 400 Pontiac motor 4-speed car
LT11988 thats a automatic transmission watch the end when its on the truck,
"car movies" ruin a lot of cars, ironic
スティーブマツクイーンが恐ろしく格好良いのは 拳銃無宿
ジョッシュランダル
嗚〜呼
lever action sword off rifle
"Oh shit!!"
Wrong header for corn. Made for a better sequence though.
This 🚘 reminds me of herbie the 💖 🐛 but he’s 💀 now
Can anyone find my Red 92 Firebird Convertible in the new series of Hawaii 5-0
The firebird on my channel
Thanks in advance
At least wasn't a 73 with a 455...
What the hell did I just watch? I didnt know Steve was that desperate for a movie role!!
Crop circles that's funny.
Embarrassing I am a hard-core car guy never heard of this movie
What the hell was he doing
403 me thinks
ugh, I hate Hollywood.
You cupcakes crying over a corporate GM boat?
No big loss here besides McQueen a couple of years later.
Besides, they quit making cars by '72.
How to make 175 Hp. look fast.
Christopher Caprio 175 wasn't alot of horse s but they Had great TORQE which mad them quic it's not always about horsepower any gear head wuld know THIS
Another example a early 80 s 5.0 mustang another car with not that much horse power but was extremely fast do to GREAT TORQE
I cringed at 00:33
hahaha classic, huge explosion and the bad guys survive with bruises and black shit on their faces!
Isn't one of the hillbillies Hal Needham?
Crush as many of those junk TA's as you can so the rest might be worth something someday.1970 is the only one worth some dough.
Ugliest front end ever put on a car...
Luckily a production or fibeglass '77-8 one can be swapped on.