As someone who has owned a Continental, a Mustang and a Granada I can tell you this was Hollywood magic lol The 460 in the Lincoln was pretty quick for being a huge car and even a 2 barrel 302 Mustang (which in this movie it clearly was not a 302 it sounded like a big block car) would out run a smogged down mid 1970s Ford Granada with relative ease.
@@cartoonfan959 I have never seen the movie but I did just find a 6-minute clip of a car chase, it's a Lincoln Mark VI (1980ish) and a 1980s TPI Camaro chasing a (turbo?) Porsche 911. None of them are exactly spry by modern terms but the Lincoln (with a lackluster preforming 400CI V8) the two sports cars would have walked away from (more like ran away from). I am pretty sure the Camaro would have struggled with the Porsche although at least it could have somewhat hanged since it handled really well for that era and it was known to be pretty fast for what it was. But yes I agree the 911 shouldn't have had a problem getting away.
@@AtomicReverend that movie is essentially the Fast and the Furious, undercover cop goes undercover into a Porsche car theft gang, gets attracted to the lifestyle and the charismatic bad guy (charlie sheen) and falls in love with his sister , so sound svery familiar it's always a thing in Hollywood that a chased car can't get away from something that should be (much) slower
When thiers a manual shifting sound track ( aka Bullet) for a 3speed automatic Mustang..( a 6 cy car...standard engine) anything is movie possible .. Rear springs in the Granada, Monarch, were terrible... Props to the stunt guy for setting down his gun before kealing over...lol..
Even this very silly car chase is more believable and watchable than the entire Fast and Furious series :D Oh and the music sounds very much like that was in the Sweeney first episode
I had a 1980 Granada and it was built like a Sherman tank. Sorry to see it blow up at the end. Love silly movies from the 70s with "outrageous" car chases. Best junk food for the mind ever! Thanks foe the upload.
Pretty cool and unusual Mustang, even for '79. I think that was a 'local' car from where they filmed it in Mexico. They used to do weird vinyl roof treatments like that there. Nice clip!
@@TheSeventhDeadlyMatador In the beginning you can see that Mustang has some weird badges on the lower front fenders. My mother had a new '73 Mach 1 and it had a factory vinyl top that was like a 'half top' that went from the front of the roof to about right where the quarter glass ended on the roof.
@@vincemajestyk9497 Cool, didn't notice at first and that's pretty awesome your mom had a mustang from that era. Was she into cars at all or just wanted a fun car when she was younger?
@@TheSeventhDeadlyMatador It was a medium aqua blue car with 351C and 4speed. My father bought it new from a salesman at the local Ford dealer he used to work with (@ a radio station). He drove it maybe 6 months and got tired of it and told my mother 'Here...this is your car now.' She had to pick up the payments too and re-learn how to drive a stick. My old man saw a '70 Charger R/T he wanted and bought that for himself.
@@JohnJones-xy5yt LOL good old stuck like Chuck been lying to us for all those years clamming he was a rifle man come to find out he is more of a pistol man 😆😆😆😆😆😆
I can definitely tell the exhaust sounds and lots of tire screeching are recorded sound affects. It looks to me like the Mustang had to have had either the 250 V6 or 302 V8 while the Granada had either the 302 or 351. Otherwise, the producers intentionally made the driver or the Mustang go no faster than a certain speed so the Granada could destroy the Mustang.
Jorge Rivero also starred in another low budget flick called "Werewolf" in which Mystery Science Theater 3000 spoofed the movie. He had 5 different hair styles in that one.
Comedy gold. The sound dubbing is so poor that it's great comedy again, none of the cars goes any faster than 30 or 40, the flammable little red one, the trace down the cliff from an earlier take of the falling "Mustang", the squealing tires on mud, sand and loose dirt... as I said, comedy gold :D
So they shoot at each other Chase each other try to kill each other and he shoots off a flare and blows a kiss to a princess. The movie ends with the Brady bunch pictures. Connor's usually carried a rifle remember
Just curious did anyone else notice that when they do the interior shots. He's not in a 71-73 mustang. The B piller is to big and the back side glass is completely the wrong shape. Plus the seat isn't right also the door panels.
As someone who has owned a Continental, a Mustang and a Granada I can tell you this was Hollywood magic lol
The 460 in the Lincoln was pretty quick for being a huge car and even a 2 barrel 302 Mustang (which in this movie it clearly was not a 302 it sounded like a big block car) would out run a smogged down mid 1970s Ford Granada with relative ease.
or the chase in No Man's Land (1987) when a Porsche 930 Turbo can't outrun some land yachts like those
@@cartoonfan959 I have never seen the movie but I did just find a 6-minute clip of a car chase, it's a Lincoln Mark VI (1980ish) and a 1980s TPI Camaro chasing a (turbo?) Porsche 911.
None of them are exactly spry by modern terms but the Lincoln (with a lackluster preforming 400CI V8) the two sports cars would have walked away from (more like ran away from). I am pretty sure the Camaro would have struggled with the Porsche although at least it could have somewhat hanged since it handled really well for that era and it was known to be pretty fast for what it was. But yes I agree the 911 shouldn't have had a problem getting away.
@@AtomicReverend that movie is essentially the Fast and the Furious, undercover cop goes undercover into a Porsche car theft gang, gets attracted to the lifestyle and the charismatic bad guy (charlie sheen) and falls in love with his sister , so sound svery familiar
it's always a thing in Hollywood that a chased car can't get away from something that should be (much) slower
@@AtomicReverend NO! That was a '77-8 Mark V with a 460,A '82 tp 84 305 Camaro.the Lincoln was TOUGH.
When thiers a manual shifting sound track ( aka Bullet) for a 3speed automatic Mustang..( a 6 cy car...standard engine)
anything is movie possible ..
Rear springs in the Granada, Monarch, were terrible...
Props to the stunt guy for setting down his gun before kealing over...lol..
I laughed out loud when that car exploded at the slightest touch from that dump truck
It’s a built-in feature of the car.
You know how red barrels explode when you shoot them in video games? They built that van's body out of the same metal those barrels are made of.
Must have been loaded with nitroglycerin.
Same! must've been Pino based :D
Right! I mean… it wasn’t a Pinto!
Even this very silly car chase is more believable and watchable than the entire Fast and Furious series :D
Oh and the music sounds very much like that was in the Sweeney first episode
What, you don’t believe someone can build a working spaceship out of a Pontiac Fiero?
68 Continental is the Coupe, 2 door model, very nice, very rare car. They started producing the coupes in 66 (I used to own a 66 coupe)
I had a 1980 Granada and it was built like a Sherman tank. Sorry to see it blow up at the end. Love silly movies from the 70s with "outrageous" car chases. Best junk food for the mind ever! Thanks foe the upload.
- love the tire squealing noises as they slide around in mud... 😅
Pretty cool and unusual Mustang, even for '79. I think that was a 'local' car from where they filmed it in Mexico. They used to do weird vinyl roof treatments like that there. Nice clip!
I was about to say, that roof was weird but kinda cool in it's own way.
@@TheSeventhDeadlyMatador In the beginning you can see that Mustang has some weird badges on the lower front fenders. My mother had a new '73 Mach 1 and it had a factory vinyl top that was like a 'half top' that went from the front of the roof to about right where the quarter glass ended on the roof.
@@vincemajestyk9497 Cool, didn't notice at first and that's pretty awesome your mom had a mustang from that era. Was she into cars at all or just wanted a fun car when she was younger?
@@TheSeventhDeadlyMatador It was a medium aqua blue car with 351C and 4speed. My father bought it new from a salesman at the local Ford dealer he used to work with (@ a radio station). He drove it maybe 6 months and got tired of it and told my mother 'Here...this is your car now.' She had to pick up the payments too and re-learn how to drive a stick. My old man saw a '70 Charger R/T he wanted and bought that for himself.
@@vincemajestyk9497 I see, did she enjoy at least?
Theres more Fords in this than a Quinn Martin tv show
This red van at 1:46 is really flammable.
Oh, where did i put my surplus of extremely flammable nail polish 😂😂.
5:00 Ah yes when a van detonates from a fender bender with a dump truck but a Mustang doesn't light a single flame after falling down a cliff
Seeing Chuck Connors using a pistol is just plain wrong 😆
Seeing Chuck in this movie is just plain WRONG
@@rogerstlaurent8704 Conners was in some real stinkers, but apparently the mighty Glenn Ford is in this POS.
Always thought he was more of a rifle man
@@JohnJones-xy5yt LOL good old stuck like Chuck been lying to us for all those years clamming he was a rifle man come to find out he is more of a pistol man 😆😆😆😆😆😆
I think the editor must have had a series of seizures
Even The Rifleman needs a comeback. Greatest loss was the Lincoln.
1) the mustang must have been made out of wet cardboard to have been so dented up
2) have to love the screeching tire sounds on dirt roads
I can definitely tell the exhaust sounds and lots of tire screeching are recorded sound affects.
It looks to me like the Mustang had to have had either the 250 V6 or 302 V8 while the Granada had either the 302 or 351. Otherwise, the producers intentionally made the driver or the Mustang go no faster than a certain speed so the Granada could destroy the Mustang.
Is anyone else surprised that after watching the Mustang tumble down the cliff, the hubcaps stayed attached to the wheels?
The poverty caps, man!
Really epic car chase and shootout here!
Love 70's Chuck Connors movies (& rifle man) the "Mad Bomber" & "Tourist trap" are unequaled 70's master pieces! 🥰💞😘👌
Nothing evokes peril like cruise ship background music.
Hey, it's Eleanore!!!!!
Weird vinyl top, wonder if it's a Mustang Grande??
The 2 door Lincoln was sweet
Too bad the Ford Granada was not a popular car when it first came out
@@rogerstlaurent8704 Yes the hell it was!! They sold millions of them with the Monarchs.
Jorge Rivero also starred in another low budget flick called "Werewolf" in which Mystery Science Theater 3000 spoofed the movie. He had 5 different hair styles in that one.
I grew up on dirt roads and never once squealed a tire.
They do, having enough gravel below the dirt.
Chuck needed that old Winchester.
Comedy gold. The sound dubbing is so poor that it's great comedy again, none of the cars goes any faster than 30 or 40, the flammable little red one, the trace down the cliff from an earlier take of the falling "Mustang", the squealing tires on mud, sand and loose dirt... as I said, comedy gold :D
With a slight touch the red panel van explodes
So they shoot at each other Chase each other try to kill each other and he shoots off a flare and blows a kiss to a princess. The movie ends with the Brady bunch pictures. Connor's usually carried a rifle remember
He really wanted to break out of The Rifleman typecast
Should read "75 Granada chases and destroys Eleanor" (that Mustang sure looks like Eleanor)...
so that's where Shaft went
I LOVE CCW2!
Just curious did anyone else notice that when they do the interior shots. He's not in a 71-73 mustang. The B piller is to big and the back side glass is completely the wrong shape. Plus the seat isn't right also the door panels.
Partially filmed Zihuatanejo? Wonder if Andy and Red might have seen the chase? Also... hey Foley artists: pavement squeals on gravel much?
Not everything was better in the 70s...
8:27. When Ford Granada becomes Ford Grenade!
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didn't know that Bebu Silvetti was in the bgm in this movie
🍀Groovy 😆✌️
8:33 "WOOOOO YEAAAAAH!!"
What's the name of this Movie?
Looks like chuck could've used his rifle ...
Os caras fazem milagre de cantar pneus na terra e tem revolver com 200 tiros e carros que explodem so de encostar
Is that THEE Glenn Ford???
Never heard of a mustang sport
And the director was proud of this?
xD
I hope the Granada has a V8, the sixes had no power.
4:47 Poor '71 mustang😞
1:46 Как это типично в любом кино: слегка пнул машину в любое место - взорвалась в ту же секунду.
A 75 Granada can run down a 71 stang? Since when?
wow, lame ass movie. Like a granada could catch a mustang. maybe if it was the same year mustang lol
The movie that spent more money, mes amis, on fake tyre squeal and engine sounds...than anything else.
Poor Disposable Black Man (DBM).
1:47ぶつかっただけで爆発する普通！？😓
Horrible. A Granada couldn’t catch flies.
Borrowed the car sounds from the flintstones.
The LTD Coupe is the only one that survived. I just bought a car looks same body style different colors.