You actually got a more honest feel of the road, and didn't put as much faith in the electronics. That TBird probably felt like sitting on and riding on a pillow. You don't get that much in regular cars today.
That Thunderbird had a lot of modifications to the suspension for the purposes of this movie. Ford police springs and sway bars and lots more. These were sloppy handling but I loved these beautiful cars. I have driven plenty of them and they ride like a cloud but hit a deep dip in the road too fast and you will bounce the engine crossmember off the pavement.
“Must have something special under there!” Ya a 460……..200HP and 450 TQ LOL! I had a 78 LTD Landau with a 400M. That was a great car. I miss it except for the 8 mpg.
Awesome chase his comment must have something special under that hood echoed something many ignored in the US at the time, handling. You will need something special in those wheel wells if you plan to do anything effectively except accelerate in a straight line.
The great thing about 1970's Fords (and their marshmallow suspension) is that you could be going 15 mph and the car looks like it's completely out of control.
Back in 1970, Moore was buddied-.up with Tony Curtis for "The Persuaders" TV series. Plenty of car chases in that one -- France, Italy, England. Next, he became J. Bond 007 in 1972. And wwhile doing that, he was teamed-up with Stacey Keach here for another SanFran car chase romp.
En estas series muy emotivas presenciar los famosos motores 8 en v que lo caracteriza a los autos que por eso se les conoce como el poder americano y se los aprecia en la persecución
Having owned both of these pigs years ago, they would both been outmaneuvered and accelerated by those loaded tanker trucks. The continuity errors with the self repairing T bird was just as funny. The 460 in the bird took about 14 seconds to 60. The LTD, maybe 16 seconds assuming a 160 hp 351. This was funny to watch and pathetic at the same time.
Ah yes. American cars from the 70s. Nothing like 6 liters to get 120hp, 0-60 in a dozen seconds, single digit fuel mileage, road holding to rival the Titanic, grossly over assisted steering, 18 feet long yet smaller inside than a Fiat 128, panel gaps you could put your pinky into, and quality that ensures you’d get at least 60,000 miles out of it as long as you took meticulous care of it and body panels that would rust halfway away after 3 Midwest winters.
Biased crap. Most American cars in the 70's were much better than the imported that really did rust away in a few Midwest winters. Mercedes was one of the few that came close, but wasn't much quicker and as far more expensive. The only thing the imports ( assuming u mean Japanese) had was low prices and better fuel economy in most, but not all cases. I'm tired of the BS .
i have a 76 7.5L t bird daily driver yeah these works of art are amazing enjoy your safe cars ppl in fact go buy a souless tesla ... god what happend to this country ...
i got to chaffeur mr keach in a pick up truck some years ago. i collected him at an airport, we spent several hours together. i've always taken it as a compliment to my driving when the passenger feels safe enough to take a nap, like he did.
For movie work; modifying (tampering with smog devices) the engines for some more power was rather easy, between opening up the exhaust, higher flow intake systems and, swapping in some slightly higher numerical rear ends i.e. going from the 2:50's up to 3:50's.............especially since achieving 100 MPH+ top ends was usually required.
Me to, especially when they take that side road that goes parallel with the highway to outrun the tractor trailer, same as one of the opening scenes in Duel! I wish they had used a landyacht like this in Duel instead of that puny Valiant.
The Thunderbird had the 460-v8 in it. I guess that's why it caught up with LTD. The LTD should have been the landau model with the 460-v8. There is nothing like a 1970's car chase scene in a movie, especially when it's 2 of my favorite vehicles of all time.
I use to have a 73 & a 76. Never broke down. Always started on the 1st turn. They were such nice vehicles to drive. Both had 460 CI. The 73 I think was a 4 barel single exhaust and the 76 was a 2 barrel with duel exhause
Mine also had the power sunroof and the fuel efficient radial tires. It wasn't bad on gas either considering the size of the engine. Couple years before I wrote the car off the sunroof would leak so I had to silicone it because parts were hard to come by. I sure miss looking at those long noses at front when driving. King of the road....
cougstang: I got my first speeding ticket in a 74 Thunderbird. White w/ blue vinyl roof and blue interior. 460 ci. with single two barrel and single exhaust. I was happily motoring down the road thinking my speed was around 55. When I noticed flashing blue and red lights behind me. I looked down at my speedometer and the needle was sitting at 75... The cop cut me a break and only wrote me up for 15 over the limit.
My dad considered buying one of those Thunderbirds, but was dead set on a Lincoln instead and ended up buying a 73 Continental which I ultimately learned to drive on. I think the T Bird would have ultimately been the better choice. The car chases in this era were far more real than today, not to mention the ability of the stunt drivers to handle all of that body lean. I have tried watching movies from the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but have never been able to stay engaged beyond five minutes of the computer generated crap.
The biggest reason, a lot of the car chase scenes, from the 60's & 70's, seemed so realistic was because a lot of the times, the filmmakers pretty much well used guerilla-style techniques when filming. Some chase scenes were filmed without permits from the city they were in, nor did they block off streets, where the scenes were being filmed. So you ended up with actual traffic and pedestrians nearly getting reamed FOR REAL. That's what happened, during the filming of The French Connection. The scene, where the Pontiac, Gene Hackman is driving, accidentally t-bones a car, that pulled out in front of him, was for real and completely unplanned. Some innocent person was just driving normally, and unwittingly pulled out in front of Gene, because the street hadn't been blocked off, and got reamed. The scene was kept in the movie.
11second69nickeynova have you ever drove in a 60s or 70s full size car on stock wheels clearly not you think nothing of stopping from 60 Within 100 feet that doesn't happen with old cars you think going around a curve like that in a Honda Civic yeah you can do 60 in a Honda Civic I guarantee if you were in one of these beasts you be doing 15 miles an hour anything over 40 unless you're highly-skilled you're going to crash you're going to oversteer it's going to understeer and your wind up flipping around and crashing I own a 1970 Buick Skylark I've owned a lot of old cars let me tell you back in the day doing stuff like this in one of those cars was insane if you ever look at the car chases from things like The Seven-Ups and the French Connection if you truly ever drove these cars you would understand it takes a highly-skilled stuntman and Driver to even attempt any of this the problem is newer cars are so much better but you're forgetting that that's all there was back then they were basically floating marshmallows that weighed 5000 pounds and trust me once they broke loose they're loose and that five thousand pounds is going to go wherever the hell it wants to stunt drivers doing stuff like this right at the edge aware it's even possible amazing. There's a reason why the car chase scene in The French Connection and The Seven-Ups which was done by the same Stunt Driver we're held as the greatest car chase scenes because back when the movies came out everybody that saw them knew exactly what cars were like back then and said how did they even do this. That are of stunt driving is gone because cars have gotten too good but there was a time where it took a true professional to do this
Nova 2006. Totally agree. I once owned a 1971 Dodge Charger and that thing sometimes tried to break away from me even when turning at very slow speeds! When the road was wet or an unseen oil spill that thing was lethal. It aquaplaned once at 50 mph and I ended up travelling sideways for who knows how many yards fortunately without hitting anything. Chrysler's power steering system offered NO feel through the steering wheel so you spin around before you know what's going on!
@@Nova-ne1il Exactly. Many years ago, while still in SoCal, I took a 1973 Ford Galaxie (LTD body) a bit too fast on Topanga Canyon Rd up from Woodland Hills and, also lost control whipping a hard left turn, the rear end slid out. Needless to say; I was more careful since then.
I had a 75 L.T.D. it was like driving a couch down the street.
red tomatoes My dad had a 70,73,76, and 79. Company cars, but so nice. His best friend had a 72 Mercury Monterey. I miss those big girls..
Lol.
amazing what 168 horsepower could do in 1975.... that yellow AMC Matador wagon just kept showing up!
Нешают не только силы, но и огромный момент этих моторов!
Love the way the weather changes from sunny (for the scenes with the tanker trucks) to cloudy (for the jump into the water)!! Poor Alfa, too
You've obviously never been to the SF Bay Area where those scenes were shot...
@@malibuconv1968 Yes, I soon learned to always take a sweater with me even on a warm sunny day.
Roger probably thought it would turn into a submarine
No green screen shot just old school car chase
Wow it's just awesome 😎
Wow, just imagine for a second how hard it was to keep these things on the road with the handling they had
Eran lanchas con ruedas sin control de estabilidad sin abs y dirección asistida imprecisa.
@@marceloacosta1742 and they driving them they they're civics lol. Crazy.
@@bennybop5387 Hay que ser un piloto experto para dominar estos autos si te descuidas ¡¡wak!! Te muerden😈
Not to mention on bias ply tires!
You actually got a more honest feel of the road, and didn't put as much faith in the electronics.
That TBird probably felt like sitting on and riding on a pillow. You don't get that much in regular cars today.
I miss this world. Who knew it would go away so fast.
Ain't that thr truth.
thank goodness they got it on film
I love the way the t bird bumper goes to smashed to fixed lol
Beautiful thunderbird best looking style
I just, loudly, screamed "Stacey Keech!" In a very quiet library.....thanks for that.
That Thunderbird had a lot of modifications to the suspension for the purposes of this movie. Ford police springs and sway bars and lots more. These were sloppy handling but I loved these beautiful cars. I have driven plenty of them and they ride like a cloud but hit a deep dip in the road too fast and you will bounce the engine crossmember off the pavement.
Can't go wrong with a car chase
I remember doing 115 in my 75' LTD. Smooth.
Beautiful T-bird.
Gotta love that super long hood on the Bird. You could fit a building on that.
Moore is probably thinking “where in bloody hell is my Aston Martin?”
We had a 1971 and then a 1976 LTD. Vinyl Bench Seat. Holy Crap.
Wear your seat belts kids.
T Bird had a massive 460 in it.
LTD probably the ol' 351.
Good thing for the Five Mile an hour bumpers!
7:26 Incredible stunt work X_X;;
Too bad they don't make car chase smash-up movies anymore. Must be the price of cars these days and NO, CGI won't do!
Wow Mike Hammer and James Bond together.
I didn't know about this this must have been a real box office hit
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the sun risees quick in these parts
if you want to see a great 70s car chase. the best car chase in all of movie history, watch THE SEVEN UPS
Especially when that Pontiac Grandville plowed through those police cars!
A Szicíliai kereszt című film, szerintem nagyon jó film. 😊
That Tbird went from having a banged up rear end to a straight rear end bvack to a banged up rear end
5:17 back of the car destroyed ,
5:38 now the back of the car magically fixed!!
6:32 again back side is destroyed!!
“Must have something special under there!” Ya a 460……..200HP and 450 TQ LOL!
I had a 78 LTD Landau with a 400M. That was a great car. I miss it except for the 8 mpg.
Nobody cared about HP in these barges anyway.
Hola me encantan estas películas retro, y quiero saber si la puedo ver completa en algún canal, de preferencia en "Español Latino" saludos desde🇲🇽👍
Ooh Ya!! My son says it's James Bond..🥂😀
That's right its a 351 Cleveland under that hood.
You can almost hear theses cars screaming "I'M NOT MEANT TO DO THIS WTF?!?!"
That T-Bird had what, like a 7-liter motor with 190hp?
Man, Keach can drive!
Awesome chase his comment must have something special under that hood echoed something many ignored in the US at the time, handling. You will need something special in those wheel wells if you plan to do anything effectively except accelerate in a straight line.
Stacy Keach and Roger Moore, what a couple !
theyre really treating these big chunks of steel like muscle cars are they
AMC sold a lot of Matadors in SF. that year
Well shit... I would have kept my 77 ltd had I seen this first looks fun lol
The great thing about 1970's Fords (and their marshmallow suspension) is that you could be going 15 mph and the car looks like it's completely out of control.
always support the local car wash.
Back in 1970, Moore was buddied-.up with Tony Curtis for "The Persuaders" TV series. Plenty of car chases in that one -- France, Italy, England. Next, he became J. Bond 007 in 1972. And wwhile doing that, he was teamed-up with Stacey Keach here for another SanFran car chase romp.
They could have dubbed in something that didn't sound like a 4cyl stick shift for the 460 T-Bird.
En estas series muy emotivas presenciar los famosos motores 8 en v que lo caracteriza a los autos que por eso se les conoce como el poder americano y se los aprecia en la persecución
3:08 The definition of understeer
The ‘75 Thunderbird’s steering was so overboosted, there was no way anyone could have made those turns.
I remember watching this film. IMO, it was no immortal masterpiece. This clip is fun, though.
I quit watching it half way thru. Other than this car chase and the Monte Carlo scene the movie is unwatchable.
You need a Dramamine to ride in that Thunderbird
A LTD and a Thunder Chicken.
The Bird got 8.5mpg
looks like a Police package LTD
Welcome to San Franshishki. Did ya droven, or did'geah flew??
Title should be:
cars that don't drive well trying to drive well
nothing beats burning rubber on dirt
The key to a good car chase scene is to pick two oversized American cars that handle like shit
Stacey Keach had something special under that hood…
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I like the way the American Thunderbird sounds like a Fiat when it accelerates.
you can see the man's head moving after the 1st tanker tipped over
That man sure looked a lot like the Saint or maybe even a bit like James Bond getting picked up in the Jaguar. lol
Try that now and the plastic bumpers would fall off
Those Peterbilts are better road vehicles than the wallowing T-Bird
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Damn those land barges had skinny tires. My 2017 civic no joke has wider tires
Sergeant Stedenko and James Bond
Having owned both of these pigs years ago, they would both been outmaneuvered and accelerated by those loaded tanker trucks. The continuity errors with the self repairing T bird was just as funny. The 460 in the bird took about 14 seconds to 60. The LTD, maybe 16 seconds assuming a 160 hp 351. This was funny to watch and pathetic at the same time.
7:26 Original Walking Tall scene!
that edit job was soo bad it was good
Sounds like they need to change the V belt or something tighten them up
Please post movies with the 77 Tbird
Stacey Keach?!! Roger Moore?!!
Somehow I feel a car chase is so much more entertaining when it's between enormous cars with poor handling that rock and bounce all over the place.
2:40 Roger Moore thinking "why cant we do this in a European car that can corner or at least not waggle and screech on the strightaway?"
Ah yes. American cars from the 70s. Nothing like 6 liters to get 120hp, 0-60 in a dozen seconds, single digit fuel mileage, road holding to rival the Titanic, grossly over assisted steering, 18 feet long yet smaller inside than a Fiat 128, panel gaps you could put your pinky into, and quality that ensures you’d get at least 60,000 miles out of it as long as you took meticulous care of it and body panels that would rust halfway away after 3 Midwest winters.
I'd still take them any day over the $hit they make today.
They are a damn sight better than the crap they put out today.
Biased crap. Most American cars in the 70's were much better than the imported that really did rust away in a few Midwest winters. Mercedes was one of the few that came close, but wasn't much quicker and as far more expensive. The only thing the imports ( assuming u mean Japanese) had was low prices and better fuel economy in most, but not all cases. I'm tired of the BS .
Lo rescatable
Buenas tomas
Usaron más de dos thunderberd
I love watching clips of movies I've never heard of...Its like going back in time!
Yeah I love this shit too
I miss the days of big steel bumpers.
The bumpers were needed because there was no handling to speak of
@@twoeightythreez The bumpers were needed to protect the bodywork.
I still have one. A 80 Delta 88. Looooove it every mile
i have a 76 7.5L t bird daily driver yeah these works of art are amazing enjoy your safe cars ppl in fact go buy a souless tesla ... god what happend to this country ...
Almost cried to see that beautiful Thunderbird get wrecked......Rare silver interior option.
HUSKEY BOY my uncle had a 76 Tbird, looked almost identical to this silver one but it was emerald green.
Respuetas
me too that is one pretty car.
Don't mess with BIG OIL
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i got to chaffeur mr keach in a pick up truck some years ago. i collected him at an airport, we spent several hours together. i've always taken it as a compliment to my driving when the passenger feels safe enough to take a nap, like he did.
Attack of the Land Yachts ! Loving it
It's too bad they couldn't get the performance a little higher on these smog engine T-Birds. They were a solid built car in 1975.
For movie work; modifying (tampering with smog devices) the engines for some more power was rather easy, between opening up the exhaust, higher flow intake systems and, swapping in some slightly higher numerical rear ends i.e. going from the 2:50's up to 3:50's.............especially since achieving 100 MPH+ top ends was usually required.
'75 Silver Luxury Edition. Rare 'Bird.
6:33: The "rare bird" became a "water bird".
How many times they gonna pass that yellow AMC Matador?
Roger Moore must have looked at that T Bird and said, "My God, not another boat chase!"
the scene with the tanker trucks reminds me of duel. even the land,area looks the same
Me to, especially when they take that side road that goes parallel with the highway to outrun the tractor trailer, same as one of the opening scenes in Duel! I wish they had used a landyacht like this in Duel instead of that puny Valiant.
@@tyler2610 The driver could barely keep that tiny Valiant on the road, he would've absolutely wrecked a large car!
Manufacturerer's plates on the T Bird. Nice of Ford to let them use it!
They stood out like sore thumbs on both cars being black and yellow in the '70's.
Loving these car vids. Surprisingly how much music in these that I grew up with too.
Thanks and keep watching
The Thunderbird had the 460-v8 in it. I guess that's why it caught up with LTD. The LTD should have been the landau model with the 460-v8. There is nothing like a 1970's car chase scene in a movie, especially when it's 2 of my favorite vehicles of all time.
Exactly, nothing beats 70's car chases!
those cars had some long hoods. but they still weighed about 700 lbs less than a 1965 Continental
we put a 460 in an old 70 two door cougar. thing would burn rubber for a mile
Marquis Williams The 460 4V was an option on all big Ford models. The 460 was an option for the Landau.
Stacey Keach really had the '70s car chase movie genre cornered. I've seen him in 2 of the 5 I've watched since yesterday. LOL
Oh those old humongous American cars with their marshmallow suspensions!
is this normal ? the suspension softly ?
@Burleon 😮😮😮
Big old couch in a big boat just a-floating down the road!
@@satomon Whats scary is these cars actually had the suspensions stiffened up for the car chase filmography. The stock suspensions were even SOFTER
I use to have a 73 & a 76. Never broke down. Always started on the 1st turn. They were such nice vehicles to drive. Both had 460 CI. The 73 I think was a 4 barel single exhaust and the 76 was a 2 barrel with duel exhause
I had a '76 also, and it was a fun car to drive and reliable. I miss the power sunroof.
Mine also had the power sunroof and the fuel efficient radial tires. It wasn't bad on gas either considering the size of the engine. Couple years before I wrote the car off the sunroof would leak so I had to silicone it because parts were hard to come by. I sure miss looking at those long noses at front when driving. King of the road....
They got decent gas mileage for a car their size if you didn't go over the speed limit, but it was so easy in those 'birds to speed.
cougstang: I got my first speeding ticket in a 74 Thunderbird. White w/ blue vinyl roof and blue interior. 460 ci. with single two barrel and single exhaust.
I was happily motoring down the road thinking my speed was around 55. When I noticed flashing blue and red lights behind me. I looked down at my speedometer and the needle was sitting at 75...
The cop cut me a break and only wrote me up for 15 over the limit.
thunderbird66613 Great America cars
With the awesome handling of these great old cars its miracle any of us are still alive.
It's fun seeing them almost scrape off the rocker trim moulding in turns.
Great wheel shots way before GoPro.. 70's had some of the best stunt drivers. Tossing those monsters around
I love that T bird, big nice car, allmost the same like Lincolns Mark V
Almost? They ARE the same.
@@johndrake2729 Well, same platform but diferent front and back
That is one sweet T-bird.
My dad considered buying one of those Thunderbirds, but was dead set on a Lincoln instead and ended up buying a 73 Continental which I ultimately learned to drive on. I think the T Bird would have ultimately been the better choice. The car chases in this era were far more real than today, not to mention the ability of the stunt drivers to handle all of that body lean. I have tried watching movies from the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but have never been able to stay engaged beyond five minutes of the computer generated crap.
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The biggest reason, a lot of the car chase scenes, from the 60's & 70's, seemed so realistic was because a lot of the times, the filmmakers pretty much well used guerilla-style techniques when filming. Some chase scenes were filmed without permits from the city they were in, nor did they block off streets, where the scenes were being filmed. So you ended up with actual traffic and pedestrians nearly getting reamed FOR REAL. That's what happened, during the filming of The French Connection. The scene, where the Pontiac, Gene Hackman is driving, accidentally t-bones a car, that pulled out in front of him, was for real and completely unplanned. Some innocent person was just driving normally, and unwittingly pulled out in front of Gene, because the street hadn't been blocked off, and got reamed. The scene was kept in the movie.
Fast and Furious is such trash compared to movies like this.
@@Arklay_Ishimura , you know what is trash? The answer is your comments!
@jimmy haze , says the person that has took one too many LSD trips.
Thank you for posting brings me back memories.
My aunt had a76 and that car was luxurious and so comfy
I had a 74 fairlane, once you tighten the suspension one of the best handling cars I've ever owned
Michael Blandford Ford did not make a Fairlane in the US in 74. Are you from Australia?
The days when cars bounced in comfort.
Seeing those cars skid into the dirt was frickin dope and so was listening to those tires squeel.
The T-Bird must have weighed close to 5000 pounds - great stunt driving by someone.
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11second69nickeynova have you ever drove in a 60s or 70s full size car on stock wheels clearly not you think nothing of stopping from 60 Within 100 feet that doesn't happen with old cars you think going around a curve like that in a Honda Civic yeah you can do 60 in a Honda Civic I guarantee if you were in one of these beasts you be doing 15 miles an hour anything over 40 unless you're highly-skilled you're going to crash you're going to oversteer it's going to understeer and your wind up flipping around and crashing I own a 1970 Buick Skylark I've owned a lot of old cars let me tell you back in the day doing stuff like this in one of those cars was insane if you ever look at the car chases from things like The Seven-Ups and the French Connection if you truly ever drove these cars you would understand it takes a highly-skilled stuntman and Driver to even attempt any of this the problem is newer cars are so much better but you're forgetting that that's all there was back then they were basically floating marshmallows that weighed 5000 pounds and trust me once they broke loose they're loose and that five thousand pounds is going to go wherever the hell it wants to stunt drivers doing stuff like this right at the edge aware it's even possible amazing. There's a reason why the car chase scene in The French Connection and The Seven-Ups which was done by the same Stunt Driver we're held as the greatest car chase scenes because back when the movies came out everybody that saw them knew exactly what cars were like back then and said how did they even do this. That are of stunt driving is gone because cars have gotten too good but there was a time where it took a true professional to do this
Nova 2006. Totally agree. I once owned a 1971 Dodge Charger and that thing sometimes tried to break away from me even when turning at very slow speeds! When the road was wet or an unseen oil spill that thing was lethal. It aquaplaned once at 50 mph and I ended up travelling sideways for who knows how many yards fortunately without hitting anything. Chrysler's power steering system offered NO feel through the steering wheel so you spin around before you know what's going on!
@11second69nickeynova Nope, keeping control, that is though.
@@Nova-ne1il Exactly. Many years ago, while still in SoCal, I took a 1973 Ford Galaxie (LTD body) a bit too fast on Topanga Canyon Rd up from Woodland Hills and, also lost control whipping a hard left turn, the rear end slid out. Needless to say; I was more careful since then.