Painful Car Deaths

[Menard]

No; this is not a topic about the experiences of odinn7 and myself with cars.


This is pretty much a guy thing.

How many times have you seen a classic, nice, or suped up car bite the dust in the movies or TV?

Which was the worst for you?


Some I remember are:


The destruction of an El Camino in Nash Bridges

A head-on collision between a Dodge Viper and a Cuda in Viper

Running over a pristine Fiero with a Hummer in CSI

Let's not forget Kowalski driving his Dodge Challenger into a pair of bulldozers in Vanishing Point


What are some of your's?

[odinn7]

The worst one for me is when that Falcon bit the dust in Road Warrior. That car was just too awesome to die.

[Amanda]

My husband votes for:

The ferrari death in The Rock
The Mach1 getting crushed in Marked for Death

Now...this is being read and responded to while we are watching.....The Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction.  *L*  Interviewing Carroll Shelby as I type.  :)

[Ash]

Christine....

[Neville]

Christine got what she deserved... My vote is for the '57 Ford Fairlane in "The adventures of Ford Fairlane" (now that's a movie that deserves some cult status on the board and never seen even mentioned) and that tiny sports car that gets totalled on "Con air".

Oh, and the TV series "Stingrey" showed a Chevy Corvette Stingray getting both riddled with bullets (from a chopter, just imagine) and later being smashed against a yatch.

[Fearless Freep]

How about Jackie Chan running over a Rolls, a Porsche and two other cars (something like a Lamborghini or something and something else) with a dump truck in "Mr Nice Guy"

[Zapranoth]

The Lambo getting crashed in The Hidden.

[Max Gardner]

I'm not much into cars, but I seem to recall the entire Phantasm series being particularly harsh on them. There was ALWAYS a car being blown up or otherwise destroyed in those movies.

[trekgeezer]

The Challenger in Vanishing Point sticks out clearly . By the way Dodge is resurrecting the Challenger in the same way Ford did the Mustang, the new one will look very much like the 1970 model.

[akiratubo]

The car wrecked at the end of Vanishing Point was actually a stand-in: a '68 Camaro.  Some sources say it was a rolling wreck they got cheap from a junkyard.

They actually did wreck a Challenger and a Charger in the remake, though.  Bastards.

The Charger buying it in The Fast and the Furious was pretty hard to watch.

Crockett's Ferrari (his first one, not the white Testarossa) getting blown up on that episode of Miami Vice was horrible. (EDIT: Although the car itself was reportedly a kit car, and what we saw blown up was apparently a model.)

[The Burgomaster]

How about Cameron's father's classic sports car going out the window in FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF?

[Neville]

Jean Reno gets his two BMW totalled in the two instalments of "The Crinsom Rivers". One gets ruover by a Hummer and takes a few gunshots, I think, the second one gets riddled with bullets from a bunkeer machinegun. Really.

[daveblackeye15]

Deffinatly the Falcon from Road Warrior.

That was just wrong.

If the Mach 5 were ever to be destroyed that death would tie with the Falcon.

The Weasley car from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets took quite the painful beating also.

[Menard]

Another I rememebered.

The death by train of the 69 Dodge Charger in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

[AndyC]

It's kind of painful to watch reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard, knowing how many Chargers they wrecked making that show. Every time the General comes down hard, you think "There goes another one."