So whatever happened to the Drive Angry Charger?

[Drache]

Decided to watch the movie again and was wondering if anyone ever found out what happened to the car. Couldn't be that hard to notice with no Vent windows? 

[Baldwinvette77]

i cant remember what video it was,  but it said they used 3 cars 

[Cncguy]

Probably same fate as this Challenger

http://youtu.be/dfvTR1HfpuQ

[Drache]

Probably same fate as this Challenger

http://youtu.be/dfvTR1HfpuQ

Doubtful because a near perfect condition '69 R/T

The car is around somewhere...

[Ghoste]

Seems like it was discussed here before?  Used for some other filming IIRC. 

[tan top]

Probably same fate as this Challenger

http://youtu.be/dfvTR1HfpuQ

Doubtful because a near perfect condition '69 R/T

The car is around somewhere...

oh right a real  R/T

there goes my theory on this    was thinking

prolly crushed or uses for something else ,   got/ had  an idea they are / were  just made up movie jobs ,  like death proof / blade /  F&F  , nothing special  except being on the big screen  

[Daytona R/T SE]

 

[Drache]

I heard that one of the stunt cars for "Death Proof" was supposed to end up as the stunt car for "Drive Angry" but was saved from that fate and is undergoing restoration.

So what happened to the supposed "Drive Angry" Cars?

There was a '69 R/T without the vent Windows, a '68 used in some of the photoshoots, and the stunt car(s) which were/was destroyed.

[Baldwinvette77]

I found this, the stunt guy explains the charger, he doesnt mention where they came from or where they ended up though 


How'd you guys decide on the cars? How did you track them down?
That was the funnest part. We got together six months prior to the movie, and me and Patrick [Lussier] and Todd [Farmer] basically went through all of the AutoTraders, all the magazines, hell, all over the world to find the perfect car. I got people who were selling cars here in L.A. and we set up meetings every week with people with Chevelles, Cameros, GTOs and everything else. We lined up the cars and then basically looked at what had the right lines -- what would be the most visually interesting in 3D. We had two major hot rods to have to pick for, so we couldn't just go with like a GTO and a Charger, because then they were too similar in lines and everything else and we were trying to do the opposite. That's when the Charger and the Chevelle came. The Chevelle has a more rounded look, whereas the Charger has a longer, more lined look.

The audience is going nuts for the Charger, which is a car people still remember from the 'Dukes of Hazzard' days and all that. That was the hard part. We had to make sure sure no one thought of this car as being from the 'Dukes of Hazzard.' We almost turned it down because everything we pulled up on the Internet had the General Lee in it. So we had to change it.

What Patrick suggested, which was genius, was that we did a few little tweaks to change the way the Charger was. A true car person who knows about the Charger knows they have a wing window on each side of the car. We took the wing window out and made it one solid window, which gave us just enough of a different look when looking at the side of the car. We also changed the height of the car where it wasn't the same as the General Lee. I pumped it up a bit higher in the back to give us more of a wedge look, whereas the General Lee was more less a level car all the way across.

The other thing we had to do was combat the General Lee's bright colors. So what Patrick did was pick this flat blue color -- and it fits really well with today's look, because a lot of people are painting their cars a dull color. It had nothing to do with catching glare off of the car and onto the cameras, it was all about the specific look. We wanted it to look almost like a primer; a rougher, tougher, straight-from-hell look. It couldn't be a pristine car.

[Cncguy]

I think they would destroy them because of the liability factor. Although I could see them selling to auto museums. But the car will probably never see the road again so might as well be destroyed.

[challenger6pak]

A lot of cars are rented from these guys for movies. 

http://www.picturecarwarehouse.com/cars/muscle-cars/

[VegasCharger]

A lot of cars are rented from these guys for movies. 

http://www.picturecarwarehouse.com/cars/muscle-cars/

I recognize that 1974 Duster, item #1268. It looks like the one they used in "New Girl" TV series that Zooey Deschanel drives 

[Baldwinvette77]

the buick rivi from the first scene was sold on ebay, and it was claimed a write off,

so theres a chance the chargers are out there 



http://bluesmobiles.proboards.com/thread/99/1964-buick-riviera-drive-angry

[Mike DC]

     
These days movie cars don't get destroyed for liability as much as they once did.  They might yank the VINs and auction the cars as "parts for salvage", etc.  Other times they just go ahead and sell it "as is".



There are several businesses in LA that just rent cars to studios.  They repaint & re-use the same cars repeatedly.  The studios understand that the cars are "prop" grade stuff and may have already been abused before. 

These cars may never see private owners again.  But each time they get re-used it spares some other car.   

[1965gp]

Didn't Gas Monkey end up with a car from this movie? I don't think it was a Charger though- what was in the beginning of the movie?

[Kern Dog]

I think they would destroy them because of the liability factor. Although I could see them selling to auto museums. But the car will probably never see the road again so might as well be destroyed.

Wrong.

[lukedukem]

Didn't Gas Monkey end up with a car from this movie? I don't think it was a Charger though- what was in the beginning of the movie?

A 64 Buick Rivera was in the beginning.

Luke