Hollyweird!.... or no-wonder these cars aren't common anymore.

[lloyd3]

Our cars are fun to look at and even more fun to drive, but when you see what Hollywood and TV has done with them, it's no-wonder that there aren't as many as there used to be. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LrtpeCyl40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUyuCxcXP8

[G-man]

It got me thinking...

Why doesnt some rich guy who earns more than he knows what to do with, buy all the chargers on the market for sale, so that there arnt anymore available, claim it on tax as they normally would and then video record them all getting run over by a bulldozer, petrol and burned.

Then they really would be rare.

[JR]

I just noticed the new charger pushed over the wall in "John Wick" has no drivetrain or fuel tank when it goes over.

[HPP]

Economics. As long as Chargers cost less than Ferraris, they will be purchased and destroyed in film budgets that net millions of dollars of profit. They are a commodity.

[Homerr]

I just noticed the dark tint on the windows in one scene from Bullitt.

https://youtu.be/7LrtpeCyl40?t=159

[Mike DC]

  

Economics. As long as Chargers cost less than Ferraris, they will be purchased and destroyed in film budgets that net millions of dollars of profit. They are a commodity.

That plays a role in it but not nearly as much as it used to.  

These days the price of putting together good hi-po muscle cars has climbed up to match the cost of building fiberglass clones of exotics.  The recent Need for Speed movie was full of fiberglass exotic clones.    



The muscle cars have gotten pretty thoroughly built up in recent years.  Vinnie's 1970 Charger in the F&F movies these days usually has a rollcage that goes almost bumper-to-bumper, an LS3 motor, Wilwood or Brembo brakes at all 4 corners, RMS suspensions at both ends, F9 rear axle, etc.  I'm talking about the stunt drivers' cars doing dirty work.  The only F&F muscle cars that don't get $25k worth of mechanical upgrades these days are unmanned shells being cable-pulled to a wreck.    

And they sometimes have to hot-rod the high end exotics just for stunt purposes.  The last Pierce Brosnan 007 movie had a big chase on a frozen lake.  They were running Aston Martin & Jaguar body shells with Ford Explorer drivetrains underneath.  There have been instances of expensive cars getting a whole drivetrain swap just to get rid of the OEM manual tranny.
 

[VegasCharger]

Our cars are fun to look at and even more fun to drive, but when you see what Hollywood and TV has done with them, it's no-wonder that there aren't as many as there used to be. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LrtpeCyl40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUyuCxcXP8

From your first YouTube link @ 0:08 thru 0:16 is from "Blue Velvet". 1968 Charger that crazy man Dennis Hopper drives.