Fast & Furious 4 Using 70 Charger

[440AirForce]

I was riding along the waterfront in San Pedro CA (near Los Angeles harbor) yesterday and stumbled across a movie shoot. It was FF4.  I managed to take a few shots of the Charger they're using.  This was the same location where they filmed the original. The Vincent Thomas bridge was shut down for filming, along with several streets near the railyards.


Sorry about the link, but images are too large for upload.

http://s283.photobucket.com/albums/kk282/440AirForce/?special_track=nav_tab_my_albums

[squeakfinder]

Wow, they kinda Mad Maxed that poor old Charger. Wonder who's screen door got sacrificed for the grill

Thanks for the link.

[Blown70]

would appear the the supercharger is actually real this time? 

And that poor fiberglass front bumber is used up good.....wow!

Wonder what the plans are for it in this episode?

[Hemidoug]

Wonder what the plans are for it in this episode?

Lots and lots of RICE....

[TruckDriver]

  That thing looks like a good HALPG beater

[Drache]

I read somewhere that the '70 Charger was supposed to be the one from the first movie (story line wise not real car)....

[justin1987]

I read somewhere that the '70 Charger was supposed to be the one from the first movie (story line wise not real car)....

That's what I was thinking. It looks like the Charger was fixed after it was wrecked in the first movie.

[Rolling_Thunder]

Yep - Filming at point Ferman the other day too -   I ran down there to see a friend of mine considering it is only about 5 minutes from my house...       

440AirForce - you wouldnt be Maj. Greg who stops by ICON Engineering, would you?

[terrible one]

I read somewhere that the '70 Charger was supposed to be the one from the first movie (story line wise not real car)....

That's what I was thinking. It looks like the Charger was fixed after it was wrecked in the first movie.

With that, they should have left the daisy wheels on there. And might as well have kept the fake blower so that it would look the same.

[440AirForce]

Yep - Filming at point Ferman the other day too -   I ran down there to see a friend of mine considering it is only about 5 minutes from my house...       

440AirForce - you wouldnt be Maj. Greg who stops by ICON Engineering, would you?

No, I retired out the Air Force last year.  I worked for DCMC, building the C-17.  I was at Ft Mac visiting.

[Silver R/T]

makes you wonder when will they quit

[miller]

not to say i told you so but...

Remember when I said that just because there is a chevelle in the movie doesnt mean there isnt a charger too?

[Paul 500]

I know one of the chargers they are using in the film is a 69 made to look like a 70, as my friend brought one of the fenders off of it.

[70 Charger RT]

I remember that there was a 70 Charger at Universal Studios that was apparently used for the first shoot.  Does anyone know if the fire got it?  I'm assuming it was still on display there.

[Mike DC]

If this was the car I saw last summer in that spot, then it wasn't reallly an original one from the 2000 movie.  (Despite the studio's claim on the display.)

The one I saw in 2007 was generally the same as the movie cars.  Probably the same people & same tools built it.  But it didn't exactly match any single one of the several Chargers onscreen.   

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(Look at the Blusemobile in the background of this pic!  That's not even the correct model for those movie cars!)

 

[Dodge Don]

If this was the car I saw last summer in that spot, then it wasn't reallly an original one from the 2000 movie.  (Despite the studio's claim on the display.)

The one I saw in 2007 was generally the same as the movie cars.  Probably the same people & same tools built it.  But it didn't exactly match any single one of the several Chargers onscreen.   

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(Look at the Blusemobile in the background of this pic!  That's not even the correct model for those movie cars!)

 

They had one at Universal in Florida as well...no VIN (trust me...I checked) 

[Charger_Fan]

And that poor fiberglass front bumber is used up good.....wow!

The fender looks fiberglass too. Or at least it looks to me like it's got a chunk missing by the door.

[mikesbbody]

Great! another charger wrecked for a stupid movie 

[Mike DC]

 
The new Charger pics don't make any sense to me. 
I'm not doubting they're really from the movie shoot or anything, but what are the moviemakers doing here?


It's clearly intended to imply the car from the first movie.  But the wheels and front end are notably different, and those parts can come out of a catalog or Ebay any day of the week.  (And Universal did all that stuff exactly right on every other '70 Charger clone it has built in the years since the first movie.)

And the body has clearly been hammered by hand on every side, which makes sense if they're implying the same original car from 8 years ago after it was wrecked.  But the original car famously barrel-rolled to its demise in slow motion glory, and yet the new copy doens't look like it even has a scratch anywhere on the roof  itself.  WTF? 

[BlackStig68]

Not very clear but stumbled accross these on cardomain

http://blog.cardomain.com/blog/2008/03/bystander-photo.html#more

[konigcharger]

  maybe its a flashback scene?

[Brock Samson]

sure are alot of black primered chargers in movies now...
  where have all the blade chargers gone to?.. 

[greenpigs]

Regardless, I will own the movie.