Something to get you through your lunch break...

[russg]

Always a good way to brighten up a dull day at work..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMc2RdFuOxI&feature=player_embedded&fmt=18

[russg]

The Charger definately could have used better rubber..

[70charginglizard]

This flick you never get tired of seeing. No matter hom many millions of times you've seen it. 

[tan top]

always good to watch 

[41husk]

I have the movie and always thought the Charger was black but it looks green on my computer

[chargd72]

2:07 into it is my favorite part

[rattlehead_74]

To be as big of a car as the dodge charger is ,,,,that thing handles them corners quite well! He looked to be taking them corners at 40mph at least!

[ChgrSteve67]

Love to look at the cars lining the streets.

And whats with that white firebird that keeps showing up going the opisite way.

[68X426]

Thanks, I had a great lunch.

[Mike DC]

The Charger definately could have used better rubber..

In fact the film crew was purposely giving the Charger the worst-gripping tires they could find.  They were trying to handicap it so the Mustang could keep up. 

[mauve66]

i always thought the charger was an auto but i guess not, either that or the audio tape is really bad
you know the stang is a stick by the 500 gear changes but towards the end when he's loading the shotgun the driver definetely moves his right arm and the sound track changes gears also

[A383Wing]

Love to look at the cars lining the streets.

And whats with that white firebird that keeps showing up going the opisite way.

yea..I like to look at the other cars as well...I think I saw a red first gen Charger in there..must have been Steves back in the day...

and that little green bug is all over as well

[CharcoalCharger]

Funny, everytime I watch this movie (or a clip like this), I have to laugh.  The guy driving the Charger looks just like the minister that married my wife and I...glasses and everthing.

[grdprx]

Love to look at the cars lining the streets.

And whats with that white firebird that keeps showing up going the opisite way.

I noticed that toO!

[bull]

The Charger definately could have used better rubber..

During filming the stunt crew carved a bunch of rubber off the tires to handicap it so the Rustang could keep up. No joke.

Funny, everytime I watch this movie (or a clip like this), I have to laugh.  The guy driving the Charger looks just like the minister that married my wife and I...glasses and everthing.

That guy was the actual stunt driver in the Charger. Bill Hickman.

http://www.ponysite.de/carlife.htm

"The Charger was driven by a stuntman named Bill Hickman, who portrays himself in the film."

http://www.hottr6.com/triumph/BULLITT.html

"I'll tell you this," said Max Balchowsky, "I was really impressed with the Mustang after I got done with it. I didn't think it'd make that much difference beefing it up. Later, we took both cars out and went playing around with them over by Griffith Park (near Los Angeles). The Dodge, which was practically stock, just left the Mustang like you wouldn't believe." Ron Riner has similar recollections. "The Charger ran rings around the Mustang. We trimmed the tires down (on the Charger), we practically made them down to bicycle tires to try and handicap Hickman, and Bill just run them." Carey Loftin also recalls," we test ran the car at Griffith Park near the Observatory, up a long hill. and if you can run a car real hard up and down that hill it's working pretty good."

[Mike DC]

i always thought the charger was an auto but i guess not, either that or the audio tape is really bad

Both cars seemed to be shown as stick trannys in the fiction.  The soundtrack was too heavily reworked to wanna trust it in the footage.  But they did use their Mustangs & Chargers as the real source of the dubbed-in engine sounds. 



From what I've picked up about these cars over the years, it broke down something like this: 

Chargers - closeup car was a 440/4spd RT.  The stunt car was a 440/auto RT. 

Mustangs - the closeup car was a 289/4spd.  The stunt car was a 390/auto GT.  They swapped the trannys to give them a 390/4spd GT stunt car.

[kab69440]

I like the version that some Moparts member recut. The Stang crashes and burns, the Charger walks on along it's merry way...

[mauve66]

link to that version???
that would be fun to play at a car show and see how many people realize what they are looking at..........

[jb666]

Man this NEVER gets old. Awesome scene...

[kab69440]

link to that version???

That may be easier said than done. I think I had it saved on my old laptop. I'll dig around and see if it's on a vid site somewhere. If I remember the remix artist's handle was "MoparEd".

[jar1292]

Never nitced before but at 3:44 the charger loses a hubcap! it seems like i see something new every time!

[bull]

Never nitced before but at 3:44 the charger loses a hubcap! it seems like i see something new every time!

I think it actually lost about seven of them.