Fast and furious 6 Daytona

[GL#10]

Daytona looks great in the movie  be interesting to see how many they actually built .

[1974dodgecharger]

3.5 survived last I heard out of 6?

[dreamcatcher]

The movie was lame for sure. Don't know what people see in it. I have always liked car movies and that is why we went. But the stunts are now of days beyond imagination and that just ruins it. I will stick with the older ones like American Graffiti and the like. And the wing car was a disappointment as well.   

[Mike DC]

                   

Complaining that F&F isn't realistic is like complaining that a '69 R/T gets bad gas mileage.  That's not the point.  


These recent several F&F movies have been very good at what they were trying to be.  

   

[Ghoste]

Very true.

[hotrod98]

Times have changed. Nowadays, a movie like American Graffiti would go straight to DVD.

[JB400]

Times have changed. Nowadays, a movie like American Graffiti would go straight to DVD.

I'm gonna correct you.  A movie like American Graffiti wouldn't make past a written script.

[2Gunz]

Heres some pics I took..........

[2Gunz]

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[DC_1]

I found it interesting that at the end of F&F5 when they panned to the last scene after the safe hiest they showed Torreto (Vin Diesel) new car and it was a Challenger but it was a Wide Body. The opening scene of F&F 6 shows the presumed race that was to occur and he is driving the Challenger but its not a Wide Body.

edit: or maybe they are wide body in the new movie but some of the scenes sure don't look like it.

[Ghoste]

Times have changed. Nowadays, a movie like American Graffiti would go straight to DVD.

I'm gonna correct you.  A movie like American Graffiti wouldn't make past a written script.

I don't know, if they can make an Oscar nominee about a kid in a boat with a tiger surely there's still room for coming of age stories.

[Mike DC]

There is plenty of room for coming-of-age stories.  But kids don't grow up in the mid-20th century car culture anymore.  More modern kids don't want a car at all than want a hot rod like the ones in "Graffitti."

[Daytona Guy]

I loved the movie. The car looks great. I believe without question they only made one Daytona. With CGI they never wrecked the car even when they show it being wrecked.

Dane

[Mike DC]

                
Oh, they had several copies of the red Daytona, no question.  I think they built 5 or 6 this time.


One spare stunt car = $15-35k

Delaying the filming schedule for one single hour to fix a car = at least $100,000



Even if they had never planned to put a scratch on the car, they would have built 10 of them if it would have gotten the filming done 10 days faster.  

[JB400]

Here's almost everything you want to know, or didn't want to know, about these cars

http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrxp_130500_dodge_charger_daytona_fast___furious_6/

I'm not much for the power plant.  It's alright for a GM product, but not for Mopar

[Ghoste]

Which is still one of my pet peeves about the Mopars in F&F.

[hotrod98]

My version of the F&F Daytona will have be Mopar powered. No Chebby motors allowed.

[Baldwinvette77]

               
Oh, they had several copies of the red Daytona, no question.  I think they built 5 or 6 this time.


One spare stunt car = $15-35k

Delaying the filming schedule for one single hour to fix a car = at least $100,000



Even if they had never planned to put a scratch on the car, they would have built 10 of them if it would have gotten the filming done 10 days faster.  

theres 1 crash in the movie, yet 4 were totaled, so yeah, shit happens, wonder where the behind the scenes footage is 

[held1823]

the hot rod magazine article at the link above states there were seven cars built. they were not going to see the filming schedule delayed for any  mechanical issue.

[Ghoste]

And yet they still used GM powerplants.

[Mike DC]

I don't see the big deal.    

McCarthy has said more than once that the GM motors are purely a concession for filming practicalities.  It's just no fun getting replacement parts for a Mopar engine at 3 a.m. on a foreign continent.

[Ghoste]

The GM stuff is no easier to get on a foreign continent.  In any case the big deal for me personally is that I just prefer Mopar drivetrains.

[JB400]

It's just a money thing.  Chevy has always been cheaper and you can get parts at almost any parts store.  Mopars on the other hand, unless it's a speedshop, everything has to be ordered and is priced higher than the other brands.  If Mopar made a spark plug, it'd cost more than the AC Delcos.

[Ghoste]

Yeah, this is one of those ones though where it comes down to opinion and my opinion is that I just prefer by a huge margin the Mopar engines.

[Speedfreak]

Bird wing and nose - I like it. It is what Hollywood does - always. It will promote the Daytona look. More people will see a Daytona now as a F&F car instead of Joe Dirt - Thank goodness. The back end is interesting - like how they make the new cars. Look at the 80-99 "Saab" rear window - they may have used it.

Dane

This is so true.  Had my car parked the other day at the park , and this kid,  less than 10 yo, was walking with his father, he stopped and said, this is the car we saw in the movies and just stood there looking at it.  His father took out his cell and took pictures of it.  Kid has already seen the movies and I haven't found the time to yet.