The caller with the LTD to be blown up in a short film might want to try the “Airwolf Solution” as I like to call it. In many 80’s films and TV shows, they would drive the vehicle behind a hill (or even some large buildings) and as the car disappears from view, the explosives would be set off, emi…

I hope they saved the T’bird in Thelma and Louise.

In the 1971 movie, “Vanishing Point”, starring Barry Newman as Kowalski, the guy driving that alpine-white '70 Dodge Challenger R/T (with the 440 engine, 4-spd. w/ pistol-grip shifter), I believe that a plain-jane white Camaro was used in the last scene (where the car smashes into a parked bulldozer…

Often they dressed the cars to be destroyed with overlaid body panels to look like the expensive cars. It’s a common illusion. Magnum PI also used kit cars, apparently on Fiero chassis, for some scenes (see below). http://magnum-mania.com/Articles/The_Ferrari.html

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missileman February 13, 2012, 3:04am 2

There was another ploy they used also. If an expensive Mercedes or Rolls Royce was being used they often substituted a cheap car in it’s place as it plunged off of a cliff.

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