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…

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.

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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UncleTurbo February 13, 2012, 6:47pm 3

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

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