# LTD 2 Explosion

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/ltd-2-explosion/70918>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [February 13, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ltd-2-explosion/70918 "2012-02-13T02:56:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jonT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jonT](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jonT)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ltd-2-explosion/70918/1 "2012-02-13T02:56:21Z")

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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, emitting a large cloud of smoke and fire  
while the car drives, unseen, to a safer spot

Cut to people running to the crash site, then cut back to a pile of flaming wreckage  
The illusion is that the car plowed into the hill and exploded.  
The LTD in this case need not even be damaged.

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**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ltd-2-explosion/70918/2 "2012-02-13T03:04:28Z")

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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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**Author:** ![UncleTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9a140/32.png) [@UncleTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/UncleTurbo)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ltd-2-explosion/70918/3 "2012-02-13T18:47:31Z")

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

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**Author:** ![OmegaMan62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/df705f/32.png) [@OmegaMan62](https://community.cartalk.com/u/OmegaMan62)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ltd-2-explosion/70918/4 "2012-02-15T03:29:35Z")

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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). The Challenger, of course, had the diagonal twin hood scoops, but when the car in the last scene was destroyed, and its hood came off, it was a plain flat hood. I’m just glad they didn’t smash the Challenger; it was a fine piece of machinery.

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**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ltd-2-explosion/70918/5 "2012-02-15T04:02:08Z")

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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](http://magnum-mania.com/Articles/The_Ferrari.html)