So whats your pic for the race ?? i will take Tony (SMOKE) Stewart !!! ...Lew

 

I'll be pulling for the #2 because I work at the Penske engine shop...

 

Ha thats neat! Il go with Mark Martin

 

Cool !! Kurts not going to wreck Tony again is he ???

 

meh , nascar doesn't do it for me ..

Bulitt, w/ Steve McQueen and a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 CID Fastback in one of the greatest car chases on film is on TCM at 8pm .. that's what I'll be watching this evening

.. gotta go, it's starting ..

 

I think its a 289 with an open diff , check out the wheel hop & the 8sd trany ??

 

My sources indicate it was a 390

 

68 mustang GT with a 390 and an automatic. (corrected from 4 speed.)

the R/T had a 440 and an automatic.

 

I'm with Lew.....it had to be at least an 8 speed manual with all the shifts dubbed into the sound track.

 

ford showing the way at the moment!! Doesn't matter to me who wins as long as it is a FORD. I could tolerate Martin winning,but mostly sentimental from when he drove the #6.

 

Two 1968 390 CID V8 Ford Mustangs (325 bhp) were used for the chase scene, both owned by Ford Motor Company and part of a promotional loan agreement with Warner Bros. The Mustangs' engines, brakes and suspensions were heavily modified for the chase by veteran car racer Max Balchowsky. Ford Motor Company had also originally loaned two Ford Galaxie sedans that were intended to be used in the chase scenes, but the producers found the cars entirely too heavy to put through jumps over the hills of San Francisco without the suspensions of the cars being severely damaged. The Galaxie sedans were replaced with two 1968 440 CID/375 bhp Dodge Chargers that were bought outright from Glendale Dodge in Glendale, California. The engines in both Chargers were left largely unmodified, but the suspensions were upgraded to cope with the demands of the stunt work.

The director called for speeds of about 75–80 mph (120–130 km/h), but the cars (including the ones containing the cameras) reached speeds of over 110 mph (175 km/h) on surface streets. Driver's point-of-view angles were used to give the audience the "feel" of the ride as the cars jumped the hills. Filming the chase scene took three weeks, resulting in 9 minutes and 42 seconds of film. During this film sequence, the Charger loses six hubcaps and has different ones missing in different shots. As a result of shooting from multiple angles simultaneously, and some angles' footage used at different times to give the illusion of different streets, the speeding cars can be seen passing the same green VW bug four different times, and the same blue sedan with black top three times. The Charger also crashes into the camera in one scene and the damaged front fender is noticeable in later scenes. After the Charger hits a parked car, it disappears for a split second from the screen before the scene is changed.


most movie and tv soundtracks are not what is really happening.

this was the case in this movie.

no 8 speed was used.

 

goofs during bullit:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the chase scene you can hear a manual stick shift changing gears on the Mustang during exterior shots of the car, but shots inside the vehicle during the chase show an automatic and not a manual stick.

 

I should have watched Bullitt. I might would have enjoyed watching it a bit more than the race .

 

well,Gordon is used to ramming guys in the butt off the track,guess he thought it would be a good idea if he did it on the track. How did that work? not too good!!

 

i am surprised this thread was not moved to the general forum by the moderators.