Archive for January, 2010
Alright, I saw this in the related videos for that Making of Bullitt video I posted before, and I just had to put it up here. Richard Hammond, that little guy from Top Gear, test drives a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T. I didn’t even realize Top Gear still did tests of older cars, no less a huge American muscle car. This is a great quality video with really nice sound so you can hear that engine roar.
I just came across this 10 minute long video that shows some of the making of Bullitt, one of my favorite movies of all time. There’s lots of good car footage here, and you can see how committed Steve McQueen was to making the chase scene look authentic. He and Bill Hickman spent a lot of time getting to know their respective cars so they’d look like pro drivers when the cameras started rolling (actually, McQueen really was a pro racecar driver).





