Found a car error in a movie

[Tom Geiger]

In Marked For Death, they pass this 1960 Buick Electra several times, and later when Stephen Sagal throws this guy out a window, it's conveniently parked in the alley below!

[johnbuzzed]

And how about how those bullets cause the gas tanks to explode? Sorry, folks, it doesn't happen that way. It's something called "Fuel-To-Air Ratio". Just like in the car's engine, if the mixture in the tank isn't roughly 14.7:1 VAPORIZED gasoline to air, it won't even burn, much less explode!

You might want to speak with more than a few Japanese pilots, who would disagree with that. Their fuel tanks were not self-sealing. Lotsa fireballs over the Pacific and it's many islands,

[wrecker388]

One of my favorite's is from the first new Transformers movie. The one from 2007 I think. In the beginning of the moive when Bumblebee is still the 77 Camaro.Megan Fox's character pops the hood and calls the engine "fuel injected". Unless it was a throttle body setup , which seems like an unlikely "swap" on a 77 Camaro, there is no way that Bumblebee was fuel injected.

Here's a video, not from the movie, and of crappy quality, but there doesn't see to be one from that scene. This shows the "fuel injection" Bumblebee so clearly had.

Edited February 20, 2015 by wrecker388

[Jordan White]

That was "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", thankfully the only film where George Lazenby played Bond... He was TERRIBLE! The only redeeming thing about that movie was that it was where they introduced the DB5 as 007's car of choice.

Yeah, as chunjypb said, the alley scene was Diamonds are Forever with Sean Connery. Also, the DB5 was introduced back in Goldfinger, also with Connery.

[Longbox55]

this goes way back. in the movie "thunder road" the title song says he was killd in april 1954. but in the scene of the fatal wreck he was driving a 1957 ford

Ronnie

The song actually was out a year before the movie was made.

Everyone missed the obvious ones. The `55 Chevy when it get's wrecked in American Graffiti, and the Challenger morphing into a Camaro in the original Vanishing Point ending crash.

Never mind the Nomad on Home Improvement turing into a 210 wagon as Tim drops the I beam drops across the center of the car…..

Another thing about the Falfa '55, the engine in it was an L-88 427, which didn't come out until 5 years after the year the movie took place it. Even the engine block it was based on was 3 years later. That's why they never showed the car with its hood up. On the scale replica side of things, pretty much every die cast of that car inaccurately has a W block engine in it, rather than the correct Mark IV engine. Most also have an incorrect hood on them, too, using a stock hood with a scoop. The Ertl 1/18 scale version (also sold as the Two Lane Blacktop car) is only one I've seen correct tilt nose front end.

[W-409]

You see a lot of errors in movies. How many times have you seen a car turn a corner and loose a hubcap only to see that hubcap back on the car on the next turn.

That brought my mind how the same thing happens on The Driver. Though, it's not a hubcap, it happens with trunk lid. In this chase scene, the Cops shoot "The Driver's" car and trunk lid comes off. Still you can see the car after that shooting and it has the trunk lid on place. Better yet, on a couple of fast shots before the shooting, trunk lid is already missing. In that movie they also overtake the same '73 Chevrolet Chevelle many times during the movie in different chase scenes. You can see it in this scene as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zcvKPnc60

I've never noticed that the car used on that crash on Vanishing Point is a Camaro. That's a real shame, it would have been much nicer to see a Challenger being destroyed.

[Chuck Most]

The next time you watch some early episodes of Knight Rider (I'm talking early, first five or six episodes of season one), keep an eye on the nose of the car- it can have three different front bumper covers in as many scenes, and there's also what appears to be bracketry for a tow bar that comes and goes completely at random.