Bullitt-The Chase

[Steve Shauger]

I never get tired of this Chase Scene. This is a great way to get your blood flowing. For that era, they made this so realistic. Even today it makes you want to thrash on your muscle car!!!

[KevinW]

Have you counted the number of times the same hubcap comes off? I cannot remember, only thinking "I just saw that"!

[JRSully]

It always cracks me up how the blue 68 Goat in the beginning is going down the road at like 3mph, lol. Amazing how many musclecars are in the scene. 68 GTO, 68 Firebird, 68 Chevelle SS

[Mr70]

In Highschool,we had an Auto Shop teacher who would run this particular scene and a few other movies car scenes with old cars in them,and ask us to identify the cars and their details.He'd even include those scenes on written paper tests later on.
I always thought he was ahead of his time.

[TimG]

As the Mustang leaves the parking lot at the beginning, you see a quick shot of a 1965 Corvette green fuelie convertible.

[66cayne]

I though it was popular knowledge that the Mustang couldn't hang with the Charger and they had to continually reshoot the scenes to make it a closer race than it was.

[LT1vette]

Originally Posted by 66cayne

I though it was popular knowledge that the Mustang couldn't hang with the Charger and they had to continually reshoot the scenes to make it a closer race than it was.

I've read numerous articles on the "chase" and how it was filmed. Never heard that or saw that in print.
Remember this was a film, not a race... I think it was Car and Driver did an article on the background of the "chase"

[dykstra]

Originally Posted by KevinW

Have you counted the number of times the same hubcap comes off? I cannot remember, only thinking "I just saw that"!

I thought the same thing!!

[earntaz]

And the dude on the motorcycle ...