Sunday, January 17, 2010

Top 10 Movie Muscle Cars



AmCar Guide decided to pick out the prizewinning flick hooligan cars that hit ever appeared on screens. The intend was to select exclusive hooligan cars and exclusive from movies so a few serious candidates didn't materialize on this itemize because they were from TV series, was not a hooligan car, or simply didn't get into this list. Anyway, AmCar Guide wants to mention 1970-1971 Plymouth Barracuda from \"Nash Bridge\" [with Don Johnson], Cobra from \"Cobra\" [with Michael Dudikoff], non hooligan but exotic and iconic 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 from \"Back to the Future\", 1977 Pontiac Trans Am from \"Smokey and the Bandit\",1958 Plymouth Fury from \"Christine\", \"Kitt\" - Pontiac Firebird Trans Am from \"Knight Rider\", 1969 Dodge \"01″ Charger from \"The Dukes of Hazzard\",1959 Cadillac Ambulance from \"GhostBusters\", etc. Each of them is someone's imagine car, each is amend in whatever ways, but here's our TOP 10 Movie Muscle Cars:

1. Bullitt - 1968 author Mustang GT 390 from \"Bullitt\", 1968

1968-ford-mustang-bullitt-steve-mcQueen-posterProbably this is the exclusive unmodified flick Mustang ever. It has massive 325 HP, a actualised American hooligan car's hunch under the cowl - the battleful 6.4 liter V8 engine, 4-speed drill sending [which definitely looks hard to shift] and sporty rear wheel drive to hit fun patch cornering. What else do you requirement from a actualised hooligan automobile for chases, especially backwards in 1968?

2. 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 from \"Vanishing Point\", 1971

1970-dodge-challenger-rt-vanishing-pointThis digit was a hot model with outrageous 375 HP, 440 boxlike [7.2 liter] V8 which plays belike the sweetest automative soundtrack. Would You manage to find a better automobile for Kowalski to drive from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours?

3. Eleanor - 1967 author Mustang Shelby GT500 from \"Gone in 60 seconds\", 2000

eleanor-mustang-1967Eleanor is belike the most copied hooligan flick automobile ever to materialize in screens. Even though the example flick from 1974 was a hit, the 2000 stole the show for sure. There were 11 Eleanor units built for this flick and exclusive 3 of them were actualised streaming and driving cars. In the flick it acted as Shelby, but really they were modified Mustang fastbacks. The flick sending was a 4-speed manual, but the stunt cars were semiautomatic for easier act. Real legend.

4. The Interceptor - Australian 1973 author Falcon XB GT Coupe from \"Mad Max\", 1979

ford-falcon-interceptor-back-mad-maxThis was was the most modified automobile in that movie. XB GT Falcon was built exclusively for Australian market and there were exclusive 949 units built. It came with 351 metropolis engine and 4-speed drill sending The flick automobile kept most of the example interior, but embody had whatever serious changes : new look design, rear spoilers, Weiand 6-71 supercharger with Scott injector had, 4-barrel carburetor and the Zoomies - lateral pipes. Australians are chesty of this automobile and also make replicas of it.

5. Bumblebee - Chevrolet Camaro from \"Transformers\", 2007

Transformers Autobot Towers Over Chicago Auto Show CrowdThe Transformer's Bumblebee prefabricated Camaro digit of the most popular automobile of the year. Well, not exclusive it transforms and looks good, but has a recent amcar engine - 6.2 liter V8 which rates 426 HP and does 0-60 in 4.8 seconds...

6. 1968 Dodge Charger R/T 440 Magnum from \"Bullitt\", 1968

Dodge-charger-from-bullittThis triple-black, 4-speed Charger chased the Mustang in the \"Bullitt\" flick and prefabricated digit of the large automobile motion scenes ever filmed. When the actuation behave was performed over the San Francisco hills the Charger never failed with the suspension. Would you be healthy to name a automobile from now that could do that without success as scrap?

7. Cobretti's custom 1950 Mercury Monterey from \"Cobra\", 1986

mercury-monterey-from-cobra-2Cobretti's [Sylvester Stallone] 1950 Mercury is belike the most important thing in the whole movie. It was formerly owned by Stallone himself and after built for the flick by Cinema Vehicle Services. They double-scooped the hood, cleaned all player trim, fitted 383 Chevrolet small block, lidded it with nitrous-aided 4-barrel Holley carburetor which also had Weiand 144 supercharger. The sending was a 400 Turbo Hydraulic with 4-wheel brakes. A beatific automobile to reveal Cobretti's personality and tie this Top 10 list.

8. 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra from \"The Gumball Rally\", 1976

Shelby-cobra-427-gumball-front-2The flick itself was inspired by a cross country driver Erwin G. \"Cannonball\" Baker who managed to drive across the country from shore to shore in about 54 hours. This comedy had many interesting cars on act, such as Ferrari Daytona, Porsche 911, 600 HP Camaro, Jaguar E-type, Convertible Corvette, Mercedes Roadster and modify a Kawasaki motorbike. There were exclusive 2 different, but example Shelby Cobra cars in this flick [CSX 3243 and CSX 3255]. These 427 boxlike [7 liter] OHV hooligan cars managed to pump up to 355 HP. This was really impressive ride across the country with iconic hooligan cars...

9. Bond's 1964 Aston Martin DB5 from \"Goldfinger\", 1964

aston-martin-db5-james-bond-movieThe DB5 is famous for being the prototypal and most recognised flick automobile in James Bond movies. DB5 had 4 liter [282 HP], 5-speed transmission. Originally, Ian Fleming [the novel writer] had placed DB Mark III, but DB5 was the newest Aston at that time. In fact, they utilised the prototype automobile and fitted it with lots of weaponry that fat stripped after the flick and resold. The same automobile showed up in a few other Bond's movies as well. If You'd ask someone to say \"what Bond's automobile is\", the digit would definitely name Aston Martin. Good automobile for beatific agent.

10. 1957 author Fairlane 500 from \"Thunder Road\", 1958

1957-ford-fairline-500-thunder-roadThe flick character actually crowd 2 automobile there - 195 author Coupe and 1957 author Fairline 500 which was the top of the author line. The 312 boxlike V8 engine produced 245 HP and had semiautomatic transmission. Good pick for 1950s if You really requirement \"to take someone out\".

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