not mine ou: http://www.carandclassic.com/car/C74071/ looks to have had a body off but had trouble getting it back on right :Brow:
The description says its a 86 GNX . Huh? Maybe just a GN And who need sthe extra junk in there. Sounds like a lot of work to put it back but if its a real GNX?
I would think that by the time you paid $20K, then got this movie car restored you would be very backwards on this car. Not that you see a lot of GNX cars to compare the restored cost to.
Nice low mile examples are close to six figures now. I think one even topped that. If you had a parts car and if you had the ability then you might be able to have a deal at 20K IF its not just a jazzed up GN after all its a movie car.
When I first heard about this car that's what I thought. Why would you use a GNX when a GN, or even a T type could be made to look good enough for a movie to fool even most people who would know the difference, and most will have never even heard of the car? Most of the action shots that you saw with the General Lee were not even the right type of car... Fast action, paint and camera angles.
After what I saw on Powerblock TVs MuscleCar, I would not be buying any car that was used on the set of the Fast and Furious, deal or no deal. MuscleCar's Challenger project that came from one of the earlier Fast and Furious was a mess. There were a lot of surprises, if I remember right. My family is 'disgusted' with me at the moment, the want to see the latest Fast and Furious, and I refuse to. I am not going to patronize a show like that, one seems to be hell bent on destroying as many classic cars as they can. :spank:
I understand your right to make the statement that you are making. They (movie studio) have the right to buy and crash cars, but you have the right to avoid supporting them in the process. However, did you ever watch Vanishing Point or Gone in 60 Seconds? I know those films were made before older cars were really seen as valuable, but individual property rights still control. When I lived out in California, some law maker was trying to prevent individual land owners from cutting down trees (not logging operations )- as in a single family homeowner not being able to decide by him/herself whether or not to cut down a tree on their private property. Whoa! I mean I like trees as much as the next guy (i.e., classic cars), but if you own it, I will defend the right of the property owner to make that decision without interference. Sad result sometimes, but they have the right. .02 cents.
I tend to agree with you. I don't understand why they do what they do, but I agree that they can do it. That being said, I would not go see these movies either. Not because of the cars that they destroy, but because of the culture that goes with them. Just my choice, but I would never tell someone else (outside of my household) what to go see.
From a pure cost standpoint, why wouln'd the movie studio just use some base Regals painted black or slightly modified with a bulging hood. I mean, GN's do cost quite a bit more (many multiple times) than a non turbo Regal. I read somewhere (do not know how accurate) that Chev. V8's ended up being stuffed into (at least some of) the GN appearing cars in the movie. On the other hand, I have read that some of the movie set GN's are being sold (Volo Museum?), so I guess I need to do a little more research to find out what really went down in making the movie.
Trust me, this isn't a GNX. They took GN and put the vents on the sides and butchered it. Plus they didn't make the GNX in 86, it was a 87 only car. My friend has had plenty of GN's and owns #301 of the 500 GNX's. Brian
They do not list the complete VIN doubt it is even a GN... sure hope not (actually don't care, I have mine :laugh: )
1 G 4 A K 47 9 5 E H XXXXXX 1 = USA G = General Motors 4 = Buick A = Manual seat belts K = Regal T-Type 47 = Regal 2 drs coupe 9 = 3.8 litre, sequentinal fuel injection, turbocharged V6 E = Check digit H = Built at the Flint, Michigan factory XXXXXX = production number for the Flint factory for model year 1984
As I suspected its not a GNX and not even a GN. As to the point about the Challenger in Gone in 60 Secpnds. If you watch that movie closely they destroy a empty body and it looks like a camaro painted white . You just have to stop the film at the right time to see it. That Challenger is in someones collection I bet. I know where the balck Charger from Bullit was a few years ago.
That's where I am coming from. Rather than just b1tch about what the moviemakers are doing, I am fighting back with my wallet. Maybe if enough people stop going, the moviemakers will eventually figure it out and knock it off. Like he says in the song Alice's Restaurant..... ".....You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement...." Who knows, maybe we can start a movement. Well, I can dream, can't I? Thanks.
