Saturday, May 16, 2009

Muscle Cars that are stars in Movies.

Car chases have always been a good highlight in a lot of movies. Asides from great actors and spectacular special effects, the fasts cars featured in a movie always gives its viewers the adrenaline rush whenever you watch an excellent car chase scene. Numerous movies today focus around cars as a tool to enhance the story, some of these movies even use the car as one of the main character.

Successful car movies always have a great car chase scene and is coupled with a fancy fast cars in it. Fast cars comes in different forms and shape but nothing says speed and power it better than a muscle car.

For the past few years a lot of Box office hits on car chase movies have muscle cars featured in it. The classics and latest models have made tremendous success in the film industry. Bringing audiences to the cinemas giving them a taste of speed and adrenaline at the comfort of your seat. Actors play a big role in a good movie but a fast and powerful car is the core of every successful Car chase movie.

Here are some of the muscle cars featured in recent films:


Gone in 60 seconds (2000) - The movie starred Nicholas Cage as "memphis", a former master car thief forced to return to his former trade and steal fifty specified cars for crime boss Raymond Vincent Calitri.

Although there were fifty cars featured in the film, the main car chase centered on the Pepper Gray 1967 Shelby GT-500 Mustang nicknamed "Eleanor"


The Fast and The Furious(2001) & Fast & Furious (2009) - In both film Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) drove a Dodge Charger R/T 1970.

The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) - Even though the movie didn't receive any good reviews it still featured a great class 1969 Dodge Charger "The General Lee".

Gran Torino(2008) & Starsky and Hutch (2004) - For the film Gran Torino Clint Eastwood had a 1972 Gran Torino Sport which was the focal point of the story & In the movie Starsky and Hutch the duo drove a 1975 Ford Gran Torino.

Knight Rider(2008) - KITT is portrayed as a black 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR

Transformers - The autobot Bumble bee was depicted as a 1977 Chevrolet Camaro at the beginning of the movie and a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro on the later parts of the movie.