Did they really think nobody would notice?
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11-11-2007, 11:54 AM
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Did they really think nobody would notice?
Chalk up another idiosyncrasis! For those of you who watch "Friday Night Lights", I'd bet I'm not the only one that noticed this....
On this past week's episode, one of the character's cars, a '75-'76 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon [believe it was the Caprice version; thought I saw the Caprice emblem on the front], was referred to as/called a "GMC wagon". In the same episode, when two of the characters torched the car, it suddenly went from being the big/roundish '75-'76 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon to the downsized/boxy '77-'79 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon. At least it was still a wagon, I suppose.
And, unless my memory and fact-finding is lacking, GM never produced a station wagon for the GMC brand....
Hmm....and I don't think we've seen Smash drive his 4th gen Monte Carlo SC yet this season....
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On this past week's episode, one of the character's cars, a '75-'76 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon [believe it was the Caprice version; thought I saw the Caprice emblem on the front], was referred to as/called a "GMC wagon". In the same episode, when two of the characters torched the car, it suddenly went from being the big/roundish '75-'76 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon to the downsized/boxy '77-'79 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon. At least it was still a wagon, I suppose.
And, unless my memory and fact-finding is lacking, GM never produced a station wagon for the GMC brand....
Hmm....and I don't think we've seen Smash drive his 4th gen Monte Carlo SC yet this season....
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#2
11-11-2007, 01:42 PM
RE: Did they really think nobody would notice?
As for the "GMC wagon" mistake, most tv producers/writers are not your typical car people. Most of themwouldn't knowa fastback from a wagon. I guess they figure your average viewer won't notice or care.
Now the switching of cars is a different story. Knowing how Hollywood loves to destroy cars, I'm betting the owner of the '75-'76 car had a "no damage"legal agreement drawn up. The 77-79 model was probably the closest they could find. With good edittingand the right camera angles, most people wouldn't noticea switch.
A lot of the original General Lee's used in the movie had "no damage" agreements like that. The movie company had to scavenge junk yards all over north america looking for junked '67-'69 Chargers that they could paint up to look authentic just to wreck 'em.
Now the switching of cars is a different story. Knowing how Hollywood loves to destroy cars, I'm betting the owner of the '75-'76 car had a "no damage"legal agreement drawn up. The 77-79 model was probably the closest they could find. With good edittingand the right camera angles, most people wouldn't noticea switch.
A lot of the original General Lee's used in the movie had "no damage" agreements like that. The movie company had to scavenge junk yards all over north america looking for junked '67-'69 Chargers that they could paint up to look authentic just to wreck 'em.
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11-11-2007, 01:46 PM
RE: Did they really think nobody would notice?
67-68 were a different body style of chargers, i thionk you mean 68-70 chargers are what they went all over North America looking for.
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11-12-2007, 01:44 AM
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RE: Did they really think nobody would notice?
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Now the switching of cars is a different story. Knowing how Hollywood loves to destroy cars, I'm betting the owner of the '75-'76 car had a "no damage"legal agreement drawn up. The 77-79 model was probably the closest they could find. With good edittingand the right camera angles, most people wouldn't noticea switch.
Now the switching of cars is a different story. Knowing how Hollywood loves to destroy cars, I'm betting the owner of the '75-'76 car had a "no damage"legal agreement drawn up. The 77-79 model was probably the closest they could find. With good edittingand the right camera angles, most people wouldn't noticea switch.
I don't think the camera angles or editing worked ... it was blatantly not the same car.....
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11-12-2007, 12:25 PM
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RE: Did they really think nobody would notice?
The "VANDURA" conversion was GMC's only answer for its station wagon void.
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