Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: My name's Avil Colvin and you're listening to my dad
on the show You Can't Be Serious Podcasts.
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, this is Jason. We Sureley you Can't be Serious.
On this particular episode, we dropped in several musical cues
that are specific to the cars or the movies that
they're in. But I also dropped in four non specific
musical cues. I'm wondering if you can catch those and
see what those are. If you figure out what those are,
hit us up on Facebook, hit us up on Twitter,
send us an email at Shirley podcast on gmail dot com.
See if you can figure them out.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: So I'm just a little worried that people aren't gonna
see the sign. Hey, you can't park that here.
Speaker 1: Everybody can relax. I found the cars episode.
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, Welcome to this Shirley you Can't Be Serious podcast?
Where the way we see it, if you're gonna make
a podcast about cars, why not do it with some style.
Speaker 1: Oh there we go.
Speaker 2: There we go, Ladies and gentlemen, We are here for
our first in what will we believe be a series
of episodes on Top five cars. We are restricting ourselves
today to movies. We probably will have TV shows coming up,
and hopefully at some point we'll do James Bond cars exclusively,
but today we are just doing movie cars.
Speaker 1: I know. And right before we started this episode, I
was like, okay, eighty to eighty nine. You're like nope.
Speaker 2: I'm like, sir, what no, do not try to add
extra rules, mister rule breaker.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I don't need anything outside of the eighties.
I've got this.
Speaker 2: So I literally, when we're texting back and forth on this,
You're like, what are the rules And I said.
Speaker 1: Well, I know the rules before I break them away.
Speaker 2: Right exactly. And I said, so the quote was I
would say that we could do the top five cars
and you said sounds good, except vehicles, and I was
like yes, And then I was like, must have wheels, right.
And then as I'm texting, you're sending a gift and
I'm just I know it's coming, and I say, before
you even send the gift, I'm like, now Jason's brain
starts trying to figure out how he can bend this
one rule of it has to have and you send
me a gift of Maverick flying in f one fifty.
Speaker 1: Hey, the F sixteen Fighter Tom Kat has wheels.
Speaker 2: D right, Sorry, he wasn't flying a pickup truck. That
was there was a wrong kind of f there. And
you're like, planes have wheels. I'm like, exactly, I knew
this what you were going to do. So, ladies and gentlemen,
I fully anticipate that Lightning McQueen is going to be
one of Jason's choices. I don't know that it is.
We haven't talked about our list with each other, but.
Speaker 1: Biddy McQueen's not in the eighties, so you're lucky.
Speaker 2: Well, we didn't say it had to be in the eighties,
so anyway, I guess we said no boats, no planes
must have wheels. But beyond that, it can be anything.
It can be like primarily for the road. But what
makes it the best vehicle is purely our interpretation.
Speaker 1: Right, Okaydee, We've got a lot of Oklahoma listeners. I'll
tell you about this podcast that I found that I
really enjoy and the guys are great. They listen to
our show, we listen to their show. It's called the
Only in Oklahoma Podcast.
Speaker 2: I love this podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they travel around they find these great little hole
in the wall restaurants. They recommend plays in Paul's Valley
where you said, I either.
Speaker 2: All the time. Yeah, when I used to work down
in Paul's Valley. And they just did an episode on
Bob's Pigshop down there. It is iconic, not only for
its food and it's decor. It's owner, who's actually not Bob,
but it's owner is a guy who like he's he's
just the little old hippie guy and he's got He
drives around a Japanese pickup truck that he converted into
being able to run off of his old French fried Greece.
I mean what. And that particular restaurant is like the
hub of the biggest noodling competition in Oklahoma, which is
a pretty big thing sure, And so yeah, it was
a great episode that they did. And that is a
fun restaurant to go too, if you just happen to
be in Paul's Valley, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. So Brett and Harley are good friends
over there. Go check out The Only in Oak Home
a podcast. So greatest vehicles in movie history, No wings,
no boats, right, and no James Bond vehicles.
Speaker 2: And no James Bond vehicles and no TV cars. We're
doing just movies. So and it's as it's going to be.
It's going to be mostly eighties movies, So buckle up
for some stories of hookers and blow Okay, Jason, it's
one hundred and six miles to the end of the episode.
We got a full tank of gas, a half a
pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Speaker 1: Hit it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm ready to jump in. Do you want to
go first? You want me to go first, I'll go first.
I'll go first.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm kind of excited about this.
Speaker 2: Yes, And and for if you haven't heard one of
our Top five episodes before, what we typically do to
make this fun is we try to tease it up
with a little bit of trivia, try to guess that
the other guy's car. So Jason's gonna tease this up
for me, and I'm going to see if I can
guess what it is.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we go five, four, three two honorable honorable
mention number one, and that's how we do it.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, so number five five, all right for this vehicle.
This is a Stephen King movie.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: We have not talked about in our podcast, yet we
have not talked about I talked about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is not the fifty eight Plymouth Fury
from Christine.
Speaker 1: That's correct, is not Christine. Let's mark that off the list.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got another couple of ideas in my head.
Keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this was a black colored white Western Star
forty eight hundred. It had a trailer that said Happy
Toys on it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The engine is an eight V dash seven to one,
which means nothing to me.
Speaker 2: Right, we are we are not car guys. We are
we're not car guys. So we're gonna say some stuff
that even we don't know what it means. But it's
fun to kind of tease these up. Right, So let
me ask this question. Yes, did this particular vehicle bear
the resemblance to a Spider Man villain.
Speaker 1: As it did?
Speaker 2: All right, you must be talking about the semi in
Maximum Overdrive.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, the Maximum Overdrive Green Goblin Happy Toys truck.
They had to get permission for Marvel to have this
in the movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Surprisingly, the first time you see Green Goblin is
not in a Spider Man movie. It's in a Stephen
King movie.
Speaker 1: Maximum Overdrive came out in nineteen eighty six. Stephen King
was the director of this movie. He wanted, get this,
Bruce Springsteen to be the lead actor in this movie. Wow, okay,
now get this.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Dino del lrentis, of course, our good buddy. The Italian
producer Dina de Lurentis. Yeah, told told producers He's like,
Stephen wants some unknown actor named Bruce Springsteen to be
in this He's like, no problem, I get Emilio Estavis.
Are you kidding me? We could have had Maximum Overdrive
with Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 2: I don't think it would have saved the movie anyway.
Speaker 1: This truck is basically an unmanned vehicle. It's the villain
of the movie, based on a short story by Stephen
King called Trucks. This was shot in North Carolina and
basically the truck is destroyed at the end of the
movie by a rocket launcher. But some guy found it
in a junkyard. Oh wow, dug it out, restored it
and now it travels around to comic cons and stuff
like that.
Speaker 2: Fantastic very vehicle. Yeah, it's a great one, very iconic.
Speaker 1: Not on your list, not on my list, Okay.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, so my number five. This vehicle is
either nineteen eighty one or nineteen eighty three. There's some
you know, argument about what it is, as you'll learn
when you study movie cars. When they get a car
in a movie, they do all kinds of stuff to
it that makes you go, wait, wait, wait, which one
is this right? And you can't tell. But the vehicle
itself was produced from nineteen seventy four to nineteen ninety three.
This particular model is supercharged, and it's kind of supercharged
by the main character. Now, the main character and the
main villain are both Martial Arts icons. They actually wanted
Bruce Lee to play the lead villain, but he died,
so they've got a different martial Art arts icon as
the villain in this one. The engine for this thing
came in a three eighteen or three sixty. My guess
is this was a three sixty four by four produced
by the Chrysler Corporation. This is a second Gin version,
whichever it is, the eighty one or the eighty three,
and literally nine days ago from the time that we're
recording this podcast, the vehicle producer announced that the name,
which has been out of use in the US since
nineteen ninety three. The name is returning, but it's returning
as a different type of vehicle. It's going to be
there plug in hybrid full size pickup. You're still clueless,
aren't you.
Speaker 1: I can't get my mind off of Jackie chan and
the Chinese guy in the Canniball run car.
Speaker 2: Now, the Jackie Chan and this guy I believe have
been in the same movie. But this movie, I'll give
you a little bit bigger of a hint. It was
the movie that inspired TV series Walker, Texas Ranger. Still clueless.
This is not an iconic movie for a lot of folks.
The main good guy carries a forty four magnum most
powerful handgun in America. But he's not the one that
says not Clint Eastwood, Clint.
Speaker 1: He's put in Jackie chan in and he has a
pet wolf. Wait man, wait wait wait wait wait yeah,
this lone wolf McQuaid.
Speaker 2: You got it, baby, Yes, And so the v involved
is a nineteen eighty one or nineteen eighty three Ram charger.
My last hint for you is going to be there's
one of these parked in your driveway right now, because
that's what I drive. Wow, I drive a nineteen ninety
three Ram Charger that my dad bought when I was
seventeen years old. That's really cool. It's it is a
fun car, and people every time I'm driving down the road,
people will point because they're like, hey, you never see
these anymore. This Dodge ram Charger was Dodge's answer to
the Ford Bronco, the Chevy Blazer, a lot of iconic
cars that were the two door SUVs of the day.
You just need a pet wolf now, I guess exactly exactly.
And so the villain in this one is played by
none other than David Carodeine. At some point they asked
Chuck Norris, the lead in this you know, is David
Carodine actually good at martial arts? And his response was,
David Carodine is every bit as good a martial artist
as I am an actor.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: See, Chuck Norris got a sense of here.
Speaker 2: That's funny. They didn't you stunt doubles for their fight
scene though last fight scene they said, no, we are
going to We're going to really fight each other. We're
not going to use stunt doubles in this and this car.
If you're not familiar with the movie, there is an
iconic scene where David Carrodine beats Chuck Norris senseless for ragoons, right,
throws him in the ram charger. Right, this is This
is Chuck Norris's ram charger, throws him in, pushes him
into a hole, buries him in dirt. Yes, you see
Chuck Norris inside his coffin right of the ram charger.
And to revive himself, he takes a beer and pours
it over his head, which gives him new life. And
then he flips a little switch on his homemade supercharger
and all of a sudden, this ram charger plows out
of the dirt like a freakin miracle.
Speaker 1: You sent this clip to me and I was like,
this makes Superman four look like The Godfather.
Speaker 2: It kind of does.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be a cannon film, right, No, I.
Speaker 2: Think this is actually a legitimately good like I talked to.
I talked to Kevin Davis about this, and he was like, oh, no,
that's a great movie. I love that movie. It's not
badly ranked.
Speaker 1: Even pouring the beer on his face to revive him
was a little bit much for me.
Speaker 2: Hey, you've seen the action movies of the eighties, right,
you've seen the Arl schwarzenigger movies, right, Yes, you've seen Commando, right.
Speaker 1: I freaking love Commando.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is if you were a Chuck Norris fan,
this would be your Commando.
Speaker 1: Okay, awesome.
Speaker 2: By the way, this movie was rated R because they
said the F word twice, and Chuck Norris went to
the ratings board and he said, listen, this is a
story where good overcomes evil. It should be rated PG,
and they said, we will rate it PG.
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, Chuck Norris. Karate kicked the ratings board
in the head.
Speaker 2: By the way, just another car. Note, they're doing a
panoramic like establishing shot of El Paso, and as they're
doing it, there's an actual car crash that happens that
they caught on film.
Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Okay, all right, your turn,
all right, D to number four four Okay. So when
this car came out the original MSRP twelve thousand dollars okay,
which is weird because when I find it on the internet,
it also tells me that there were only fifty six
of these manufactured, so that price seems extremely low to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a little crazy. I have a vehicle
that they are only like fifty six made, and it's like,
but it's like fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should wait and talk about that one later.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good, very good, all right, So I'll go
to my number four. Okay, this car, I'm gonna give
it to you right off the bat is a nineteen
fifty nine Cadillac. Okay, it's Cadillac El Dorado. At the
time it was made, it was the most expensive top
of the line Cadillac that you could buy. But when
they used it in the movie, it is thirty five years.
Speaker 1: Old, early nineteen fifty nine, so we're talking ninety four,
it was years old. Okay, gotcha, gotcha, nineteen eighty four. Okay,
sorry about that.
Speaker 2: I was informed there would be no mass did that
to myself, all right. Early versions of the script for
this movie gave it the power of interdimensional travel.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: A replica of it recently sold for eighty thousand dollars,
but they picked up the original for only forty eight
hundred dollars. Of course, it needed suspension work and shocks, breaks,
break pads, lining, steering box, transmission rear end, maybe new
rings also muffler, a little wiring. Wow, I'll give you
a couple more hits. Couple more hits. A right, but
here's here's your hint. This nineteen fifty nine Cadillact was
modified by the Miller Meteor Sentinel Company into limo style
end loader and used for an ambulance or hearse. This
is the ectomobile from Ghostbusters Ectomobile Ecto one, Baby Go one.
By the way, new Ghostbusters movie coming out next year
called Frozen Empire. Excited to see how that goes? Okay,
I thought they'd I thought After Life was good. I
enjoyed it. I didn't think it was as good as
the original, but it wasn't bad. I thought they did
a good remake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd go Ghostbusters one one, Ghostbusters two number two,
Ghostbusters After Life number three, and then the one with
the girls a distant fourth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and about to be a distant fifth, I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this is the white ectomobile that the Ghostbusters are
cleaning up the town.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I said, they had planned for it to
be black, but then they realized we've got a lot
of night scenes and you won't be able to see
it at night. So they decided to paint it white.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really cool. I love it. Ecto one, all right, two,
my number.
Speaker 2: Three, number three three, all right, d.
Speaker 1: This vehicle has been entered into the Library of Congress
National Historic Vehicle Register. Okay, it's actually like in this
glass box like in Washington, d C. And you can
look at it like I mean, it's like a giant
toy box. It's really cool.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's like a museum piece.
Speaker 1: It's like a museum piece, one of those coming up later.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is it, but we'll keep going.
Speaker 1: Okay. So the name of this vehicle, which has been legendary,
like I've heard it my whole life like this, If
there's any car in the list that we have, this
would probably be the one I choose for myself, right,
this is the one I want to own. And I've
heard the name my entire life, and I've never known
what it meant.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: The name of this car comes from the Piedmontese language
that is an exclamation of astonishment. Okay, so the English
equivalent would be like oh my gosh, right, like goodness, wow? Okay. Yeah,
the designer of this vehicle His name is Marcelo Gandini.
He also worked on the Lotus Spirit that you see
in The Spy Who Loved Me, which James Bond turned
into a submarine, which I'm sure will be on a
list at a later.
Speaker 2: Date, no question.
Speaker 1: Okay, the original MSRP on this vehicle in nineteen seventy nine. Yeah,
one hundred and five dollars. Wow, that's an forty forty
two inches high off of the ground. Forty two inches
off the ground. When you drive this vehicle, the speed
limit may be only fifty five miles per hour, but
you may feel compelled to go one hundred sixty one
eighty and pull over and spray paint the speed limit sign.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got it. Okay, good, Yes, So I mentioned
to you that I deliberately, like pushed a few off
of my possibilities list, just in hopes that you would
pick them. Yeah, this was one. This has got to
be the Lamborghini from Cannonball Run, driven by beautiful babe herself,
Adrian Barbeoa.
Speaker 1: You got it. Cannonball Cannonballs done. What do it's how
you do? The name coontage Lamborghini coontage.
Speaker 2: That's so inappropriate.
Speaker 1: It is an exclamation. It's they said one of the
guys who was working on the develop of the vehicle,
he kept looking at it and going insane that Italian
word kutash, oh cootash. And they named it after that
guy because he kept saying, oh, my gosh, perfect this, yeah,
that is perfect.
Speaker 2: That was one of our earliest episodes, Cannonball Run versus
Smoky in the Band.
Speaker 1: Smoking in the bandit Ooh that black Lamborghini Coutage nineteen
seventy nine beautiful.
Speaker 2: When I think of that car, I think of the
early eighties going to the gift shop where they had
all of the posters and flipping through trying to find
the most racers. Yes, it was Coach House Gifts in
Fort Smith, trying to find the most recent Samantha Fox poster.
But invariably there would be some ultra hot babe next
to one of these cars.
Speaker 1: I had a poster of a black Lamborghini Kutage in
my room growing up, by the way Spandex with the
front zipper sold separately on this one.
Speaker 2: Well, hello, hot pants, I don't suppose you have a
driver license cut down in there somewhere.
Speaker 1: Do you okay to your number three, Sir number three.
Speaker 2: This vehicle is unique. Had some specialized styling that they
started doing with these type of vehicles in the late fifties.
Speaker 1: It has what's called a sissy bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This vehicle was an eighty six model called an
FXR super Glide. Had a thirteen thirty seven CCV twin engine.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: It is associated with Captain America.
Speaker 1: Okay, any ideas no, nothing in Captain America. Yeah, what
type of vehicle you know it's a motorcycle.
Speaker 2: It's not a motorcycle, okay. In the movie, it is
initially owned by one of the villains, but when he
is ultimately incapacitated by one of the heroes, the hero
takes this vehicle away from him. He is given Grace
by another character and then, as it turns out, this
this vehicle's name was also Grace.
Speaker 1: What in the world, Okay, you gotta give me. Is
this this is outside the eighties? Obviously?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is this a Marvel vehicle? It's not a Marvel vehicle.
Speaker 2: This is nineties.
Speaker 1: This is nineties nineties, okay, Okay.
Speaker 2: It was put up for auction, yeah, November twenty twenty
for sixty thousand dollars but as a reserve. But it
did not meet the reserve, so it was a little
bit sussy there probably work as with most movie vehicles,
a couple of them, and it was rumored to be
a Honda that was owned by Bruce Willis, like, I
saw a video of that, but I don't think that
that's right. I think this was a Harley Davidson vehicle.
Speaker 1: This is Z's motorcycle.
Speaker 2: It's not a motorcycle. It's just a chopper, baby, it's
a chopper.
Speaker 1: There we go, Now, I understand. Okay, I set you up.
Speaker 2: For that one. Yes, And by the way, the Captain
America that this vehicle is associated with is Peter Fonda,
Captain America from Easy Writer, not the superhero.
Speaker 1: That's good. Okay.
Speaker 2: I was a little bit tricky on that one. Sorry
about that.
Speaker 1: But that's dead baby. You threw me off the scent
with the no motorcycle thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did a good Okay, that's good.
Speaker 1: Number three.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's my one vehicle out of the eighties.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, okay, good. I'm glad we established that before
I did all my research.
Speaker 2: By the way, pulp fiction is the movie. If people
aren't fully aware of this pulp fiction, and it is
a It is the Chopper. It is Grace the Chopper, all.
Speaker 1: Right to my number two? Okay two, all right, D
So this vehicle has a four point nine Leader V
eight with a Garrett TB three ZHO five turbocharger. Two
hundred and ten horses on this vehicle.
Speaker 2: Okay, all ry.
Speaker 1: This particular vehicle was fitted with nitrous oxide. I don't
know if you know this, but it's like a super booster, right,
It's like.
Speaker 2: Yep, yes, causes the vehicle go extra fast. Right. Okay.
Speaker 1: This is the one where I had to rein myself
in a little bit because I wanted to get it
in the nineteen eighties. Okay, okay, So this would technically
be the second version of a familiar car.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I think I have an idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, the original price on this somewhere around the eight
thousand dollars range coming off the line in nineteen.
Speaker 2: Eighty okay, eighteen eighty movie, Yes, Okay, okay, I think
I think I got it.
Speaker 1: As you keep going, Okay, so this is loaded with
the CB T tops, cowboy hat and total lack of
respect for the law are optional. The difference between this
vehicle and the original. When you look at it, you
can tell no snowflake wheels. It's a certain design grid
on the wheel system that you can tell. They call
them snowflake wheels from the original movie.
Speaker 2: Gosh, now I'm feeling like I don't have the right answer. Okay,
I'm gonna make my guess. I gotta make my guess.
You back, all right, My guess is this is a
nineteen seventy three xbgt Ford falcon from the movie Mad Max.
Speaker 1: No, you're not correct. Ah, damn, you're not right.
Speaker 2: All right, I don't know. Keep going.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I didn't have you with the total
lack of respect for the law.
Speaker 2: So this is a nineteen seventy six Pontiac transam used
in the movie Smoking the Band.
Speaker 1: You would be correct, except this is the one from
the nineteen eighty movie. So this is from Smoking the
Band at part two. Okay, so listen to this after
the first movie, the Smoking the Band from nineteen seventy seven,
which we've talked about being compared with Cannonball Run. It
was the second biggest movie in nineteen seventy seven, behind
Star Wars.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry Star Wars is one that I seem to remember.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, So the sales of this particular vehicle skyrocketed
after this movie. They were so overwhelmed at Pontiac they
actually had to push off the development of their third
generation of this for a few years. By the way,
there's a special Burt Reyalds version that was auctioned off
just a few years ago with his signature on the
love box. Three hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Nice The nineteen eighty Pontiac Transam fire Bird Turbo from
the movie Smoking the Bandit two. Cute, all right, because
I stayed within the eighties.
Speaker 2: My when my wife and I first started dating, we
you know, got to know each other before she ultimately
drove over to my house in her car. Huh. When
she drove up, it was a red Pontiac Firebird trans
Am Transim Firebird tee tops. She gets out of the
vehicle in her Papa John's uniform with short khaki shorts
on and a Corona beer in her hand. And I said,
someday I'm going to marry that.
Speaker 1: What we have is a total lack of respect for
the law right there.
Speaker 2: You might say, You might say yeah, okay, because she
was thirsty dummy. Okay, so we're to my number two now, right, yes, okay,
here we go. Ready, I'm not going to talk about
the car first. I want to talk about something else. Okay.
Bill Paxton was offered the role as the driver of
this car, but he turned it down and he compl
depletely regretted it because the director never cast him in
anything else again. Okay, so it's not a James Camera movie, okay, correct,
all right, all right, Now, other cars in this particular
movie all have license plates that reference other movies. I'll
tell you the license plates. Okay, Okay. You have one
license plate that says VCTN, you have one license plate
that says TBC, you have one license plate that says MMOM,
and you have one license plate that says four fbdo.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know the movie. Now I got to figure
out the car.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So obviously those license plates are vacation and mister Mom
and Ferris Buehler's Day Off.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yes, Now, this particular vehicle, its license plate was special,
but it wasn't the name of the movie. This vehicle's
license plate was in r vous.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that one because that happens to be
my number four.
Speaker 2: Yep. So you mentioned there were only fifty six of
these vehicles produced. Yes, at this point in history, to
buy one would cost you about fifteen million dollars. Yes,
Now did you say that they sold for twelve thousand
dollars when they.
Speaker 1: Firstly, when they first came out, I searched the Internet
and I didn't believe it, and I kept searching, And
that's in nineteen sixty one when this vehicle was released. Yeah,
that's the original price that I found.
Speaker 2: So, ladies and gentlemen, if you have not guessed it
by now, this is the nineteen sixty one Ferrari two
fifty GT California Spider, featured prominently Greiff Peler's Day Off. So,
as it turns out, because these vehicles are so expensive,
there was never actually a real nineteen sixty one Ferrari
to fifty GT used in this movie. They had free replicas.
They had their eurocar or driver car, right, they had
their stunt car, and they had their fresh car. And
by the way, Bill Paxson was offered the role not
of Ferris Bueller, but of one of the garage attendants
who you see driving the stunt version of this car.
Nice that you mentioned Star Wars a moment ago, because
what a great Star Wars reference moment in that Moss
So funny.
Speaker 1: Right, when are we going to cover Ferris Bueler's day off?
Speaker 2: My gosh, I can't believe we've gone for four seasons
now and have not hit it yet.
Speaker 1: What country do you think this is? I love that movie?
Listen to this. So you talked about how these were
not real Ferrari's right, right, mgs MG's right, yep. And
so this company named Maderna Design and Development made them
look like Ferrari nineteen sixty one GT. California Spiders, right, yep.
Well they actually put the emblem of Ferrari on the car. Well,
Ferrari sued this company for doing that, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to ask permission before you do stuff.
Speaker 1: Real Ferrari's what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1: And so you know you talked about how movies when
they take a car, they change them, they do all
this weird stuff to them. Matthew Roderick could not drive
a stick shift. Yeah, so they made the car automatic
transmission because he couldn't drive a stick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just put the stick in there, but it
didn't do anything. Just he played with it like he
was changing gears, but he was not. He did not
know how to drive a stick. I'm wondering if that
car crash he had in Ireland, you know, maybe he
was trying to drive a manual transmission on.
Speaker 1: The rug side of the road.
Speaker 2: With his sister girlfriend Jennifer Craig. I know, how about
that crazy?
Speaker 1: It is his love, it is his passion, it is
his fault. He didn't lock the garage car.
Speaker 2: Few we're driving this car? Would you take it right
back either?
Speaker 1: All he does is rub it with a diaper.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine how much I mean that? When I
found out that they are now selling for fifteen million dollars,
that makes that final car crash scene a lot more impactful, Like,
holy cow, he really is going to kill him. He's
going to murder his child after this.
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, this is gonna be good, So
I'm gonna take the heat.
Speaker 2: So the crash car had no operating engine in it, like,
no transmission, no drive train, nothing right, it was just
a body on a chassis and that's it right. They
pull it out of the garage with cables as you
see it come plummeting through the forest and down in crash. Right, yes, yes, So,
as you mentioned, like a lot of these cars, somebody
found this wrecked one, restored it. It sold for over
three hundred and fifty million dollars. Excuse me, it's sold
for over three hundred and fifty thousand dollars recently. Wow,
which is weird because a little bit later the driver car,
the one that was the most pristine, the most detailed,
the best looking, one one that actually worked, it sold
for three hundred and seventeen thousand. Somebody's like, I want
the crashed car. I don't get it, but whatever, that's
that's what happened.
Speaker 1: Who understands why people with money do these things?
Speaker 2: Yeap. By the way, they did such a good job
with this that they were ferrari enthusiasts who were writing
in going are you out of your mind? What did
you just do? Angry letters about wrecking a car that
was not the actual car? Okay, so we're up to
number one. So we got to throw in our couple
of honorable mentions here yep. Okay, so go ahead, sir.
Speaker 1: My first honorable mention, Yes, okay, this is a four
wheel drive long Body Black nineteen eighty six version.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, right, we gotta be talking about a pickup
truck here. Nope, not a pickup, not a pickup. It's
four by four long body, and it's not a four
wheeled Okay, okay, okay, I'm all right.
Speaker 1: It's got CD, CB, TV, telephone, full bar vhs. And
if you stick around with me, I know where we
can find some mama bears to join us in this vehicle.
This is all familiar language, but I haven't got it yet.
Speaker 2: Keep going.
Speaker 1: This vehicle is great for working, it's great for partying,
it's great for taking out bad guys, and it's especially
good at thumping Christmas music.
Speaker 2: So this has to be the limo driven by Argyle
in Diehard, absolutely right, thumping the run DMC right now,
I love it.
Speaker 1: This is Christmas music. Such a fun one. Honor well mention.
How can I the luxury alone full bar vhs.
Speaker 2: He took out theo with that car, he did, Yeah,
he did well.
Speaker 1: Say of the day and the punch and the punch. Okay,
that's honorable mention number one, yep, honorable mention number two. Okay, okay,
this is without a doubt the vehicle that requires the
most amount of security. Okay, there's a pin code that
causes an antenna to rotate around, hidden by a fake
tree branch and a secret door.
Speaker 2: I know exactly what it is. I was hoping against
hope that this would be on your list, because it
was real hard for me to keep it off of
my list. Okay, this has to be the Batmobile from
nineteen eighty nine's Batman. Nope, what no, All of those
things that you said are true about the Batmobile.
Speaker 1: Shall I keep going? I guess so the Batmobile was
a near miss on my list.
Speaker 2: What No, It can't be right that neither one of
us have the Batmobile on our list.
Speaker 1: I know, right, not right, I know, some.
Speaker 2: Tear in the fabric of time, crazy, I know, right right? Okay, okay, wow, okay, okay,
stay with me now, okay, okay. So this is accessorized
with a vintage Delta rocket, a Hollywood spitfire, fender fins,
saddle bags, compass with a lion's head on it. It's
so beautiful when you see it, you're compelled to say,
good morning. It's me created from an Excelsior swin. Is
this where you deviate too hard from the list. And
we're talking about a bicycle. Yes, are you talking about
pee Wee Herman's bicycles?
Speaker 1: This pee Wee's bicycle.
Speaker 2: I was so close. It was so close to Tim
Burton movies.
Speaker 1: I know, right, that's right.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah I am. I am nowhere near
the the pee Wee megafan that you are. So I
did not know all of these features that are involved
with the Peewee Herman bicycle.
Speaker 1: This became a deadly weapon known as the X one
in the pee Wee movie shown at the end of
the thing. Oh my gosh, I saw that you can
actually purchase this excelsior swin on Facebook for around five
hundred dollars. And then you've got to buy all the
parts and put it all together and so a guide.
It looks great.
Speaker 2: I cannot believe that major list.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's so good. It causes road trips.
It causes trips to the Alamo. You gotta look in
the basement.
Speaker 2: You left off the Batmobile for that?
Speaker 1: What did you leave Okay, well, let's hear what you
left off the Batman before?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, you're ready, Here are my honorable mentions. Okay, okay,
this vehicle is a third generation nineteen seventy four Dodge Monaco.
Do you know it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I didn't think so. It is specialized. And I'll tell
you how a little bit. This movie that it's in
set a record for the most cars wrecked in a movie.
It is involved in an epic chase against the American
Socialist White People's Party, which you can say ass wipe
for short. It's a nineteen eighty movie that actually resulted
in Carrie Fisher getting engaged to Dan Ackroyd because he
saved her from choking by giving her the I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: This has got to be Jake and Elwood Blues's police
car from the Blues Brothers.
Speaker 2: Yep, nineteen eighty Blues Brothers. Fantastic.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: You have that epic chase and then the car does
a full on flip through the air and they land
and keep going.
Speaker 1: You know the crash scene through the mall, you know,
I mean John Landis. We know what kind of a
wild card he was. Who knows how many people were
nearly killed in that car crash driving through the mall
and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: We love John Lennon's movies, and this is one at
the top of the list. Absolutely, and we still haven't
covered it either. We gotta get we gotta we gotta
cover the big coverage.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, all right.
Speaker 2: My second honorable mention is nineteen eighty one car. It
was a Grand touring supercar. They were produced from nineteen
seventy eight to nineteen ninety five. This one is the
nine to twenty eight model. It was the first production
that was a V eight powered model. When it first
came out in nineteen seventy eight, it won the European
Car of the Year. Initially, this model was intended to
replace the nine to eleven. Got it yet?
Speaker 1: If not, here you go okay, wait wait wait wait
wait you say nine to eleven, I say Porsche.
Speaker 2: They left the keys to the brand new Porsche Mine.
M well, of course not. I think that line has
to be inspired by this movie, which involved a chase.
I told you we're gonna have stories about hookers and
blow Yeah, you're right, chased by Lana's pimp Widow. What
a perfect pimp name, and the plot of the movie
The Hook involves generating enough money to pay for the
damages to this car when it gets dropped in the lake.
Speaker 1: This is risky business with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: You got nineteen eighty one Porsche nine twenty eight. If
there was for me a like there is no more
iconic dream car of the eighties, most guys would have
said Lamborghini. For my brother, who is my hero as
a little kid, was always the Porsche, and so can't
beat the Porsche.
Speaker 1: You know that moment in the movie when it's it's
falling in the lake and he's panicking and trying it
desperately to keep it out. It inspires panicing me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, Ah, it's so perfectly done because he's on
the hood and he's doing everything. He's going push and
it won't stop, and it won't stop, and then finally
it just stops on the pier and then the peer falls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that whole movie is just tense. You know.
Speaker 2: I kind of wondered as I was thinking about this,
I'm like, I wonder if I could do the L
train because that was a pretty good scene too. Goals
who goals?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, all right, listen, we're onto our number one.
Speaker 2: We're onto our number one. I've told my hooker story.
We got some blow coming. I feel like.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I will be shocked if this is
not my number one, is not your number one?
Speaker 2: Well, does your number one involve cocaine?
Speaker 1: It does not.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, well you're gonna You're gonna have to
go then, oh okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: So so this car prominently featured in a prominent movie,
one of the most iconic movies of the nineteen eighties
for sure. Yes, okay, yeah, the car actually didn't function well,
broke down a lot, had its issues.
Speaker 2: We have the same car. You're just forgetting a key
part of the story.
Speaker 1: Okay, now that you say that, I do remember cocaine
being involved in Yes, okay.
Speaker 2: So this was I believe our second or third comparison
that we did in the podcast, And we talked about
the cars maker right who he had. He had started
off working for Pontiac, working for GM, and he was
responsible for the Pontiac Gto. He wanted to do a
smaller car with a bigger engine to make them more powerful,
inspired the Beach Boys, right Gto.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He rises to prominence with GM and then develops
a midlife crisis, divorces his wife, starts living like a
rock star making friends with everybody and decides to start
his own car company. Yes, my clue for you on
this one was Johnny Carson invested five hundred thousand dollar
in this car company whoa part of the deal was
he gets one of the first ones that they produce,
which he did, and it broke down on him just
a few miles away from the lock and they said,
no problem, sir, we have a rescue car replacement. We
will be right out to you. They drove him the
rescue car replacement. He switched vehicles and then that car
broke down just a few miles. Oh way, this car
was an absolute dud, despite the fact that it looked
like it was going to be incredible, because it could
not perform. It probably couldn't even get up to eighty
eight miles an hour.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you will recognize this car from its amazing
goaling doors, which malfunctioned. While you're watching Back to the Future,
when you see the door go up. They were shooting
in California. It was cold, yep, and the gas that
sort of projects the door up was not working properly.
That's why Christopher Lloyd hits his head up the door
getting out. This car was originally supposed to be a
refrigerator in the movie, and they like the original script
by Bob Gail and Robert Zemeckis, but then they started saying, well,
he kind of used to get around town. Yeah, so
let's make it a car.
Speaker 2: Yep, supposed to be a refrigerator involved in a nuclear explosion.
Good thing. Nobody pursued that, ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Thus, oh, don't even bring that up. So remind everybody
what the cocaine part of this story is. Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the company, his car company is failing, like flailing,
failing bad, right, and he's been living in a rock
star lifestyle, right, and so he decides, oh, maybe I
can make up the difference here by selling twenty seven
kilos of cocaine. And for those of you who are
not from the EU or drug dealers, twenty seven kilos
is about fifty nine pounds of cocaine.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately, the neighbor that he was talking to about
making that little transaction also happened to be an informant
for the FBI. He was ultimately charged in nineteen eighty
two with this cocaine thing, but he was acquitted of
all charges. Unfortunately, he continued to get sued by investors
that he bilked money from fraudulent actions for the rest
of his life, which he lived all the way up
until two thousand and five. He died in a one
room apartment in New Jersey. Oh way, Yeah, gosh, that's terrible. Yeah,
burnt bright at both ends.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, fifty nine pounds of cocaine. Yeah, somebody called
Crockett and Tubs.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 1: Ford came to Bob Gail and said, how do we
make it a Mustang and we'll throw in seventy five
grand And Bob Gail said, Doc Brown is not going
to ride an effing Mustang.
Speaker 2: Wow. So, if you haven't guessed yet, ladies and gentlemen,
this is nineteen eighty five movie Back to the Future,
and you made a time machine out of a DeLorean.
Speaker 1: So here's the interesting thing. I just learned this fact
and we studied Back to the Future. Yeah, the speedometer
that has shown in the movie is a total fake.
Despite the speedamer shows that it can go up to
one hundred and thirty five miles per hour. Yeah, they
didn't make speedometers that showed them because it was illegal,
and they wouldn't show it that high, right, They want
people trying it out, you know. And the three colors
on the time machine coordinates the green, the yellow, and
the red. That's an homage to HG. Wells's time machine story,
Oh Wow, where the green, the yellow, and the red
represent different areas of time.
Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned earlier that there was a car for
sale for twelve thousand dollars, and I got a little
confused because it had to be this one right, right right,
and like, there's no way that it's this low on
your list. I was just wrong. Yes, but this car
was the DeLorean DMC twelve, which was called twelve because
it was going to sell for twelve thousand dollars, which
is not super expensive. But when you get the fact
that it doesn't work, like, even when it works properly,
it doesn't live up to the promises that John Dolorian
had made about this thing, this car would have been
noted for its dismal failure, but for this movie. And
now there's literally a company that will make you a
replica time machine, Deloian, if you so choose. It's probably
not for twelve thousand.
Speaker 1: Dollars though, right, right, you know who drives a DeLorean.
Speaker 2: Our friend Ernest Kleins.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: I think his like is one of the replicas. There
were three cars, just like Feris Bugler. There were three
cars for the movie. You had the hero car. That
one is currently in the Peterson Automotive Museum. You had
the stunt and wait a minute, wait.
Speaker 1: The Peter Museum, George Peterson, keep going.
Speaker 2: You had the stunt car that's the one that gets
hit by the train. And then you have the CEA car,
which is there the interior footage, Like all the interior
footage is shot in a different car, right, which we
learned that trick from Kucho. Yes, yes, And so the
stunt car that got hit by the train. All of
those pieces then were collected and people would make replicas
just using one piece or so of the car so
that they could say, hey, some of this was in
the original movie. Yep. Some of it ended up on
the ceiling of the planet Hollywood and Hawaii was there
until that place closed down.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just watched an episode of a
TV show called Expedition Unknown.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Love the show. It's so much fun and the host
Josh Gates. He traveled around, went to all the restored
Doloreans and found him, and you can see him. It's
pretty coold.
Speaker 2: As you mentioned with one of the other cars. This
car as well. In twenty twenty one was added to
the Library of Congress National Historic Vehicle Register, which never
would have happened but for the movie. I think about
Johnny Carson in that car, and I think, huh, most
accurate scene in the movie is just before the lightning
strike when the car would starts. Yes, maybe Johnny Carson
should have slammed his head against this serio.
Speaker 1: That's good, Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: That's it. We landed. We both landed on what is
probably the most iconic except for the Batmobile, which I
still can't fathom how neither one of ushi on the list.
That's not We're going to have to make up for
that somewhere. We just apologize and I don't know, we'll
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