SOB's crushed a euro W126 and a nice 740IL! Another reason for me to hate that movie.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

People are always talking up Bullit, but for my money Ronin is one of the best car chases ever filmed. Choice autos pushing it to the max, Frankenheimer is a car freak, so he used cars (and drivers) that have a lot of soul, I think that is one of the things that make it so special.

Personally, I really don't think the plot line is lame at all. Maybe the chase scenes have gone to my head.

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1975 240D (Euro 4spd man, Gold, 126,000km)

Look at the cars in this picture... The special effecs guys probably found cars that still look presentable enough, but mechanically dead.
From Left to Right
-Daewoo: the S#*box motor crapped out in the first 5 years
-OLD SEL gasser: Her timing chain broke because of the plastic guides not being replaced.
-Dodge Intrepid: Flying through the air; probably one of the worst cars ever (I doubt it made it 150,000 miles)
-Saturn econo-sedan: Some brainless person probably let the oil slowly leak out of it until it crapped out going down the 101.
-BMW 750il: The 12 cylinder over-engineered probably needed a $3,000++ repair and was junked.
-Ford Explorer: (Exploder) another victim of bad maintainence and very poor quality.

It looks to me like Voltron is walking down an urban salvage yard to me.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Good point!

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1975 240D (Euro 4spd man, Gold, 126,000km)

I find it interesting that Mercedes would put out ads to see the new Mercedes C class in National Treasure 2. The car gets practically destroyed.


It kind of reminds of of when James Bond's Z8 gets chopped in half while for no good reason. The car's alarm goes off, almost like its screaming in pain!

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

The Peacemaker, a w140 gasser beats up three nice shiny black BMWs - 5's or 7's - before setting its own leaky gas tank on fire and exploding

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

300D in episode 2 of Terminator- The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

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A nice 300D gets rear ended in the upcoming "Burn After Reading". Other than the 300D destruction it looks to be a worth watching comedy.

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What about "The Four Seasons" with Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Carious and Jack Weston. In one scene, Weston's W123 sinks to the bottom of a lake and he's clearly traumatized by the loss of his 80's status symbol.

In the spring of 2005, when I was looking for my first Mercedes Diesel, I found an add on Craigslist for a 1982 240D for $1600. I was the first to email (early bird gets the worm) and went to look at it.

The car was owned by a man in Walnut Creek that supplied cars for movies in the San Francisco bay area. It was a silver car, in excellent condition, with something more than 140K (busted odo), and I bought it immediately. The owner told me that the car had been in a recent Reese Witherspoon movie (at that point untitled).

My car was used as traffic during some scene where the actors were driving around San Francisco.

The title of the movie is "Just Like Heaven", and it is a romantic comedy about a doctor in a coma appearing to the man who rents her apartment.

I saw part of it on TV one night, and didn't notice my car, but it is supposedly there (unless the scene got cut).

Max Behensky

that's pretty cool, the best movie set item I ever got was the shop door from days of thunder...

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

My eyeglass frames were worn by Billy Crudup's character in Big Fish.

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1992 300D 2.5T
1980 Euro 300D (sadly, sold)
1998 Jetta TDI, 132K "Rudy"
1974 Triumph TR6
1999 Saab 9-5 wagon (wife's)

As noted earlier, Steve Carell's character in this admittadly decent movie drives a rather nice looking w123 wagon. It is missing its hood star but seems in great condition otherwise. In one scene, while arguing with his kids, he jumps in and speedily tries to start the car without waiting for proper preglow. Took about four frantic tries but it did fire up nicely.

I want a TD so badly I can smell the diesel fumes. Alas, a sixth benz would precipitate a hasty divorce.

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Best Regards,
Sam

'76 280 Time Capsule
'00 S430 Long Trips
'91 190E Seeing how far it will go. 366k
'04 American Eagle Motorcoach

Totally fake! No way a W123 would take that much damage being nudged by a POS ford Probe. The front of the probe would look like a pancake!

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

How about that awful commercial before most DVDs that's supposed to discourage you from buying counterfeit movies. It says, "You wouldn't steal a car... You wouldn't steal a purse ..." And on and on. The opening scene shows distressed b&w footage of a thug using a slim-jim on a W123.

See, if I saw someone doing that to their W123, I'd assume he had a vacuum leak..... :-)