H.B. Halicki original gone in 60 seconds

[MsDano85gt]

was just wondering how many folks out there on this forum have seen the original film??, Not the Nicholas cage version, very neat makes you wonder if it is really that easy to steal most older cars with a breif case and a few small tools inside the case? I especially like the very beginning of the movie a dodge charger or challenger the take a wrecked car take it to designated "safe" shop remove all vin tags buck tags matching engine and tranny door locks and trunk locks hide it all away. Go steal a "twin" car and switch all the things out and put the vehicle back out on the road

the old movie and the cage version of gone in 60 do have alot of similarities, like a stolen "hot" caddilac full of dope and the detective stopping in with dope spilled on the floor same close call situation

really cool movie thats actually part of a trilogy of movies..... H.B. passed away in filmong the 3rd movie he coordinated all hos own stunts and crashes........ Really cool era in time and automotive history alot of neat vehicles in the movie such as the parnelli jones bronco

[cobraman]

I have that one and Junkman on dvd.

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 11, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[astroracer]

I have both and like the original better. The acting is campy and the car is just an Eleanor. No plastic surgery for that one.

[High octane]

I love where the woman is at the car wash near the end of the movie and supposedly sees "her" car coming out of the wash, and says "my car" and then faints.

[Stuntman Mike]

I have both movies on bluray, an unfinished Cage Eleanor and the Halicki Eleanor waiting on the shelf.

Scaleproduction transkit on an AMT ´67 GT350 chassis. Painted with Tamiya spray cans: white primer, gloss black, light gun metal and clear.

[The70judgeman]

I have both...the original(a special edition...I think) and the remake.

[Greg Myers]

Don't like either one. I was teaching high school auto shop when the first one came out. My students were all -a-buzz - about it. I told them it wasn't a topic for discussion in my class, as I wasn't comfortable with a movie trashing that many nice cars. If I remember correctly the tag line for the first movie was something like " see 93 cars destroyed" Nope, not for me, sorry.

[MsDano85gt]

i have it on vcr, it's a classic.

waaay better than the NC remake imo

I agree.....100% like the older film better, new one is pretty cool too just too hollywood! Halicky's film seems more buyable as far as "real" chasing/ driving

[slusher]

I like both of them.

[MoparWoman Jamie]

I seen both versions, I have to agree. The original is better and I love the original one and also the feel behind it as well.

[ChrisBcritter]

I like the original original best, before it was remastered and much of the sound effects and all the music was replaced, although the color in the restored one looked a lot better. A friend who saw it in the theater with me put it as only a car nut can: "Before I thought the color of the Cadillac with the tiger in it was Terra Cotta - now I know it was Cranberry Firemist!" Both versions are on YouTube last I looked; it's possible by using two tabs to watch the restored print on one tab with the sound from the original on the other.

Back in 1982 or '83, several damaged cars were for sale in Auto Trader and when I called, they turned out to be left over from The Junkman. To my surprise I was speaking to the man himself - H.B. Halicki. I probably sounded like a total fanboy but he was nice about it; he even offered me the opportunity to see his collection for ten bucks (he didn't usually show it to the public). Like a dumbass I never did take him up on it... I did go to his estate auction at the Pasadena Center and bought a bunch of mostly junk models; last one I have is a brown '79 El Camino promo. I also bought a soundtrack 45 of "Gone in 60 Seconds"/"Lois Lane Blues" for two bucks; wish I'd bought a dozen.

Of course, I suppose we'll never know the answer to that burning question: Why was Attlee reading Playgirl magazine?

[JTalmage]

I love H.B. Halicki's movies. Gone in 60 Seconds, Junkman, Deadline Auto Theft, and what little of Gone in 60 Seconds 2 that he made.

[Draggon]

I saw the "real" one at the drive-In. Does that make me old? The remake, well, just another Nicolas Cage movie, and a couple of hours out of my life I will never get back.

[MsDano85gt]

not to get offtopic but has anyone seen two lane blacktop? that one has lots of awsome old muscle and drag racing action

[Dave Van]

I have both films. I have the Cage version just to show how bad remakes can be.

The REAL Gone is a great film when you consider it was a 'outsider' film in today's terminology.

And an outsider film in an era that was tightly controlled by the big film companies and equipment to make a film was very expensive, heavy and difficult to use. Today a 12 year old can match Hollywood standards with a $100 camera.

I've seen (and touched when the guard wasn't looking) the real Elanor at Peterson and even met HB briefly when he was touring with Elanor back when the film first opened. He had just done a local news spot and was filling his tow truck at a Shell station.....what a man!

[Robberbaron]

I've seen the original Gone in 60 Seconds, but only about half the remake, in bits and pieces over the years. The original is exactly what it promises, and to me there is a certain charm because of that, and it was created independently.

not to get offtopic but has anyone seen two lane blacktop? that one has lots of awsome old muscle and drag racing action

Growing up reading Car Craft, it was drilled into my head by the writers for that mag that Two Lane Blacktop was the ultimate gear head movie. They never showed it on TV when I was growing up, and it was unavailable on video for years. They finally released it on VHS in the late 90s I believe, so I bought a copy and.....it was a total let down. I was prepared for an action-packed street racing movie, and there's really about 10 minutes total of the content I was expecting.

It starts out promising, with the main characters' '55 Chevy racing a Hemi Cuda when the cops show up, but after that it's pretty much a snooze fest until midway through when they end up racing a '32 Ford. Don't get me wrong, there are some cool moments, and plenty of vehicular eye candy, but don't go in expecting an action movie. It's still something worth watching once, to cross of your car-obsessed bucket list. Part of the novelty is that the '55 Chevy in this movie later got converted into Bob Falfa's car for American Graffitti, but most motor heads I know seem to agree that the original version in this film is much cooler. That might be another redeeming grace for Two Lane: the primered '55 in it is pretty brutal.

I just wish that more car guys would stop denying that the emperor has no clothes, and admit that the actual plot sucks.

Edited April 29, 2014 by Robberbaron

[cartpix]

I agree, Robberbaron, 2 lane wasn't the best car flick. Hollywood Knights, on the other hand...

[vamach1]

Here is the real Eleanor.

Edited April 29, 2014 by vamach1

[Chas SCR]

How I do like the super snake but I do the the render drawing of what the car was supposed to be a 69 boss custom better.

[D. Battista]

I saw the "real" one at the drive-In. Does that make me old? The remake, well, just another Nicolas Cage movie, and a couple of hours out of my life I will never get back.

I was lucky enough to see the original Halicki film at a sneak preview at midnight for free at a movie theater in Canton Ohio..!

By FAR one of the best car movies ever made..!

Cage movie was a Hollywood remake...and good in it's own rights.

But it CAN'T touch a movie mad by a man who loved cars and had the means and friends to make it a legendary reality..!!

In the same boat as you Draggon..!

[Terminator-Fox]

The original Gone in 60 seconds is best.

Two lane blacktop is terrible.

[JTalmage]

Two Lane Blacktop is a good movie if you can imagine putting yourself in their perspective. I see it as more of a true to life type of story like youre right there with them.

[cartpix]

I drove up the hill, that they jumped the Mustang off, it the original movie. I have friends that were at the jump. When they were filming, I was at the Cadillac dealer, after they slid it, into the row of Caddies.

[Bob Ellis]

The original is the best. I saw the movie when it came out.

The Mustang appears to be a 1973, but it is a 1971 with the '73 grille. Notice the small front bumper. By the time he had enough money to do the movie, his 1971 was out of date.

There were two California license plates for the Mustang, maybe for the second car. In the beginning of the movie it was 614HSO, or as they say over the police radio " 6-1-4 Henry Sam Ocean".

In the end of the movie, he puts a New York License plate on the Mustang and is sent through the police blockade.