A few months ago, I briefly mentioned the movie Used Cars in a post. One of Robert Zemecki’s earlier films, with the zany traits and pacing that would characterize his later work. In the film, a young Kurt Russell plays a likable trickster in charge of a used car lot. Leaving aside that ‘likable tricksters’ don’t exist anywhere but in movies, the film revolves around Kurt’s character; who is in a fierce battle of wills against the competing used car lot across the road.
The film is bawdy, goofy, and lots of early ’80s fun. On top of that, it’s a fine car-centric film. Except for one egregious mistake.
I won’t spoil the movie. Let’s just say that Kurt has to create an ‘accident’ to pull off a scam. To achieve this, he removes the 1959 Edsel on display that serves as the lot’s sign.
Then, the Edsel runs around the lot in a rather fantastic chase. But instead of the 1959 one previously shown, it is now a 1958 model. Wait, what??
No matter how much one is enjoying a movie, the ‘fictional reality’ one has invested in up to that point just crumbles. Wait a minute! That’s just a different car! This is NOT real!
The topic of driving cars in the ‘park’ position has appeared at CC on and off; an annoying goof if there ever was one (Above, an ’82 Riviera in La La Land). Do directors and actors don’t know anything about driving? Are they just always chauffeured?
If seeing cars driven in the ‘park’ position is annoying, having them suddenly switch from one model to another is just bizarre and off-putting. Do they think no one will notice?
Let’s go for another switcheroo. This one from Remington Steele, the 1982 light detective drama that launched Pierce Brosnan’s career. On a Season 2 episode, Remington (Pierce Brosnan) and her lovely companion Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) are ready to have a picnic by the road.
Just then the baddies arrive on a Barracuda. This shot has nothing to do with the point I’m trying to make, but I just can’t see a Barracuda and not include it.
A minute later, the baddies get ready to toss Laura’s cute VW Cabrio over the hill. And as it turns over, the Cabrio suddenly changes into a US-built 1980 model. The headlights and side markers being the giveaways. Wait, what?
What’s worse, I don’t even remember a square headlight Cabrio ever being built. The whole matter is just puzzling…
I could go on, like a MacGyver episode where a Chevy Caprice briefly turns into an Oldsmobile Cutlass; but this post is not meant as a comprehensive list. Car switcheroos aren’t as common as the ‘park position’ goof, but so far, the Edsel one takes the cake for me.
So the question goes out: Have you seen any? And where?
Dukes of Hazzard, Roscoes police car morphing between a B body Monaco, a AMC Matador and a C body Monaco all in the same chase
Camaro hitting the bulldozers in Vanishing Point
Cheap steel wheels in place of road wheels plain as day.
An early example of the automotive switcheroo is in “The Long Long Trailer, the early 50s Lucy-Dezi romp where their Mercury convertible becomes a Lincoln in the heavy towing scenes. Oftimes in a movie or TV show, a late model car ecomes a much older model as it tubles off a cliff. And lets not forget the Challenger which became a Camaro right before impacting a Camaro in “Vanishing Point”. Hollywood “magic” indeed.
I read that Lucy and Desi has filmed scenes with the Mercury but then they had trouble towing the trailer with the Mercury so they used the Lincoln to tow the trailer.
You’re right, they never built VW Rabbit Convertibles (or Cabriolets) in the US. And from 1980 to 1992 the convertibles only used the round headlight front end seen on pre-1980 US rabbits and euro market Golfs. So they either had to front end swap a convertible (don’t know why they would do that), or took a cheaper 1980 US 2 door and chopped off the roof just to wreck it (seems most likely to me)
I’m going to agree with your guess. The “roll bar” and the top stack don’t look right for a Cabrio.
Given how new it was at the time, I have to wonder if the auto stunt people had a line to a Rabbit that had already been wrecked, maybe it was on the top deck of the car carrier going under a low bridge or something?
Insurance salvage pools are a wondrous thing .
I once bought by accident a brand new Chevrolet S10 pickup with 1,000 miles on it for $1,000 ~ I thought it was a few years old and apart from having been driven into a tree was in good shape and had 10,000 miles on it .
Made good $ on that one .
-Nate
Not the worst, you have to watch close.
“Dr. No” Bond is chased by a LaSalle hearse, and when it goes over a cliff in a ball of flames, it’s actually a Humber.
Another James Bond movie break in continuity:
When the 1964 Lincoln Continental that gets driven to the auto wreckers to be compacted- turns into a 1963 model.
…and the crushed, 5,000 pound Lincoln is comfortably hauled away in the bed of a Falcon pickup…
And there’s no engine, transmission or radiator in the Lincoln.
Good for catching that – the movie was “Goldfinger” (1964) – ya’ll understood and knew!
Also in Dr. No, the ’57 Chevy that Bond is in has a ’56 Ford dash and speedo.
Because the Jack Webb shows (Dragnet, Adam-12, Emergency) relied on so much previously shot footage, there were occasional continuity issues with police cars and ambulances and the like. They did a pretty good job overall, but I remember one episode of Adam-12 where the car crashed and the crashed car was not the same car as the non-crashed car.
An ongoing issue in Adam-12 was that they took the windshield out of the car used for in-car filming (to eliminate glare) but did nothing to correct the windshield wipers’ position which was well up the dashboard past the point where the windshield glass would be.
‘The Search’-Mallot startys the chase in a 1971 Plymouth Satellite, heading into Griffith Park. He misses a turn and goes over the edge. The car is now a 1969 Plymouth Belvedere (if you hit ‘pause’ youll notice the siren speaker is missing from between the can lights), once he lands-it is how the crumpled remains of a 1970 Mercury Montego (cunningly disguised by the removal of the wing windows). It actually was a great episode (and scared the living crap out of me watching it first-run when I was 6 years old), but the presto change-o review of the last 3 models purchased by the LAPD (at the time) always cracked me up.
Hawaii 5-0 had many. The good version with Jack Lord. Even with the switcheroos the old version was better than what passes for the new version.
I did a post on these “driving in park” movie scenes a few years back. It is so common that it catches my attention more when the movie actually gets it right.
I’m sure everyone has figured this out, but for most driving scenes, the actor isn’t actually driving the car. It would be too difficult to film, and too dangerous. Instead, what is known as a “process trailer” is employed to accommodate the film crew, camera equipment, etc.
Is anyone else bothered when the driver and passenger are having a conversation and are looking at each other for prolonged periods? I want to yell “watch the road you idiot!”
Agree 1000%. This kind of behavior sets a really bad example.
On an unrelated side note, another things that drives me absolutely nuts is when people in a movie sit down for a meal and then just talk, blah, blah, blah, while the food gets cold.
It used to irritate me that the guy (always) driving would be sawing away on the wheel as if he wanted to make the dame puke.
Either that, or they’d removed the tensioner screw from the steering box for no good reason.
We often had rank opinion steering by then, which made the effect even more silly. Even my 124 wasn’t that slack…
Keep you eyes on the road,
Stop see-sawing on the wheel,
As Jim Morrison didn’t put it.
Used Cars, with Jimmy Carter playing an unattributed part, was very funny.
The switcheroo in the scene below is where the Beagle Toby is replaced (thankfully) by a rock to force a customer to buy a used station wagon.
This is called “Test Drive With Toby”.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=used+cars+movie+test+drive+with+toby&t=ffab&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DO1MkXHNSVgs
Thanx for the Used Cars link, I watched it in the theater and loved it .
-Nate
Guess I’ve gotta start watching movies more closely…
In quite a few ITC series in the ’60s there’s some footage of a white Mk.1 Jaguar going off a cliff. I suspect it was correct for one of the programmes, but often the cars about to crash were clearly Mk.2 Jags.
Seems someone’s done a video of all the versions here, but only the actual crashes (some are a red Renault Dauphin).
Ha, that footage of the Jag sure did get used a lot. I remember seeing it multiple times as a kid.
The one that really amused me was the movie Hidden Figures, where the opening scene is the protagonists waiting by their broken down 57 Chevy. The year is 1961 I think, and a police car pulls up behind them.
“They’ve been waiting a long time” I whispered to my wife; “That police car is a 1964 Ford”
Saturday Night Live used that footage for “Toonces, The Cat Who Could Drive A Car”. Funny stuff.
And the “seating buck” used for the in-car scenes came from a ’75-79 Ford Granada, very memorably in red vinyl!
I remember watching Earnest Goes to Camp as a kid, and noticing that in an early scene where Earnest is driving a school bus full of campers to the camp, the bus keeps switching back and forth between an IH Loadstar and a Ford medium duty.
I don’t remember the TV show, but there was a scene where the main character is driving a 1961 Lincoln. The car heads towards a cliff. The scene of the car going over the cliff is a 1960 Lincoln. What difference could one year make?
Haha, only one year apart! Except that year changeover was probably the most noticeable in Lincoln history.
Coffy – during the final police chase, a 1973 Coronet becomes a 1969 Belvedere when it crashes.
For a moment I had to think about where that Plymouth came from, before I realized it was supposed to be the same car as the Dodge.
In the Home Improvement episode “Don’t Tell Momma,” Tim Allen rolls up to a construction site in a perfect ’55 Chevy Nomad, and then proceeds to accidently crush it with a steel beam. However, the car he crushes is a base 2 door wagon, not a Nomad.
It didn’t really annoy me, since they didn’t crush a valuable car, but the visual is still jarring.
I’m sure Tim Allen, car guy, would never have let them crush a Nomad!
If I were a movie director, I would drive producers crazy: “A ’66 Thunderbird is going over the cliff? Fine… just make sure it’s one rusted beyond salvation. You can’t find it? You haven’t looked hard enough!”
Somehow I feel my director career would be rather short-lived.
I recently drove out family car in a movie set in the 60’s. I drove a 65 Buick through a scene that took place in 1962 with 1957 license plates on it. The directors thoughts were “old car, close enough”. I have some stories if anyone is interested.
You’re referring to “Thelma and Louise” correct?
One of my old work mates supplied the T-Birds used in that movie, they were old but decent coupes when they “rented to wreck” them .
He didn’t much care, IIRC he got $850, I don’t recall if that was one or both .
-Nate
Jill tells Tim when they are at the body shop… “It looks like a giant hot dog bun!”
That’s not a one-fifty two door. It has chromey trim around the windshield so it’s a two-ten. No wait, the C pillar is slanted but all non-Nomad wagons have all-vertical pillars. And nothing looks quite right about it anywhere.
It’s a mockup. I don’t know what they are made out of or anything about the process (which might change over time anyway), but for example there are a few extra fake Tuckers that were made for that movie.
You can see from the bouncing after the beam is dropped on it that there’s at least the frame etc. of a real car in there.
The Home Improvement car that was crushed is a 210 two door wagon with a fake skin Nomad slant stuck on the outside and the actual pillars darkened and disguised behind it. That’s why the camera is not too close.
In the movie “Monster”, Aileen and Selby are one minute cruising down the road in a red 92-98 Pontiac Grand Am, and the next minute drive into someone’s yard in a red 85-91 Grand Am.
Even as a little kid in the 50’s and 60’s it drove me crazy watching shows like Perry Mason where the car to be going over the cliff was say, a new light colored 57 Ford, but when you saw an actual car going down the cliff and crashing it was an old dark colored 40’s model. Of course they continuously used old studio clips for these scenes for obvious budgetary reasons but I often wished they could at least find clips with the cars bearing closer resemblance to each other.
In the 1998 movie “Ronin,” the BMW M5 turned into a plain 5-series sedan right before the crash.
That doesn’t annoy me at all. I’d much rather them sacrifice the plebian model than the collectible one.
In the TV show The Goldbergs, the family’s 80’s station wagon will sometimes switch back and forth between a Ford Country Squire and a Mercury (Grand Marquis? Colony Park? Whatever it was called in the 80’s).
One of the most classic was the climax of Vanishing Point when a white ’67 Camaro was substituted for the ’70 Challenger R/T.
There’s another that I can only vaguely recall, and it was when something like a 1964 Plymouth Belvedere 2-door with a bad red paint job and white stripe was substituted for the Starsky and Hutch Torino in a similar explosion.
There is something off about the Aston that is dumped over the edge of the roadside in the original Italian Job. I still cringe when the stand-in gets the heave-ho, because that car itself isn’t exactly what one would call a throwaway item, either…
I believe that was a Lancia made up to resemble the Aston. That still hurts!
Correct; a Flaminia cabriolet (also bodied by Carrozzeria Touring). As the story goes, film production actually did destroy a proper but ‘knackered’ DB4 for that scene, but the pyrotechnic explosion used for the impact went off before hitting the cliff face, making the footage unacceptable to believably be used. Crew had to scramble for a replacement in order to re-shoot the scene while on location. That context in mind, the stand-in isn’t nearly as egregious and is remarkably effective to the casual observer.
Maserati 3500 GT. 🙁
The one that jumped to my mind occurred in the cheesy late-50s sci-fi movie, “Attack of the 50-foot Woman.” The protagonist drives up to the alien spacecraft in her ’58 Plymouth wagon and sneaks inside. The giant alien gets angry, chases her out of the craft, lifts up her car, and smashes it to the ground. Except now, the images are grainy and feature a 1949-51 Ford wagon.
The white 70 Dodge Challenger that crashed into the bulldozers in Vanishing Point turned into the rear half of a 67 Camaro with cheesy silver painted rims after the crash .
It’s been mentioned here on CC when this subject was brought up once before, but there was an episode of Charlie’s Angles wherein one of the Angels’ cars (Jill maybe?) was blown up by a bomb. Her Mustang II (a new car at the time) was exchanged for the bombing scene with a first gen ‘stang with the newer taillights faked in somehow. Of course in the seventies, these ’65 & ’66 Mustangs were just old used cars, but which one would be worth more money now?
The one that really bugs me is not the car switcheroo, but the airplane switcheroo.
I know these guys use stock footage of take-offs, in-flight, and landings, but could you directors at least get the type correct and consistent? It drives me nuts to see a 737 take off, a 747 in mid-flight, and then to really add a further annoyance, an old 727 touches down at the destination. Even the airline livery changes. REALLY?!?!?!?!? We aren’t supposed to notice this? Why even bother showing an airplane at all?
There’s a Columbo episode where they show a commercial plane taking off, and then cut to an under plane shot showing landing gear retracting into a fuselage.
The plane they used for the landing gear shot? A B-52!
I guess they thought any stock footage would work, but a BUFF has one of the most unique landing gear layouts in the world, and looks NOTHING like a commercial jetliner.
Plan Nine From Outer Space! The flaws in this film are too numerous to list here, but my favorite one is when the police leave the station in a 1953 or 1954 Ford, and arrive at the crime scene in a 1957 Ford.
That’s actually in keeping with the overall quality of the film. The film works as unintentional comedy in the way the play Springtime for Hitler in the movie The Producers does.
24, being a TV show, had a smaller budget than a summer blockbuster. They managed to make the most of it but a couple of switches stand out to me: in one season 5 episode, a Lexus LS430 is run off the road and becomes a first -gen Toyota Avalon as it flips and rolls. Ok, crashing a Lexus would have been expensive and it would have made less sense for this particular character to be driving an old Avalon the whole time.
But more puzzling was a later episode where an Avalon with polished wheels veering off a road becomes something else. Given how dark it was, whatever they used to hurtle off the cliff would have passed for the original car if the wheels weren’t bright white.
The Glass House. Police car constantly changes between a 92-97 and 98+.
In 40s adventure movies and cop movies, the roll-down-hill-and-burst-into-flames car was always the same car, a Packard Clipper. The car before it left the curve might have been a Caddy or a ’49 Ford or a ’38 Chevy, but as soon as it broke through the guard rail it magically became a Packard.
Most interior shots, looking through the steering wheel at the driver, were done with the same mockup, which seemed to be a ’39 Chrysler Highlander.
A little off topic is the blatant wrong-ness in a car scene. Mrs. JPC and I just last night watched the 1956 film “Julie”, where Doris Day starred as a woman trying to escape an abusive, murderous husband. There are some fabulous car scenes, mainly involving a wild drive in the couple’s 1956 Chrysler convertible very early in the film.
Doris is driving, but the jealous husband steps on her gas pedal foot. As she fights to regain control of the car as it wildly careens on the curvy road, there is a momentary shot where there is a fight to control the gearshift. The gearshift, in that car with pushbutton drive, appeared to be made of wood and was on screen for just a couple of seconds. I tried to find a clip but could not.
I saw the car trailer set up being used in NZ A few years ago. This explains the slightly wrong perspective of the background and the dash lights glowing when the engine wasn’t actually running.
I remember the movie Stone when the 4 cylinder Kawa 900 turned into a 350 Honda twin with two extra exhausts tacked on as it went over the cliff…
Not the most egregious, but in the Australian Movie, Running on Empty, The Dodge Challenger that crashed at the end was actually a 71 4 door VH Valiant with the B pillar cut out.
Better than destroying the Challenger.
The TV show “MASH” had an episode there two guys (? Hawkeye & Trapper John ?) are driving Jeep and it gets bombed or something, completely immolated except the snap edit to it burning shows an IHC Scout fully aflame .
Then there were all those cheesy weekly serials from the 1930’s & 1940’s that often had two guys standing up in the back seat of an open touring car, it always went off a cliff or dock and never was the same car .
“Movie Magic” (bullshit)
-Nate
Switcheroo’s occasionally show up in old episides of “Highway Patrol” with Broderick Crawford.
Just scan thru on youtube, as most of us, probably, have.
“Cannonball Run II”, where they switch a bustleback Chrysler Imperial limousine for a slantback Cadillac Seville in the same hideous green. I would have assumed they had the budget to reshoot the scene with the correct car with all of the guest stars. Apparently not.
1973 French Film, Le Magnifique, the sort of chase begins with a 1963 Cutlass, then our hero shoots a fake bride in the back of a 1962 Ford…hope he got the right fake bride!
How does a guy jump out of a car and roll across the ground and not get his white suit dirty? I couldn’t eat lunch in that suit without staining it.
well given that it’s a fantasy scenario played out by a writer of spy fiction novels, anything is possible. I also wondered why he’d have to jump out of the car if it pulled up and stopped nearby!
What a great catch. And it’s not like the Cutlass was any more or less valuable than the Ford. Both are just 9-10 year old cars at the time.
I also couldn’t find a clip online of the chase scene of Portrait In Black, filmed at the famous Devils Slide on Highway 1, where Lana Turner’s 1959 Dodge magically takes a reverse look into a 1958 Dodge just before for Anthony Quinn’s 1959 Chrysler pushes it over the cliff.
Daytime soap operas which have notoriously low budgets. The worst one was an episode of “The Edge of Night,” where young rising politician, Kevin Jamison, came to the realization that he still loved his cheating wife, Raven, in spite of her being pregnant by another man. Raven was experiencing pain, possibly going into labor, and also leaving town to fly to England to be with her mother. Kevin leaves to stop her.
Cue to stock footage of a red Porsche 356 coupe being driven at a high rate of speed along a twisting road beside a cliff. Of course, it inevitably drives over the cliff. The next scene is close up Kevin Jamison dead in a wrecked first gen Ford Mustang hardtop coupe with its hood missing. The Mustang was obviously filmed on the set of the soap and they did a good job of matching the trees and woods to that in the stock footage, and at least both cars were red.
In the “Wangan Midnight” movie from Japan (a demon-possessed first-gen 240-Z, think “Christine” crossed with “Fast and Furious”), the car, as pulled out of the junkyard, was a 2+2 version. Throughout the movie, it was a straight 2-seater. Later, the immolated Z-car was actually a Lancer or some such thing, not even close to a Z.
In Used Cars, I had forgotten that the Edsel on the pole was a ’59
What did bug me is that at the end of the scene with the ’58 they switched it out for a ’59 with the aqua side cove roughly painted on.
“No ma’am it’s yellow primer”. 🙂
CHiPs……multiple times…the CHP cruiser starts the pursuit as a 1977 Monaco, morphs into a 1975 Monaco, then switched back and forth between the two. But WAIT! If a wreck needs to happen-cue the 1973 Polara!
I always liked the prelude to inevitable 347-car pileups. If I saw a blue Duster in the sghot, I knew someone was going airborne (the Duster being the ‘ramp car’)
Yup you only get to see the front of the blue Duster that isn’t at the right ride height due to the ramp built on it and you knew a jump was coming new a jump was coming next.
Here is a switcharoo clip where a slightly older Cougar is subsituted for the one used in the road shots. It appears this one was lightly prepped in that the gas tank was removed. I’ve seen others where the car that went over the cliff was lacking an engine and trans.
Extra cheesiness factor! Let’s show the Cougar going down the mountainside in sloooooowwwwwww mottttiiiooonnnnnnnn…….
(All the better to see the missing occupants and missing gas tank)
The Australian TV drama “Bellbird” had a chase that started with a XY Falcon police car, and finished the chase as it’s sucessor the XA.
A viewer called them out on it, and the ABC’s tongue in cheek story was ” it was a long chase, so he had to replace the car”
Very UK-centric, but one of the final scenes of the short-lived soap opera “Eldorado” was the main villain’s Alpine A610 exploding… except just before the final moment it happens to turn into a very badly-modified Triumph TR7!
I was watching an episode of Simon & Simon recently and noted that an ’81 Malibu turned into a Volare and back into a Malibu, then ending up as the Volare at the end of its journey.
Rockford switches back and forth with different years of Firebirds throughout the whole series. I read that is to fill in for commercial breaks used from when it was a network show.
I have seen countless cars switched for going over cliffs. What bugs me the most is when a car catches fire while still airborne before hitting anything. If this were true, Bo and Luke wouldn’t have survived their pilot episode. This reminds me of something that happened years ago. A lady I worked with told me she was afraid to drive her car because someone had hit her rear bumper and pushed it in out in the parking lot and she thought it might explode. I took her keys and drove it all around the lot with no problem. Then I told her she had been watching too much TV.
If you see a TV detective driving a “rental car” the odds go way up that it will be wrecked.
The Last Man On Earth (1964) with Vincent Price driving first a ’56 Chev 210 wagon, then a ’58 Ford wagon, then the Chev, then the Ford.
Back windows open to air out the corpses, of course…
Thank you ! .
I’d forgotten about that one, it was a glaring mistake when I first watched that movie .
-Nate
Its always bothered me that in some of the chase scenes in Raising Arizona when the two brothers steal the baby, they switch back and forth between a 71 or 72 blue Ford LTD wagon and a 73 to 78 Galaxie/LTD wagon, which are very different looking models as described here: http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/threads/raising-arizona.6077/
The opening chase scene in the movie “CHiPs” featured a Chev SS sport sedan, which magically turns into a Malibu (complete with fake side gill stickers) when the chase ends and the perps destroy their getaway car.
The “Love Bug” films utilized a large number of specially-prepped cars for various stunts, and if you have a sharp eye, you can spot the different year model cars.
Last year I drove our family car in the movie Boston Strangler starring Keira Knightley. One of three scenes made it into the movie. We have a 1965 Buick Special convertible with 50K original mile. Small V8. Keira’s car was 1962 (ish) Ford Falcon. I had to drive down the road and pass her car at a prearranged point. It was not Keira driving, but a stunt double. I start driving and then she comes the other way like a bat out of hell going 20 miles over the speed limit. That little Falcon had a giant V8 under the hood. I believe it was the basis for the first Mustang and can be equipped with those huge engines. I told the director that I refused to drive our car that fast and blow the engine. So she slowed down and I started a point further back and we figured it out. That Falcon was rough around the edges. The camera car was on a flatbed and was pristine. They were close to the same color, but not quite. At this point in the movie she is following a suspect to Michigan. He drove a 62 Corvair wagon. Strangely, both the Falcon and the Corvair were the same bright blue color. The Corvair stunt car was much rougher and they didn’t match the paint as well. It was blue on the outside, but the door jambs and inside of the hood were bright red. The interior was a black and white houndstooth with the red metal pieces. It was obviously repainted for the movie, and not very well. I suspect that both stunt cars had been painted with the same blue paint to save money. Our car ended up being period correct for the scene, which took place in 1965. However I filmed another scene in the vicinity of Fenway Park in Boston. But that scene took place in 1962 and they didn’t care that our car is a 1965. Now the 65 could play the part of a 64, introduced late 63. But their opinion was “old car, close enough”. The best looking cars were early 40’s. The newest, and roughest was a 68. They don’t care. But at least this movie matched the years of the camera car and the stunt car. They had a group of cars that came from some company that supplies cars. But they got used way too frequently. There was also about 4 cars driven by owners like me. They were lazy about the police cars. They were the same group of cars in the same blue color with a white top. They had removable stickers on the doors designating the jurisdiction. The colors were not correct for the various cities and towns around Boston where the scened took place. Those same cars showed up in the Michigan scenes as well. But they were all years from 58-68 with no attempt to match the year in which the scene took place. I would have driven them crazy if I was in charge of cars. I can’t help but notice these discrepancies. And I know all of you are just the same as me. If anyone has any questions, just ask.
The Charlie’s Angels episode where Jaclyn Smith’s character’s Mustang II (which she discovers has a bomb planted inside it) gets swapped out for a presumably “less valuable” 1960s Mustang, just before the explosion. The most interesting part is the changes they made to the older car (black strips on the side mimicking the Mustang II’s moldings, etc.) to try to disguise the swap.
RetroStang Rick mentioned it above… sorry missed that on first reading.