The Blues Brothers Cars

One of the classic car movies of the 1980s was the Blues Brothers. If you have never even heard of the film, it is a study on the amount of waste a movie can make just for making a movie. No classic car enthusiast will have missed this one, if only for the 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan being chased by

police cars either being blown up, thrown off the road, engaged in four way accidents, jumped over trucks and ravines halfway, crashed into each other with as much frequency as blinking your eyes throughout the whole movie. So much waste, and so much fun.

A trivia about the film is that one part showed the Monaco's speedometer reading 120 mph, which the film's director John Landis claims was really shot at that speed. And to prove it, pedestrians were shown in the same shot, to show that no special movie magic was made

The sequel to the film used a 1990 Ford LTD Crown Victoria, with a souped up 190 horsepower 351 cubic engine. And the curious thing about the two films is that all the time the Blues Brothers were being chased all over the country, they were, in fact, using models of then police cars as their getaway cars – all the while making mincemeat of all the other police cars in the chase. If you grew up during this era of cars, then you now have the financial standing to go and buy one. And just thinking about owning a Bluesmobile will tell you exactly what a classic car owner feels with each acquisition.