Considering the huge amounts collectors pay for the type of car used in this movie it's interesting that back in 1968, with no CGI and very little undercranking the car chases are pretty hairy with both the Bentley and Lancia rear ends breaking away on several bends.
I'm guessing there is no way this would happen today, they would either use replica vehicles orCGI the whole deal.
Come on lads, bags of swank!
Just watching this now and thinking exactly the same thing. Those poor cars !
shareI quite agree but one thing puzzles me, in the chase scene Rex punches a hole in the windshield suggesting it was safety glass but I don't think that was around in those days unless anyone knows better.
shareLaminated "safety" glass was around but it was a breakaway piece of prop glass in the frame for that scene.
Come on lads, bags of swank!
Thanks, I should really have phrased it as "supposed to be safety glass" but didn't realize it had been around that long.
shareThe kind of glass that crazes over and you can punch a hole in (in films at least) is toughened glass. It was still being fitted to cars into the 1970s, though in variants that left you with some visibility when a chipping hit it.
Laminated glass, fitted as windscreens in all modern cars, has a layer of plastic embedded inside so it holds together when it shatters and remains reasonably transparent.
The windscreens of 1930 era cars were mostly of plate glass....
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