Green Hornet Car Facts

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In a previous post I read about the Green Hornet marathon. Me and John was wondering what the car was so I looked it up. For those who didn't know as well it is a 1966 Imperial Crown Sedan customized by Dean Jeffries for $50,000. Most of this went towards the paint job: 30 coats of metal flake, pure black pearl of essence lacquer hand-rubbed to a high glass. The license plate was number V194. The car headlights were not actually rigged to flip, so the green filters were seen deployed constantly. Interesting facts to me, hope you enjoy them as well.
 
Cool. We were snowed in today so the wife and I watched several episodes and I taped the ones we didn't watch. My wife had never seen the show but really liked the Black Beauty.

One odd thing I noticed was sometimes it was nice and shiny and other times it was real dull looking, like primer. I know a lot of times the shiny paint will reflect bad into the camera so they "dull" the paint but a lot of the scenes were in a semi dark setting so I don't know why they'd need it dull.
 
'64 Cud said:
I noticed that too. I thought it looked like it was flat or semi-flat paint in some of the night shots.
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The flat paint comes from the car being filmed in the daylight and then the shot being changed to a night shot during editing. It was odd to me also so I googled it.
 
We have our own Greenhornet on this site, haven't seen him on here for awhile.
Hey Paul, we miss you.
Maybe he's out fighting crime somewhere.
 
67Dart273 said:
so the crew stripped them to the frames and addedn Chevrolet ZZ454 V8 engines, Race Trans Turbo 400 transmissions, Ford differentials and four-wheel disc brakes. I have my own opinion, but am not allowed to state it
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I could almost live with that part, if it weren't for this part:

McCarthy then had to find 28 more O64 to '66 Imperial Crowns for the production's needs. "We had two hero cars that were basically pristine, with a fully functioning interior, and they weren't used by the stunt department," he says. "Then we had cars that had no motor in it for some kind of gag. What really ate the cars up the most, though, was final chase sequence—the car just goes through various degrees of destruction, and we had to have multiple cars for each degree of damage."
 
slantsixdan said:
I could almost live with that part, if it weren't for this part:

McCarthy then had to find 28 more O64 to '66 Imperial Crowns for the production's needs. "We had two hero cars that were basically pristine, with a fully functioning interior, and they weren't used by the stunt department," he says. "Then we had cars that had no motor in it for some kind of gag. What really ate the cars up the most, though, was final chase sequence—the car just goes through various degrees of destruction, and we had to have multiple cars for each degree of damage."
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I feel the same way about the Dukes of Hazzard. Can't watch it. They ate up a lot of Chargers to the point where, at the time, Charger stuff became scarce. Before the days where you could build an entire body (AMD). It was discusting.
 
65Vart said:
I feel the same way about the Dukes of Hazzard. Can't watch it. They ate up a lot of Chargers to the point where, at the time, Charger stuff became scarce. Before the days where you could build an entire body (AMD). It was discusting.
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Same with the last Fast/furious debachle. I read an artice where they said the built and destroyed around 200 cars & trucks (I think that's right), and they had 1 hero car (Charger) the rest of the Chargers had chevy 350s and plastic blowers. They also said that they had to spend $3000 for a rusted-out body shell, that was only good enough for a "buck" used to shoot interior scenes through the windshield.
They blamed "The Dukes of Hazzard" too.
 

Imperial with a big block chevy..:angry7::angry7::angry7::angry7::angry7::angry7: hacks are everywhere..:angry7::angry7::angry7:
 
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