It's not the only classic car demolished by Madison, who later smashes up a Shelby Cobra 427. But she is, and in an effort to slow them down she blows up the white-with-black-stripes 1970 Chevelle SS Convertible belonging to Angel Dylan (Drew Barrymore).
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Where Are They Now? Automotive Stars From TV and Movies.Well-cast Beaters in Television and Movies.The kicker is that Highsmith gets a replacement black-with-white stripes 1972 Chevelle SS, but it almost immediately gets crushed by wrecking ball, causing him to cry out out "Ohhhhh! Second one this week!" It seems The Other Guys understand the cliche of the doomed Chevelle SS. Danson then takes the wheel of the bus, pulling off a manoeuvre that flings the ruined Chevelle, with Highsmith still in the driver's seat, towards the bad guys, taking them out in a hail of bullets and a ball of flame. During the chase the baddies shoot up the Chevelle and its hood flips open, causing Highsmith to jump-crash straight through the middle of a bus, where the Chevelle gets stuck. Highsmith (Jackson) and Chris Danson (Johnson) pursuing some baddies driving a black Cadillac Escalade.
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The movie opens in the middle of a car chase, with detectives P.K. Jackson and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, doesn't wait even three minutes before destroying Jackson's character's blue-with-black-stripes 1971 Chevelle SS. The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. And the movie car even manages to survive the chase, sort of, with Jack abandoning it as a thoroughly banged up but rolling – and potentially rebuildable – wreck. If you can ignore the real-life automotive carnage, however, the six-minute chase is a thing of glory: it's got impressive stunt driving with no CGI, very little editing, a pulse-quickening V8 soundtrack, and a smartly-played ending. Evading the police he uses the beautiful red-with-black-stripes 1970 four-speed Chevelle SS like a weapon, turning the chase into a sort of muscle-car destruction derby: Nine Chevelles were purchased for the production, and only three survived filming (little known fact: Tom Cruise secretly purchased a legitimate SS 396 and kept it as his own). It's almost unforgivable: In Jack Reacher the title character, played by Tom Cruise, is on the run in a stolen muscle car after being framed for a murder. (Warning: spoilers ahead.) Jack Reacher (2012) If you've got a soft spot for classic Chevelle SS's, here's a list of just some of the movies you'll love (if only briefly) for the bellowing, drifting, rubber-laying eye candy that's on display, and then hate for what they do to the cars. Or perhaps the studios simply ran out of second-generation Dodge Chargers thanks to TV shows and movies like Bullitt (1968), Vanishing Point (1971), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), Cannonball (1976), the Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985, 2005), and of course the Fast & Furious franchise (2001-onward), which could be retitled "Furiously Wrecking Fast Chargers". It's as if there's some sort of not-so-secret Hollywood conspiracy to crash every late-60s and early-1970s A-bodied Chevelle SS in existence. Is it just me, or have classic second-generation Chevrolet Chevelle SS's lately become the automotive equivalent of Star Trek's red-shirted security officers? Because whenever the camera pans over the sleekly powerful profile of a rumbling Chevelle SS, you just know it's doomed.