movie trucks

[special-K]

That's the best one yet. Thanks for sharing, Greg

Howard The Duck? I'm not making these up!

[Beach-Burban]

'69 or '70 4x4 Suburban found at the beginning of the 2022 release of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

Woody

[special-K]

That's a good one! If that dark blue is original it's a '69. Grille looks like it, but the chrome on fins may be faded off. Can't quite tell if the hubs are the early or later Spicers

Here is another Suburban for you, K2500! Lone Wolf McQuade

[Beach-Burban]

New TV series coming out "starring" a '72 GMC Suburban 4x4 as the Tribal Police Patrol Vehicle. The interior shot even shows a glimpse of the intact original headliner with bows! *Disclaimer* I am not an expert in identifying exact years of '67 to '72 trucks (especially GMC), but I could see it had a "glue-on" rearview mirror...so? Also...I'm not affiliated with this show, but I might give it a watch just because of the Suburban!!!

Woody

[palallin]

Not exactly a movie, but a classic GMC and a durn shame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMB7s3n3dQ

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by palallin

Not exactly a movie, but a classic GMC and a durn shame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMB7s3n3dQ

Ouch.
Yeah. Drop the clutch and roll back, THEN work on the battery cables. He must've not known that track was active and assumed it was a dead line. Easy for me to say, but I wasn't there.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Beach-Burban

New TV series coming out "starring" a '72 GMC Suburban 4x4 as the Tribal Police Patrol Vehicle. The interior shot even shows a glimpse of the intact original headliner with bows! *Disclaimer* I am not an expert in identifying exact years of '67 to '72 trucks (especially GMC), but I could see it had a "glue-on" rearview mirror...so? Also...I'm not affiliated with this show, but I might give it a watch just because of the Suburban!!!

Woody

By the mirror and grille you got it right with being a '72. The door mirrors are 67-70, so been some reassembly action on that one. I sure do like it

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

Ouch.
Yeah. Drop the clutch and roll back, THEN work on the battery cables. He must've not known that track was active and assumed it was a dead line. Easy for me to say, but I wasn't there.

No, he knew it was active. It's obviously an in use track just by looking at it. But any local would know and I am sure that fool is a local. He was looking for his buddies.

[Beach-Burban]

Originally Posted by special-K

That's a good one! If that dark blue is original it's a '69. Grille looks like it, but the chrome on fins may be faded off. Can't quite tell if the hubs are the early or later Spicers

Here is another Suburban for you, K2500! Lone Wolf McQuade

Here's a shot of a GMC Suburban from the 1978 movie "Big Wednesday" that looks real similar to the one used 5 years later in "Lone Wolf McQuade"...same vehicle???

Woody

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by Beach-Burban

Here's a shot of a GMC Suburban from the 1978 movie "Big Wednesday" that looks real similar to the one used 5 years later in "Lone Wolf McQuade"...same vehicle???

Woody

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I would guess so. How many '72 GMC Subs in White/Bue/White were around in Southern Cal then? Must mean the same Transport Captain or Picture Car Coordinator worked both shoots. Or the Suburban owner worked both films, or knew somebody on Production both times.

I wonder if the Blue/White Sub got a Black-and-White Cop paintjob for the Navajo Rez series?
So it's the same rig in all 3 shots...

[Beach-Burban]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

I wonder if the Blue/White Sub got a Black-and-White Cop paintjob for the Navajo Rez series?
So it's the same rig in all 3 shots...

Wow...I didn't think of that possibility? Interesting!!!

Woody

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by Beach-Burban

Wow...I didn't think of that possibility? Interesting!!!

Woody

Yeah. How many '72 GMC K/2500 ''Jimmy XLs'' are still running in Hollywood?

[special-K]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

I would guess so. How many '72 GMC Subs in White/Bue/White were around in Southern Cal then?

And 4wd at that

[blue 72 gmc 4x4]

Originally Posted by Beach-Burban

New TV series coming out "starring" a '72 GMC Suburban 4x4 as the Tribal Police Patrol Vehicle. The interior shot even shows a glimpse of the intact original headliner with bows! *Disclaimer* I am not an expert in identifying exact years of '67 to '72 trucks (especially GMC), but I could see it had a "glue-on" rearview mirror...so? Also...I'm not affiliated with this show, but I might give it a watch just because of the Suburban!!!

Woody

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There was "The dark wind" from 1991. Allegedly this truck was in it.

[body bolt]

Not a movie but the dash of one of our trucks is shown in this video.

[71CHEVYSHORTBED402]

Originally Posted by robreil

Thats easy,

That is SO cool. How'd you do that?

[cbeerman]

The movie "Day Shift" has a 67 in it

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by cbeerman

The movie "Day Shift" has a 67 in it

That is a cool '67 Fleetside.
It's clear to me the truck has a fake ''movie'' plate on the front. It's a car plate: ABC 123. In Cali in that period, all light duty pickups were required to have a commercial license plate [10 566 A] unless they had a camper top or cap on the bed. Also movie plates were a very saturated blue shade to show up better under photographic lighting. They are obvious to the naked eye on the street.
But you'll never notice it in a chase scene clip.

[71CHEVYSHORTBED402]

Sorry if posted already, check out the 72 in the movie Troll. Its "the queen,s favorite".

Here's a video, though it misses the coolest part where it's in a garage. Neat how the tailgate shuts all by itself

Chevrolet C20 Truck 1972 - (Troll 2022)...

[Rods]

My truck on “Better Call Saul” before it was mine

Third pic was after I did a little work to it…..

['68OrangeSunshine]

I like the new color better. Also that you kept the big mirrors.

[Rods]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

I like the new color better. Also that you kept the big mirrors.

It’s actually the same color.

I just buffed it out

PO cut it and I finished it up and painted the the bed to match the rest.

Cool truck with low mileage.

[68bowtie]

I love the factory look

[CAMAROBOY68SS]

Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine

That is a cool '67 Fleetside.
It's clear to me the truck has a fake ''movie'' plate on the front. It's a car plate: ABC 123. In Cali in that period, all light duty pickups were required to have a commercial license plate [10 566 A] unless they had a camper top or cap on the bed. Also movie plates were a very saturated blue shade to show up better under photographic lighting. They are obvious to the naked eye on the street.
But you'll never notice it in a chase scene clip.

Well 67/68 was still black plate as well. My 68 was from Cali originally and still had the original black plates in the commercial format.

Last summer I did some "extra" work for a movie with both of my 68's. On some of the cars they stuck those fake plates on them. Kinda comical because they really stood out in person next to cars with original plates.

[CAMAROBOY68SS]

I know Hallmark has used a few trucks in various movies.
"Return to Christmas Creek" had this truck



There was a new one from this year where they were in a blue/white 69-72 GMC, never got a good shot of the nose.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Originally Posted by CAMAROBOY68SS

Well 67/68 was still black plate as well. My 68 was from Cali originally and still had the original black plates in the commercial format.

Last summer I did some "extra" work for a movie with both of my 68's. On some of the cars they stuck those fake plates on them. Kinda comical because they really stood out in person next to cars with original plates.

Cool. I've done extra work, too. Usually in Westerns.
I was gripping on ''Goats'' a David Duchovny project in 2010, and the DP shot an ECU of the chrome grille of my '71 Jimmy -- panning off right, to focus on the hero car, as they pull up to a ''Mexican cathouse.'' It was shot in Downtown Tucson.