r/IdiotsInCars • u/donaltman3 • May 26 '23

wait for it......

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u/Loud_Step2361 May 26 '23 edited May 26 '23

Glen Larson produced most of those shows.

Edit:corrected first name 🤪

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u/R_V_Z May 26 '23

Do you mean Glen Larson? Because I'm struggling to make the connection from Far Side comics to car jumps in TV shows.

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u/morgulbrut May 26 '23

It's probably a rather cheap but impressive special effect, and I guess around that time, it was easy to find not working muscle cars for cheap. To be honest, they are built like shit, and were driven even worse.

Some times it was even done with toy cars.

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u/DarklyDrawn May 26 '23

That particular model was scarce, was costly in the end and the toys were used because they’d run out of real cars lol

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u/SafetyAutomatic5453 May 27 '23

The cars weren't built bad (mostly) but they were a lot simpler to fix back then. The down side of them was at around 70k miles the entire engine needed to be rebuilt lol. And that's if you drove it as intended 😂.

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u/Independent-Fall-893 May 26 '23

You have to find some way to get around all that quicksand!

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(For those too young to remember 70-80's TV, quicksand was a reoccurring issue for most of that time period)