Directed by George Lucas, starring Charles Martin Smith, Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard (add more)
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When Toad is waiting outside of a liquor store asking people if they will buy him a pint of alcohol, he asks one person the time, and the reply is 11:30; however, in the next scene, Curt is sitting on a car parked in front of a TV store watching "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." This show was never on so late at night. [It could have been an old episode in late-night syndication.]
At close examination of Milner's car, you can see it has a dual piston brake master cylinder, with two hydraulic lines coming from it. Dual master cylinders were not used on American cars until 1967. The picture is set in 1962. [The car is heavily modified. It could have parts sourced from overseas or even home-made added to it.]
The black '55 Chevy changes from a 2 door sedan to a 4 door during the car wreck at the end. [The Chevy is a '55 two door "post" model, meaning there is a solid post at the junction of the rear of the door and the front of the side back window. To the non "motorhead" it has the appearance of being the frame of a rear door.]
In the race scene between Milner and Falfa, you can see exhaust smoke coming from Milner's car but in a previous scene the station attendant mentioned Milner taking the header plugs off. By taking the header plugs off, his exhaust is running from the headers and you wouldn't see exhaust coming from the tail pipes. [That's from the tires spinning slightly as they move away from the starting line. Besides, even with the header plugs removed, a reasonable portion of the exhaust would still make it through the total length of the pipes.]
Curt is just graduating from grade 12, and going away to college, but interestingly enough is wearing a wedding ring throughout the movie. [That's not a wedding band - it appears to be a class ring or some other type of insignia ring.]
For most of the film in the traffic scenes, all of the traffic lights are blinking yellow. This is from the roads being used for filming and blocked off from use by the public. [In San Rafael, where a lot of the cruising scenes were filmed, the lights automatically went to flashing yellow at night. ]
In most of the scenes of the old cars, nearly all are using halogen headights. In the time period represented I don't believe there were any halogen headlights. [This contributor is mistaken. Halogen headlights weren't legal in the USA in the early 1970s when this film was made. None of the cars in the film were using halogens.]
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