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When Toad turns the 58 Impala around to pick up Debbie. She walks past the same Blue Corvair twice. She then steps from the curb to talk to Toad. The Corvair is parked next to the curb. When they switch to the long shot the Corvair has been replaced by a gold coloured Buick. When they drive away the Corvair reappears in its original position. See more...

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During the film the black 55 Chevy driven by Harrison Ford has nice wide chrome wheels, however after the crash scene at the end of the film when the 55 Chevy is upside down, you can clearly see the wheels are now simply standard steel rims spray painted silver. [This is common practice when drag racing back then. They had cruising wheels and drag wheels.]
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When Falfa's Chevy flips over, we can see that it has no fuel tank at all in it. However, in the next shot the fuel tank re-appears and explodes. [Modified cars typically have the "fuel cell" in the trunk and not under the car. This begun in the 1960's darg scene.]
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In the first part of the film, when John Milner is cruising he pulls up next to a car and chat to Zuto. When he sits back in the driver's seat after the conversation, you can see Mackenzie Phillips sitting in the passenger seat facing Milner for a split second before cutting to the next scene. She shouldn't have been there. [Actually, it was only the right ear, and more likely the camera man who shot Milner's view. At first it seems just someone, but upon pausing, the person is sitting sideways with his back against the side of the car.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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. ]
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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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