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A battered Dodge Challenger sat forgotten in an Australian garage for years, its owner unaware of what he had until he saw the same car in a movie trailer. It is a 1971 dressed as a 1970, built to survive one of the most dangerous practical stunts of the 2000s, with reinforced door frames welded on so a stuntwoman could ride the hood. Read on for how it was built, how it was found, and what a screen-used car is really worth.
A 1969 Dodge Charger and a 1970 Dodge Challenger both meet violent ends in this chase sequence from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof — and the comment section has turned into a years-long debate about whether destroying two desirable Mopars for a movie stunt was ever justified. Some viewers point to decades of onscreen Mopar destruction as context; others simply call it the best movie ever made. Watch to see the practical stunt work that still gets muscle car fans arguing nearly two decades later.
From Steve McQueen’s Bullitt in 1968 to John Wick in 2014, the Dodge Charger has been Hollywood’s go-to car for spectacular on-screen destruction, and this compilation pulls together seven of its most memorable on-camera deaths. Along the way it traces how practical stunt work evolved from the golden age of Cannonball and Dirty Mary Crazy Larry through Tarantino’s deliberate throwback in Death Proof. Even the comments can’t agree on which Charger send-off hurts the most. Watch to see which seven films made the cut.