The Bullitt chase recreated
Motive mag is an automotive website with cool articles, fresh news and an excellent graphic design. Actually that’s the first thing that came to my mind when I went there. It’s a nice change compared to some of the most popular car websites… you know which ones I’m talking about.
One of their guys, Jay Lamm, went up to San Francisco with a 2008 Bullitt Mustang to recreate the chase, and tells you all about it, with maps, pictures and witty words.
“In “Bullitt,” every vista showed a traffic-free hairpin or long lonely straight, as if San Francisco was like Spa with a few extra bagel shops. In reality, this city is a muscle-car driver’s Sodom: A rat’s-nest of one-way alleys and narrow streets clogged with tour buses, blind hills, double-parked taxis, kamikaze meter maids, and the stoniest, most confounded, hill-stallin’-est, Beetle-shod locals this side of Missoula.
Worse yet, the movie’s chase route is hardly contiguous — it covers a half-dozen neighborhoods and hundreds of backgrounds, some of which aren’t even there anymore. The old car wash near Army Street where the whole sequence started? That’s a McDonald’s now.”
You know you want to read the whole thing now. It’s right
here!
