"Blue Thunder (helicopter) Blue Thunder is the helicopter in the 1980s American titular film and television series. The aircraft itself was a modified Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter. To film ""Blue Thunder"", the producers employed two examples of the French-made Aérospatiale SA-341G Gazelle light utility helicopter, serial numbers 1066 and 1075, both built in 1973. After the film was made, both helicopters were sold to Michael E. Grube, an aviation salvage collector in Clovis, New Mexico. Sometime after, around 1985, one of the helicopters had a small role in the pilot episode of MacGyver, which featured the helicopter in a different paint"
"Blue Thunder (truck) Blue Thunder is a monster truck that races in the USHRA Monster Jam series. It was originally sponsored by the truck division of Ford Motor Company and Live Nation. The truck has several similarities with the monster truck Bigfoot. Some fans saw Blue Thunder as a replacement for Bigfoot in the Monster Jam series. The truck has been moderately successful and won several major events during its existence. However, it has not yet won a championship. Blue Thunder was used by Ford Motor Company for promotional purposes along with competition. The truck is currently driven by Matt"
"earlier vehicle. Blue Thunder (truck) Blue Thunder is a monster truck that races in the USHRA Monster Jam series. It was originally sponsored by the truck division of Ford Motor Company and Live Nation. The truck has several similarities with the monster truck Bigfoot. Some fans saw Blue Thunder as a replacement for Bigfoot in the Monster Jam series. The truck has been moderately successful and won several major events during its existence. However, it has not yet won a championship. Blue Thunder was used by Ford Motor Company for promotional purposes along with competition. The truck is currently driven"
"Blue Thunder. The drive line consists of a Merlin 540ci blown & injected engine with a Dedenbear two speed automatic transmission. This setup has caused some controversy, as Merlin engines are based on the Big Block Chevrolet. The tires on Blue Thunder are 66"" Goodyear Terra Tires. Construction of two trucks with the ""Blue Thunder"" name were completed. The debut of Blue Thunder was January 6, 2001, at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. Since its debut, it has placed in the finals every year. It performs at more than 20 events per year and is displayed at various promotional"
"It was wrecked and repaired several times, and its current whereabouts are unknown. A fan created a red Tiger/Alpine with a machine gun in 2002. In the black-and-white pilot episode only, Smart drives a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT PF Spider Cabriolet. In the opening credits, the Tiger was used for seasons 1–2. In seasons 3-4, Smart drives a light blue Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, because Volkswagen had become a sponsor of the show. The Volkswagen was never used in the body of the show. In season 5 (1969–1970), Buick became a show sponsor, so the Tiger was replaced with a gold"
"duty weapons at that time. In the pilot TV movie, Hunter drove a junker blue 1977 Dodge Monaco and a junker 1970 Ford LTD. Because Hunter constantly was getting into wrecks chasing bad guys and regularly ""busted"" up any cop car he was given, supposedly the department would only let him drive the complete junkers that would barely run. Once the series started (fall 1984), during the first season, Hunter drove a junker 1972 Chevrolet Impala, a junker 1971 Chevrolet Nova, an old 1974 Plymouth Satellite, and a junker 1979 Chevrolet Caprice Classic. A 1971 Impala was actually shown exploding"
"he brought an ex-works March 82G Chevrolet, scoring his first podium finish with a third, and then another at the Mid-Ohio 6 Hours. In 1984, after driving for a variety of teams in the previous seasons, including a 2nd at the 24 Hours of Daytona, he formed his own team, Blue Thunder Racing, with Bill Whittington and crew chief Keith Leyton consisting of two March GTPs regardless of cost. Earlier in the season, Whittington led the season, allowing Lanier to take over after the Charlotte 500 km. With help of Whittington, who taught Lanier how to set up the car"
"the ""Blue Train Bentleys""; the latter is regularly mistaken for, or erroneously referred to as being, the car that raced the Blue Train, while in fact Barnato named it in memory of his race. A painting by Terence Cuneo depicts the Gurney Nutting coupé racing along a road parallel to the Blue Train, which scenario never occurred as the road and railway did not follow the same route. The original model was the three-litre, but as customers put heavier bodies on the chassis, a larger 4½-litre model followed. Perhaps the most iconic model of the period is the 4½-litre ""Blower"
"Edward the Blue Engine Edward the Blue Engine is an anthropomorphic steam locomotive from ""The Railway Series"" children's books by the Rev W. Awdry, and the related TV Series ""Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends"". He is a blue 4-4-0 tender engine with red lining out, about the same size as James the Red Engine, and has the number 2 on his tender. Also like James, he is a mixed traffic engine, meaning that he is designed to pull both freight and passenger services. He is one of the principal characters in both the books and the television series. Edward"
"of the bonnet. Research efforts by Bruce and Jolene McCaw of Medina, Washington, who bought the Gurney Nutting-built ""Blue Train Special"", have further exposed and widely publicised the mistake. The original H. J. Mulliner ""Blue Train Bentley"" bodywork was also reconstructed, and both cars have been fully restored. They are both currently owned by the McCaws. The Top Gear television series presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May regularly features various long-distance, ""epic"", races where Clarkson or one of the other presenters drives a car against other forms of transport. During 2004 (in a programme aired 9 May"
"cars used on the series, mostly in the first season; they had light bars and working radios. A 1972 Dodge Polara and a 1974 Dodge Monaco were used during the pilot episode ""One Armed Bandits"", these were also seen in the show's title sequence. From the second season, the 1977 Dodge Monaco was mostly used. From mid-season four the similar looking 1978 Plymouth Fury was used instead. The Matadors and Furies were former Los Angeles Police Department vehicles, while the Monacos were former California Highway Patrol units. A 1974 Plymouth Road Runner (yellow with a black stripe) was Daisy Duke's"
"Bounty Hunter"" in the local paper. She has had cars repossessed, stolen, stripped, wrecked, crushed by burning garbage trucks, and smashed into little cubes. Over time, she has had to resort to a truck with a bad radiator, a mismatch of two cars called a Rollswagen, and a series of other clunkers. Ranger often supplies her with a high-end SUV or sports car, but these fare no better than her other vehicles. To her regret, Stephanie is often forced to resort to her Great-Uncle Sandor's seemingly indestructible, powder blue 1953 Buick Roadmaster, aka ""Big Blue"", that now belongs to Grandma"
"the car drives down a highway engulfed in flames. Although the car in the film is identified as a 1958 Plymouth Fury—and in 1983 radio ads promoting the film, voiceover artists announced, ""she's a '57 Fury""—two other Plymouth models, the Belvedere and the Savoy, were also used to portray the malevolent automobile onscreen. John Carpenter placed ads throughout Southern California searching for models of the car, and was able to purchase twenty-four of them in various states of disrepair, which were used to build a total of seventeen copies of the film car. All cars were two door hardtops. Total"
"cable to the antagonist's aircraft tail. Once attached, the Coast Guard helicopter is able to drag the Cessna 172 away. An Aérospatiale SA341G Gazelle played a role in the 1982 telemovie ""Deadly Encounter"" starring Larry Hagman. A heavily modified Gazelle was the centerpiece of the 1983 John Badham action film ""Blue Thunder"". The same helicopter appeared in the short-lived 1984 TV series by the same name starring James Farentino. The modified Gazelle went on to be used in the TV mini-series ""Amerika"". A modified Gazelle was used as a light attack helicopter in the 1988 Sylvester Stallone film, ""Rambo III""."
"in early episodes the studio cars had twin 2-lamp revolving roof-mounted red lights or 2 roof-mounted forward steady-burning red lights on opposite sides of the center 4-lamp revolving red light, while authentic marked SFPD black-and-white radio car roof-mounted emergency lights had one forward steady-burning red light and one rear-facing flashing amber light on opposite sides of the center 4-lamp revolving red light. The series was sponsored by Ford Motor Company, and half of the vehicles shown were new Ford cars. In the early episodes, Keller and Stone drive a brown 1971 Ford Galaxie 4 door sedan and the entire SFPD"
"Bluebirds scrapped in 1957. Bluebird Compartment Car (New York City Subway car) The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), was an advanced design PCC subway and elevated railway car built by the Clark Equipment Company from 1938 to 1940 and used on the New York City Subway system from 1939 to 1957. The articulated unit, long, wide and high, consisted of three compartments placed on four trucks, connected by fully enclosed, hinged passageways. The Bluebird was an example of Art Deco industrial design, presenting a clean and mildly streamlined appearance. The Bluebird was"
"when Bond managed to shake off the pursuing car and cause it to overshoot a cliff and plough into the roof of a barn. A blue 1948 model Taunus was driven by Steve Forrest in the very first episode of the 1965 TV series ""The Baron"". A 1979 Ford Taunus is a main feature of the Swedish television show ""Byhåla"". Modified Taunus TCs are used as the Omega forces patrol vehicles in the Italian film ""Warrior of the Lost World"". On the TV show ""The Big Bang Theory"" (Season 2, Episode 5, ""The Euclid Alternative""), Sheldon uses the computer as"
"bus which transformed into a pontoon boat. Occasionally vehicles were modified so as to hide non-vehicular functions, such as a police car which doubled as a donut shop (built by a team of cops), or a Toyota Tundra which was modified so as to allow it to discharge a motorcycle at high speeds. Build teams who successfully completed their assignment were rewarded with expensive tool kits. According to the show, the rules were as follows: In practice, as the series progressed, some liberties were taken with the first two rules, at times becoming punchlines. In one episode, when a Chevrolet"
"""NORDOC-NATO armor."" Blue Thunder had a chin turret with an electric six-barrel Gatling gun capable of a rate of fire of 4,000 rounds per minute. Surveillance used twin cheek-mounted Nitesun spotlights, infrared thermograph, and airborne TV camera with 100:1 zoom and night-vision capability. The cameras fed videotape, with a locker in the belly of the aircraft. External audio pickups were capable of hearing ""a mouse fart at two thousand feet"". A ""whisper mode"" granted her the ability to operate in silence. ""Blue Thunder""s cannon was controlled by a Harrison helmet in conjunction with a ""Harrison Fire Control System"" (which is"
"crime wave after another. The weapon used by this task force is a grey assault vehicle known as ""The Defender"" that masquerades as a Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster (and later, the Viper GTS coupe). The series takes place in ""the near future"". The primary brand of vehicles driven in the show were Chrysler or subsidiary companies. The series ran on NBC for one season in 1994 before being revived two years later for three more seasons of first-run syndication. Reruns of the series have appeared on Sci-Fi Channel and USA Network. The Viper Defender ""star car"" was designed by Chrysler"
"(voiced by Bob Golding in the UK and the US) is a navy blue diesel who can always be a bit forgetful and always starts work at one place only to end up at another. Four new characters were introduced in ""Blue Mountain Mystery"". Luke (voiced by Michael Legge in the UK and the US) is an apple green narrow gauge engine, who was introduced in Blue Mountain Mystery. Winston (voiced by Matt Wilkinson in the UK and the US) is a red track inspection vehicle, who first appeared in Series 16, but introduced officially in Blue Mountain Mystery. Owen"
"escape of a violent criminal, a train derailment, or other imminent catastrophe. In the first two seasons the series received technical assistance from the California Highway Patrol. The patrol cars in early episodes are actual CHP vehicles with the show's car door emblem covering the CHP emblem (sometimes a real CHP star is briefly visible). For instance, the 1955 Buick Century two-door patrol car seen in early episodes was built exclusively for CHP. Eventually the California Highway Patrol dropped its support, reportedly dissatisfied with how the show had evolved. At that point the show had to create its own patrol"
"air horn installations. The car featured was a Ford Crown Victoria outfitted with a low tone horn and a high pitched horn known as the PsychoBlaster. These episodes quickly become viral videos and drove tremendous traffic to HornBlasters. The unanticipated popularity of the series drove HornBlasters to create another, more powerful, train horn car. The ""Terror on the Streets"" Marauder was created. A Mercury Marauder was chosen for the project. This new car was outfitted with three horns, multiple higher pitch PsychoBlaster horns and a complete FHP Police outfit. With this new car in hand the series took a slightly"
"Thunder Machine (G.I. Joe) The Thunder Machine is a fictional, four wheeled, armored, weaponized vehicle used by the Dreadnoks, a biker gang/mercenary group in the comic books and cartoon series. The Dreadnoks work for Cobra, the primary enemy for G.I. Joe. The vehicle was created and driven by Thrasher, one of the newer members of the Dreadnoks. The fiction describes it as cobbled together from parts salvaged from several different vehicles, including a 1980s model Pontiac Trans-Am, a dune buggy, a pickup truck and various others. The Thunder Machine is propelled by a jet engine similar to jet-propelled dragsters. This"
"laps during the race. Calhoun drives a two-tone 1957 Chevrolet, with a blue body and white top, while his friend-turned-competitor ""Les York"" is in a 1959 Oldsmobile. The film is a ""B"" grade production in terms of budget but ""Thunder In Carolina"" managed to capture much of the sound and fury of the era. The film was later marketed on home video as ""Hard Drivin'"" with a freeze-frame title spliced into the opening. A stock-car veteran (Rory Calhoun) teaches a grease monkey to race in the Southern 500 in Darlington, S.C. Quentin Tarantino is a fan of the film. Thunder"
"LTD Crown Victoria, used in the 1998 sequel, ""Blues Brothers 2000"". In the film, Elwood purchases the car from Malvern Gasperon's yard in Chicago for $500. The car was equipped with a 190 hp 351 cubic inch engine, 4-speed automatic transmission and full optional Police Package including front bullbar, canine cage insert, and Appleton spotlights. Livery is a classic ""Black & White"" paint theme common to many American police departments; in this case, very similar to the California Highway Patrol's K-9 unit, with ""safety and service"" motto on the fenders. ""Blues Brothers 2000"" sought to outdo the original by including"
"The original commercial vehicle is seen fighting the blaze in the episode ""City of Fire"". Only one model has ever been produced of the Fire Tender which was made by the Japanese company, Takara, as part of their 1/144 scaled ""Thunderbird 2"" line of models. The Red and Black Truck is a HGV style front truck section vehicle with single front wheels and double back wheels. It can be seen in the pod vehicle bay in the episode ""Cry Wolf"". Its use is, presumably, to transport or tow materials around danger zones - or within the pod vehicle bay -"
"to end the episodes using Chevrolets. Monacos seemed to be the cop car of choice, as the second season had Hunter occasionally driving a junker multiple-colored side panel 1977 Monaco (jokingly referred to as the ""Partridge Family"" Monaco), as well as other '77 models in yellow, brown, and black. After the show was more ""established"" and starting with the third season and through the first episode of seventh season, Hunter drove a moss green 1977 Monaco. This car was in better condition than the previous Monacos and became Hunter's trademark vehicle — to the point that when it was destroyed"
"car in the first five episodes of the first season. For the last episodes of the first season a similarly painted 1971 model with a matching ""Road Runner"" stripe was used. In the second season Bo and Luke send it off a cliff in ""The Runaway"". Another identical Plymouth 1971 model car appeared in the background a few more episodes along with the Jeep CJ-7 until it was finally dropped altogether. Dixie was the name given to Daisy Duke's white 1980 Jeep CJ-7 ""Golden Eagle"" which had a golden eagle emblem on the hood and the name ""Dixie"" on the"
"Dallas, ""It's a great city to jump on the hood of a car."" Initially, the protagonists' mode of transportation is a mid-nineties Chevrolet Lumina, but during the course of the first episode, Dan Stark acquires a 1980 Pontiac Trans Am and uses it to great dramatic effect during the rescue of a hostage. By the end of the pilot episode, the new car has won the grudging respect of the uptight Bailey, and become the team's new vehicle. After the Lumina gets totaled in ""Bait & Switch"", it is replaced with a mid-2000s Ford Taurus, but Dan and Jack rarely"
"and a 1932 Chevy Roadster and Panel Truck. Examples: 1932 Chrysler Roadster and LeBaron Imperial; 1927 Lincoln Roadster and 1928 Lincoln Phaeton; and a 1914 Stutz Bearcat (which came with a vacuum-formed display base). Examples: 1925 Ford Model T roadster; 1927 Ford Model T coach or cab; 1932 Ford roadster or coupe, and the Ford Tudor Sedan or Phaeton. Examples are Hogan's Heroes Jeep, 'The Sweathogs Dream Machine' featuring John Travolta from Welcome Back Kotter, The Monkees GTO Monkeemobile and 'The Fonz Dreamrod' from Happy Days (a simple reworking of the Monkeemobile); Barnabas's Vampire Van from Dark Shadows, The Fall"
"Thunderbird 2 pod vehicles ""Thunderbird 2"", a fictional heavy-duty transporter aircraft depicted in the 1960s television series ""Thunderbirds"", is designed to carry specialised rescue vehicles and equipment to disaster sites in one of six interchangeable pods. The pod vehicles, also known as secondary vehicles, were stored within the aircraft's cavernous hangar (as seen in the episode ""Cry Wolf"") or kept on standby within the pods themselves. The only pod never used to contain equipment is Pod 2 (though it was used to transport a boy back home in ""Security Hazard""), and the most common pods used are 3 and 5."
"Panthermobile (show car) The Panthermobile is a show car built for the cartoon TV series ""The Pink Panther Show"". Called “the world’s most flamboyant vehicle”, the bright pink custom car was built in 1969 at Bob Reisner California Show Cars by Ed ""Newt"" Newton, TV personality Dan Woods, and customizers Joe Bailon, Bill ""The Leadslinger"" Hines, and Bill Honda. It was used in the title and credit sequences of the original cartoon. It was one of several famous television show cars of the era, including the original ""Batmobile"", the ""Monkeemobile"", and the ""Munster Koach"", and one of many radical contemporary"