You'd have to repaint it from this puke green to that diarrhea brown Dennis Weaver's car was. Then you have to come up with the Pete and old-style gasoline tanker trailer, a better script and a Panavision camera, and off you go!
The original was also orange! Dennis Weaver is also no longer with us, sadly. Most importanatly as to the story, cell phones make it totally implausible unless you make it as a period piece back in 1971 again.
1) It's been a few decades since I saw it last, but you're right--it was red, not brown. However, if I remade it, the car'd be brown; 2) A cell phone could be written in, as it took place in the Cali hills, and you could add plot points, as the main character forgot his car charger in his other car, he drops the phone when the truck hits the car, etc.
Well, given that, if he were still alive, he'd be 90 today, it's not that sad. No one lives forever, and he lived to age 81. Nothing wrong with that.
Bumpers, color, year are wrong, but that is OK. Dennis Weaver's only really good roles were as the cop McCloud, in that NBC series that ran in the '70s. He was in Gunsmoke, too, which was good. He came across as such a wuss in Duel. I remember when a '73 Dart in excellent condition was a solid $800 car.
This would've been an $800 car as recent as 10 years ago. I can't believe what people are asking for bread and butter 4 door sedans that were the most common cars on the road.
In that case this $1300 '72 example near Indianapolis would be perfect. A little bit too red but closer to the right color. Right front end pretty much. Just need hubcaps (to lose on every other corner). Not many changes from 70 to 72 but 73 had a different front end and 74-up were different out back due to federal bumper requirements. http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/5055651238.html
Dennis Weaver was especially great as the freaked out motel manager in Orson Welles' A Touch of Evil.
He was supposed to...he was playing a pussy-whipped '70s Californian. He couldn't even complain his coffee had cow's milk in it, for fear of getting his wife's foot up his kazoo.
Have you seen the re-cut of that movie, using the notes Welles made, before he bumped heads with the studio suits? Slight title change--"Touch of Evil," and it can be found on DVD.
I'm going to cry "naughty" on this car being the wimpy underpowered slant 6 car portrayed in the movie. If I'm not mistaken, that small badge on the front fender above the marker light said "V" in the forward dark part and "EIGHT" to the right making this car actually a 318 powered car which in 1970 trim would move along quite nicely and Mr Weaver would have had no problem leaving the evil tank truck in the dust? Jim 68cuda is our MOPAR expert and can maybe confirm my suspicion?
