1970 Ford Mustang
1970 Ford Mustang in The Omega Man, Movie, 1971
Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: 
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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2005-08-02 01:16 |
1970 Mustang |
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explorer4x4 ◊ 2006-10-27 18:18 |
GT? |
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◊ 2009-10-07 16:36 |
I have not seen the whole movie but i know that this car shoud onely have 3 stars it was onely used in a action scene in the begining of the movie |
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◊ 2011-01-02 12:40 |
Agree |
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◊ 2011-01-02 12:43 |
![[Image: vlcsnap2011010211h04m42.7291.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is695/vlcsnap2011010211h04m42.7291.jpg) ![[Image: vlcsnap2011010211h08m29.4329.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is403/vlcsnap2011010211h08m29.4329.jpg) |
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◊ 2014-01-21 18:45 |
Strange that he took it from a showroom, yet it has license plates. |
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◊ 2015-05-03 19:39 |
There was no 1970 Mustang GT. If this had a 351, it would have a badge on each fender. All we can really tell from these pics is that it has the optional "Sport Wheel Covers" commonly seen on Mach 1s. Boss 302s had similar covers, but in 15-inch diameters (only Boss Mustangs - 302 and 429 - came with 15-inch wheels for 1970). |
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◊ 2025-01-06 09:57 |
I went back and rewatched the relevant footage a 1080p. There are TWO badges on both of the front fenders of the blue Mustang. Double-banked, and the top one is clearly “Mustang” in script. The one below it looks like a thin rectangle the exact width of the Mustang badge. It’s almost certainly a “351” badge. I checked against a clear photo of a vanilla 1970 Mustang 302. Definitely not the same cars, so has to be a 351. This would fit with typical “fleet” set dressing of automobiles from mostly one manufacturer, usually through a bulk deal. Many of the cars are 1970 Fords, and the film was released in 1971. Are these all floor-room leftovers from various L.A. area Ford dealers? Probably. 351 convertibles would have been not uncommon. IIRC, California dealer plates in those days had “dealers plates” on new models for sale, including registration tags. That’s what I noticed, is that he drove a new car out through a dealership window (without puncturing any tires) and the car already had tags on the plates. Plus adding gas and a new battery would’t have started the car. The original gas would have turned to varnish. It’s a little more complicated in actuality. Unfortunately, this economy production left a pretty sizable plot hole. The plague can have happened no earlier than March of 1975 (the date on the nudie poster in the car showroom). Yet this once-posh downtown Ford showroom is stocked with “new”cars that would have been five years old in 1975. |
