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jmdocs ◊ 02-08-2005 à 22:13	This is a 1974 Dodge Monaco, and should be five stars...it's got a bigger part than most of the people in the movie!
antp ◊ 02-08-2005 à 22:24	Right
dwd4x4 ◊ 2006-03-01 20:40	Ya, and in the new Blues Brothers 2000 (I don't know why IMCDB doesn't have this movie listed even though it sucked) the Blues Mobile was a Ford Crown Victoria sedan without the brush gards.
modell ◊ 2006-03-05 01:15	It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it runs good on regular gas.
BeanBandit ◊ 2006-03-05 14:45	440 Magnum, the official name of the engine.
antp ◊ 2006-03-11 11:20	More pictures:
Jun ◊ 2006-03-11 14:49	Blues Mobile
explorer4x4 ◊ 2006-04-04 01:27	1974 Dodge Monaco ex-squad police car with 440 package arcording to allpar.com
Rocker B. J. ◊ 2006-04-04 20:24	1974 Dodge Monaco 440 Magnum, Ex Mount Prospect Patrol Car.
modell ◊ 2006-04-27 01:25	The original Bluesmobile was a Caddy as mentioned by Jake in the beginning of the movie. According to the script, it was a 1968 Cadillac Fleetwood- Note: This car was not shown in the movie, so don't add this to the page. -- Last edit: 2006-06-04 16:03:22 (antp)
qwerty_86 ◊ 2006-04-27 05:50	Isn't that the pink Caddy that Murph and the Magictones had?
explorer4x4 ◊ 2006-04-27 05:58	yes,
modell ◊ 2006-04-27 17:48	No, Murph's Caddy is a DeVille. -- Last edit: 2006-04-27 17:51:14
landrover1 ◊ 2006-08-03 22:19	www.bluesmobile.net a site about this car
Nightrider ◊ 2006-09-17 14:57	Are ypu sure that it's a real cop car, not a stock Monaco painted in police colors?
Settpistol ◊ 2006-11-05 06:50	I read that several ex-chicago cars were used,so yes. it was a real cop car,nightrider. I'm curious as to how hard it would be to make a video game which features the bluesmobile as an extra. say,burnout?
qwerty_86 ◊ 2006-11-06 05:54	Well, you can make an add-on mod to include the Bluesmobile into a game. Some car games allow that. But I believe that only applies to PC games. It's a lot harder to make it for console games. Also, I've heard that they also used old CHP cars as the Bluesmobile (and possibly the state troopers and CPD cars). -- Last edit: 2006-11-06 05:55:22
Hecubus ◊ 2006-11-06 06:43	The game Midtown Madness had the Bluesmobile as an add-on (and appropriately enough, the game took place in Chicago).
qwerty_86 ◊ 2006-11-06 06:50	Lol yeah. I have that. It's got weird tuning and handling because the guy who made it is well known for making rally cars. And the proportion seemed a little off.
modell ◊ 2006-11-12 05:13	I have the diecast model
OMENATOR ◊ 2007-01-20 00:56	Wow. What's a graet model, like orginal car in film. What is a scale? Dodge Monaco 1974 it's a huge car. Ford Crown Victoria for years 1992-1998 and 1998-2007 it's a bigger ? -- Last edit: 2007-01-20 01:10:38
modell ◊ 2007-01-20 03:09	It's a 1:18 scale and is heavy as a brick! This is from the same company (Joyride ERTL) that makes the Christine and the Animal House Deathmobile, which I both also own. Joyride models are excellent because they are very detailed as they are quite identical to the real thing. I agree, the 74 Monaco is huge! The doors are so big that the side view mirror is located at the middle of the windowsill! In the movie, half of the band could fit in the car, along with some instruments. (the Ford Bluesmo in BB2000 could fit the entire band, btw!)
carchasesfanatic ◊ 2007-01-20 09:03	I have it too
70mstang ◊ 2007-02-06 10:54	....car's got some pickup
gliffhanger ◊ 2007-02-19 13:09
FamousCars.de ◊ 2007-03-05 23:47	the bad end ...
Ddey65 ◊ 2007-05-31 21:43	gliffhanger wrote Hey, wait. That's a 1979-80 Chrysler Newport. Anyway, somewhere I saw a link that had a few more phony Bluesmobiles.
antp ◊ 2007-06-21 23:54	Comment from J.W. Leggio: Quote I'd like to add our car's pic - and a shameless plug for our show - to your website! It is a 1974 hardbody Dodge Monaco, reworked to look just like the Blues Brothers' legendary BLUESMOBILE, complete with the 440 Mag and all. We've had this hoopty since 2005 and use it on occasion for shows, both locally and at other points, in the U.S. Fact is, we began our live show Briefcase Blues in the spring of 1983 (one year after John B. died), which makes us the longest running BB tribute of which we (or anyone we've met) knows in the ensuing 24 years. Our website (somewhat spare right now, as it is being redone) is www.briefcaseblues.com - have a look at our video there (the opening sequence shows the car, hauling-ass in true BB style). I have also attached 2 pics of the car: one as a stand-alone, one with myself and Lee (Elwood) Schwing. The latter photo was taken only last month,by the original still-photographer from the original BLUES BROTHERS film, Dean Williams - a special honour for mere tribute artists...
captainzackattack ◊ 2007-08-08 04:51	that car is cool, i love old, junked up, ratty, fast, old cars. not very ofton do you find all this in one car.
nubby ◊ 2007-09-29 22:46	One original "Blues mobile" is known to exist, and is owned by the brother-in-law of Dan Aykroyd. -- Last edit: 2007-09-29 22:49:55
Dave Starsky ◊ 2007-12-23 16:24	modell wrote It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it runs good on regular gas. What you say ? Is it the new bluesmobile or what ... You'll fix the cigarette's lighter
dexamyl ◊ 2009-01-01 22:16	The Blues Mobiles were retired C.H.P. ( California Highway Patrol ) 1974 Dodge Monacos , re-painted to replicate the Mount Prospect colour scheme . The 1974-1976 Monacos / Royal Monacos which were marked as Chicago Police and Illinois Police were actually from their respective departments . Purpotedly , " Mr. Norms [sic] Grand Spaulding Dodge " in Chicago was the dealership which tuned the Chicago P.D. cars when they were new .
Ghostsoldier ◊ 2009-03-31 22:33	The following is verbatim from Chicago-Sun Times, published on June 23, 2005: Filmmakers flew in 40 stunt drivers every weekend. They used 13 different Bluesmobiles, including five for filming John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as they portrayed Jake and Elwood Blues driving about town. Two other cars were built specifically for speed while another three had one-gallon gas tanks and were used for jumps, said Jerram Swartz, an assistant director who oversaw the fleet. Yet another was rigged to fall apart with the pull of a lever, used for just one scene: when the Blues Brothers finally arrive at the Cook County Building after a long chase. First assistant director David Sosna remembers it took a mechanic several months to rig the car up. "That is a very expensive gag,'' he said. To pursue the Blues Brothers, filmmakers bought more than 60 old police cars at $400 apiece, according to news reports at the time, and also hired real police to participate in some chases. They reinforced them with steel cages and ran a 24-hour body shop on the Near West Side to fix them for later use. Most of those cars were destroyed by the end of filming. Two hundred police and production assistants manned nearly every conceivable entrance to Lower Wacker for a famous chase in the bowels of the city. At Monroe, the Bluesmobile races up an exit ramp and vaults a squad car in what Landis called his "favorite stunt.'' Landis wanted the driver to take out the Mars lights on top of the police car, but the driver could only guarantee he could clear the cop car. But after Belushi and Aykroyd each offered him $1,000, his car ended up clipping the Mars lights. Filmmakers actually got permission to drive down Lake -- between trestles supporting the L, no less -- at more than 100 mph. After Landis shot the sequence he realized it looked as if he simply speeded up the film. So he reshot it with stunt pedestrians on the sidewalks so viewers could tell the drivers were, indeed, going that fast. At La Salle, near what is now the James R. Thompson Center, they staged a pile-up of grand proportions, with more than 10 cars careening into one another. They drilled holes in the street to install a pipe ramp, technology developed in Australia that had never been used in a major motion picture before, Landis said. The pipe flips a car if it's struck correctly. The crash is over the top: police cars enter the frame already upside down, turning sideways, you name it. "We were just seeing how wacky you can be,'' Landis said. The pileup so impressed Ebert that he wrote it "has to be seen to be believed. I've never seen stunt coordination like this before.'' Another memorable pileup took place off the side of these roads in Wauconda. More than 50 police cars were involved in the chase. More than 10 cars go flying off the road and into a median. Filmmakers dug a ditch immediately off the side of the road so the cars would flip as they hit it, Sosna recalls. For one shot, a squad car sails into a moving truck. To do that, a stunt driver drove the car off a 150-foot-long ramp that crossed the highway. The truck, driving at 15 mph, was equipped with special break-away sides. Even with all the stunts, there were only a few minor injuries throughout filming. That "we got away that lightly, I would say is miraculous,'' Aykroyd said. "God was on our side.'' Also, from an interview with Dan Aykroyd: "The major expense of Blues Brothers was not the seventy police cars we bought from the Chicago Police Department. We paid only $700 each for them. the major expense was labor, so that's good, it gets people working, and why shouldn't the profits of the megacorporations be reinvested in the trades of this industry? If I write a big show and it costs a lot of money, I make no apologies." -- Last edit: 2009-03-31 22:45:55
Mycroft ◊ 2009-10-07 08:59	In the novelization of the movie (yes there was one), the original Bluesmobile was a "battered blue 1958 Cadillac with manta-ray fins". Later in the novel, the new Bluesmobile was a Plymouth Gran Fury instead of the Dodge Monaco from the movie. There is a fan book that was published in 1980 by Black Rhino enterprises called "Blues Brothers Private". This book lists the original Bluesmobile as a black 1968 Cadillac. The book also has the bill of sale for the later Bluesmobile (Dodge Monaco) listing the MOTOR NUMBER as IC2C271580 and Factory number 608972. It also lists the winning bid as $800. This is all a bit over the top... I know. -- Last edit: 2009-10-18 08:18:49

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