Talk:Bluesmobile

Electric Generator / Electric Substation
I have seen the extended edition of the film and the compartment in which Elwood parks the bluesmobile is not an electric generator. Instead, it appears to be an electric substation and/or VAr compensator station. I have updated the article to reflect this, although I did not mention the VAr compensator bit in the article itself as I feel this is overly technical for the article, and many electric substations include VAr compensation capacity.

--DrDeke 04:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

The Bluesmobile Gets Charged?
As I mentioned in the previous section, I have watched the original and extended editions of the Blues Brothers many times. I do not recall hearing Elwood claim that the Bluesmobile gets charged from the substation (or generator) in either version of the film. If you know of a version of the film in which this is mentioned, could you please provide details? Alternatively, if this was mentioned by "Elwood" outside of the film itself, please update the article text to reflect this. I will give it a couple of weeks and remove the text from the article if no objections are made.

--DrDeke 04:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

How the car gets charged....
I just recently purchased the 25th aniversary edition of "The Blues Brothers". In the documentaries "Stories Behind the Making of "The Blues Brothers" (specifically chapter 8 of said documentary on the DVD) John Landis and Dan Akroyd details. Akroyd wanted to explain things, rationalizing it, while Landis said it was a "magic car."  Akroyd explains that they parked the vehicle in the transformer room which gave the vehicle its special powers and the scene was filmed, but cut out of the theatrical release.  It is restored for the extended version in the 25th aniversary edition.


 * Ahh, interesting. I have seen the scene in the 25th anniversary edition where they park the car in the transformer room, but I haven't yet watched the documentary. I'll have to do so; I didn't realize it was included on the DVD :). --DrDeke 16:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

apocrypha
I can't substantiate it, but I saw an interview with Landis in which he claims to have not gotten the proper permits for the 120 mph chase; that is, city officials allowed the filming, but had no idea that the car would actually be travelling at 120mph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dagnabbitt (talk • contribs)
 * What interview? I'm interested to know so we can possibly view it ourselves.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * There's an interview with Landis on the documentary that's included with the 1998 Collector's Edition DVD of The Blues Brothers and on the 25th anniversary DVD. I don't recall the 120-mph mark being mentioned, but Landis does say that speeds were in excess of 100mph. He had one such scene on a Chicago street reshot so that pedestrians could be seen walking at normal speed, so audiences wouldn't think he just sped the film up to make the cars look like they were going fast. – WiseKwai  |  Talk  |  Contribs  03:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes, okay. I have that DVD myself, and I'll give it a watch again when I get a chance.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:03, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

About the Second Bluesmobile
I've inserted the second Bluesmobile part. I believe it's important to give as many informations as possible, because anyone who wants to inform about it has the right to have it. I cannot consider them "irrilevant" because informations about this car are sometimes very hard to find on the web, and this was the first article where all these were put all together. Nobody has to search for the second Bluesmobile on Google or anything else when there is the chance to find all about in one article, and I think it's the purpose of Wikipedia to give a complete view for any argument. Thanks, Funzi159. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Funzi159 (talk • contribs) 23:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

The Lighter
The lighter does work, Jake lights his first cigarette out of jail with it, then he tosses it out the window in defiance of being picked up from jail in a cop car.

After Elwood convinces him it's a decent car, he says "fix the lighter" - because he threw it out.

Technically, though, the lighter was never broken.

143.199.125.10 (talk) 19:07, 22 April 2015 (UTC) Nope, he didn't light the cig, he used his zippo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.13.84.200 (talk) 01:58, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

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The Original Bluesmobile
According to the book "Blues Brothers: Private", the original Bluesmobile (which Elwood Blues traded for a microphone) was a 1968 Cadillac Fleetwood black 4-door sedan, license plate SP2-153. The front right fender was damaged an held together with tape.

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Chase and crash scenes section
A list of cars by make and model and law enforcement insignia  keeps being added by a series of IP accounts. We need a WP:RS for this kind of detail. Otherwise it is WP:OR. - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:20, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

1974 Dodge Monaco (not 75)
According to our sources cited in the article, the original was indeed a 1974 model. Some people have used 1975 models to build replicas, e.g. "Koles found a 1975 Dodge Monaco in Nebraska in 2011 and set about converting the car into an outwardly exact replica of the '74 Monaco featured in the film" but they should not be confused with the original. - LuckyLouie (talk) 16:58, 1 July 2022 (UTC)