The movie was on last night, And i did watch the TV show when it was on. But today i cringe when i see the car jumps and imagine how many cars where destroyed while filming.
The estimate is approx 300 we’re destroyed, and about 20 survived. I am familiar with one survivor in the Seattle area. Jim bought the car when Warner Brothers liquidated the fleet. He still owns it as far as I know.
Yeah, I’ve read anywhere from 295-340 or so destroyed. The last season the went to models for the jumps instead of using real cars. Heard at least one J Code car was killed, it was supposed to be rough even before it was used though. Not sure if it was ever verified.
I read/heard they looked at two Daytonas in LA to use when it was getting harder to find cars, same guy owned both and offered them pretty cheap, but they said it was too expensive to cnvert and not worth the effort.
