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Award Four
Best Flight
Con Air (1997)
In what's probably the single most improbable series of events ever depicted in a
Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film (and his films are nothing but improbable series
of events), DEA Agent Duncan Malloy (Colm Meaney) watches his '67 Elkhart Blue
roadster being dragged into the sky behind a C-123 cargo plane. It's not a perfect
sequence (a lot of the computer-graphics work looks like, well, computer
graphics), but for sheer audacity combined with over-the-top ludicrousness, it
may be one of the most memorable scenes in Corvette filmic history.
Bonus points if you notice the early C4 that gets smushed in the finale by the
same C-123. Don't cheat on the scoring! The only person you hurt is yourself.
Award Five
Best Corvette Unrecognizable As A Corvette
Live And Let Die (1973)
The first James Bond movie featuring Roger Moore is filled with Chevrolets, and much of the stunt driving
was actually done by the Chevy-sponsored Joie Chitwood thrill-show team. At first glance, the most
memorable car in the film, however, appears to be a white Cadillac Eldorado dripping in such excessive
ornamentation that it should just sink though the Manhattan Island. But
it's not really an Eldorado at all.
In fact, the white pimpmobile, with its deadly dart-shooting sideview
mirror, is a "Corvorado" which is a C3 under a crust of fiberglass molded to
look like an Eldorado's fenders. The Corvorado was (and presumably still
is) the product of Dunham Coach of Boonton, New Jersey. The Corvette
origins of the car are most obvious in interior shots.
Award Six
Most Dangerous Stunt
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
In films, some stunts look easy and risk-free, and are in fact horribly tough and dangerous. And some
stunts look horribly tough and dangerous and are, in fact, amazingly safe and simple. But in this past
summer's 2 Fast 2 Furious, one C5 roadster was sacrificed in a stunt that was truly tough and dangerous.
After a Saleen Mustang was crushed under a semi's trailer, it was always intended that stunt man Sam
Maloof would plow the C5 into the wreckage along a Florida highway. "What's the worst thing that could
happen?" Stunt Coordinator Artie Malesci says the production team asked themselves. "The worst thing
that could happen was the car would roll over." And in fact that's what happened as the C5, which wasn't
equipped with a rollcage, hit the Mustang and rolled over.
Fortunately, because the stunt team had prepared for the worst, there was a grab strap across the
passenger seat of the car. "He pulled himself down under the dashboard, which is the strongest part of
the car. It was a scary moment, but he's a tough guy too."
So Maloof wasn't injured; but since the stunt hadn't gone as planned, another C5 was prepared to redo it
the next day. Fortunately, when the filmmakers saw the footage, they decided it was so spectacular that
Maloof's near-catastrophe remained in the film.