By Jason Apuzzo. For you Bullitt fans out there, The Wall Street Journal has a wonderful piece out today in which jazz writer Marc Myers retraces the path of the car chase from that film – all while driving a 2011 Ford Mustang V6, with original Bullitt stunt driver Loren Janes at his side, and with Lalo Schifrin’s Bullitt soundtrack in the stereo! My goodness, what an afternoon that must’ve been.
The austere cool of Bullitt has never been matched. Could it be matched today? Actually, yes, it could – if people in the industry stopped acting like freaks, and behaved like normal professionals again.
By the way, check out those beads on McQueen! And props to late director Peter Yates, incidentally, for the corduroy jacket above – men should still be wearing those, in my opinion. Enjoy the article.
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 3:43pm.
Wow … what a great feature.
And you’re right about the corduroy jacket: Besides the polo, it’s probably the most operative item in my wardrobe.