“You also need to find someone who’s got a car that’s solid enough to drive like a teenager, just completely irresponsibly: jam the transmission through all the gears, reverse hard, downshift. That sounds correct,’ but it might be a little bit more monstrous and large than the actual car from the early ’70s was.” It’s not just about finding someone who has a beast of an engine, Brown adds. It’s got a V8 in it, but a really souped-up racing engine so when it first comes off of that elevator and gurgles and burbles and boils through the room, the sound just fills up the room and any car aficionado is gonna be like, ‘Yeah, that is a big, beefy V8. So for the case of Dom’s Dodge Daytona, I found a guy who buys retired NASCAR cars and refurbishes them and then, I think, he uses them for folks who want to go out and actually have a day at the track and drive around. We talk to him and figure out what the cars are in and of themselves: Are they a V8? Are they are a four-cylinder Japanese motor? What is the reality of the engine? Then once we have a list of those, I go out and try to find who it is in Southern California or the world who has the greatest example of that particular engine. “We start out with an intense research project working with Dennis McCarthy, the guy who finds the cars and builds all the cars like the flip car or tank that don’t really exist in the real world. “We can’t just take the sound of the greatest car ever recorded and throw it in for what you see onscreen,” he says. To please the film’s car aficionado fans, Brown had to make the cars sound bigger than life - but still accurate.
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