Four MOVIE Bluesmobiles in one picture ?

[Steam McQueen]

- Quite a pic of one of the Pinto tests flying off the unfinished ramp in Milwaukee ...





Does it look like as many as four Bluesmobiles here?

Milwaukee's close-up is the brief bit on the bridge — specifically, the stub end of eastbound I-794 just before the lakefront, a long-unfinished link to the never-built north extension of the Lake Freeway.

Filming was supposed to take place in one day. The Journal's Ron Elving reported in a front-page story Aug. 28 that he spotted Belushi in full Blues Brothers regalia — rumpled black suit, skinny tie, black hat, white shirt — and saw Aykroyd pull up in a black Cadillac with Illinois plates. Henry Gibson, the former "Laugh-In" star who played the head Illinois Nazi in the movie, also was seen.

"By 11 a.m., a small crowd of onlookers encircled the filming area," Elving reported. It wasn't until 12:20 p.m., the Sentinel reported, that cameras began to roll.

"An orange compact car, with a dummy propped in the driver's seat, came hurtling down the East-West Freeway, taking the exit that no man had dared to take before — at least at that speed," the Sentinel wrote. "The car with the dummy driver was attached to the side of a second car. At the right moment, the dummy car was released and in a screech of tires, hit a gravel ramp at an angle, flying off one side of the expressway stub."

Landis wasn't happy with the results.

- www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2016/08/23/our-back-pages-when-blues-brothers-crashed-milwaukee/89084288/

I made a vid about that filming location, nothin' fancy, fan-made not for profit ...





I wonder if those Bluesmobiles wound up in a Milwaukee wrecking yard back then? The one they jumped over the Pinto would have had a 440 and roll bars. I wonder how many other pics they got in their archives? I'll take a look around for some.

This one came from Tony Donno, son of Eddy Donno (Jake's double) ...

[Steam McQueen]

- Found a bigger pic ...





I think there's 4 Bluesmobiles here. Can only see the roof of the one behind the white wagon but I'd say safe bet it's a Blumo. Is that a Nazi wagon beside it? Seems bigger than a Pinto, there's several different wagons in this pic. And another Pinto on the other side of the cube van!





Pretty easy to use four Bluesmobiles for that sequence, I reckon. One for the exterior shots of smashing the barricades and sliding to the edge. One for interior shots. One for the first portion of the back-flip, and one to jump over the Pinto. I'm not sure how many Pinto's they sent off the edge, I recall reading or seeing somewhere that they were having problems getting that shot right.

[Steam McQueen]

^ Here's the BIG version of that pic 3200 x 1680 ...





Absolutely guaranteed there's four Bluesmobiles in the pic. Two to the right of the ambulance and two to the left of the moving truck. There might even be another under the bridge ? This is all in Milwaukee as they filmed the back-flip and jump over the Pinto, and subsequent launch off the unfinished ramp by the Pinto.

Here's a cool pic of the Bluesmobile jumping the Pinto, I'm not sure if we've ever posted this one here ?





- www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-blues-brothers-bluesmobile-1980-universalcourtesy-everett-collection-127639514.html

The smoke machines were working hard .





An incredible 3 minutes of cinema !