Unfortunately he original movie car is here in a scrapyard in Wilmington NC where the movie was filmed Skid wrote The blow-up vehicle looked not only like a shell, but a complete mock-up.I'm not sure it was ever a Thunderbird to begin with. I'd like to know what happened to the picture car. The blow-up vehicle looked not only like a shell, but a complete mock-up.I'm not sure it was ever a Thunderbird to begin with. I think the car that got blown up was an empty shell. This is a badass car! Classic T-Bird with a supercharger! Well, considering that we already narrowed it down to specifically 1973. Quote T-Bird's car is a 1973 Ford Thunderbird. In the trivia section of IMDb for the movie it says this: Q-Ball wrote isnt the guy's name T Bird in the movie? Of course only a 1970's T bird would need a supercharger to help propel it thru the streets of Detroit. (making '73 the last year for the 1 piece red lamp lens)

The 1973's were the first year for the 'stand up' hood ornament and 1974 was the first year for the reverse lamp mounted dead center between the tail lamps, which this model does not have. Square chrome details around the headlights make it 1973-76. As the license plate says, it is a Ford Thunderbird.

73 t bird