Dan Aykroyd has starred in a lot of films that includes some fairly iconic props, and it seems that he truly stored one in all them. Weirdly, he didn’t take dwelling Ray Stantz’s proton pack from Ghostbusters, or his latex Coneheads scalp, and even the black leather-based bondage ensemble from Exit to Eden. However he did drive away with one of many automobiles from The Blues Brothers.
Probably the most well-known automobile in The Blues Brothers was, in fact, the Bluesmobile, Elwood and Jake’s decommissioned Mount Prospect police automobile. Technically, there have been a number of Bluesmobiles in The Blues Brothers — 13 different Dodge Monacos have been used within the stunt-heavy manufacturing, however solely 5 of them housed Aykroyd and John Belushi. They have been initially California Highway Patrol automobiles, repainted to resemble black and white Mount Prospect automobiles.
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The Blues Brothers filmmakers additionally purchased 60 outdated cop automobiles for the harmful chase sequences. Because the automobiles needed to be reused in a number of scenes, the manufacturing ran a “24-hour physique store” close to the West Aspect of Chicago in an effort to keep on schedule.
Whereas an precise Bluesmobile would have been an awesome collectible, reportedly all 13 of them have been “destroyed” throughout filming. Even the Bluesmobile in Illinois’ Volo Museum is a top quality duplicate.
There have lengthy been rumors that director John Landis gave Aykroyd a automobile as soon as filming wrapped. Properly, Aykroyd simply sat down for an interview with the YouTube present Jake’s Takes, and addressed this very subject. “The smartest piece of memorabilia that I’ve ever owned from the flicks was a fully-marked Illinois State Police automobile, with siren and lights and plates and every little thing,” Aykroyd defined.
After all, the Bluesmobile didn’t have a siren, so evidently Ayrkoyd stored one of many many different cop automobiles used throughout filming.
Weirdly, he simply used it as an everyday automobile whereas dwelling in Manhattan, and was in some way by no means busted for impersonating an officer. “I drove (it) in New York for 3 years after the film. Absolutely-marked. Driving down the streets of New York. No one appeared twice. ‘What’s a man serving a warrant from one other state?’” Aykroyd reasoned.
The Saturday Night time Reside star even used the automobile to satisfy ladies. “I used to choose up dates in it. It was improbable,” Aykroyd defined, earlier than arguing that it wasn’t truly the automobile that impressed folks. “All the women that I ever dated again then have been so cool, I may have picked them up in a rubbish wagon and they’d have been high-quality. Magnificent ladies, all of them.”
So what happened to this piece of movie history/Dan Aykroyd dating history? “I sold it, and it ended up at a racetrack somewhere.”
Apparently, this car has been quite a topic of conversation amongst Blues Brothers super-fans over the years. Back in 2012, users of a message board devoted to Bluesmobile replicas famous that one other fan was promoting a Bluesmobile on-line, claiming that it was used within the film, simply not as a Bluesmobile. It was supposedly the identical automobile that Aykroyd stored, which he then gave to his brother-in-law on the time, who had the automobile painted to match Jack and Elwood’s trip.
It’s unclear no matter occurred to this specific automobile, or whether or not or not the present proprietor has discovered that it’s improved their love life.
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