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Did You Notice? Place In The Car They Never Checked


They never broke down the tires from the wheels. Excellent place to hide contraband.

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How can you say that when we didn't see every single thing they probably checked on the car- just some highlights like draining the transmission, ripping out upholstery etc.

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Watch the movie again. There is a scene showing a cop reaching inside of a tire broken from the wheel.

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There's a more interesting possible flaw brought up by a car expert in an earlier thread, one that seems implausibly plausible. He/she claimed there's no such thing as new cars leaving an assembly line with a set weight (I think they say the Lincoln in the film weighs 4,795 lbs, according to the owner's manual). The poster wrote that a new model car can come with so many different features and accessories (from transmissions to air conditioners to tire types, etc.) that it would be impossible to have a standard weight.

It's an interesting argument. In fact, I think I'll check his theory out now on-line.

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It's an interesting argument. In fact, I think I'll check his theory out now on-line.



Any luck?

And i think they did take the tyres off, just after they lift the car on the hydraulic ramp, a mechanic is seen bouncing a tyre

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They didn't check the gas tank.

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There's plenty of possible hiding places that we can only assume are examined off screen.
The tires however are not among those: they are most certainly examined ON screen. It's the scene where the head mechanic (Irvin?) says: "There's nobody been under that car since it came from the factory."

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I don't know, Butchie, instead.

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Absolutely cars come from the factory with a weight. It’s called the curb weight.

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