Gone in 60 Seconds: Crazy Automobile Stunt Commercials

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly

Apostrophe Podcast Network

Cbc, Terry O'reilly, Advertising, Marketing, Under The Influence, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Business

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dramatic car stunts are not just the stuff of movies.

They’re also the stuff of car commercials.

We’ll talk about one ad where skydivers risked their lives spelling out the word “Honda” in the sky, a commercial where a car speeds on the roof of a skyscraper, and a story about a car that was dropped from an airplane - and the parachute didn’t work.

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1:21.6	Yeah.
1:25.7	Henry Blight Halicki was a director, writer, stunt driver,
1:30.9	actor, and owner of a car impound and towing business in California.
1:36.3	In 1974, he came up with an idea for a movie.
1:40.4	It was titled Gone in 60 Seconds.
1:43.7	I'd be gone for 60 seconds. It was titled Gone in 60 Seconds.
1:55.6	The basic plot of the movie was that 48 cars had to be stolen in five days to pull off an insurance scam.
2:01.6	There was no official script, just a few pages outlining the sparse dialogue, which was mostly ad-libbed. There were no real actors in the movie, just friends and neighbors of Halickey's.
2:07.9	The police officers and firefighters in the movie were real police officers and firefighters.
2:13.6	Even the bystanders in the movie were just real bystanders.
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