The "Green Hornet" is a reference to the Plymouth Fury he drives in the climatic scene with the gun battle on the beach. The Plymouth Hornet was a high performance two door , or coupe for those overseas, version of the Fury/Belvedere. In the 70's and before that in the 60's, Ford, Chryslery, and GM took the high perfomance goodies of the muscle cars and packaged them into sedans/saloons for police use. You could actually go to a dealer and order a police package sedan that had all the parts other than what the police departments needed (radios, spot lights etc) and they were called sleepers because they looked like something your parents would drive, but the minute you stepped on the gas, the cars would get up and go leaving the unsuspecting behind.
1 Baker 11, in pusuit of 1973 yellow Mustang license number 614 Henry Sam Ocean
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mrenaut-1
12 years ago
The "Green Hornet" is a reference to the Plymouth Fury he drives in the climatic scene with the gun battle on the beach. The Plymouth Hornet was a high performance two door , or coupe for those overseas, version of the Fury/Belvedere.
To kallsop-2 Umm, no, jlinendoll already answered this question accurately in the post above yours:
I think it was in reference to the old "Green Hornet" comic strip and movie serial from the 40s, or maybe the TV series that may have been in reruns at the time. It was only a nickname the character gave the car, and not any special TA model.
It's nothing to do with the Plymouth Hornet and the car in the beach chase was clearly badged a Belvedere not a Fury. There was no Hornet in the movie that I ever saw.
Trans Am was called the Green Hornet simply because it was noisy and it was green!
People should spend more time watching movies and less time bitching about IMDB spoilers.
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