Round 8: Tossup 14

Many lawsuits over one of these objects have been filed by the widow of filmmaker H. B. Halicki. Poor remasters led to a decades-long fan war over the true color of one of these objects depicted in the film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Guillermo Cabrera Infante wrote the screenplay for a 1971 film in which a man trying to take one of these objects to San Francisco is aided by the blind DJ “Super Soul,” played by Cleavon Little. A character played by Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys uses the name of one of these objects to refer to Warren Oates’s character in a 1971 film by (*) Monte Hellman. One of these objects titles a film whose opening montage is set to “Bad to the Bone.” The protagonist of that 1981 film says “OK, show me” to one of these objects, before reversed footage depicts it fixing itself. Many fans of these objects recreate one nicknamed “Eleanor” depicted in the film Gone in 60 Seconds. For 10 points, what sort of objects kill people in the films Death Proof and (10[1])Christine? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: cars [or automobiles; accept trucks; accept types of cars like convertibles; accept specific models of cars like the Plymouth Fury] (The two 1971 films mentioned are Vanishing Point and Two-Lane Blacktop.)
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-212100%0%0%181.00
2025 Spec Script - Online 12025-06-2110100%10%20%143.60
2025 Spec Script - Online 22025-06-213100%0%0%171.33