Rubber Duck Convoy Trucks

This is video of the surviving rubber duck s truck from the 1977 sam peckinpah movie convoy.

Rubber duck convoy trucks.

Rubber duck goes back to rescue spider mike and saves him demolishing the prison. While the guys are travelling other trucks follow them and a true rebellion begins with the support of the population. Mccall the film was made when the cb radio trucking craze was at its peak in the united states and followed the similarly themed films white. Once passed all the police blocks the convoy finally arrives in new mexico but without spider mike who gets caught by lyle.

I didn t know that sam peckinpah was in the film. With the cops and their vehicles temporarily incapacitated after the fracas rubber duck decides it is time to leave arizona and head to new mexico and the convoy was born. Also the names of the companies on the trucks are little salutes to the actor s driving the trucks previous roles in other films. Some of you convoy fans probably knew all of this but i sure didn t.

However most people don t realize that there were actually four different trucks used throughout the movie although there is one that was used for most of the promotional photos which was the 1977 mack rs 712lst. The main character in convoy is martin rubber duck penwald who is the driver of the famous truck. For more information please visit our website at www stlouisd. See more ideas about rubber duck big trucks mack trucks.

You can see him riding in the back of the truck with the tv guy interviewing the duck. Rubber duck is behind the wheel of the truck leading the way. Convoy is a 1978 action comedy film directed by sam peckinpah and starring kris kristofferson ali macgraw ernest borgnine burt young madge sinclair and franklyn ajaye the film is based on the 1975 country and western novelty song convoy by c.