Vintage Detroit cop cars are showing up in Boston: here's why

By Alysa Zavala-Offman

Aug 5, 2016 at 2:26 pm

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Vintage Detroit cop cars are showing up in Boston: here's why

A film about the 1967 Detroit riots is being filmed as we speak, at least partially in Boston. The untitled flick, written by Mark Boal and directed by Academy Award nominee Kathryn Bigelow (see also: Point Break, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Hurt Locker), will hit theaters next year, just in time for the riots' 50th anniversary.

And so, a pair of dark colored Ford Fairlane 500s was spotted in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston by a guy named Nicholas B. Gordon, who then posted some pics of the vintage coups on Twitter.

Movie about the Detroit riots filmed in my neighborhood! @DotNews #Dorchester #Boston #vintagecars pic.twitter.com/AEdQAaOCe5
— Nicholas B. Gordon (@ngordondmd) August 3, 2016

In an article in the Boston Globe, a couple residents shared stories about their homes being used during filming for the movie — one a three-story home and the other a rectory at a church.

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Alysa Zavala-Offman

Alysa Zavala-Offman is the managing editor of Detroit Metro Times. She lives in the downriver city of Wyandotte with her husband, toddler, mutt, and two orange cats.