Russ Meyer is also one of the directors QT thanks in the end credits. This was inspired by the original badass babe trio of Varla, Billie and Rosie from Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. Zoe, Kim and Abernathy become a tough girl gang at the end of Death Proof. Shanna is wearing an Alamo Drafthouse t-shirt featuring Tura Satana's character from "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" with the words BADASS CINEMA underneath it.Marcy is wearing a t-shirt that reads "L'ULTIMO BUSCADERO", this is the Italian title for the Sam Peckinpah film Junior Bonner (1972).Stuntman Mike makes direct references to the films Vanishing Point (1971), Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) and White Line Fever (1975).QT also referenced it in Kill Bill: Volume 1 (the sunglasses lined dashboard of Sheriff Earl McGraw's police car). The same model in Alexandre Aja's High Tension and as "Eleanor" in the original 1974 car film Gone in 60 Seconds which Kim makes a reference to in Death Proof during the diner scene. Kim's yellow and black car ( The Bride's iconic Kill Bill colors) in Death Proof is a Ford Mustang Mach I.
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The title "Thunder Bolt" is patterned after the opening logo for the AIP hot rod movie Thunder Alley. Projectionists would also use alternate black leader title cards (like the Death Proof one) when showing films.
For example, the kung fu classic Master of the Flying Guillotine had two titles at the opening of the film (Master of The Flying Guillotine and One Armed Boxer Vs The Flying Guillotine). Why? Many Grindhouse era films had different titles when they were released. The original title for Death Proof that pops up for about a second in the opening credits is "Quentin Tarantino's Thunder Bolt".The Ultimate Death Proof Movie References Guide is a community effort to list all films and other media that have directly or indirectly influenced Death Proof, and all films and other media that are referenced to in the film.