It's one of my all time favorites. My mom was an extra in a couple scenes, one was the bridge jump. She didn't want to venture to the south side herself so I went with, she was next to them as the cars were stopped for the bridge and for 1.5 seconds thru the tire smoke when Elwood takes off you can see the back of her '72 Maverick with the base for the CB antenna I put on it. I was on the other side where they landed. It was SOOOOOO FUCKING cool for a 16 year old motor head. Got to shake their hands when they got there, got to meet their stunt men and look over the jump car.
Back then my friends and I knew a lot of the filming location and figured out a bunch more over the years and visited them all. Some 30 years ago I drove for a local trucking company, three days a week one of my regular deliveries was at the Sears Tower and EVERY SINGLE time all the years I worked there, as I was driving down to lower Wacker I repeated the line "This is definitely lower Wacker drive". I currently live about 20 minutes from Wauconda where the big chase scene at the end where he crashed thru the guardrail and then the state police cars tumbled down an embankment and the one John Candy was in jumped into the truck> Every couple months or so I drive past that with my son, I'll say (his name) "Alex, Alex, I gotta pull over".
Another movie I reference a lot...when I place an order for pick up or have to give a name for an order (Taco Bell, Wendys and Jersey Mikes) I give them 'Abe Froman'. One time in all the years I've been doing that one person knew the name. That was just a couple months ago at a Jersey Mikes. I placed the order and the guy asked for my name, and asked me to repeat the last name, before I could answer the manager was who was doing something next to him repeated it for me, smiling. The first guy said, 'oh you know him.' Manager says, yeah, he's the sausage king of Chicago". We started laughing. The first guy and two other workers had a puzzled look on their faces. I said, 'it's a from a movie, he'll explain it to you later when your not busy.' I was a bit surprised as the manager was maybe early 30s. I have a t-shit that has "THE SAUSAGE KING OF CHICAGO" on it, occasionally I'll get some one giving me the thumbs up saying 'Ferris Beuller' and they're all at least mid 40's.
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