Goofs

A few seconds while driving in the desert are reversed showing Kowalski driving on the right side.

The car crashed at the end is a 1967 Chevy Camaro, not a 1970 Dodge Challenger

Motorcycle chase by the Colorado River: Second motorcycle cop crashes through a wooden barrier while chasing Kowalski. The barrier has three yellow and black striped horizontal boards; the cop clearly breaks all three boards in the crash, but when the shot returns to the cop sitting in the dirt, the top board is intact.

When Kowalski is taunted by the driver in the Jaguar, they up end racing one another, side by side. As they approach the narrow bridge, the Jaguar blows a tire and is sent off the road. The car roles over an embankment and upside-down into a massive puddle of mud. When Kowalski runs back to see if the guy is all right, the guy emerges from the wreckage clean from head to toe (with the exception of his legs which are wet up to his knees), even though he landed upside-down in mud.

After the radio station's windows are smashed, they are boarded up. From the outside, the boards are very close together. From the inside, they are widely spaced.

When the older cop (Robert Donner) tells the young cop (Paul Koslo) that Super Soul is monitoring police radio, the young cop says that that is illegal, and the older cop agrees. In fact, the courts have ruled that it is not illegal to listen to police radio, but it is illegal to use the information you gain from it to evade or break the law. (So presumably Super Soul passing the information to Kowalski IS illegal.)

Kowalski takes the keys out of the ignition to open the trunk to get the spare tire, but the radio still plays.

The 19-inch racks in Super Soul's radio station with large tape reels (in one scene seen fast moving) are not audio equipment. These tape drives were used in computer systems in the 1970s to store data on tape.

In the opening sequence, when the white car vanishes on the road as it passes the other car, a matte line is clearly visible up the middle of the frame, behind the dark car.

As the bulldozers pull up to their marks in the opening sequence, tread and blade scars on the pavement from previous takes are visible.

In the opening sequence, when the Challenger makes the bootleg turn in front of the bulldozers, you can see that the driver is apparently wearing a curly wig (to match Barry Newman's hair) over a helmet, making his head look ridiculously oversized.

When the first motorcycle cops attempt to pull Kowalski over, the wind is flapping the cop's holster upward, showing it to be empty.

When the headlines in the newspaper is shown, two photos are visible, one of Kowalsky and one of Vera. Behind both of them there are two different articles, with their own titles. However, the entire first paragraph (and what can be seen of the second) is exactly the same.

The car actually explodes before it even makes contact with the bulldozers.

In the construction area, Kowalski goes off the road to his left, losing the trim ring from the left front wheel. Later in the movie, the trim ring is back on.

The sounds of the 1970 Dodge Challenger in certain scenes are actually from the 1968 Mustang in Đại Tá Bullitt (1968).

Just two seconds before the seventeen minute mark, when Kowalski is being chased by the two motorcycle cops, fifteen to twenty production vehicles can be seen parked in the background. A vehicle blocking normal road traffic can be seen in the background as well.

There are 2 scenes in the early part of the movie where a person can be seen in the passenger seat and one with a guy in a yellow shirt in the back seat.

At 150:56, when the prospector is wrangling the snake a green tripod leg and equipment shadows are visible.

On the opening chase scene as the Highway Patrol Helicopter cruises alongside Kowalski's car, you can see the cameraman and his camera inside the helicopter filming out the open sliding window.

When Kowalski and the motorcycle cop come off the road and are driving next to the river, a long shot, shows several crew members standing by a huge rock directly in front of them.

Cisco, California is approximately due south from milepost 165 on I-80 and is approximately 30 miles directly west of the California/Nevada border. It is also firmly in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Cisco in the movie is actually, Cisco, Utah.

Immediately after the helicopter passes over the hidden Challenger in the desert, the old prospector sends Kowalski right out into the desert in the opposite direction, raising a cloud of dust the helicopter could have easily seen from a great distance.

Kowalski's promise that he will call Jake from San Francisco on Sunday would not be proof that he won the bet because he could be calling from anywhere. He should have given Jake a number in San Francisco to call on Sunday as proof that he actually won.

The snake-hunting old desert rat (Dean Jagger) mangles the name of the saguaro cactus as a tourist might do, pronouncing it "sag-where-ah." In reality, the "g" is silent and correct pronunciation is "se-war-oh"- - something a person who made his living off the desert, as he did, would certainly know.

As Kowalski approaches California, Super Soul warns him of a "welcoming committee in the Sunshine State". California's official nickname is "The Golden State". The Sunshine State is Florida.

The blind character Super Soul wears a regular wrist watch.

The DJ Super Soul is often not close enough to his microphone to be heard on the air.