Goofs

At the the end of the film, Dennis uses the Caterpillar tractor to ram Christine. He also immobilizes the car by dropping the teeth of the loading bucket into the roof. Then we see close-ups of the car repairing itself completely. The next shot, just before the tractor starts to crush the car, shows the car in its previous smashed-up condition again.

The Camaro that Christine drags backwards at the gas station can be seen to have no engine and no interior, as it is a "shell" stunt-double car.

At the very beginning of the movie we see the camera sweeping from a ventilator via a clock showing 12:45 to the assembly line. Christine can already be seen as she is the only red car in the line (the sixth car counting from the front). The following camera shots do not indicate any gap in time, so when the guy with the cigar dies in the car, it should be 1:00-1:30 latest. Yet, the dead body is not discovered until the bell rings at 5:00. At that time the assembly line seems not to have made any progress and Christine still plays "Not Fade Away". Somehow 4 hours are missing in the story line.

When Christine is starting to regenerate and Arnie says "show me", the grill is intact, later during the restoration, the grill is damaged, being repaired.

When Christine backs out of the office and almost backs into Leigh, hitting the pole, the "PLYMOUTH" letters are missing from the trunk door. In the next shot , they're back.

Christine has common lock "buttons" on the inside door panels. This is incorrect as 1958 Plymouths are not equipped with buttons. To lock the door, the door handle has to be rotated counter-clockwise.

In 1958, the Lynch road assembly plant In Detroit ran on 3 shifts, 24 hours a day. They did not shut the plant down at 5pm as seen in the movie.

The Fury being manufactured in 1957, did not necessarily mean the car was a 1957 model. This car had 5" dual headlights, which came out in 1958. The 1957 version had 7" single headlights, with inboard parking lights mounted with a bezel to appear larger. Likely the assembly occurred late in 1957, when the previous year's assembly converted over, perhaps in the late summer or early fall, typical for model year changes for American cars.

On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1978, we see the Oakland Raiders playing a football game on the television set in Dennis's hospital room. In reality, the Raiders did not play on that day. The two NFL games that were played that day were: Denver Broncos vs. Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins vs. Dallas Cowboys.

Mrs. Cunningham says she went to city hall to check Christine's registration records. Registration in California is not kept at city hall, it's kept at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

The small wheels that are visible under the car that Christine crashes into during the showdown at Darnell's is not a goof. Vehicles that won't run or have no engine are often put on this type of dolly to allow them to be moved around with ease.

The film is set in 1979 but George Thorogood's Bad to the Bone wasn't released until 1982. However, the song is not meant to take place in the movie, simply for it like an original motion picture soundtrack.

When Arnie buys Christine, she has over 93,000 miles on her, but when Dennis looks inside her later, she has less than 90,000 miles. This is not a goof, as in the book the odometer turns backwards.

While Arnie and Dennis are driving to school, Arnie relays a story about playing Scrabble with his parents the night before. He says he had the option of spelling RATIO for a seven points or FELLATIO to win the game. The ability to spell both words would require nine letters and the rules of Scrabble dictate that players may only hold seven letters at one time. Scrabble is a crossword game, and both words end in ATIO. If the board is arranged correctly, you could use two letters from the board to spell either word, and thus have access to nine letters: seven in the rack plus two from the board.

Buddy steps on Arnie's glasses and clearly breaks them. After Mr. Casey breaks up the fight Arnie puts on his glasses, which appear to be undamaged. He's really just wearing the bows without the glasses themselves.

When Christine smashes into the silver Camaro at the gas station, the hood of the Camaro gets knocked off the hinges and twisted sideways. As Christine reverses and drags the Camaro backward, you can see down through the hood that the engine compartment is empty. Minus a transmission, as well.

The first car in the assembly line has a bent grille (two grille bars are bent next to the left headlight), revealing that the car is old.

When Arnie first notices that Christine has repaired air cleaners, there is clearly no hood on the car. But when Christine starts to repair everything else, the hood pops out from the engine.

Towards the end of the film Dennis, who is on crutches and can hardly walk, gets into Darnell's garage through a window. After he drops in, he clearly runs to the door to let Leigh inside.

When Moochie is running from Christine he briefly loses sight of her. He stops running, turns around and takes a few steps backwards while glancing down to make sure he stops at the spot they marked for him.

When Arnie runs across the driveway at the beginning of the movie and has an accident with the refuse bag, in the close-up shot you can see the actor with his thumb on the special effects trigger which makes the garbage fall out. The device's weight makes the bag fall to the floor much more quickly than an empty bag would.

In the opening scene on the assembly line where an inspector sits in Christine and turns on the radio, sound comes out instantly from the speakers.

Car radios of that era still used vacuum tubes, so it would have taken a few seconds for them to warm up and produce sound.

Christine is said to be rolling off the assembly line in September 1957. However, the song heard on the car's radio, Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," wasn't released until October of that year.

Camera reflected in the glass when Darnell is making the phone call just before he gets killed.

As Dennis draws up to Arnie's driveway, at around the 05:20 mark, look at the reflection in Dennis's car door and you can see a person (presumably a crew member) approach the car.