For such a meticulous filmmaker Scorsese did not pay enough attention to these details. (Like the ridiculous scene where Joe Pesci pulls out spark plugs with his hands --no wrench--and says' they're ok. And the timing chain--utterly and truly ridiculous to think you could tighten a nut and it would continue running.) But I digress. The idea that a brand new Hudson (a car that had its heyday in the 1940s; out of business by 1954) would be running the streets all shiny and new in the late 50's --given that most of the other cars in the film are the "forward look" cars introduced by Chrysler in 1957 is silly.

I truly despise the romance of the Mafia. But Scorsese has the deepest love for them and this is his attempt at monumentalizing them.