Deadline Auto Theft is a 1983 independent film written and directed by H.B 'Toby' Halicki, made up of scenes from Gone in 60 Seconds and The Junkman, as well as new material featuring Hoyt Axton. After the attempted theft of his daughter's husband's car , LAPD Captain Gibbs declares war on master car thief Maindrian Pace . Meanwhile, Pace is hired to steal 48 cars, and must do so without being caught. The plot is virtually identical to that of Gone in 60 Seconds, with the addition of the character of Gibbs. Deadline Auto Theft was a piecemeal effort by Halacki to incorporate the opening... chase of The Junkman into the film Gone in 60 Seconds. The film is essentially a trimmed alternate cut of his 1974 cult classic with a new subplot featuring Axton incorporated into it. The chase from The Junkman was depicted in that film as the making of a car chase picture – a case of meta-fiction; in Deadline Auto Theft, the footage is incorporated into the plot, essentially making this film the movie that was being produced in The Junkman.
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| Release date: | October 28, 1983 |
| Directed by: | H.B. Halicki |
| Runtime: | 98 Minutes |
| Producer: | H.B. Halicki |
| Editor: | Warner E. Leighton, P.J. Webb |
| Music by: | Philip Kachaturian, Ronald Halicki, Eb Jensen, Hoyt Axton |
| Cinematography: | Scott Lloyd-Davies, Jack Vacek |
| Screenplay by: | H.B. Halicki |
| Estimated budget: | $1,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |