Patrick Dempsey is a car collector and race driver. He used all of his pay from this film to buy his first car, a 1963 Porsche 356 convertible.
The Airplane Graveyard/Boneyard is located just outside of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.
Tina Caspary (Barbara) was the original Kelly Bundy in the pilot episode of "Married... With Children" (1987).
After her death in July 2015, Amanda Peterson's family revealed that a traumatizing experience on the set of "Can't Buy Me Love" contributed to issues Peterson later faced, including an addiction to drugs, that ultimately ended her acting career. Peterson died of an accidental morphine overdose in July, 2015, at the age of 43.