Ok American Graffitti & Hollywood Knight what else

Junkyard Jan,

Please read Jeff B2 and Big Dad posts they are 100% right when they say American Graffitti is very close to the way it was in '62 and the '50's. It may sound a little corny to you but that's the way it was Honey! There is a lot more to this time period, try reading Roger Jetter's book you can buy on the hamb. Jetter is 40StudeDude give it a read.

"Drive a cool short - make mine a kustom"

Cruiser 49

 

i loove that movie but not only are they gettin a hemi out of a cop car. but its a matador cop car HA HA HA!!!!

theres also another good one not nesisarily a hot rod flick but a good one called, "catch me if you can". and not the newer by the same name "leo".
its the movie with fast freddie and the 57 chevy hidden under the football fie..ld

 

Hello!

My favorite must be "Hot Rod " from 1950...... Really goooood!

Kjell

 

"The Big Wheel"

 

For those that don't like AG, read this months Rodder Digest and the coments they make about the movie. It seems to be close to the way it was....

 

Where were you in 62? Since I am of the Graffiti generation it actually was not too far off the mark .We Cruised,we picked up chicks, we had our Drive Inns where the" cool rods" hung out and Midnight Drags out in the country to see who the top dog was,it happened!

It sure did happen and it happened big time even in the citiies. The era of the muscle cars was fantastic.
At that time (63-64-65) I lived in Anaheim Cal. and one of the places to be was Carl's on Harbor Blvd. It was so busy they had rent-a-cops directing traffic through the Drive In Parking lot. The Carl's parking lot/drive thru was a weekly car show to equal any car show today.

BTW, no hotrodder in those days would be caught dead with Appletons on their cars...those were for low riders.

 

ok i remember a neat flick but have no idea what the name is

must have been a eighties flick cause i saw it when i was a kid ( im only 30) young guys girlfreind gets taken by the devil and no one believes him he was driving a tri 5 chevy gasser style
he goes to hell and gets her back man i cannot remember the name of this flick for shit just barely remember the flick itself but would love to find it now just to watch it again see if it really was all that

 

another good one i forgot about was return to macon county with nick nolte and that guy from maimi vice...

 

Glad to see someone else has seen Hot Rod. What about the Ozzie movie with the 57 Chevy street racer where he ends up doing huge dohnuts.

Cant remember what it is called but way cool.

P.

 

what about the pom pom girls, had a pretty nice 55 chevy in it

 

Might have been ''Highway to hell'' dont really remember the movie, just the title

 

Aint nothin funnier than Hollywood Knights when it comes to car flicks!

 

Moonshine Highway

 

born to run is a damn good muscle car street race flick. Cobra has a cool merc in it.

 

the original MAD MAX !!!! kicked ass . its hard to beat a car with a pusbutton engaged blower . and did U ck out that poor 59 or 60 impala with flame job they destroyed , lots of fast auto and motocycle carnage SWEET !

 

G'Day All,
Dago's daughter here, This movie is called Running on Empty.
By the way American Graffitti and Hot Rod are awesome movies and are on my top 10 for sure.

 

" the duece coupe" filmed in sussex,virginia about 1991. was released in england not sure if released here. a movie about a 32 ford 3 window fenderless hot rod. set in the 1950's, 1960's., greasers and chicks, and cars that shake when going above 90 mph. the speedometer lense cracks in the coupe several times in the movie. a must see if you can locate a copy. cadillac dave

 

Dazed and Confused, muscle cars for sure, but cool cars and a great movie.

Mootz

 

Hor Rod is that available on DVD does anyone know? I havn't seen it in years but really liked it. I also can't get enough Bullitt, Vanishing Point, Gone in 60 seconds(both of them),Bad Georgia Road(the star is a 70 road runner),Return to Macon County,Greased Lightning,Two Lane Blacktop and I started the thread about Hollywood Knights. The next thing I'm gonna say will probably make everyone mad but..... The Fast And THe Furious (Should be the Slow and the Curious) has some really really good street racing scenes no matter how much we hate the majority of the cars that are being raced! As far as car movies go its probably as good as any! In fact as far as car movies go the only one I feel is better made is American Graffitti. American Graffit is Stelar as far as car movies go and thats just the facts! If life could only be the way it was in 62 again!

 

T-bird gang.

The blob. Has a 1940 Ford coupe racing backwards near the beginning.

Hot Rods to Hell. Has a couple hot rods in it too. Cool scene when they chase the family in the desert.

The wild ride.

Hot Rod girl. Has some cool roadsters racing.

The Choppers.
The Lively set.

There are actually a ton of movies out that are "car related".
Not all of them are hot rod or traditional rod related. But, none the less, they are car related. Here's a short list of ones off the top of my head.
Tucker
Gumball ralley
cannonball
The cannonball run movies.
eat my dust
The last chase. Lee Majors had a race car buried in his garage.
Viva Las Vegas. with Elvis
Spinout. With Elvis.
The car. Laughed my ass off when the car is doing donuts outside the cemetery.
Chitty Chitty bang Bang. Love that car.
Those daring young men in their jaunting jalaopies.
The great race. Love those old cars.
Village of the giants. I think this one had a t getting it's body tore off when it tries to wrap ropes around a giant and pull it down.
High School Caeser.
Ghost of dragstrip Hollow.
A bunch with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon have cars in them too.

There was an old beach movie where they go through a car show. I think they were chasing a go-kart or something like that.

 

"Mischief". A flick that was about life in Nelsonville, Ohio in the late 50's. The "nerdy kid" in a bullit-nose Stude totally trashes a"cool kids" 55 Chevy convert after the 55 runs a 53 Chevy into a ditch in a game of chicken. Movie has a great soundtrack, too.

Jim Winter
The Hot Rod Grillle

 

AG & HK are right on. used to drag Polk st in Amarillo Tx. Hi-Di-Ho drive in was the turn around. great days back then.

 

Not really hot rods but, what about Le Mans with Steve McQueen from sometime back in the 60's. I was the first movie with cinavision or some fancy name. When you watched the movie, you felt like you were in the driver's seat..taking the curves, etc. I remember people actually running out of the movie to puke from motion sickness. It'd be cool to watch on one of those large ass TV they have now.

 

Anyone ever seen Dirty Mary Crazy Larry with Peter Fonda? Pretty good muscle car/police chase movie.

 

To me Hollywood Knights looks like a cheap knock off of AG. They just changed the names of the drive ins and added more slapstick.

Shoot they even had a dj in a booth, someone leaving in the morning going away and a big drag race at the end.

 

is that the one with linda carter topless?or was it adrian barbou? 1 of the 2

 

Good movie. I sure the hell did not expect that ending.

 

Has anyone ever heard of a movie called "outrage" 57 nomad, 70 camaro drag racing on a street where the owner of a house on that street fights back to stop the racing(burns the nomad and throws house paint on the camaro)?I saw this movie when I was young and it took me forever to find the name,still haven't found a copy of it yet.

 

AG not done well??? Tell me of any movie that went to the exstreams of being peirod correct. I've watched it many times and only found two things newer then 62, and had to really search for them. How bout it?

 

Chopdtop Wins By A C -hair!!!! I Was Even Going To Say Chitty-chitty Too!! My All Time Favorite Is Using Your Imageination Listening To Cheech & Chong At The Drive-in On Big Bambu