1950s 1960s Hot Rod Movie Stills & posters

Born To Speed

 

Thanks for all the pictures....Great thread

 

posters

 

i want you & look for the hot rod clip in Tijuana Story

 

Blob

 

burn'em up oconnor

 

RBantique, You are on fire this weekend...Great photos !! Have you ever seen a movie with Humphey Bogart, he plays a writer with an insane temper. The movie is from the early fifties. He gets into a road rage incident with a kid driving a California custom. Nearly beats the kid to death, and justifies his actions blaming these kids in their souped up cars.

 

Here is another look at the channeled deuce in Hot Rod Gang. This photo is from an old hardbound book. rbantique, this thread is great.

 

QUOTE=Church Key;5615785]RBantique, You are on fire this weekend...Great photos !! Have you ever seen a movie with Humphey Bogart, he plays a writer with an insane temper. The movie is from the early fifties. He gets into a road rage incident with a kid driving a California custom. Nearly beats the kid to death, and justifies his actions blaming these kids in their souped up cars.[/QUOTE]


"In a Lonely Place" a decent Alfred Hitchcock movie
Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed,Bogart had a 49 Merc conv and the kid had a 39/40 Ford . I posted some images 2 in post #35 & 4 in post 36 ..check them out as well as watching the whole movie in 10 parts on you tube... Also Bogart liked his Jag !

 

HBK014 CA tag looking great !!

Sports Car Market states "
If this channeled '32 roadster looks familiar to nostalgia-prone baby boomers, it is because it's the same car that David and Ricky Nelson drove in a memorable episode of the Ozzie and Harriet television series. Legend has it, young Ricky desperately wanted to buy the car with some of his show earnings, but Ozzie refused, saying, "No 1932 Ford is worth $3,500."

This roadster's well-documented history starts in 1951 with Ray De Fillipi of Los Angeles. Most West Coast roadsters of the period were highboys, so-called because their bodies rested atop the original frame. But Ray dropped his roadster's body down over the frame, welding it onto the chassis with a new floor pan. The result, called channeling, yielded a dramatically lowered silhouette. If you raced at the dry lakes, this wind-cheating modification bumped you up one racing class.

De Fillipi's "deuce" lowboy featured a bored-and- stroked 286-cid Ford flathead with an Edelbrock dual manifold, rare Harrell high-compression heads, a Winfield SU-1 cam and Kurten dual-coil ignition. The transmission was a 1940 Ford column-shift, fitted with a close-ratio Lincoln Zephyr first and second gear cluster.

Ray sectioned the filled grille shell to match the 1932 Fords new proportions, then fabricated a new three-piece, louvered hood with a bubble to clear the carbs and "lunchbox latches" to open and close the top portion. Reversed rear wheels were a pioneering feature, along with faired-in door hinges. A 1940 Ford dash was narrowed to fit.

The car's workmanship and its blazing fire-engine red finish were first class, earning Ray a feature in the April 1952 issue of Hop Up magazine.

When the roadster showed up in Rod & Custom in April 1956, it had since been sold to Tony La Masa (whose name also appears variously as La Mesa and Le Masa). Giving no credit to Ray De Fillipi, the Rod & Custom writer implied that tough, cigar-smoking Tony had built the car from scratch. On the contrary, he bought a car that was very well done as his starting point.

La Masa installed a 277-cid John Geraghty-built flathead with a Navarro triple manifold and Navarro heads. The identical Winfield cam was specified, along with a Harman & Collins dual ignition. The steel wheels were changed to Mercury 15-inch, rather than De Fillipi's Ford 16s. The roadster had been repainted lime green; a scoop was cut in the hood bubble and new, off-white, rolled-and-pleated Naugahyde upholstery was crafted by Lou Penn.

A founding member of the Los Angeles Roadsters club, La Masa showed the 1932 Ford extensively. Famed hot rod photographer Andy Southard shot it in 1958 at a Long Beach show, a photo that appears in Southard's book, Hot Rods of the 1950s.

In August 1960, a small photo of the La Masa roadster appeared on a composite cover of Hot Rod magazine. Inside, a two-page feature showed a smiling, flat-capped La Masa with his car, surrounded by show-winning trophies. The engine had been upgraded again, this time to a stock 1956 265-cid Corvette V8 with a four-barrel carb and polished 'Vette valve covers. The car was extensively pinstriped. A caption in the feature noted, "Sharp roadster has been used on TV by Ricky Nelson."

It's unclear how many Ozzie and Harriet shows featured the car, but several stills exist of Ricky Nelson and his brother David in the car. La Masa's roadster also appeared in several "B" movies of the era, including Hot Rod Girl " ( Gang not Girl )

 

Hot Rod Girl

 

more Hot Rod Girl

 

Holyshit Rbantique!!!!!!!!!! You are unreal ,this stuff is great.

 

Hot Rod Gang

 

In the above photo, I think that is Dick Scritchfield, LA Roadster club member.

 

that be him !! also Mc Gee circa 1948

 

Hot Rod movie circa 1957

 

Hot Car Girl[

 

I checked Turner Clasic Movies,and it is not on their schedule for anytime soon. They will play it again sometime , cause this is where I first saw the movie. TCM does have a lot of good movies on this month that will appeal to us car guys. Sunday 9-12-10 @10PM Bachelor in Paradise. This is the Bob Hope movie I posted stills of a few pages back. Lots of car scenes, even a hot rod paperboy. Other movies this month : College Confidential... Get Yourself a College Girl...With six you get Egg Roll... Wild Guitar. Check the TCM website for exact times and set your DVR player...

 

Teenage Thunder and some Village of the Giants from Cecil

 

Looking for a copy of 1967 movie The Weekend Warriors. Its probably more of a documentary of drag racing from around the time.
Anybody know where the movie can be bought? Ive checked around on the net and ebay but no luck.

 

I have WEEKEND WARRIORS if you want it let me know ?

 

rbantique, do you have a larger file of this one from "Dragstrip Girl" that you could email to me? I want to use it as my wedding invitation.

Thanks,
Josh
jjmetz82@yahoo.com

 

Josh ....Now that is cool !!! That's a Invation you can't refuse lol

 

I will pm you on the Dragstrip Girl lobby card... George Trosley wedding art sample is a favorite of mine and available on line by him.

odd stuff

 

Very cool. Thanks again. I'll look into that.

 

you are welcome

 

Ha ha. Thats good advice. Luckily I don't race. Oh crap. I do spent all of my money on my car though.

 

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