Seriously, Ruth built this 55 for 2 lane Blacktop with a full boogie 454 which would not have been around in 62. So it's up to the imagination of the viewer. What was the absolute baddest Chevy motor in 62?? 409/425 horse?
What's up with you nay-sayers? Sometimes shit like this is fun. Do you stay serious when your hot rod buddies show up in your garage? That's what this post is like. Enjoy it! Good move Harms, engine/motor. Just what this post needed. I always thought the "motor" was a stock small block since I didn't go to the theater to see it. Then surround sound came along and I just knew it was a...
make sense it was in debbie does dallas.. i read some where that Lucas hired her to start the '55 after the electric starter went out on the graffiti set.
Who said it even HAD to be a chevy in the movie 55' ???!!!! Of course we all know it was ........................BUT ?
Yeah, it could have been a baby hemi. But when I watched it I had the feeling Falfa was a farm boy with some money who bought the latest and greatest and went looking for trouble. That why he lost it. No experience.
39cent, to answer your question, a Henways about 5 pounds, although the mutant ones mentioned in this thread earlier can way as much as 10 pounds. with, or without feathers. And the Evinrude engine/motor/whatever, was in the 41 Willys Coupe from my other favourite Car Movie, Hotrod.
I'm going to hit and run here. what about Don Johnson and Nick Nolte in Return to Macon County. 57 Chev Hardtop, running and racing with a crazy girl along for the ride. she was also in Hot Rod.
The 58 was sold after the movie for 275 bucks thru an ad in the paper after the movie was completed. the guy that bought it and still owns it knew it was in a movie but did not know which one it was, untill A-G was released. He used dirve by the theater as the movie was ending and everyone was walking out....Hey it's Toad.. (from the book "Lost Hot Rods)
It was a Scott at Water 60. We all know the difference between a motor and an engine. I am presently composing a private message to Ryan about this issue. Some of the suggestions include deleting all posts that do not use the correct terminology and the writer will have restricted use of smiles for at least a month. The writer will also have a red circle with an "X" across his avatar.
There is several mistakes in that movie the Milner coupe has two different interior door panels. drivers tuck and roll and the passenger door was plain. And the tag light is burning bright in the whole movie yet he gets pulled over for his tag light being out. Still an awesome movie though...
I would like to have an original copy of the "Two Lane Blacktop" story from Esquire magazine @1970 and the @1978 short story in HOT ROD (?) about a '55 that turned out having a Hemi in it. The cover of the Hot Rod had a '55 with two front ends-one for show and one for go. pm if you have either... Thanks, Larry
The stretch of road over in Petaluma where the race/crash was filmed was actually used by the locals for street racing, before a bunch of new houses, stop lights, and a glf course put an end to that. They actually measured it out, and had START and FINISH lines painted across the road, complete with huge crossed flags at the finish. The downhill side where the crash was staged is still open fields, looks the same, with the golf course on the other side of the road
A local Md. rodder had owned the 55, believe it sold last year. I managed to collect most of the 1/18th diecast cars, have the 32 and 58 signed by the actors, I am told you will never get Harrison ford to autograph the 55. Another tidbit. When Ron Howard was doing the Mayberry series one episode where Barney jacks up the hooligan kid for riding his bike on the sidewalks,which was against the towns rules, the kid was actually the Pharoahs gangleader in American Graffiti, I guess Ron Howard and the actor, not sure of his name , remained buds. Ironically the bully kid and the gangleader were the same type of roles!
Was it actually plain or was it the tuck and roll w/ a pocket sew over it? I recall an article discussing how the interior was originally red and then dyed black and a pocket sewn on the passenger side door panel for the movie. I actually watched the seen being filmed where Milner drops the Phillips girl off at her home (and gives her the shift knob).
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