Post your favorite car guy movies here! Try not to repeat movies already listed. I'll start the list off with everyones all time favorite "American Graffitti"
christine! c'mon now, we all know our cars got souls......maybe not as messed up as hers, but we've all dreamed of the day they fix themselves then got revenge on all the "****ters" from the past!!!
Check out the original "Blob" movie and "The Giant Gila Monster" B movies to see some cool traditional rods....
Mickey Rooney in Big Wheel. Hot Rods, Midgets, Roaring Roadsters and Big cars. One of the most accurate car movies I have ever seen.
Blues brothers was a fantastic CAR movie and an all-time fav. And for lack of plot but intense driving, that old movie (1971) Vanishing Point has some of the greatest adrenaline pumping scenes .... mmmm 440s
"The Lively Set" With James Darrin, Doug Mclure and Mickey Thompson, the Chrysler Turbine Car, Streamliners, Jet cars, early drag footage from Pomona and Bakersfield. Bonneville salt flats. Darrin's roadster is the ****! Mclure's bucket, The Surfarie's singing My Barracuda"...there is more cool stuff in this movie than I can name...it's a "must see" for you guys, and check out the bell hop that brings Mclure's food to his room....recognize him?
Don't forget Elvis Presley in "Loving You". I saw this late one night when I was probably 10 with my mom and I always wanted to see it again, I've asked at the video stores about renting it but always come up short. The A roadster was built by a guy named John Althen (sp?) and was featured in one of the hot rod books I once owned that disappeared.
Dude,my missus LOVES that movie believe it or not a uk newspaper gave away a free dvd of it with every copy a while back,some elvis week or summat.........lovely roadster indeeed...... She also loves the old drive-in movie, 'drag strip girl' i think its' called.........she loves the girl with the line "but my whole wardrobe is designed for hot rodding!" When its chucking rain down here in blighty (usually then)i'll often drag out the hot rod havoc or back from the dead dvds for a watch,if only to admire that cali/vegas weather!
She also loves the old drive-in movie, 'drag strip girl' i think its' called.........she loves the girl with the line "but my whole wardrobe is designed for hot rodding!" I think this was from "Hot Rod Girl" wasn't it? It had Chuck Connors as the cop helping the hot rodders to set up a drag strip.
I was just going to say that! Thats where I got my copy from. Lots of footage of the roadster and the film itself is pretty good as well!
hot rods to hell http://www.hotrodstohell.com/home_html/home.shtml or the choppers http://www.imdb.com/***le/tt0054744/ (watch it here for free http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4044266948311486699&q="the+choppers"&hl=en)
Not nec***arily a "car" movie, but has some nice cars in it. "Road Racer" Pretty damn funny and has some great music for soundtrack.
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