Motion Pictures The Auto Race: Is it the First Hot Rod Movie?

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The Auto Race: Is it the First Hot Rod Movie?

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Now those guys were real stunt men. Crazy men with large nuts.

 

The cars stopped and the drivers didn’t. Lol

 

Dynamite in the gas tank, better than Nitro and a Supercharger!

 

Love it.

 

Gave me a chuckle and a smile

 

This is "Lizzie's of the Field"! A slapstick classic!!! Del Lord, a famous director of Three Stooges shorts worked on this, he was a pioneer stunt driver, along with Harvey Perry!

 

Brutal way to make a living! Are those curved things roll bars?

 

The full movie IS on YouTube..... Ryan's post about "camouflage" awhile ago, that striped racer one of the FIRST I ever saw!!!!

 

It's quite something to see hundred year old films, especially with car stunts.
It'd be neat to see this after it went through the "film restoration" process.