Two Lane Blacktop Questions

Correct me if I'm wrong but the green coupe is a Model 'A' not a '32.

Its un-chopped but channeled the the height of the splash aprons while keeping the original fenders.

I believe they call it wrongly a Deuce, '32 or something else along those lines.

 

the guy in the center w/Glendale shirt on is the guy who had the car I seen He was a pretty nice guy and seemed to know everything about the car and the movie

 

i don't think it had a visor....i paused it just to be sure after i watched it the first time.....

unless they did some fancy camera work......the mechanic said the 32 had a 427 in it......they looked like BB valve covers when they did a close up....

didn't the Am. Graf. car have a SBC in it?

 

Sounds like a beleivable story to me

 

hahaha... I get a kick out of the response to this movie.

I guess you love it or hate it. Obviously for me, the car was inspiring, and even more so in American Graffiti.

The opening street racing scene always gives me goose bumps. Then I usually fast forward to the cool parts. I dont try to get into whole cult thing. But then again, I dont do a lot of drugs.

Oh yeah, and I wish I had a dime for everytime someone walked up to my car at the track and starts asking me if I've seen TLB!!

 

They never say or opened the hood..but it still had the rat from tlb in it ....like I said it would have smoked the 32

 

It had a Hemi and a Torqueflite.

 

It still had the big block, hypothetically it would have had a 409, at least the model kits had em,

 

Heres some cool links...

http://www.cinetropic.com/blacktop/index.html

Heres a 'loose' copy of the script, lots wrong in it, '67 Plymouth Road Runner'

http://www.cinetropic.com/blacktop/script/

 

TLB is great fuckin movie...for insomniacs!! Cars only, 'cept maybe some 60s-70s icons in it. Why do I recall the GTO being white? I'm as fucked up as it gets, huh? The last time I saw it was on TV and shitty picture quality. A total yawn-fest. I'm thinkin I remember seing a promo for it in a magazine that used a white GTO Judge maybe? Now I need to see it again. Just watched AG on TCM Sun and told the wife about the different uses for the 55. I do remember "the girl" leaving with the dude on the Sportster. That was a kool bike. Simple early Sporty. Lots of fossil-fueled stars in the movie.

 

I have to chime in and say it's my favorite car movie - right up there ahead of the original Vanishing Point (another senseless but very cool 70s movie) and Hollywood Knights, with AG taking a close 4th. I don't need to appreciate the plot, or the acting. I just like the cars and the settings.

Then again, my favorite movie of all time - Apocalypse Now - was also a 70s movie.

Hank

 

Agreed, completely. There wasn't any false hype, or bullshit. Just a day in the life kinda ride, and to me that's what makes it brilliant.

 

Acting ?? There was acting in that movie?

 

"Because these two young men on their trip to nowhere don't really know how to talk. The Driver doesn't really converse when he's behind the wheel, and the Mechanic doesn't really talk when he's working on the car. So this is primarily a visual, atmospheric experience. To watch this movie correctly is to become absorbed into it."

I'd highly suggest watching this one by yourself. I watch this and I think of my uncle and his best friend Tony, they drove Tony's '56. Only, it was from Peoria, AZ to San Diego and the car only had a SBC. Being around these guys as a young kid helped to deform my brain. Big time conversationalists, these guys! Just for the record, Tony's chevy was WAY cooler.

I love this movie.

"she's gonna burn you man."

 

aside from the cross country "race", the movie is very "real". no hollywood special effects, no bullshit, just a couple days in the life os a couple of street racers. real life ain't all that exciting, and neither is this movie, it's almost like a documentary on the driver and mechanic. a couple of guys who care about little else than driving. i guess if your idea of the hot rod scene is getting drunk and whooping it up with your friends and never actually working on your car, than it would be a boring movie, but for those who live and breath cars, this movie is your LIFE on screen. to me it reflects what hot rods are about much more than American Graffiti. AG was about the social aspect of cars, TLB is about the antisocial. i'm antisocial, and the guys who don't get what the movie are about are represented in it metaphorically by the hippy chick, always pissing and moanin. if not her, then GTO. "hey look at me, i'm cool!"

i suppose my reply makes about as much sense as the movie. hey, it's late and i just got done working a long assed day, sorry.

 

interesting analysis. I really dig the parts of the movie that involve the 55 driving and racing and wrenchin, but the hippie chick and GTO parts don't do much for me. I guess we think alike

 

I love this movie find something cool every time I watch it! Got to pullit out and watch it again this weekend; anyone like Vanishing point?same era
steele

 

I remember now....

 

You pretty much nailed it. I get more out of this movie every time I watch it. Sometimes I speed through to the racing scenes when I need a fix, but when I have time, once or twice a year I sit and watch the whole movie. I have to be in the right frame of mind.

 

I think it's "sawed him off", as in "cut him down to size." "Saw him off" sounds like they dropped him off at the airport or something.

 

I think Falfa did a better burnout with the car in AG than the longhair did in 2 lane Blacktop

I tried to get my 2 boys to watch it a second time but they fought like a couple of starving animals over roadkill to get out of the room fastest , they have watched hollywood knights several times though

 

'Boy I'll say"

 

i AGREE with you Ray,right on!

as a kid,,i had always heard of the movie,,then about 1989 or so,(still a kid) i was flipping through the TV guide,,and saw it was coming on at 1:00 in the morning,,,i stayed up(on a school night!)just to watch it and record it,,,

it has always been a favorite movie,

 

My interpretation of this was they won the race(sawed him off) but it cost them $200 because the coppers came before they could collect.

 

I always thought that they lost the race, but hung with him better than anybody thought they would.

 

I dunno, that door and door frame look like a sedan and not a hardtop. It definitely doesn't look like simply a 'piece of wood stuck in there' to me.

On the flipside, the rear wheelwells are wrong, the front suspension is wrong, the rear suspension & tires look stock, etc. So who the heck knows.

 

The '55 that rolled in AG was another two door post car (not the one used throuout the film). The car that explodes was yet another '55, the "junker" two door hardtop with the wooden posts added.

Your picture shows the rollover car.

 

the rolled car is the one with the TH400 and silver painted steel wheels...I always laugh when I see that at the end of AG

 

Could be mistaken, but I think it also had single exhaust. Been a while since I seen it..