Trying to remember the name of a movie

Remember seeing Dan Haggerty some time ago with a Top Fuel car at the US Nationals for maybe a couple of years. Think he was a team owner but don't recall who did the driving.

 

any one burn me a copy of the movie ill pay ya for it..jeffrey pm.me

 

it was king of the moutain!!!!!!!!

 

Yea ,and I never could figure out how they got tires to squeel when they spun them in the sand in the old movies and t.v.shows. It`s a mystery!

 

If you are in to bittorrents you can get King of the Mountain that way...

 

Also had Deborah Van Valkenburgh from The Warriors and TV show Too Close for Comfort.

 

that's most of what i remember from that movie...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082619/

 

and watch the race scene here!

 

Anybody have a picture of the F-100 Pick-Up Dennis Hooper drove in the movie ?? i think it had an old Hemi in it,,,but then it's been awhile since i've seen the whole movie ,,

 

BTW; God Bless and R.I.P. Dennis Hopper ,,he'll be missed ,,,

 

You won't find it any other way.
http://www.ioffer.com/i/King-of-the-...acing-29263812

I watched it again a few weeks ago, I don't remember the hood up on the truck.

"He's drunk with the greed of his youth!" D. Hopper.

 

Doug, you're right about the charm crappy movies (and TV shows). There's a scene in The Giant Gila Monster where the roadster loses its recently installed whitewalls, which magically return in the next scene.

Getting back OT, here's a bit of trivia for you re the King of the Mountain:

jcmarz is correct that the Hopper character was based on a real person, a guy who owned a customized '60 'Vette (I've not used his name for privacy reasons) - when I saw the film I knew instantly who the writers were modeling the character from. The owner of the 'Vette is someone I've known for around 40 years;

A lot of the extras in the film were then current Mulholland racers. There's a quick segue to a guy jumping up and down cheering the racers on - he's a guy I've known since elementary school days and was introduced to racing on the Hill by me in 1971. That guy turned out to be a hell of a driver on Mulholland;

The New West article interviewed what I think were the last generation of Mulholland racers - in the early '80s parking was prohibited from dusk to dawn, the road was changed in a number of places, as a new subdivision went in, and patrols were stepped up.

 

I remember Charlie from back then although I still think the Hopper character was based on a certain 'Wrench-Arrow' driver. I'm sure you know who I mean (and I'm not the guy!)...

 

For those that know ,,,wasn't the Porsch in the movie much like the one James Dean crashed ?? and wasn't James Dean a good friend of Dennis Hoppers ??? Didn't Dennis have a part in writing the script / screen play ??

 

The Porsche in the movie was a 356. While Dean did have a 356, he was killed while driving a new Porsche 550 Sypder.

 

Fiberglass copy on a VW chassis. Hopper was in Rebel Without a Cause and Giant with Dean. I don't know about any writing credit on this film.

 

Of course all this just poses a bigger question.

Assuming that they used a "stunt car" of some kind to to drive over the cliff in flames, where's Dennis Hopper's Corvette now? Sitting in a low budget movie car collection somewhere? Under a bunch of cardboard boxes in the back of someones garage?

Being from an obscure movie like this, this car could have very easily slipped under the radar.