o.k. due to a lack of winter car shows, i need to scratch my old car itch. what are your favourite movies to watch for car spotting, even if the plot isn't so great. i'm looking for early '50s cars especially. sometimes i even find myself watching leave it to beaver reruns just for a glimpse of old cars.
"Fun in Acapulco" with Elvis, has alot of cool old cars. "The Lively Set" is my favorite "car" movie. "A Bronx Tale" with DeNiro... Awesome music, too. JOE
i just saw rebel without a cause and man, there were some awesome cars in the chicken race. I also like The Wild One because of all the kick ass old triumphs, and harleys, indians.
I almost have to mention this but I was surfing the tube and the Dick Van Dyke musical thingy Bye Bye Birdie was on (and from what I watched it sucks big time) and the part I came in on had a killer looking 33 or 34 ford three window (I think, it went by so quick in the background) that was maroon...it might have been the car from the Ripcords record cover. I also caught a quick shot of a killer roadster of some sort...an A I think, but maybe a deuce. Anyhow I have never seen any mention of these cars before in previous posts...of course the show seemed to be poop so maybe no gearhead has seen it. And to think, I did like Crybaby alot...lol.
Streets of Fire Deuces Wild The Incredibles (Don't cringe too much when they smash em up...They're all digital) True
One of the best movies ever. Liberty Heights is also a good flick. A similar subject came up a few months ago and someone said his car was used in the film but I dont remember who.
the batman with val kilmer in it...........damn bastards are driving '50 buicks (and crashing them). hot rod girl dragstrip girl ghost of dragstrip hollow the lively set hot rod gang t birds
Giant Gila Monster High School Confidential Blackboard Jungle Choppers Wild Ride Hot Car Girl Speed Crazy
Check out any Frankie & Annette movie. Plus all the F&A-clone teen flicks of the same era. Plenty of the Mystery Science Theater crapola-flicks had good scenes of early iron, like "The Beatniks", and "Wild Rebels" has good scenes of late 50's stock cars running on a short track in the first ten minutes. There's an Abbott & Costello movie involving some guy that races a Kurtis-type sprint car with a "mystery engine", the end has a chase with Costello driving like a moron (natch) all over the streets of a city. Good street vehicles as well. Can't recall the name of the flick, tho. "The Big Wheel" with Mickey Rooney is also chock-full of early iron, he's a sprint car driver, and for even more sprinters check out "To Please A Lady", (a.k.a. "Red Hot Wheels") - it has Clark Gable driving 'em!
the choppers Any of the old drive in B movie favorites with atom bomb created monsters. What was the one with the giant gila monster?
I'm going to have to go with The Fast and the Furious, and especially 2 Fast 2 Furious, for the creative use of the doulbe meaning of "2" Actually the greatest movie of all time is vanishing point
I was watching some of Mad Max the other day. There's a lot of weird Aussie stuff in that one, and 70s-ish customs. I like the Euro stuff in Italian Job (original) and Le Mans with Steve McQueen. One I always mean to check out is Gumball Rally. Anyone wanna give a review of it?
corvette summer with luke warmwater... j/k another one for Vanishing point, and 2 lane Blacktop, Cobra. Jonney
Not a movie but the TV series "Crime Story", a kick-ass detective show set in Chicago and Las Vegas in the early Sixties. It only lasted two seasons. You can get it on DVD now. http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=12714
"Dirty Larry, Crazy Mary" for lots of 60s stuff "Starsky & Hutch" and "CHiPs" re-runs for 70s background cars "Return To Macon County" with a very young Nick Nolte and Don Johnson for 50s cars. Lots of old tin used in the black & white "Twilight Zone" episodes... and the 80s "Catch Me If You Can" for a fun street racing/high school movie! oh yeah...and "Tuff Turf" for the cheesy primered Camaro (the original primered RAT ROD movie car?!), a very cool James Spader, and Kim Richards naked!
One of my all time favorite miovies, L.A. Confidential. "Is that how you used to run the good cop bad cop" Lt. Ed Exley Also, Chinatown and The Two Jakes with Jack Nicholson.
I think that the embarassing part is that you paid more attention to Dick van Dyke than to Ann-Margret!
California kids gotta be in there somewhere and how about the TV series Wonder Woman always some 50s stockers on there
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