American Graffiti question? Experts needed.

milesm wins this one.....

 

Oh HELL NO! Ive spent all my money and time building a milner clone nut for nut and bolt for bolt to be exactly like the real coupe and now you tell me its just a movie! Next ya'll be saying John Milner is not real!!

 

wow, i just read this whole thread...i need to get back to work.

must have been aliens.

 

Steel belts.

You can't see them in these photos, but there were plenty of sparks coming off this tire...



Then it went BAM! and we thought he'd fucked his rear end, but it was only the steel belts snapping and the outer casing coming off, so he went back at it...



Until it went ppphhhhtttthht whap whap whap (that's the technical term )



Steel belts make sparks.

 

Here's some better picks, sorry I didn't put them up sooner

 

yeah, me too. it took me a while to remember, but i have an old video tape i did in high school for a class project, it was nothing more than me and a few classmates runnin to various back country roads and doing burnouts and donuts, there were sparks coming from my tires from rocks.

 

this is what i have been meaning. for the first race in town milner does not expect it so hes running stock exhaust. but before the big race he takes his header plugs out at the gas station. if you watch the big race his exhaust is coming out of the rear tips. maybe some would, but not that much. i was never talking about the race in town. i was talking about the film clip. wait its just a movie? now im gonna have to sell my milner clone car. my lifes ruined.

 

I've noticed all that exhaust too.

Its definitely a blooper.

You'd expect the exhaust condensation to be coming from the header....and its not.

 

No car movie will ever be perfect for us gearheads.

Josh

 

What about that PORN movie that got made in someone's garage recently?



I haven't seen it.

Are there any bloopers?

 

A friend of mine in High school had a turbo T-bird that had a couple nails in the tire. He did some really good burnouts with that car and the tires would spark just like that. Only happened with tire spin, going down the road it didnt' do shit.

 

i always thought it was a cigarette thrown out & I WILL CONTINUE TO THINK THAT nomatter what it was!

that 55 had that 32 alllllllll the way! he was just putting on a smoke show at the big race & was going to FLY by that coupe with tires ignited.
i know this because thats the way i do it downtown. let them jump out first so i can blast by them, if i jump out first the chicken shits sometimes shut down. espically the harley guys! (let the harleys jump out first) or they shut right down! ---- ol worn out chevie just BURNIN by a new LOUD ASS harley YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAA ADIOS MF!!!

 

iv seen sparks fly out of the fly wheel area from the metalic in cluches but in the back like that maby when the tires grip they flex the axel enough for the drum to hit the backing plate

 

I like the studded snow tire theory. Especially since it's in central CA in late Summer. Maybe he had em on to get traction because the roads were melting because it was so hot!! thats gotta be it.

 

OK, I will try some guesswork. The same Chevy was built for Two Lane Blacktop, and it had some trick rear brake set up to help the stuntmen wreck the car in that movie, then, they shot a differant ending on James Taylor having a Nervous Breakdown!!! I always noticed the sparks, so I am figuring it may have been the rear calipers the Chev had rubbing during hard launches. There is a site dedicated to Two Lane Blacktop that describes the Chev and GTO if anyone is interested. Just Google it!

 

hahaha......best song, and they forgot it!

 

metal give sparks when ground in the dark.. not rocks

so its metal a nail or steel belt or steel nut - bolt in the tread

ANY METAL DEBRI FROM THE OTHER CARS THEY WRECKED (REMOVED AXLE)BUMPED INTO WHILE SHOOTING THEY ONLY USED A SHORT SECTION OF STREET FOR THE FILMING OVER AND OVER FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES THINK THEY SWEPT UP BETWEEN SHOTS ITS ONLY NIGHT FOR SO LONG...

OR RUSTY CHUNKS DROPPING OFF THIS CAR AS HE RUNS OVER IT

WE DRAGGED OUR THUMBTACK COVERED HEELS WHEN RIDIN BIKES AFTERDARK ON THE 4TH OF JULY FOR OUR FREE FIRE WORKS

we sat through this 4 time s when it first came out ..VERY INFLUENCIAL

my best girl found a vhs copie and gave it to me on our first date we are still watchin it as a anniversary or new years eve event

we collect lotsa graffiti stuff only missin the autograghs form toad and ronnie

the 55 at the end is a 4 door

MUST just go watch it again right now

 

and metal comes from?.....rocks.

guess you never get up to the iron range!

 

Maybe instead of studded snow tires........ It was flint rocks in the tires.........
If it was soap stone there would have been bubbles I guess......





Shoe

 

My buddies '70 Mach 1 would throw sparks off of the rear tires but they were tiny orange sparks right under the tire that you could barely see. I'm guessing it was from the steel belts on his totally worn tires. I don't thnk they would show up very well on film so I like the nail theory the best.

In American Graffiti 2 one of Milner's competitiors makes a joke about how Milner should put his Chevy motor (from the rail) back into his coupe. I always figured that meant he was running a small black Chevy in the Duece Coupe. What sort of killer motor would the 55 Chevy have had back in '62 to blow off a coupe weighing a few hundred less?

 

No, it's not. The bumpers and wheels are spray on chrome (silver), but it's a 2-door.

 

I think it is all special effects - just like in "Meet The Parents" where the two cars are racing between stop lights and they lock up the brakes coming to a screeching halt - ain't gonna happen with anit-lock brakes. Or when you hear squeeling tires on gravel. Watch a couple old movies. Every car starting sounds like it has a flathead or Y-Block starter. Just my .02 Tom - restorit

 

If you play it backwards, the sparks spell out, "Louie Louie by the Kingsmen didn't come out until 1963"

 

SECERT ALIEN TIRE COMPOND , I blame the russins HA HA HA

 

actually the 56 at the end IS a four door. just watched a thing a couple of weeks ago on it, had interviews with lucas and all. the 56 was a four door hardtop and they put a strip of wood in there for the colum. if you watch the wreck closely it gets thrown aorund and moves. plus most of those cars were real piles that they fixed up real piles. lots of bondo. i would kill for that intake on the 32. isnt that motor a 265 too?

JUNIOR

 

wrong

its a ht, and there wasnt a 4 door ht made in 55

 

Lot's of details on the cars

http://kathyschrock.net/graffiti/55.htm

 

I watched that part 5 or 6 times trying to figure it out, I'm sure its some hollywood b.s. sparkley crap that didnt go as planned.