Fun thread. In AG 2 Ron Howard gets a special appearance billing...while he is in much of the movie. Who gets NO recogition at all for their part? Also from AG2 what is the drunk driver driving at the end?
A.G. is one of the Great Films. Unfortunatly M.A.G. isn't. Seems to me that Toad is listed as MIA in AG. In MAG he & the Phaeroh plot to fake his death so he can bug out, & they fragged the latrene. Didn't hear how he expected to get home. AG came out when I was in Jr. High & started a life long intrest in rods. About the same time I saw a 71 Mach 1 in Diamonds are Forever.....
Well, I own the movie but haven't seen who is left out. I watch MAG like a porn, I fast fwd to the Milner parts to see the FED..man, they filmed that great, brings chills up my spine every time I see it. I need that rush at least once a month.....
Thanks Mutt for clearing that up.It hurts when I talk out my ass.Pretty amazing to me,had no idea he did that much after AG.
Ok here goes...there is no mention of Officer Falfa in the credits. The drunk driver was driving a truck, you can see the 5 cab clearance lights.
Johnny Weismillers(?spelling of Tarzan) son was one of the gang members. Here's one. What vehicle has a parachute on it? hint: it's parked I show car movies in my class and we pick them apart and of course I own AG.
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I was on vacation in calif. this summer and ate at MELS Diner on Van Nyes. Was that where it was realy filmed? Boy its changed a lot since then!
Actually it was the #1 Two Lane car that had a L88 Chevy 427 with L89 heads, and they swapped on a stock highrise and holley carb for American Graffitti. Its the car they flip the front end on at the gas station where you can see the aluminum heads, Ruth built headers and front suspension, and the tunnel ram. The #2 car had a crate 454 in it...considering the only (crate I know of) 454 at that time was the LS7...
You were at Mel's on Ventura Blvd, in Sherman Oaks, they only have 3 in LA, the Ventura Blvd one, one on Sunset, and one on Highland, and no it wasn't filmed there, the Mel's in the movie, was on South Van Ness in San Francisco. It was actually closed before the filming began but the magic of movies brought it back while the film was shot, it was torn down after the movie was shot. Skip
Mel's Diner was actually on South Van Ness Ave in San Francisco. It's not there anymore as it was torn down not long after the movie was shot.
In two lane: #1 car was the outsideshot car that was used for most of the driving scenes. It was used in AG. Then it was heavily modified, but still exists in something similar to its AG guise. #2 car was the camera car - still exists and has been restored to its Two Lane Livery. Still has all the camera mounts on it. #3 car was the rollover car, never used. Had a full roll cage in it but was never used in Two lane. The #1 car was redone for AG and the #3 car was the car that was rolled at the end. Some people say the #2 car was used as a camera car again in AG, but others don't.
What happened to Richard Dreyfuss? That poor bastard went from looking 16 years old to looking 80 years old with nothing in between.
About ten yrs ago I actually had two people in two different parts of the state tell me I looked like Charles Martin Smith One at a mill I was working at said I looked thae that guy eating rats in Never Cry Wolf and the other was a waitress in Yellowstone that really thought I was him and asked the cook to find out, She was too embaressed.
Man I just watched this movie last night! As I put it in my wife rolls her eyes and picks up a book. 3 favorite characters are: Pharaohs Merc Milner's Coupe Bobbi's VW (Just kidding!) There's a coupe w/ scallops that rolls by. That's #3. Anyone else notice that Paul LeMat and Candy Clark were both in Deuce Coupe (1992)? When in high school a bunch of us got jackets that said Pharaohs. Real original of us, but we loved the movie. And this was in the early 80s when it was almost never shown on TV and before home video. At least that any of our families could afford. The library had the screenplay in paperback. I bet I checked it out a hundred times.
My dad knows a guy named George from Modesto. He would always bring Dad See's Candy. I never noticed that was in the movie! George (not Lucas) went to school with Lucas. I think he said Lucas had a Plymouth or Dodge coupe of some kind. Modesto was planning on puting up a statue or something of Lucas last time I talked to them and George's wife was mad about it. She said Lucas never gives Modesto the time of day, he just ignores the town now.
OK I have an AG question for ya What is the true spelling of the Medesto Pharaoh chapter that is in AG ? ( its spelled wrong in the movie) And why? A few questions from a Pharaoh
Heres a totally useless piece of trivia the near same thing happens in the movie "The Fast and the Furious", Paul Walker (Brian) hits the curb in a red F-150 Lightning as he pulls up to a speed shop.
This is an awesome thread, I love AG and have seen it several times. I play it in my garage sometimes while I am working. I'll have to watch it this weekend now! I love the scene where Milner stops by the shop to uncap his headers, very cool. I have thought about this movie and the characters probably way too much over the years, I always think when Milner gives his shift knob away towards the end of the movie when he drops Carol off, that it would suck to drag race with no shift knob. Milner is the coolest.
Alright here's one........Not sure if this has been brought up yet, but what kind of rear tires were on Milner's '32? (Type and Make)............. They were not used, along with the Man-A-Fre 4x2, in the second movie. -Dean
Actually, the one that the film was shot @ was in the city of San Francisco, It's now a gas station & you can see the building with all of the windows that was in the background accross the street. It was closed before the shoot, It had been and was slated for demolition in 1972, George Lucas talked his way into renting it just for adequate visual effect. I believe that there are now 3 in San Francisco now & actually 4 in L.A. if you count the one @ Universal Studios lot. It is open to the public & serves up burgers & fries & has a 57 Chevy with hacked off top to make it into a converible out front. In the movie,the characters never refered to it as Mel's Drive-In. Just Burger City. On another note interest. Only one night of filming was done in San Rafeal,The city wouldn't give the producers another permit, so another small town had to be found pronto & Petaluma welcomed the film with open arms. Paradise Road is actually Frietas Rd, & now has a golf course & houses on one side. Just like everywhere,things change,Mr Developer comes in & changes stuff around. 33yrs ago is a long time ago. I remember seeing this movie for the 1st time when I was like 9yrs old @ the Monterey Park Edwards Theater=now demo'd. I was hooked. I knew that I had ta get a car like John's,Bob's Steve's Joe the Pharoah! I built models of all of them before I was 10. The next year I see a flamed black 3W 34 Ford cruising on Las Tunas Dr.in San Gabriel, didn't know who the owner was, Stopped me on my bike dead in my tracks. Didn't see it again for a while, but this time it was on TV with a guy Martin Sheen behind the wheel. The car had mags on it when I saw it, now it had red steelies & caps. Saw the previews, watched the movie intently, didn't see it again until I got a copy on VHS from Cal Tanaka in 1988 with 1st 10 mins gone=oh well, Got a complete copy for my birthday a few yrs back. One thing that I remember when my brother & I were through watching that night in 1974 was that my brother said he knew where the car was, Man it was like a mile & half away in Temple City. We found out that Pete didn't have the car anymore, because they used the money to buy stuff for the business, Chris Carrier on the East Coast now owned it. He sold it back to the company in 1981 & when the co. was sold in 86 the car went with it. Without these two movies & Happy Days I probably would have ended up a normal guy, now I'm just plain nuts. Cars make big impressions on lil guys!!!
I thought the chick at the dance says the band "Came all the way from Wisconsin!" ? Anyway, here's a pic from Wisconsin, right off of my street corner...you so called Graffiti nuts....I win...
There is now also a Mel's in Placerville CA. My Grandma lived in Petalum in the '60s and '70s. My Aunt and Uncle both graduated from Petaluma High School in '65. Jerry's Cherries, the lot where the cop car shenannagans occured, is two doors down from the toy store that my Grandma would take me to when I visited. That part of town still looked pretty much the same the last time I was there in '91. Freitas road is the spot the locals would drag race during my Aunt and Uncle's high school days. I saw the movie for the first time at the Century 22 theatre in San Jose CA. and Milner's coupe on display in the lobby. really bitchin'. I was 12 years old and already had loved old cars from about the age of 2, but after seeing this movie, I could't wait to get my driver's license so I could go cruzin'. Now, some loosely related trivia what TV show did Happy Days spin off from?
Happy Day's was spun-off,from an episode,from 'love american style". The episode had Ron Howard,playing close to the Richard Cunningham charachter. He was trying to impress a girl,into dating him,because his family had just got one of those new TV things. BTW in my senior year I was the only 'greaser' with slicked back hair,cuffed levis, driving a lowered,primered shoebox ,with oldies on the 8 track. Yes, I invented the 'old skchool' comebackSparky
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