Hey, just got back to see replys on this post and they are great. does anyone know the parts make-up on the frame, and motor?
Re Falfa's black '55, I'm just working on memeory here, and would need to do a search to confirm, but I'm sure there were 3 '55s built for Two Lane Blacktop. Two of them were then used in AG, one of which was the car that was rolled.
Where talkin Milners coupe here!! HOW DARE you guys badmouth the most famous hotrod from a movie!! MAN everyone who said anything bad about the grill, alt, back wheels on the front, yada should be keel hauled!! Thats dispecable to even think like that!!Its the holy grail of everything we beleive in!! SHAME ON everyone who said anything bad about it. Get to church & pray 5 rosaries, 10 hail marys & 15 our fathers!!! SHAME,SHAME,SHAME!!!!!! lol JimV
you are kinda right...I even feel guilty thinking this way now...its the reason I have a 5 window now, ( although a deuce was out of the financial ballpark...) I have since come to like the Model A from '30-'31 better...and I have spent a lot of years trying to understand the reason for the 2 foot grill...( it is still MILNER'S GOD-DAMN coupe, though...thus it will always be bad-ass anyway...but if it was built now, with that grill shell you would get an "F" for proportion, and flow...
Word twice.If there.s anything wrong with "the graffiti coupe"I sure as hell can,t see it.I just blessed myself as i say the hallowed name
I think you.ve picked yourself the wrong hobby partner.Thats like saying i love B.B.Q's but I.m a vegetarian
I love the Milner coupe, definately a bitchin' and iconic machine. That being said, I've always thought that the shortened grill shell and the 14" wheels don't look quite right.
I was a year old back in 62'....but thanks to some caring aunts and uncles I was introduced to Hot Rods ,Rock and Roll and the Motown sound very early in my life.....I watch AG and 2 lane at least twice a year....you know got get my fixx....but the other film I can't wait for to come out in DVD is the California Kid....the Holy trinity( of the Hot Rod world) will be complete.....
Although I've got no desire to build a coupe that looks like the Milner car, the positive impact it's had on the hobby is indisputable. Take a look through some late '50s/early '60s HRMs--there are some pretty out of proportion rods on those pages.
It had a previous engagement, I believe east of the Mississippi. I was disappointed cause I would have liked to have seen it. Being from MI I don't get to the left coast very often and that was my best shot of awhile. Oh well. Wasn't ment to be.
Geee,..... I hate to sound like a Graffiti geek,.... but in the original script it says,.... "Suddenly there is a ear-splitting roar and they all turn as a yellow '32 Ford Deuce coupe-- chopped, lowered and sporting a Hemi-V8 bumps into the lot. The low slung classic rumbles and parks at the rear of the drive in. Big John Milner, twenty two, sits in his Ford , tough and indifferent, puffing on a camel. He wears a white T-shirt and a butch hair cut molded on the sides into a ducktail. A cowboy in a deuce coupe-- simple, sentimental and cocksure of himself. This was written before they started the movie, so you can see that Lucas had a good handle on what he wanted,... but obviously the Coupe didn't have a Hemi and Milner didn't have a butch haircut,... What I was told years and years ago is that they were going to channel the car but ran out of time, but they had already sectioned the radiator shell and radiator,.... so that is how they ran it.
that would explain ALOT channeling that coupe would have made it a different beast alltogether and tied together all the other modifications I.E. shortned grille shell on a no-channel car
@Harms Way ... This is very interesting. About 20 years ago, my father was approached by someone who said he represented George Lucas ... and wanted to purchase his (now mine) Hemi-powered, chopped & channeled 5 window coupe for George. He said that George wanted it because it was what he originally envisioned for Milner to be driving. Pops told the guy: "it's not for sale!" ... and later commented about how "ignorant" this guy was ... since the car in the movie was nothing like our car (about the only similarity was that they both are 5-windows). Whether this guy was for real or not, I'll never know ... and it doesn't really matter ... 'cuz my 5-window will always stay in the family! Not that anyone's counting ... but I think the "Graffiti Coupe" is Ugly too ... then again, what a boring world it would be if everyone drove red, hemi-powered, chopped & channeled, 1932 Ford 5-window coupes ... or for that matter, 1945 Thames Vans! (@thamesvan, should I pick another hobby?)
You guys keep getting off the path, does anybody really know the details of the build of this car or what?
ifn it was channeled they would have had to have holes in the rockers for the cameras.... maybe why it werent
Jeez,I guess I stand corrected,your C.V.is excellent,can onlly say I don.t see what you guys ain.t seeing.John.s car is the bitch'nest in the Valley
I,m back on it?I feel like a dad where folks are bad mouthing his kid!The grafitti coupe is THE hotrod.HOTROD is the grafitti coupe.Now I got that off my chest,I always assumed the cut down grill was a stylee thing.You know like in the 60,s model T,s always had that low frontal area look........Tommy Ivo,Kookies T,Big Daddy etc etc
I always thought this, too. And, I still do. I like it much better than a the too-tall, out of proportion, grill shells commonly seen on hoodless 32s.
The graffitti coupe is A HOTROD from a MOVIE, a movie...not reality buddy! McMULLENS DUECE IS A HOTROD
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