O/T Other car movies that really got you REVVED UP.

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Car movies? I'm a sucker for car movies.

Death Race 2000
Cobra
The ricer version of The Fast and The Furious
and the much improved (more racing) 2 Fast 2 Furious
Winning
Grand Prix
Ronin
Two Lane Blacktop
American Graffiti
More American Graffiti (have the laser disc)
The '50s version of The Fast and The Furious
The Big Wheel
The original Gone in 60 Seconds
The remake of Gone in 60 Seconds
The Junk Man
Repo Man
Pit Stop, aka The Winner (featuring figure 8 racing, street racing and a peek into period custom shops)
Ferris Beuler's Day Off
Driven

I know I've got others, but from memory these are the one's I have on DVD or Laser Disc.

And Gumball Rally on tape.

 

Those are just the ones I've got.

The list of the car movies I LIKE is HUGE!

 

Don't forget about the TV Movie, The California Kid, and Hot Rod. About the Little Guy / Underdog who gets wrecked by a rich kid then builds a Willys coupe and beats the SOB against all the obsticals(sic) the rich kid's old man can throw at him.

I wish I could find it on DVD.

 

I've seen The California Kid as a Bootleg, but it hasn't officially been released on anything. Too bad! It's good.

California Kid trivia: As the Kid arrives in town and a stops at the gas station, all the kids gather around to gawk at the hot rod. A closeup of the engine is shown.

In the movie, I seem to remember that the closeup actually used a Flathead in a red car, not the Chevy engine in the black California Kid coupe. Whose engine/car was used for the closeup? And is my fading memory correct that it was a flathead?

 

I just watched California Kid. I think the part you are refering to is when the sherriff pulls him over and asks to see the motor. When the close up shows its the chevy smallblock from the grafitti coupe! 4 carbs and all (thats what I heard anyway)regardless the close up is a 4 carbed chevy that looks like Milners engine., then you can see from the outside shot its a ford 302 cause the distributor is up front. The copy I have is taped off of the now defunct "Lost Drive-In" that used to come on speedvision, its a shame they killed that show.

And folks the sound is the best part of that movie. That car has a mean ass lope and to hear it screaming through the mountain at the end chase is amazing through surround sound turned WAY up!

 

Oh and the California kid was Ford powered by either a 289 or 302, I can't remember. I think it still has a Ford mill in it to this day.

 

Corvette Summer
Gumball Rally

 

Hollywood Knights was a cool one!

 

I've never seen this one mentioned on the H.A.M.B.. 'Touch of Evil' It's great Chuck Heston as Mexican bordertown cop 'Mike' Vargas is hilarious. Orson Welles as a crooked American cop is fat and creepy. But the best part is the Mexican hot rod greaser gang. Wait till you see the cars. It's on dvd. Not to mention one of the coolest opening sequences ever filmed, it's one very long take. An Orson Welles classic. -stick

 

Fergot to mention Losing It.

Quite a few shots of the Convertable '57 Chevy and a memorable appearance of a Mexican "Rat Rod" '28 RPU that's owned by the junkyard owners kid. The kid mentions that it's got a Chevy engine (I think) and a LaSalle transmission. During a chase scene you can see the plated and polished Jaguar rear suspension under the back. Wire wheels similar to Buicks are up front, but steel wheels hide the lack of outboard brakes in the back.

 

What movie influenced me?

Probally Winning and Grand Prix. Subsequent to watching those, I bought my first car, a '71 Datsun 240Z and hopped it up to the point that it was only marginally legal for F-Prepared class in the SCCA Solo II competition.

Forgot to mention I recently got the remake of The Italian Job.
I've wanted a copy of the original Italian Job for a while, but it's not available on a US DVD and I've put off buying a laser disc of it because it won't have the cool deleted scene of the Minis racing across the ice that the european DVD has.

 

Hey Von,
Call it Mad Max you are confusing the aussies
Love Mad Max the sequals got worse and worse...as an aside there are a heap of thos Aussie Falcons in the US now partially due to the film and the fact they look nicer then a 71 up Mustang, there was a bunch of articles about them all at the 100 years of Ford bash.

 

Smokey and the Bandit.
Cannonball Run.
Just about ANY car movie... good or bad...

Hollywood Knights is actually one of my favorite movies, too...

 

my first car movie was two lane blacktop, my pop took the family to see it at the drive in, proly 72 or 73. i was marked from then on, i got my blankett and sat in front of our 66 catalina and didnt budge, its still my favorite,
now mad max on the other hand got me a fist full of ticketts after the late showing. i had a grey primered, bumperless, jacked up, pissed off, roll barred, 460 pi, 72 torino, fast assed boat, i ran the wheels off that turd. big fun, my pop didnt get it.

 

Not a movie, but ya can't leave out the Duke boys.......To

 

Opening scene in RoadRacers is pretty cool...plus it's a super cheesy flick.

 

Not really car flick but a bike flick - On Any Sunday

 

Hot Rod is great. I like the fact that he steals an engine out of a cop car before the final race scene. (nevermind the fact that the cop car is an AMC Matador, and the engine is a Hemi...automotive accuracy was never Hollywood's strong suit)

 

Greased Lightning...cool moonshiners, very early NASCAR stuff

 

Touch Of Evil is my life's blood. I've likely seen it at least 20 times. give me a damn scene and I can probably quote it line for line- I'm that stupid about the movie. its brief hot rod scene doesn't present the cars like most other 'car' movies do, but simply shows them as transportation for the evil, horrible Grande boys, which is cool.

here's a question about Mad Max : is there available a copy of the movie that's not overdubbed in Californian? my cheeseball copy has all the Aussy-English looped, probably because of fears at the mothership the accent would throw dummy Americans.
check it out: Max is at the hospital, Goose is all fucked up, and Max speaks like he's a doped-up DJ doing the weather for the Valley. it's awful.

 

The fast and the furious

That movie was tight,
Like virgin ass-hole

 

Mad Max was great for so many creative reasons.
"Losin' It" had some great hot rod stuff & humor to it, that rpu was really something.
I haven't seen the original yet, but the recent "Gone In 60 seconds", that chase scene with Elanor was unbelieveable.
"Easy Rider", though having bikes instead of cars, was a cool road trip movie, especially how the style of the bikes matched the characters riding them.

 

Christine , Mad max 2 ,2 lane blacktop ,Goodbye porkpie(what?)

 

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I haven't seen the original yet, but the recent "Gone In 60 seconds", that chase scene with Elanor was unbelieveable.

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In my opinion, the original Gone In 60 Seconds was the better of the two. Sure it's got bad acting , but wait the remake had Nic Cage so that equals it out. The original had a better (and longer) chase scene. No fake looking computerized jumps. The original had a more honest approach to the plot. No trying to make the main character into a good guy. He stoled the cars for money, not to save some dumbass brother who couldn't get the job done. Do yourself a favor and buy the original, it's like $15.00 bucks on DVD. The extras are pretty cool to.

While your at it find "The Junkman" They wreck even more cars in it and it's got a cameo by George Barris

 

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Car movies? I'm a sucker for car movies.

Death Race 2000
Cobra
The ricer version of The Fast and The Furious
and the much improved (more racing) 2 Fast 2 Furious
Winning
Grand Prix
Ronin
Two Lane Blacktop
American Graffiti
More American Graffiti (have the laser disc)
The '50s version of The Fast and The Furious
The Big Wheel
The original Gone in 60 Seconds
The remake of Gone in 60 Seconds
The Junk Man
Repo Man
Pit Stop, aka The Winner (featuring figure 8 racing, street racing and a peek into period custom shops)
Ferris Beuler's Day Off
Driven

I know I've got others, but from memory these are the one's I have on DVD or Laser Disc.

And Gumball Rally on tape.

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I could do with out the ricer "FAST and the FUNNIEST" But the others mentioned here are great!

Forgot to mention "THE LIVELY SET" Hot Rod racing, to drag racing, to jet drags, to turbine cars, to turbine cars racing stock cars X-country!!

Mark

 

not car movies in the usual sense but has anyone seen `The road to Perdition` and `Catch me if you can`..both films are full to the brim with hotrods and kustoms waitng to happen...along the same lines `Bonnie and Clyde ` was on last nite..1930`s car chases

monkey

monkey-inc

 

I dig:

"The Car"
"Catch Me If You Can" (80s teen car flick)
"Double Nickels"
"Moonshine County Express"
"Joy Ride" (Caaaannnndy Cane!!!!)

And the way that ambulance idled in the first Cannonball Run movie when Burt backed it off that semi and was talking to the cop...NASTY!!!

 

According to Brock Yates in his book "Cannonball", the ambulance used in the movie is the same ambulance that he and his buddies used in the real Cannonball races.