Ok American Graffitti & Hollywood Knight what else

Gumball!

 

I always liked the black and gold olds in "W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS". The movie has Burt Reynolds in it.
"Mishchief" is a good 50's movie and has a fully nude Kelly Preston when she was in her prime.
The "PORKY'S" series is always good for a laugh and has a little car stuff in it also.

 

What about Mad Max?, although an Aussy, movie! I mean the first one!

 

not really a hot rod movie but how about Moon Shine Highway??

 

OK what about King of the mountian with Harry Hamlin,Debra VanValkenberg& Dennis Hopper.....one bad 1956 f-100..vette was Kool too! .......Well after all these years I just watched Van Nuys Blvd. acting sucked kool rods and groovy vans,oh yeah alotta T & A.......maybe I should get my A-100 on the road again

 

Not about hot rods but muscle cars. The original "Catch me if you can" about raising money by street racing to save their high school. Thats one wicked '57 Chevy of fast freddy's

 

I always liked "Thunder Road" with Robert Mitchum and Gene Barry.

 

Hot rod girl from about 1959, is a good flic, greaser in a 32 takes on new kid in a custom sled, neeto

 

The Heavenly Kid. Cheezy to the hilt, but when the ghost kid rebuilds the 57 conv. just by wiggling his fingers it is kinda cool. Also some cliff chicken scenes that are a little "over the edge". Lewis Smith (?) stars as a dead greaser sent back to save the nerd (later turns out to be his son) from total self destruction.

The original Catch Me If You Can starred Matt Lattanzi (of cheap porn fame) and Geoffey Lewis (Clint Eastwood's wrecker driving buddy from the baboon films) and features a host of cool "illegal" race scenes from before the tuner craze killed that fantasy. Chevelles, Fire Chickens, GTOs, and a red 57 BelAir painted with water based paint that washes off to reveal navy blue with flames underneath.

Now go into your living room and put Christine in the VCR or DVD player and turn up the volume all the way. Close you eyes and let the sound of the revs carry you away...I gotta quit drinking while I do this.

 

Seen a movie with a primed hemi willys driving the country. Can't remember the dam name!

 

I can't believe that this thread popped up again. If you love American Grafitti, watch it many times, reminice and enjoy .... I didn't expect (nor want) to sway anyone's opinion
and you won't sway mine. That's why I posted "No offense to ya'll.." We all don't have to enjoy the same flicks to get along, no?

I'm 56 as I said, was 12 in '62 and spent time around the NE Ohio street scene in the pre-muscle car early-mid '60s when I could sneak out of the house. My 28 year old cousin would take me with him more often than not.

Youngstown, Oh isn't Modesto, Ca. The area is a ghetto now and nobody sane would go there at night. The hot summer night rod activity was very different. What I lived through was inner city street racing......down, dirty and rough, cruising was looking for looking for another race while drinking a beer. I saw a fair amount of money changing hands with fist fights and an occasional knifing when it didn't. Cops, getting busted , being cuffed for the first time, my first trip to Juvie, getting picked up by a VERY pissed father were downsides but I lived through them. These dudes racing on the streets *were* hoodlums, very much like the 3 patchers of a few years later. My cousin ran a '48 DeLuxe Club Coupe with the Olds motor from his old stock car under the hood. He had a good job as a tool and die maker with Packard Electric, but this was his after work fun on summer weeknights rather than sitting in the bar until closing time as he did the rest of the year. His normal ride was a '56 Buick Century with a 3 speed, a fairly rare car. Once he took me on a trip 'down home' to W/Va....where our family is from, to bring back a couple of cases of the Good Stuff that's best drunk from Mason Jars.

I enjoyed R.A Jetter's Friday Night Read ever since I started frequenting the HAMB. My $$ have been spent on my cars lately, but I need to buy his books. The stories he told were closer to my memories than American Grafitti.
Jan

 

Ok another Aussy one, not about rods but an interesting car movie with a lot of late 70s sprint car action.
"Midnite Spares". (Yes its spelled wrong like that on the movie)
"On the Beach", has some cool late 40s roadracing in it.
An we all have to admit the new "Dukes of Hazzard" movie makes us all want to go out and give it hell!!


HANG ON!! Why hasent anyone mentioned "Hot Rod Story USA"? Narrated by Xlex Xydes, has ALL of my heroes in it too!

Then there's,
"The Worlds Fastest Indian", not about cars but some great LSR action.

Doc.

 

Possibly the worst dialouge ever. I love this film. I love that 10mph fatal wreck.

 

I can not think of the title. But its the one there the guy crashes his Mopar then take the Hemi and drops it in a 1941 Willys.

 

i dont mind some of the oldies, they are usually about $2 to buy the dvd, some i have are hot rod girl, the choppers and the wild ride, if you like new cars from the 70's and eighties you wont like these movies as they are from the hot rod era, my wife doesnt like them but i watch them over and over when she is asleep.
American Graffitti is good, but it looks a little modern compared to traditional hot rod movies. I watched american grafitti this morning so its still fresh in my head!
I have some of the new stuff like christine, hometown USA, catch me if you can ( dont mix it with that leanardo decaprio movie, catch me if you can is about a guy who saves his school by racing a 57 chevy)
here in australia we have a movie called the FJ holden, in Australia the FJ holden in the 60's and 70's is like what the 32 ford was in the 50's, it shows the typical life of a aussie teen in the 70's with a fj holden wich is a 1953-56 model holden, he starts of with it in primer, they cruise around looking for chicks and go street racing, the movie is near spot on to life in sydney in the mid 70's, at the end of the movie the car is finished and painted but wearing a defect notice.
I took the kids to see disneys "cars" and was very impressed.

if lowriders are your thing the cheech and chong movies are good, , i have a movie called devills knight but its real crap, its a lowrider movie.
you guys have probably seen the aussie movie "mad max" it isnt much of a hot rod movie but it features some Aussie muscle cars.
we have a new very low budget movie called hot rod girls from hell http://hotrodgirlsfromhell.com/ , i warned you its low budget but if you like cars and rockabilly-psychobilly you will probably still like it.
I had a movie called mischeif wich was ok but the tape got destroyed. I had dragstrip girl but it got stolen in the VCR, i tried to get it again but it was a different movie with the same title in modern times.
the movie deadmans curve is good if you like the 60's and jan & dean but again be carfull, there is also some crappy new movie with the same title.

 

FCCool, Could that Holden movie be this one?

Kinda sounds like it...

 

american graffitti... STILL one of the best movies i've seen in my life!!!

 

Hometown USA has some great Demolition Derby scenes. If you've never run in one but wondered what it's like, rent this movie. I'd forgotten all about that one. The World's Fastest Indian is a flatout great film!
If anyone in our solar system hasn't seen "Cars", for shame.. Doc Hudson and the King make that movie even if there weren't another car in it.

Jan

 

Thunder road was based on a real moonshine running family and was precursor to dukes of hazard which is comedy about the same family all the names Uncle Jesse etc.are real people check out travelermovie.com for details Hazzardville was a real place but was actually a hidden drinking spot in the hills of North Carolina Randy Travis started out his career there as a young teen.get the chance to see the chrystler 300 that the general was based on ,only the chrysler was named for General Lees favorite horse Traveler!

 

Don't you know that was an early joint venture between chrysler and American Motors ?All hush ,hush of Course!

 

not a movie as such its a documentary but ive had a vhs copy of "american nitro: saga of the american funny cars" for the past 20 years! all recorded at a meet at fremont in the late 70's with additional footage of crashes and such, all the heavy hitters in funny car it was when prudhomme was unbeaten for the full year has some crazy dude jumping semis on a bike with a hang glider and the green mamba! ive worn to poor tape out! found it on dvd on ebay the other night...sooo stoked

 

I have been looking for American Nitro for years, saw it when I was about 15 and have been dying to get a copy since!!
That is a great movie, almost as good as Hotrod Story USA!

 

It's called FJ Holden or The FJ Holden also check out Running on Empty for some great lines, illegal street racing with a 57 Chevy and who could forget Mad Max, I think it was called The Road Warrior in the U.S.

 

I love Two-Lane but really- more believable than "Grafitti"? The stuff in Grafitti was really happening clear up into the 70's. Not too many of us took off on cross country racing trips but everybody was on "E" street every Friday and Saturday night doing exactly what they did-cruising, looking for girls(girls looking for boys), drinking, racing, and generally screwing around and hoping the cops didn't show up on our corner or rear bumper.

 

You had better clean your shoes. You stepped in some deep s--t. Graffitti was a great movie. Just ask anyone how was from that period.

 

Here in San Antonio not too long ago at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema they did a carshow/AG night. Was pretty cool, wish I wouldve been able to see the movie on the big screen but I had to work.

One of the BEST car related movies ever is LeMans with steve mcqueen. If you haven't seen this movie you really are missing out. Its a must see for any car-guy.

 

How about Redline 7000 Fireball 500 Thunder Alley & McQ (John Wayne trashes a Trans Am.)Check out The Blacksmith.Silent film with Buster Keaton where he totally destroys someone's limo.

 

Has anybody seen the lowrider flick BLVD. NIGHTS some great 70s lowriders

 

Thanks, now I know which title to look for...

 

Check out Two Lane Blacktop.