Ok American Graffitti & Hollywood Knight what else

Doc

Here you go, these are photos I have collected from a mate and some posts on Australian sites

Some taken just after the filming finished



And the 57 some years later



Some stills from the movie
The green Chevy ute was reciently bought by a mate, it looked nothing like it did in the movie. And a shot of the RAMMER





And how the RAMMER looks now, waiting to be rebuilt

 

When "Smokey and the Bandit" came out I was 13, me and my buddy went to see that at least 10 times at a buck fifty a pop. Always wanted a black Trans Am, love the second gear scrach pulling away from the van.

I read most of the entries in this thread, did anyone mention the "Last American Hero" ? Jeff Bridges...."runnin' from the man in Oklahoma city with a five hundred gallon tank".

AG, I was in Highschool in the late seventies and early eighties we cruised, did Chinese fire drills, mooned people on the main drag, and raced in the country on Ave. 320 all the time. Loved the movie and my teen years.

 

saw one late last nite on tv with Kate Jackson (charlies angels) and David Carridine...he was drivin a 57 chevy and they beat the crap outa it...but I cant remember the name ,not that good of a movie it reminded me of the one with Don Johnson & Nick Notle also in a 57

 

Teenage Thunder 1958

 

Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back"?

 

got a copy of running on empty at super chevy last year in memphis guy was selling racing videos had a copylove those 57s got a copy of (catch me if you can ) kids racing for jukebox. 57 chevy buried under football field . i remember cruising down Colfax Ave in denver colorado in the early eighties was a lot like American Graff. then we would hang out at super shops and donut shop close to Casa Bonita resturant

 

Thunder and Lightning

 

How about "Death Race 2000". David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone.

 

Hollywood Knights will always be my fav. You should see the look on some of my friends faces when i say i like it more than American Graffiti.

 

yeah, thats the one but its a more door, we had no coupes then although people made there own.
good news is the movie came out on dvd about 2 years ago, its a low budget movie but the story is very typical of growing up around here, getting your first car, working at the wreckers to get cash to do it up, cruising for chicks, going to partys, getting drunk and getting a defect notice on your car.
it was all filmed about 5-10 minutes from were i work but the area its in is now very multicultural, not like in the movie.
Its called "the fj holden"

 

The FJ Holden movie

As mentioned before, I worked on the two FJ's used in the movie.

Here are some photos of the Yellow FJ that was used in the movie.
The first is from an Australian publication, Street & Strip from the mid 70's.
The movie production team bought it some time later.
The three street shots were taken in front of the movies production office in Sydney, after I had been working on the two cars used.
The other shot shows the yellow car during filming (without number plates), and lastly one from the street racing segment at brickies

 

cry baby-


i love this last few minutes of attack of the giant gilla monster, cant say its not a hotrod movie, the whole world gets saved by a hotrod.

hot rod girl



if you want to see a movie like american graffitti "hometown USA " is a close alternative http://www.amazon.ca/Hometown-USA-Widescreen-Full-Screen/dp/6305758832

i think of catch me if you can ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097029/ ) as americas version of our running on empty, were money is raised by street racing muscle cars, but in the end it takes a shit hot fast 57 chevy after the muscle car is wrecked.

here is running on empty

 

One of the best street racing movie's ever. Two Lane Blacktop. Still available, I found delux version on Ebay.

 

wow, i never knew you did that, my uncle reckons he saw the car rusting away on the side of the road in manly, or a copy with the same wheels.

 

Hot Rod Willys. A 40 Willys Coupe. Not really one of the best, but a classic all the same.

 

I have done a lot of different work, that people have no idea I was involved in

Once filming was finished the two tone grey FJ was painted yellow and used for promotional work.
Have a photos somewhere of it sign written down the side, with FJ Holden Movie!
And Franky J Holden standing with it.

None of the guys I have known for over 40 years that are and have been into early Holdens that long, know what ever happened to the two cars used.

A mate of mine has the BAD 781 plates, that have been on a couple of his cars

The attached clips you posted should give people outside of Australia a better idea of what we have been going on about.

 

Let me be one of the many to say "Hollywood Knights" isn't much of a movie at all, let alone a car movie. I remember the buildup in the car magazines leading up to, during and after its sad production. And don't remember anyone after the release saying " OMG, is THAT what they were making a big deal abouT?", how can that be?

 

Meh, i still love it.

 

Two lane Blacktop is my #1 car movie of all time. Sometimes me and my friends will chime in with movie lines out of nowhere-"Make it 3 yards mother&%$#@! and we'll have an automobile race", "Gee mister it looks pretty quick....thing is I'm just not in the habit of seeing the chevy work aginst a 2 bit piece of junk", "They got some muscle here tonite" I think that movie is great, who doesn't have the secret fantasy to drag race cross country??

 

Jackie Gleason!! My god he really was the GREAT ONE. Just reading those lines makes me laugh.
How sweet it is.

 

This is probably old news but the 55 in TLBT is the same one that Harrison Ford drives in Graffitti.

 

Yep. I seen it.

 

o.k here's one The car ... as for hot rod it is out on dvd ( i have it) got it at world of wheels a few years back. and the 68 cuda from corky was advertized for sale around chicago for the longest time in the auto mart mag.

 

Don't know if anyone mentioned it--there's a bank robbery flick with Robert Ryan and Sindey Poitier with a killer flathead in it--the plot in part is that Ryan hates Poitier because of his color ... Ryan builds an early 50s (Dodge? Chevy? Can't remember) family style station wagon as a get away car. It looks like any other six-cylinder buttslug family heap ... Ryan disguises himself as a hunter, checked shirt, tan boots, etc. He takes the wagon on a country road and winds it out comfortable to way over a buck. Stops for gas, tells the kid to stay away from the oil check. Kid opens the hood anyway to reveal a bitchin flathead with polished finned aluminum heads and dual carbs ... Ryan goes ballistic. Later the kid mentions it to the cops ... I think this is also the one with Al Jaffe as the third partner, an old man even then, fresh from the pen, he stands around staring at a hula girl pinup calendar, and finally gets busted at a malt shoppe watching the teenage girls dance ...

How about the old Indy movies? There's at least one with Mickey Rooney as a cocky young second-gen race driver, all kinds of real indy cars in that one. There's another Indy film where the driver is banned in the US and moves to Brazil and takes a new name and becomes their champion, then comes back to the US to race ... If I remember right Mickey Rooney's gody two-shoes Andy Hardy character had a souped up fenderless Model A roadster.

Also a little bit of car stuff in The Loveless with Robert Gordon, Willem Dafoe and Tina L'Hotski. Likewise Streets of Fire, Michael Pare, Dafoe, and Diane Lane at her hottest.

A little OT but there's a biker movie filmed in Bakersfield, forget the title just now, but Von Dutch was the art consultant for it--his stuff is all thru the film, signs on the wall, etc. One actor named Ted Markland has shades with crosshairs on one lens courtesy of VD. Cool knucklehead trike in that one ...

 

So many posts and I don't remember anyone mentioning Return to Macon county.

A must see if you like 50's cars and street racing along with some bad acting from famous actors who are really young.

 

I remember as little kid watching Two Lane Black Top and Dual. There were two great movies.

 

Hot Rods To Hell- cool cars, straight axle vette, the T, 56' chev., punk kids, straight lace Dad with hot daughter. Do you think the girl caved? Anyway sort of lame but not as bad as Two Lane Blacktop's acting. First showed the kids that movie, I built it up so much they were expecting maybe a little more..... they left the room.... I had to finish the popcorn! Best scene was inside the 55' listening to the M-22 whine through the gears! They should have played Green Onions somewhere in that film!

 

1949 "The Big Wheel" ... Interesting to watch open wheel cars race without roll cages ... Wonder what everyone was thinking then ... Joe

 

Just watched Bullit again. WOW! I must have watched the chase 20 times. One of the coolest movies ever. Wish I had more time to watch old car flicks. Worlds Fastedt Indian is the coolest movie in years but AG will always be tops.