Let's have a little fun.
Tell us what your favorite car movie is.
Vanishing Point, LeMans, and of course, American Graffiti.
Rick

American Graffiti gets the thumbs up from me. I can watch that over and over again...

The new Gone in 60 Seconds is fun to watch time to time.

BULLIT! steve McQueen

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chitti chitti bang bang..

Smokey and the Bandit.

"American Graffiti" first, and then "Two Lane Black". The same 55 Chevy is in both movies and is sweet. Got to love the yellow 32 coupe also.

Matt

Hands down, the best
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In no particular order:

Bullit
Two Lane Blacktop
Vanishing Point
Grand Prix (James Garner, from the sixties)
The Great Race (cars are all ficticious, wonderful

--Duke Elsner

Transformers, the movie.
they are some badass cars...

All good ones so far guys, but here are a few more from my youth.....


Road Warrior ... Mel is da Man! The toughest car to ever come from "don unda". This movie made me appreciate the flat black stealt look!

Better off Dead .... a high school kid how can't really work on cars meets a female french exchange student who restores his '68 Camaro for him to race his enemies.

Corvette Summer ... a high school kid with a dream who saves a practically new at the time vette from the crusher takes it back to school and builds a 70's show style Vette and meets a hooker!

Cannon Ball Run .... Early Power Tour, but much more fun!

Smokey & the Bandit .... What can't you say about this movie??

Blind Date .... Bruce Willis & Kim Bassinger TRASH a cool 300ZX over the coarse of one evening.

Pulp fiction...the red malibu combined with John Travolta and sammy jackson...best movie ever.

don't forget BLACK CAT,

cool musclecar with loads of nitro, chased by cops

i also remember a movie with an old pontiac, sooped up real good, he and his buddy are looking for a school projhect and they find this weird object in an airplane-junkyard.
apaers to be a ufo-object, cant remember the name, anyone?

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry for sure graemlins/hurray.gif

It's A MAD MAD World.
Lots of funny scenes. Not really a hot rod car movie but lots looney drivers.

Lets Not Forget HOLLYWOOD KNIGHTS!!

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I forgot one with a ton of cool Muscle Cars in it....


A little known movie from just a few years ago starring Matthew McConaughey called Dazed and Confused which was about the high school class of 1976. Even though the movie did not center around cars, the movies' producer must have been a car nut because they had some really cool examples of the various cars from the 60's and early 70's in this movie.

Matthew McConaughey's character drove a 1970 Chevelle SS!


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Originally posted by novaderrik:
Transformers, the movie.
they are some badass cars... LOL, good one!

I also really like Bullitt- great car chase scenes! Of course who can forget American Graffiti...

On a less realistic front I really like Mad Max, great movie! The Road Warrior was good too...unfortunately both of them show the supercharger as being turned on and off by a truck gear splitter though :( .

Just a couple I almost forgot about.

Return to macon county

Hot rod

A friend of mine said a movie called Hot rods to hell was pretty good but I don't know.

American Graffitti, Aloha Bobby and Rose, Better off dead, Vanishing point, Gone in sixty seconds, and Bullit graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Hey Rolling Robert,that movie was called "My science project" I think it was a blown 70 GTO? graemlins/beers.gif

The video for "Show me how to live" by the group Audioslave uses scenes from Vanishing Point, cool video. Other car movies, Eat My Dust and The Driver

Yellow Rolls Royce
*Bet you'll have to do a net search for that one.*

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Interesting movie about several owners of a really nice yellow rolls royce. The movie starred Ingrid Bergman. Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, and Shirley Maclaine. It was made in 1965, saw it when I was kid at a theater my parents ran.
How about the last american hero, I believe it had jeff bridges as the star.

graemlins/waving.gif The Trickster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey- no one has mentioned Christine, the Steven King classic. It is sad indeed when the Camaro is fried, but you just have to love the beautiful old Plymouth-- it is loyal to its owner (well, for a while) and restores itself!

...and hats off to the listing of It's a Mad Mad Mad World above!
Duke Elsner

At least Ummgawa recalled Hollywood Knights. This ahs to be THE best "street rod/hot rod movie. The cars, the music, the goofy cops, and Newboumb Turk. One of my favorite flicks.

1: Two Lane Blacktop
2: Vanishing Point
3: Bullit
4: The California Kid (with Martin Sheen)
5: The Driver (with Ryan O'Neal)
6: The Mad Max Trilogy (nr 4 is on it's way!)
7: American Graffiti

I am still looking for numbers 4 & 5 on DVD anybody any ideas on where to get them?

Gone in 60 Seconds... the original and the remake!

Now really... the movie was terrible and the acting and story line was really silly... but chase scene!
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How about these:

1. The Gumball rally
2. Cannonball Run I & II (Take-offs of Gumball Rally)
3. Deathrace 2000
4. Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum
5. Thunder in the Carolinas with Rory Calhoun
and last but not least.
6. Speedway and Spinout with Elvis

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The Trickster!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gone in sixty seconds both of them. I think I will be getting flamed on this one. :eek: The first The fast and the furious. Why you ask? My cousin was in it and I thought he did a great job,he played the mechanic that gets killed in the end. His name is Chad lindberg. He was also in The Rookie.

I also liked the new movie that's out on DVD The Transporter. They use a BMW but the chases and action are great. Not a good movie if you like your movies to "feel real". I just enjoy the entainment myself and sit back and enjoy.

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Joe

"My Science Project" has a really nice '70 GTO in it. "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" has a scene where Spiccoli crashed a late '70's Z28. "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Goldfinger" both have some really good car chases in them. Unfortunately they both involve Mustangs. "Ronin" has some really good car chases in it with some cool European cars that you don't see often on this side of the pond. But, to me, American Graffiti and Hollywood Knights are the best. John Millner rules!

John

American Graffiti and Hollywood Knights...The Best.

I gotta go with American Graffiti as one of the all time best for the cars and the cruzin' scenes. I watched it again several times on DVD a week or so ago and noticed for the first time that the doors on the '58 are shaved! I see something new every time.
The movie 'Heart Like a Wheel' had some classic vintage Drag Racing scenes in it too.

Hey MARTINSR - did you ever make any of the 'Graffiti Cruise" yet?
BTW - I picked up a little something for your American Graffiti Collection in a Singapore Video shop last week - drop me your address via email and I'll ship it to you.

Here's my list:
1. Bullit
2. Heart Like A Wheel
3. The Italian Job, both orig & remake
4. Any Star Wars movie,
5. Mission Impossible
6. Top Gun
7. Grand Prix
8. Vanishing Point
9. Men In Black, both I & II
10. The Fifth Element
11. Plus all those mentioned in earlier posts, including the one show by Disney on the NHRA Junior Dragster girl & her family(?).

Yeah , Yeah, I know, some of them don't have cars, but, cool chase scenes.

Crossroads starring Brittney Spears!!! Best car movie ever! tongue.gif

For real - Mad Max. Also, The Wraith was sort of a cheesy movie but had a cool, beat up Trans Am with Roots blower screaming out of the hood. Some cool road race scenes, too.


Chad

I know that this movie was a piece of crap, but, as alot of folks listed "Bullitt" as a favorite car movie, did anybody catch the wickedly slick clone of the Bullitt Mustang in "Vanilla Sky" with Tom Cruise? That car would make me own a Ford.

One that I haven't seen mentioned is McQ with John Wayne and a '70s Trans Am. It's not my favorite, but I do like to watch it when it happens to show up.

How about White Lightning with Burt Reynolds and Bo Hopkins. Running moonshine in southern USA.

I just watched American Graffiti with my 18 year old son. He had never seen it before. What a classic.

The movie came out the same year I got my license. I probably should have got my first speeding ticket on the way home from that movie.

I love the lines on the '58 Impala.

Two Lane Blacktop. ahh the sound of that 55 with Rat and an M22.http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/mr396/th_p1820155Fimage5Flarge.jpg (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a180/mr396/p1820155Fimage5Flarge.jpg) James Taylor and Dennis Wilson.COOL!

If I remember correctly the movie "XXX" with Vin Diesel had a cool 65 or 66 LeMans / GTO

Smokey and the Bandit, and Dazed and Confused..........

No one has mentioned LeMans with Steve McQueen, more of a racing movie but GREAT classic race cars ...

Cars gets my nod too, although it is animated. All the details make it a GREAT car movie

don't forget BLACK CAT,

cool musclecar with loads of nitro, chased by cops

i also remember a movie with an old pontiac, sooped up real good, he and his buddy are looking for a school projhect and they find this weird object in an airplane-junkyard.
apaers to be a ufo-object, cant remember the name, anyone?
My Sieice(SP?) Project

Anybody ever see Catch Me if You can? Its about a high school kid who drag races to save his school. He drives a 69 Chevelle, and there is a 69 pace car in it also.

Oh Yea,

I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!!!

1. Better Off Dead
2. Gone in 60 Seconds (Nick Cage)
3. The Italian Job (Charlize Theron)
4. Fast & Furious 2 (Yenko Camaro)
5. Bad Boys (Porsche vs. Shelby Cobra)

Cars :)

Hollywood Knights-

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080881/

Not the "great" car show, but a pretty good flick along the lines of American Graffiti

I know Catch Me if you can very well. Cheesy acting, but gotta love the 57 210 at the end. I also vote for Two Lane Blacktop and American Graffitti as the top 2. Loved the GTO in Dazed and Confused. Cannonball Run, Gumball Ralley, Smokey and the Bandit goes without saying.How about Hooper or Stroker Ace. Maybe even the Blues Brothers, awesome hackey chase sceen. Hot Rods to Hell is another good one, you just have to remember that it was made in 1957. There was a movie played on Showtime that had alot of racing in it ,it was called Redline. I can't find this one on DVD anywhere though. How about Born To Run with Richard Greico. The original Vanishing point was much better than the remake, I hate it when they try to make good movies politically correct. What was the movie ( I think i starred Robert Reed) that was about an old race car driver that burried his car under his garage when cars were outlawed, got fed up, and dug it out for a bonzaii run from the Man?

Death Race 2000 with David Carradine. Stupid as all-get-out, but great to watch when you're with friends at 1:00 AM. Ooops, forgot... you need to fairly drunk,too!

Catch me if you can was pretty cool. reminded me a little of my high school "career"....

Also, it was filmed about an hour from me. All the cars were pretty cool, and the '57 in it is an icon of mine. "Melba Toast" may be the coolest car not fucused on in movies though. I know someone out thre can find the audio clips of it. Alright, Alright, Alright.

Gone In 60 Seconds and 2 Fast 2 Furious

Original Gone in 60 Seconds
Cannonball RUN 1&2

american graffiti!

Yelo69 I didn't think anyone knew of Hot Rod, what a great old racing flick, too bad it shows our age:(

, including the one show by Disney on the NHRA Junior Dragster girl & her family(?).

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I saw that movie to its about erica enders she is a NHRA pro-stock driver now

Catch me if you can was pretty good. I thought Two Lane Blacktop left some to be desired.

No real order as I've seen most more than a dozen times.:clonk:
American Graffiti "classic"
Gone in 60 Seconds "new and old"
Smokey and the Bandit "only liked I not II or III"
Cannon Ball run
Heart Like A Wheel
Fast & Furious "I and II" I know too many imports:angry:
Grease
The Wraith
Christine
Bad Boys I and II
Cobra
Corvette Summer
2 1/2 Cuffs? "Burt Renolds late 80's early 90's. He drove a '67 blue Z28"
James Bond "just tell me you didn't want some of those gadgets"
Dukes of Hazzard "plus the TV show had a few Camaro's, Chevelles, and an Ellcamino, unfortunatly it also had some rustangs to"

Can I include Metallica's video for Fuel? Lots of great muscle cars in there, along with Circus of Power's video for Motor.

I agree with the obvious choices..
American Graffiti ... Harrison Ford driving the 55 looking for Milner" it looks like a cross between piss yellow and puke green"

Hollywood Nights .. after Danza loses to the "Chinese bandits" in the cobra the guys say , " hey , you got second place"

Dazed and Confused ... awesome

Two Lane Blacktop .. I like the movie for Warren Oats..I think he is a scream...The actors were tragic though...the girl was Art Garfunkel's girfriend...she committed suicide...Wilson had a tragic life and died...James Taylor struggled with all kinds of addictions and is probably lucky to be alive .

A real good car movie is Heart Like a Wheel..it is the Shirley Muldowney story. If you like drag racing it is a must.

Someone mentioned the old Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum...great movie

Last American Hero with Jeff Bridges

Grand Prix
Bullit
American Graffiti
Le Mans
Ronnin

Nobody's mentioned the Phantasm movies yet. I'm not a MOPAR guy but I love the 71 'cuda in the first one.

Bullit was my dad's favorite movie, the chase scene was great.

Not sure if this was mentioned but if you watch vanishing point, when the 70 Challenger runs into the bulldozer, they actually use a Camaro in it's place. You can only see if for a second.

Someone mentioned the old Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum...great movie



I forgot about that movie

Still remember seeing it the 1st time it was on TV (50's or early 60'S?)

My dad was watching it and it was late, past my bed time. I snuck out to watch it and then I got caught but he let me watch as much as I could before I fell asleep

I have since recorded it but would really like to get a CLEAN copy

This is one of the better "hot-rod" movies ever

There is a movie called "Independence Day", NOT the one with the aliens that stars David Keith as a small town guy with a 69 Camaro who street races on the weekends and works at a local garage. They have a secret strip out of town and he takes his new girl friend (Debra Winger I think) out to watch.

There is a movie called "Independence Day", NOT the one with the aliens that stars David Keith as a small town guy with a 69 Camaro who street races on the weekends and works at a local garage. They have a secret strip out of town and he takes his new girl friend (Debra Winger I think) out to watch.

here it is:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=24736

"Independence Day

a k a Follow Your Dreams
1983-USA-Romantic Drama

PLOT DESCRIPTION
In this run-of-the-mill romantic drama, the title Independence Day refers to the usual Fourth of July fireworks festival in the U.S. but also to the dilemma of Mary Ann Taylor (Kathleen Quinlan) who lives in a small town but has a big ambition to go to the city and study photography for a profession -- should she go, or should she stay in her hometown with the man she loves? Focus on Mary Ann's dilemma slips to other characters -- her boyfriend's suicidal sister (Dianne Wiest) who is abused by her husband, the abusive husband's equally nasty father, and Mary Ann's boyfriend himself who is preparing his Camaro for the annual Fourth of July race. With the story moving from here to there, hampered by some extraordinary leaps of imagination, the narrative is thinned considerably by the time the Fourth is at hand. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide"

Rating: R (Violence/Brief Nudity/Adult Situations/Not For Children/Adult Language)
Running Time: 110 Minutes

Starring: Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen, Cliff De Young, Dianne Wiest
Directed by: Robert Mandel

The Steven Spielberg (his FIRST) TV movie Duel with Dennis Weaver was pretty good, big semi truck and poor traveling salesman

Mine are ...Dirty mary crazy larry....American Grafitti, Aloha Bobby and Rose, Last American Hero, Hollywood Knights, BULLITT, etc etc etc

Any movie with a 57 Chevy, 60's Vette or First generation Camaro
gets my vote.
American Grafitti by far. I can't forget death race 2000 stupid movie wild cars. Cannon ball run (the first one) best car comedy. If your into modern cars The Wraith (1986) had a cool car, any car that gets blown up in every other scene and is in perfect condition the next gets cool points. I wish I could get my car back to gether that quick. :(

mine has to be dazed and confused, gone in sixty seconds, and bad boys 1 and the best of all smokey and the bandit:thumbsup:

In no particular order...gone in 60 seconds, mad max, bullit, american graffiti, hollywood knights, and of course, Talladega nights...the story of Ricky Bobby....

Two Lane Blacktop. (1970) ahhhh, the acting skills of James Taylor and Dennis Wilson.

SS

Anyone ever seen Cobra?
It is a cheezy Stallone flick with not much of a plot. Suddenly for no apparent reason, criminals are relentlessly after the woman in the movie and sly is there to protect her. No real reason why they are after her but they are.
Anyway, Stallone drives a really cool 50 Mercury. Its a great chase seen too.

The movie is worth watching for the chase seen alone.

I'm for Hollywood Knights all the way. Totally worth tracking down that pretty rare movie. msot rental palces here do not have it. But buy one on amazon. really worth it.

Dazed and Confused was great. How bout the great "wooderson' quote (owner of 70 chevelle in movie)
"I hope you brought your wood-screws, because I am gonna blow your doors cleeeeean off!"

Currently showing on one of the cable movie channels (cinemax or HBO) movie called "After the Sunset" with Pierce Brosnan, Woody Harrelson and Salma Hayak(?). Brosnan has a nice 69 SS convertible with polished Americans as a driver. Also nice bikini shots of Salma!

Vanishing Point, of course, was there any other car movies?????? Oh yea, there was Two Lane Blacktop which was a close second.

Two Lane Blacktop. The 55 and Warren Oates really made the movie. I started looking for it probably around 1985 and waited for years till it was finally released. Bullit, Vanishing Point, American Graffiti also on the list.

Anyone remember a movie that had Dennis Hopper as a burned out mechanic with a 60s vette that he raced up Mulholland Drive? King of the hill, or something like that.

Hollywood Knights, the yellow blown Chevy, red GTO, Cobra, the yellow Ford gift car, Newbomb, cheerleaders, how can you not like it!

Anyone remember the 7ups? Roy Scheider (Jaws fame) plays a cop in NY and drives a green Pontiac Ventura (nova) I believe, there is a long chase scene in the movie of Scheinder chasing the bad guys through the city. Kind of like Bullitt. I also vote for, "Batman begins" That new batmobile is pretty cool...:D

Anyone remember the 7ups? Roy Scheider (Jaws fame) plays a cop in NY and drives a green Pontiac Ventura (nova) I believe, there is a long chase scene in the movie of Scheinder chasing the bad guys through the city. One of my favorites. The chase scene was, at that time, the longest in movie history, 13 minutes.

"THE CAR" 1977, Starring James Brolin

Narrow the trivia down to movie with the best camaro or narrow it down even further to the best 1st generation camaro...

My vote is for a movie that starred Woddy Harrelson, Selma Hyak and Pierce Brosnan (spelling does not count) about a jewelry heist aboard a yacht. Pierce Brosnan drove a nice 1969 blue tricked out unit. I forgot the title.

(The yenko in fast and furious was cool too)

Hollywood Knights, the yellow blown Chevy, red GTO, Cobra, the yellow Ford gift car, Newbomb, cheerleaders, how can you not like it!

I happened to catch that movie last night -- the cars were great!!! -- the movie? well lets just say the cars were great

Dazed and Confused. The SS chevelle Matthew McConaughey was driving was sharp.

I just saw parts of Hollywood Knights last night. I caught a glimpse of a nice mid 60's GTO, early 60's Elcamino, and a hopped up '55. From what I saw it looks to be a cross between American Graffiti and Animal House.

I can't believe there isn't more support for the Gumball Rally. The sound effects of the (real) 427 Cobra and the 12 cylinder Ferrari through the concrete canyons of New York and elsewhere are just too much. The yellow Camaro isn't bad either.

Anyone remember the made for TV movie Outrage???

as a kid, I thought that was "TUFF!!!" (as we used to say)

John

ChevyThunder is right!
Warren Oates rips me up.

"After I got shot down over Korea, I got a job testin' jets, and it was gettin' that I wasn't getting enough action on the ground. That's around the time the 455 came out with....

I bought a house for my mother, I am going down to Florida now to fix it up.

I am a movie producer scouting locations for a movie about fast cars.

I won it shooting craps.

I'm racin' a 55' Chevy across country. Detroit set it up. If i win....it could mean millions for the organization.

I won it, flat out. I was racing in a stock 55 chevy for pinks. I won by three hours, of course, the guys driving the GTO couldn't drive worth a damn."

Those are all the lies I remember off the top of my head. If anyone can remember another one, throw it out there!!!

How about gilligans peddle powered bamboo mobile. Anybody see that episode

I forgot to mention the movie, "Highwaymen". That movie rocks. It has Jim Caviezel in it. Not sure how you spell his name. But the move is pretty good.
A guy uses his souped up 72 El Dorado as a weapon and Caviezel pursues him across the country in a Barracuda.

Bullitt for sure. The Wraith. American Graffitti. My mom and I watched American Graffitti together once and I heard about all the cars that use to criuse Lake Street when she was young. Cool movies. I also like Dazed and Confused. Nice Chevelle SS.

Anyone remember a movie about a kid that used to race a car through the city streets on a set course and had a box to change the traffic lights to green (like fire companies would have used) and then like his high school teacher had his old race car buried underneath the football filed in a old facility . I think it was like a 57 Chevy or something? anyone??? they raced against other cars.. I think it was a movie or a after school special or something

Top Gun!

dirty mary crazy larry , cannonball 1&2, the car, smokey &the bandit 1&2, american graffiti,rockford files , so many good ones its hard to pick just one:hurray:

Bullet!

Gumball Rally

I'm a third vote for "After Sunset" with Pierce Brosnan, a great '69 convertible, and one of the most beautiful woman in the world parading around in a bikini.....It's a must see :beers:

Bullet, Rt. 66