this is such a cool movie!!! I almost want a TA now!! Posted by DaddySS (Member # 848) on :
Posted by Sweden SS (Member # 1747) on :
I like to pop that into the DVD and crank up the volume when the V8 withdrawal symptoms gets to severe during the winter months Another good remedy is the chase in Bullit. Damn that Mustang sounds good! Too bad I haven't found anything with Camaro's in it instead Posted by Bandit (Member # 1867) on :
Thats the movie that hooked me on T/A's Posted by Krista (Member # 1904) on :
We do Gone in 60 Seconds alot as well but Smokey & the Bandit is just classic.
Anyone got any other car movies I need to get for Bret to appreciate?
Posted by Doug 97SS #1499 (Member # 100) on :
2 Lane Black Top Hollywood Nights (I LOVE THIS MOVIE, it has Popular Hot Roddings, PROJECT X, blown 57 Chevy in it.) Vanishing Point
There was a tv Movie with Richard Greco that had to do with Street Racing etc...I thought that was a great movie too.
Posted by Jana (Member # 2029) on :
Cannonball Run!!!!!!!!
P.S. The first movie is better than the second.
Wraith is another one.... its pretty cheesy, but there's a cool black car in it, driven by a ghost who races the bad guys, and gets them to kill themselves by causing wrecks.
[ 31. August 2003, 12:23 PM: Message edited by: Jana ]
Posted by SS Rally Red (Member # 1633) on :
Vanishing Point,first time I saw it I was 13, The naked chick on the Honda Z 50 was the best Gumball Rally was awesome and I enjoyed the scene in Gone in 60 sec. with Nick driving Elenor, the rest of the movie was so-so.
Posted by mhayman (Member # 146) on :
Smokey and the Bandit!! One of my all time favorites, I know almost every line verbatim.
Posted by BadRag (Member # 1566) on :
If you like CART racing, Driven's not bad, esp the part where he picks up the quarters with the rear tires...
If you can find it, The California Kid is a cool movie, w/Vic Morrow & Martin Sheene,
Others on my list, and some of these are from a long time ago....
Vanishing Point American Grafitti Thunder Road (Robert Mitchum) Red Line 8000 Hot Rods to Hell (Dana Andrews) Days of Thunder (Tom Cruze) Two Lane Blacktop Le Manns Bullit
Enjoy,BadRag
Posted by Krista (Member # 1904) on :
I'll have to find Vanishing Point. I don't remember that one.
American Graffiti is GREAT!!
BadRag,
I CAN NOT believe you said Driven. That was the most awful movie I've seen in ages. We let Bret pick when we went and that's what he choose. Sly's acting was as awful as the rest of them. Some of the drive scenes were cool but that was about it.
I couldn't find Cannonball Run last night but I'll have to keep checking for it.
What other car movies (any of them f-body specific) ya got??
[ 01. September 2003, 01:35 AM: Message edited by: Krista ]
Posted by DanA_F99_1977 (Member # 118) on :
What about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Posted by cytruffle (Member # 1733) on :
What's that movie that a lot of people were quoting from on this board awhile back??
Posted by 99PewterSS (Member # 564) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jana: Cannonball Run!!!!!!!!
I agree 100% -- a car cult classic! How can you go wrong with a moive that opens with a TA chasing the Lambo through the desert.
Posted by Jana (Member # 2029) on :
I found this link, which lists movies containing a Trans Am. Most of them are only very brief appearances, but it lists car movies nonetheless.
http://www.texastransams.com/stories/movies.htm ------------------------------------------------- Also, in "Better off Dead", the main character restores a black first-gen Camaro. They give it a good amount of screen time, but the movie is by no means a "car" movie.
In the movie "Heat" with Robert DeNiro, and Val Kilmer (sp??), they rob a bank, and drive around in early 4th gen Camaros near the end of the movie. Once again, not a car movie, but the Camaros get a decent amount of screen time.
[ 01. September 2003, 12:28 PM: Message edited by: Jana ]
Posted by BadRag (Member # 1566) on :
Krista...yea, Driven is a typical Sly movie...boring, but i like the part about the quarters, that would be very hard to do... Most of the movies i listed are kinda hokey, but have some neat cars in them...Hot rods to hell is a cult classic as is Thunder road. Enjoy.
BadRag
Posted by Krista (Member # 1904) on :
Thanks BadRag. Once we get moved into the new house a movie night might be just the kind of slow, takin' it easy kind of night we need. I'll keep an eye out for those others.
Posted by MRJBQ (Member # 2068) on :
fast and furious Posted by White Lightning (Member # 363) on :
I used to watch "Corvette Summer" everytime is played it was on TV atleast once a year haven't seen it in a long time. Its about a high school kid that restores a corvette as part of his auto body shop class and the teacher sold the car and made it look like it was stolen and the kid tracks the car down and steals it back. great movie!!
Posted by JFsport01 (Member # 1374) on :
Hot Rods to Hell (Dana Andrews)
Now there is a blast from the past! I would love to see that again.
American Graffiti has to be an all time favorite.
Posted by Z28-SORR (Member # 1565) on :
quote: I used to watch "Corvette Summer"
quote: Its about a high school kid
And so, who was the high school kid, Luke???
Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bandit: Thats the movie that hooked me on T/A's
That movie definitely got me into f-bodies. I'd love to have one of those 2nd gen TA's.
quote:Originally posted by Jana: Cannonball Run!!!!!!!!
P.S. The first movie is better than the second.
But what's even better is the original movie which the two Cannonball Run movies copied: Gumball Rally.
quote:Originally posted by White Lightning: I used to watch "Corvette Summer" ..... great movie!!
I agree - I saw that when it was in the theatre - some really great cars in it, especially the "title" car. By the way, guess who the star of that movie was?
Posted by MRJBQ (Member # 2068) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jim Mac:
That movie definitely got me into f-bodies. I'd love to have one of those 2nd gen TA's.
If you are serious, my wifes uncle (a retired Pontiac dealer) has a 10th anniversary T/A, never titled with less than 10 miles,(last time i looked), for sale Brad
[ 02. September 2003, 01:46 PM: Message edited by: MRJBQ ]
Posted by blkragss02 (Member # 1801) on :
Great Movie~~~One of my all time favorites Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :
quote:Originally posted by MRJBQ:
quote:Originally posted by Jim Mac: That movie definitely got me into f-bodies. I'd love to have one of those 2nd gen TA's.
If you are serious, my wifes uncle (a retired Pontiac dealer) has a 10th anniversary T/A, never titled with less than 10 miles,(last time i looked), for sale Brad
If he still has it in a year or two, I'd probably be very interested in talking to him. Right now I don't have the room for it.
Posted by White Lightning (Member # 363) on :
Yes! (Mark Hamill) Luke Skywalker was the kid.
Posted by el ess1 (Member # 1544) on :
Vanishing point...hmmm, that's the dude in the challenger that's hauling butt, then shows a 1st gen Camaro crashing into the bulldozers and slowly rolling backwards on fire? I think that was a Camaro, but whatever it was, it wasn't the car that went in. I saw Vanishing Point at the drive-in (oops, showing my age) for the first time, and I bought into it. I never noticed it until I saw it on TV years later.
Posted by el ess1 (Member # 1544) on :
quote:Originally posted by White Lightning: Yes! (Mark Hamill) Luke Skywalker was the kid.
And Annie Potts (Ghostbusters and Designing Women fame) was the lady of the evening he was hanging out with I do believe. I could be wrong though. To be honest, I didn't care much for that Corvette. I'd have left it gone..... Posted by Jim Mac (Member # 113) on :
quote:Originally posted by el ess1:
quote:Originally posted by White Lightning: Yes! (Mark Hamill) Luke Skywalker was the kid.
And Annie Potts (Ghostbusters and Designing Women fame) was the lady of the evening he was hanging out with I do believe.
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