So we know a few. A lot of these are cult classics, so I'm sure there are some that's lots of people on here haven't even heard of.
Off the top of my head- Le Mans Grand Prix (we'll get these two obvious ones out of the way) Smokey and the Bandit Vanishing Point Two-Lane Blacktop The original Gone in 60 Seconds The Gumball Rally
I always considered American Graffiti and Bullitt more like stories that used the cars as props, rather than centering around them.
What else you heard of/like?
Mad Max
Here we go again:
Deathproof, Bullitt, Italian Job (original), Christine, Metal Skin (Aussie), Running on Empty (Aussie), American Graffiti
This may sound silly, but check out the orginal Herbie movies...Just turn down the volume.
Leo
Pink Floyd's La Carrera PanAmericana, La Carrera Panamericana (Adrian Paul from the Highlander Series), Born to Run (Richard Grieco), Banzai Runner (Dean Stockwell), Fast Lane Fever (Aussie), Hot Rod aka "Rebel of the Road" (Gregg Henry?), RED LINE (Chad McQueen), Winning (Paul Newman), The Hollywood Knights, (Tony Danza, Project X), Return to Macon County (Don Johnson,Nick Nolte), The Cannonball Run movies, No Man's Land (Charlie Sheen)
I've got some more....somewhere
catch me if you can http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097029/
not cars, but close...The fastest Indian.
No fast and furiuos, Tokyo drift???? Cummon guys.
Please, I'm just kidding. After sitting through that first one, I couldn't watch the other 2 (?)
Not to hijack the post but..........did anyone else notice while watching the fast and furious that each drag race had about 12 shifts and lasted about 45 seconds? I loved the part where the rivets broke loose the the floor fell out. After seeing that movie, I went out and replaced all my floor rivets with screws!! I suggest you do the same.
My biggest comment on the "Fast and the Furious" was they copied "Point Break" completely, but used cars instead of surfboards.
Think about it, extreme sports, gets tight with a cool gang, his workmates raid the wrong bad guys, it turns out his crew are the real bad guys, our hero backs his buds against the procedure of his job. Flash to a scene in a "safe" foreign country for the final scene.
Watching Fast and the Furious was like having visual diarrhea.
Let me add Days of Thunder. Weirdo Tom Cruise and not exactly believable, but worth adding to the list.
Driven with stallone bad movie cool car scenes.
Cannon Ball Run
JFX001 wrote: Pink Floyd's La Carrera PanAmericana, La Carrera Panamericana (Adrian Paul from the Highlander Series), .....
Where can you get these?
Aloha Bobby and Rose
Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry
The 1954 version of "The Fast and the Furious", with XK120's, Allards, etc.
Not quite car movies, but ...
"Christine"
"Harold and Maude" had a nice custom XKE, and some hooning around in a real hearse.
Eat My Dust - it starred Ron Howard
slantvaliant wrote: The 1954 version of "The Fast and the Furious", with XK120's, Allards, etc.
last time i looked, walmart had it for a dollar. I need to get it just for the sake of having it, while they still cary it.
Vanishing point(1971), best car chase movie ever!!!!
Ronin has a badass car chase. Even though it's Pixar, Cars is a really good movie.
Wow, this many posts and not a single person has mention Rendevouz?
JeepinMatt wrote: Watching Fast and the Furious was like having visual diarrhea.
My own take on it was that the first movie did for car movies what Plan Nine from Outer Space did for science fiction. It's one of the better accidental comedies of the '90s. I've had quite a few debates with friends about what the best funny moment is. I think it's the flying floorboard, though other nominations I've heard include the reference to a MoTec exhaust and the time Vin Diesel's gang acts all shocked to see the Supra has a 2JZ-GTE engine in it. The dialog in that scene would have made a lot more sense if Paul Walker had brought a Cressida...
Rendezvous
edit: just noticed the Reverend's post. Sorry.
Varkwso wrote:JFX001 wrote: Pink Floyd's La Carrera PanAmericana, La Carrera Panamericana (Adrian Paul from the Highlander Series), .....Where can you get these?
Tough call, Amazon maybe? The Highlander racing one is on the Season 6 DVD of the Series.....from what I've read.I got it from the Highlander website a long time ago.
The Pink Floyd VHS came from a Mom & Pop video store that I hounded them about for a year or so. 2 bucks.
Pretty cool racer/documentary from both.
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