Tony Sestito said:1988RedT2 said:Surely Repo Man is a car movie?
I don't know how I missed out on it all these years, but I just saw this recently. I'd count it. It was NOT what I was expecting. I enjoyed it.
The life of a repo man is always intense.
We saw it soon after it came out. I remember the three of us watching it on the VCR. Easily a life-altering movie. Killer soundtrack, too.
American Sharks made a homage to it.
In reply to Tom1200 :
I'm with you on the musicals - not my cup of tea, too cheery, but some like that sort of thing ... I guess. (My exception is "The Nightmare Before Christmas.")
Personally, the car movie below changed my life. (I'm not sure for the better, though.) It may be only about a tire, but that's car-related, right?
In reply to J.A. Ackley :
It’s Robert!
Yes, one of the most messed-up movies I have seen. It starts weird and ends really weird.
Tom1200 said:No, just no, to Chitty Chitty Bang because:
A. it's a musical and all musicals, with the exception of South Park, are unwatchable.
Have you never sang Greased Lightning when wrenching?
Ford vs Ferrari.
Perhaps stupidly, I like The Need For Speed. Also, what about The Great Race starring Tony Curtis? The latter is truly funny and well worth the watch.
Also also, Dad Can I Borrow The Car? That is a fantastic Disney "movie" which I loved as an adolescent even though it was back from 1970 because of all the hot rods and wackiness of the story. Well worth it and available on YouTube. Check it out if you want to be entertained and remember the 1960's and 1970's.
j_tso said:Tom1200 said:No, just no, to Chitty Chitty Bang because:
A. it's a musical and all musicals, with the exception of South Park, are unwatchable.
Have you never sang Greased Lightning when wrenching?
The Geneva Convention forbids me from singing.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
My wife did a film short that played at CineVegas,
The closing line from her film was "Let's get Sushi, and not pay"
Repo Man has the best movie sound tracks ever. My friends and I quote the film all the time.
"pernicious nonsense" is a particular favorite along with "but it still hurts"
In reply to californiamilleghia :
The racing sequences in the original Herbie feature some very cool 60's-era race cars.
For some, that might be enough to give it a watch (or rewatch).
- Bill C
And gotta add Gumball Rally to the conversation.
Cibie all things.
Super cheesy but if you lived through this era the hair, clothes, cars and the car modifications all come back to you.
Tom1200 said:No, just no, to Chitty Chitty Bang....
Philistine. 
There's a flying car and Goldfinger is the villain. Impossible to pass up!
David S. Wallens said:
We started watching “The Art of Racing in the Rain” with my parents. My dad picked it. Good car movie, right?
Partway through, my mom goes, Can we please watch something else?
That's because there's no good movie in which the dog dies. 
I'm a little surprised no one mentioned 70's B-movies like "Vanishing Point" and the wild Tarantino tribute/slasher film in the "Grindhouse" set of films, "Death Proof;" "Two Lane Blacktop", "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry," etc. And even "American Graffiti" is pretty much a car movie.
- Bill C
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Good pull.
- Bill C
David S. Wallens said:In reply to BillCuttitta :
NOW, HERBIE, NOW!
If you want more dig out those Elvis racing movies. He passes a lot of fast cars.
Hit and Run. The main actor is a car guy, and the film features his personal car...
The baddies have some cool cars too...
The real Chitty Bang Bang, and it's builder/driver Count Zborowski, deserves it's own movie. Here's a short YT documentary.
So since we are doing cheesy outside the box:
Kirk Douglas and Bella Darvi in "The Racers"
Datsun240ZGuy said:Super cheesy but if you lived through this era the hair, clothes, cars and the car modifications all come back to you.
Yeah. I lived through that time. The cars. The Style Auto Jackets. Mulholland Drive. Some guy was actually racing a street legal Lola T-70. My college roommate got busted by a helicopter up there for racing and they impounded his Camaro, and gave him a night in jail, just like in the movie. After he got out his dad made him sell the car. Not the best movie. I don't even think that was a real Porsche Speedster. But there were some good racing scenes and watching Dennis Hopper get crazy at the end was well worth the watch.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
My favorite line was when the Italian hired driver rips the rear view mirror off the Ferrari and says,"Whatsa behind me isa not importanta."
Datsun240ZGuy said:
If you want more dig out those Elvis racing movies. He passes a lot of fast cars.
Like the old gold Mclaren at the end he was passing with the Cobra. I think I saw that car before.
Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:Datsun240ZGuy said:Super cheesy but if you lived through this era the hair, clothes, cars and the car modifications all come back to you.
............ I don't even think that was a real Porsche Speedster........it was a Fiberglass Speedster , you can see when its up on the lift at the repair shop ,
......But there were some good racing scenes and watching Dennis Hopper get crazy at the end was well worth the watch....... The Vette was crashed twice as the first crash was not " spectacular " enough so they did it again ...at least that is what the prop guy told me a few years ago......
I know it's campy, but I also enjoy The Cannonball Run. I mean, everyone's in it, there are cool cars doing car things, and it's fun. The previously mentioned Gumball Rally is pretty good too.
Another one that revolves around cars but is questionably a car movie: Hooper. AKA the other Burt Reynolds and Sally Field movie with a Trans Am in it. I still count it.
Wheelman, great movie where the entire movie is filmed from in the car, it starts /w a pretty cool BMW and ends with a great 911 (one that I think is Frank Grillo's personal car in real life) -https://www.jalopnik.com/netflixs-wheelman-is-an-intriguing-experiment-and-the-c-1820588971/
not a car movie but motorcycle movie is close; The fastest Indian
baby driver
speed (its a bus so i'm stretching, but great movie for its day)
gumball rally & cannonball run
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