NFB - What's you favorite car movie

[Black97]

Hey ya'll

After reading the recent post about how Hollywood is treating hot cars in movies I thought to myself what movies with fast good looking cars everybody else likes.

Was thinking of a poll but then for sure I would forget somebody's favorite. Tell me yours, who knows maybe there's a good one I haven't seen yet.

My favorites:

1. Gone in 60 Seconds (Original)
2. Mad Max 1
3. Blues Brothers (I know not too many hot cars but a lot of crashes)

Don't like the new ones with the imports in it (F&F, ....) except the 007 ones of course.

[Jeff_in_Atl]

I don't like Mad Max. Too weird.
Bullet is one.
Obviously Vanishing point.
I'm drawing a blank.

[MN6WS6]

The Wraith.

Actual Dodge concept car, twin turbo 4 cylinder putting out 440 HP, racing, beating, and then destroying a 3rd gen Vette, Dodge Daytona, and lots of other carnage.

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

Two Lane Blacktop. Just watched it tonight. What a classic. 2 guys (Dennis Wilson from the Beach Boys & James Taylor the singer) and a chick they picked up driving cross country in a primered '55 Chevy with a fiberglass tilt front end, fiberglass trunk lid, lexan windows, and a dual quad 454, looking for races in every small redneck town they come to and, in the meantime, racing another guy (Warren Oats) in a 70 GTO all the way to Washington DC for pinks. Too cool!

[furyus65]

joe dirt with the plymouth wing car anything mopar oriented in the 70's smokey and the bandit all four of them

the Wraith was awesome!!! loved it

Here is one that you guys may not remember I think it was called death race 2000. basically the race car drivers drove around the town or country in fabricated cars killing people with their cars. They got points for all the kills and of course some kills were worth more than others. I remember a black batmanmobile type car with pointed spikes. It was not gory and it really was a funny movie.

wish I knew where to get it or rent it again. Although if I do I am afraid my boyhood memory will be let down if it finds out that the movie really sucked after all.

[4THGEN Z]

Connonball Run
Smokey & the Bandit
Gone in 60 seconds (new one)
Days of Thunder

[AndyLT1]

I loved the Original Gone in 60 Seconds. Too bad he wrecked a lot of his own cars.

Andy

[Z Ya Later]

Gone in 60 (new one)
Bullitt
The Fast and the Furious, but only for the friggen cool Charger...*drool*

[pete]

Gran Prix, with James Garner, 1966, filmed in Monaco.

LeMans, with Steve Maqueen, 1971, filmed at LeMans.

[Joe 1320]

A few of mine are:

Cannonball run (the original)
The Wraith
Hollywood Knights (gotta love the Cobra and The yellow shoebox)
Heart Like a Wheel (Shirley Muldowney story)
Smokey and the bandit
Mad Max
American Graffiti
Gone in 60 seconds

[MN6WS6]

I think we all missed an important one, and one we all loved, whether we admit it or not (and if you don't SHAME ON YOU )

Herbie

[Joe 1320]

Originally posted by MN6WS6


Herbie

DOH! Can't believe I missed that one.

[Ray purple93Z28]

Being a big Mopar fan and E-bodies are my favorite, the original Vanishing Point. "takes a Dodge to catch a Dodge"

[markd79ta]

Cannonball Run & Smokey & the Bandit (first of both)

Both are interchangeable as my favorite...can't really decide my favorite of the two. I hate to say it, but the opening scene where the Lambo is smoking the T/A is my favorite. If you ever get bored, you can read some of the accounts of the "Real" Cannonball cross country races from the 70s... This article is really good. http://www.caranddriver.com/article....rticle_id=2521

I really enjoyed the new Gone in 60 seconds, but it didn't have the same flare/comic value as the two previously mentioned movies.

(Herbie "The Love Bug") - I amost forgot about him...it has been a loooooong time since I watched that.

[Jeff_in_Atl]

Herbie the luv bug ranks up there with Chiti Chiti Bang Bang. LOL