1950s 1960s Hot Rod Movie Stills & posters

Judy Bamber

 

That's Frank Gorshen, the "Riddler" in the mid-60s Batman TV show, in the roadster.

 

I believe that's Fay Spain.

 

Both gals were in Dragstrip Girl

 

With 6 You get Eggrolls

 

1961 Lock Up ... Like Father Like Son

 

Johnny Dark

 

Beverly Hillbillies

 

Love those old ZIV Production TV shows. Just discovered a few episodes of Lock Up on You Tube. I hope someone post the hot rod episode.

 

I saw that episode of Lockup referenced in post 608 not long ago. That's the McMullen roadster that Tommy Ivo is driving powered by a multi carbed sbc. The flathead roadster is driven by Stefanie Powers billed here as Taffy Paul (no kidding).

 

@rbantique, thanks for your trip down memory lane...Hotrods, Lust, Love, Bam & The People...Rockin' Roll

You've found some incredibly cool stuff...

 

Hi guys and gals, this is officially my first post on the forum. I joined about a year ago, largely because of this thread. I've always been and will probably always be a wannabe hot rodder. I grew up in southeast Michigan and my dad was a Woodward Avenue gearhead through the 60's, and that's probably where my interest in cars came from. I, like most kids, had posters on my bedroom walls during adolescence, and sometime as a young adult became aware that original movie posters were something that could be found and purchased. When I heard of and became a member of ebay around '98, movie posters became a bit easier to find. The genres that I've collected over the years have varied a bit, but always kind of centered around bad girls, juvenile delinquents and hot rods/cars. Except for a handful of movie poster forums that have existed over the years, there really hasn't been a place that I could share the posters I've collected. I have a wordpress account and have considered a blog, but that's not something I've really tackled quite yet. Anyhow, I'll stop yammering. All the posters that I post pictures of are mine and are originals. The few instances that will come up that the posters are prints or reproductions, I'll point it out. I doubt that I have or can show titles that haven't already been shown in this thread, but you might appreciate some that are matted, framed and hanging on the wall. Sorry about the quality of some or all the photos. A professional photographer I'm definitely not.

Hot Rod Girl insert, Hot Rod 1 sheet and Hot Car Girl 3 sheet:


We Go Fast (not a hot rod movie, but has a great title) and The Choppers 1 sheets:


Not a movie poster at all, but a 24x24 (if memory serves) record store promo poster:


Just the seller's photo from the auction. Battle of the Drag Racers 1 sheet:


1 sheet and snipe for Wild For Kicks, which was later retitled Beat Girl:



Bikini Beach 1 sheet:


Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane 1 sheet:


I'm meandering through the posters folder in the computer which is sorted alphabetically, so these posters aren't being presented in order of interest or importance, just what pops up in the folder from beginning to end.

This is just a small, die-cut herald. From memory, it measures about 6 inches long by 3 inches tall:


Burnout 1 sheet:


Jumbo window card from the first Cars movie:


The only other poster from the Cars franchise that I thought was pretty cool. Cars 3 advance 1 sheet:


The Checkered Flag half sheet and window card:



Suburban Mayhem Australian 1 sheet:


The Devil on Wheels half sheet (I think this is style A) and The World's Fastest Indian 1 sheet:


Devil on Wheels 60's re-release 1 sheet:

The Devil on Wheels insert, framed:


The Devil on Wheels style B(?) half sheet:


The Devil on Wheels 1 sheet:

The Devil's Hairpin 1 sheet:


This one is a bit out of sequence alphabetically, but I'll stop posting to the thread for now and pick up sometime later, but I wanted to leave off with something that was actually framed and/or hanging on the wall. Here we have pressbooks for Juvenile Jungle/Young and Wild, Dragstrip Riot/Cool and Crazy, and High School Hellcats/Hot Rod Gang. The cool thing about pressbooks is that in cases like these, you sort of end up with a double feature poster that never happened in a normal poster format.


Thanks for stopping in and having a look. There's lots more for me to post, but I'll leave off for now.

 

Good morning, fellow car geeks. Another day "safer at home" and furloughed from work anyway brings an opportunity to post more stuff. Let's see what I can dig up from the rockabilly archives:

Dragstrip Girl/Rock All Night Benton window card:


On the right is a Danish movie program for Dragstrip Girl. Definitely cool, but not really big enough to frame and display, so I had a canvas print made of it, which is what's on the left. There are Danish 1 sheets of this title out there somewhere, but I haven't been able to find one for sale yet.


Dragstrip Girl insert poster:


I don't yet have any posters for Dragstrip Riot, but I do have a full lobby card set. I found it a bit troubling that for a movie having "dragstrip" in the title, that aside from the border art, only one card has a partial image of two cars. Ugh.


A 1 sheet for The Family Secret. Definitely not a car movie, but nice car art on the poster:


A Belgian poster for The Family Secret. Different art than the US paper, but still nice vintage car stuff.


Another Belgian poster, this time for In Fast Company:


Freeway Phobia window card:


And another Belgian poster, this time for Genevieve:


Here's Genevieve and In Fast Company, framed and on the wall:


Insert poster for Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow:


This is an ex-Yugoslavian poster for an Italian film, titled Giovani Mariti. The English title is Young Husbands:


Pressbook for The Girl In Lover's Lane/The Wild Ride:


Insert poster for The Girl In Lover's Lane. Only sort of car related, but worth posting:


The Green Helmet 1 sheet:


Hell's Highway 1 sheet:


High School Hellcats lobby card set. I'm posting this title now because one of the cards features cars. I have an insert poster for this title that I'll post later after the car stuff with bad girl/juvenile delinquent-y stuff if there's any interest.


Highway Dragnet 1 sheet:


Highway Dragnet Belgian poster:


Hot Car Girl 3 sheet (already shown in my first post):


Hot Cars 1 sheet:


Also posted previously, but here's a better photo of my 1 sheet for Hot Rod:


A 30x40" poster for Hot Rod Action:


And like last time, I'll leave off with something framed. Also in my previous post, but here's a little better shot. Hot Rod Girl insert:

Thanks again for looking. I'll be back with more.

 

Good morning fellow petrolheads (as Clarkson, Hammond and May would say), and happy Easter! I hope this morning finds you and your families all safe, well and healthy. This is my second attempt at a post this morning. Somehow I dragged and dropped a picture incorrectly to the post, and I couldn't get what I had done to that point back. Arrrgggghhh. Anyhow, let's try again. This time I'll try and use the "save draft" disk icon and see if it helps. This morning I'll start out a little differently and post a picture of my office/poster lair. It's much more of the latter, as I'm not really intelligent enough to do anything that requires an "office". This photo was taken about a year ago, and there's a significant amount that's gone up on the walls since then, but the room is way too disheveled to snap a new pic this morning. I'll do that another day.


Next up, I need to go out of sequence alphabetically a bit. When I was going through my first post, I left out my Deuce of Spades poster, probably because I wanted to show a pic of it framed, and there wasn't one on the computer. I had one on my phone that I sent just now, and also sent a handful of related pics with it.



The poster is autographed by the superwoman that made Deuce of Spades, Faith Granger. As some of you are probably aware, she financed, produced, wrote, directed, acted in, and wore most of the other hats that it took to make the film. In front of the poster is an Ertl American Muscle '32 roadster that I sent to her and had her pinstripe and number, the latter of those two paying homage to the dry lakes racers. Here's a few pics she sent me while she was working on it:






I was really pleased with how it turned out. So, having made that little diversion, let's get on with the show.
1 sheet for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. I've since matted and framed it. No idea why I don't have a picture of it:

Hot Rod Hullabaloo 1 sheet and insert:



Hot Rod Pinups half sheet:


Hot Rod Rumble Half sheet (style B) and insert:



Again, my apologies for some of these pics. When I buy a poster I usually save the seller's pic, and then never get around to taking better ones of my own. Both of the above posters show up in the panoramic photo I posted, so at least there's that.

Here's a couple prints that show up earlier in this thread somewhere, from the very talented artist (and nice guy to chat with) James Owens:



Jalopy half sheet. Another one that has since been framed, but where's the pic? Ugh.


Johnny Dark half sheet. Same deal here. It's framed now, where's the pic? What kind of lazy-ass am I anyway?


Joy Ride 1 sheet, 3 sheet and daybill:




La Bella Americana Spanish 1 sheet:


I'll wrap up this post for now, and as usual I'll end with something framed and on the wall. It goes out of sequence a little bit, as I'm posting this pic more for Roadracers than Daddy-o at the moment. As mentioned, if there's interest after the car stuff is posted, I'll go back through and start posting juvenile delinquent/bad girl stuff. You've seen this setting before, but this is what was in the 3 sheet frame before Hot Car Girl:


As always, thanks for stopping in and having a look. With regards to the forum and this particular thread I'm way late to the party, but I'm just sharing a bit of the poster love. Have a great day, and stay safe!

 

Good morning, fellow hepcats and kittens! Another day, another opportunity to post some ephemeral goodness. I'm going to take the liberty of stepping outside the tv/movie related stuff a handful of times today. If it rubs anyone the wrong way with regards to being temporarily off topic, I apologize. I've collected a number of posters over the years that don't have movie connections, so let's see what pops up here.

This one is (in terms of movie material) about half sheet poster size (22x28 inches). It's a record store promo for a Reverend Horton Heat album, but the art is done by the talented artist Max Grundy.


From memory, this one is roughly bus shelter poster size, which is about 45"x70". It's a Chrysler dealer service department poster showing an exploded view of an engine/trans:


Probably an auto parts store poster, maybe circa 40's or early 50's with the style of the car. Not sure about the misspelling of rhythm:


Half sheet for Pit Stop:


Two 1 sheets for The Racers. The first one is the original release in 1955, the second was for a re-release in 1961:



This is a 1 sheet for the re-titled 1962 re-release of the 1950 film, To Please A Lady:


An ex-Yugoslavian poster for Red Line 7000:


German poster for Rififi In Stockholm:


1 sheet for Road Rebels:


1 sheet for Secret Agent X-9:


Crappy image here, but an 11"x17" poster/flyer for what I assume is part of the Sin City graphic novel series, and not directly connected to the films:


Another title I don't have any posters for yet. Like a lot of hot rod/car related movie posters, they seem to stay prohibitively expensive. Here's half a set of lobby cards for Speed Crazy:


Another one that's not a hot rod movie, but it has a great title and cool art on the poster. 1 sheet and insert for Speed To Spare:



German poster for Stingray:


Window card for Taxi:


1 sheet and half sheet for Teen Age Thunder:



I'll include this one here mostly because of the tagline. Teenage Crime Wave half sheet:


This one should've been back up a ways alphabetically, but knucklehead me has it in the computer as "The" Fast And The Furious. Insert poster:


Same deal for these next two. The filename I gave them includes "the". Ugh. Anyhow, The Young Racers insert:

The Zero Hour 1 sheet:


Thunder In Carolina 1 sheet:


This post has run a bit longer than the others - sorry. I knew I had to be in the home stretch, so I was pushing to get to the end. I think there's only 3 more to go.

Wild Ones On Wheels 1 sheet:


The Wild Ride 1 sheet:


Another one where the poster art is only sort of car related, Wild Youth 1 sheet:


And lastly for today, and true to my nature a bit out of sequence, the Life Magazine November 7, '49 article about the hot rod problem that I framed up:

That brings us to the end of the posters folder in the computer, but there's still more car stuff to post. I'll have to get busy snapping some pics of what's left. As before, I appreciate you having a look at the poster-y stuff I've accumulated. Stay safe today, take care of those you love, and have a great day!

 

Thanks for posting these great images !!

 

Good morning, fellow nitromethane sniffin' grease monkeys! I hope this lovely, if not a tad chilly Wednesday finds you all well in body and spirit. Nothing too earth shattering presented here today, so there's plenty of time to avert your eyes and save your boredom for something more deserving.
As I said before, I'm certain that there's very little if anything I can present here that hasn't already been shown in this thread previously. I'm certainly not trying to step on anyone's toes or steal any glory. Everything I post here, unless otherwise noted, is part of my collection. A lot of it ain't pretty, as my budget is very small and for the most part I'm just a bottom feeder. Movie (and other) posters are just kind of a surrogate, as a way to appreciate the history of car culture in the absence of being able to be a hot rodder in real life. So without further ado, let's dive in.
I'll start with posting pics of some lobbies that have been framed (only one matted, so nothing unusual here), that haven't been able to make it up on the wall yet:




Here's a smattering that I did get up on the wall. They're just in Dollar Tree cheapo frames, but they're up:



Another US lobby and a Mexican lobby for Teenage Crime Wave:


Some framed stills from Teen Age Thunder and Dragstrip Girl, respectively:


Here's that Family Secret Belgian poster framed up. Sorry about the glare on these pics. The lighting in here and these glass frames make it a bit difficult.

For the most part these are not hot rod/car related. I took a couple 1 sheet frames off the wall the other day and put up some inserts and a different half sheet. I'm not sure how wild I am about the mismatched frames and appearances, but I'll give it a few days. On the opposite wall, I just took down one of the framed pressbooks and hung a half sheet in it's place:



Allrighty. To wrap things up today, it's repro time. I strongly prefer to collect original posters, but as with lots of things in life, some of these posters seem to be made of unobtainiuim. They're either for sale only occasionally, but pretty expensively, or they just rarely if ever come up for sale, and when/if they do, of course they're very pricey. Also, many times the image quality of reproduction posters sucks. It's tough to tell from an image online how clear the reproduced image will be when you get it in hand. For this first one, I lucked out. It's not perfect, but for a repro sourced on ebay (24x36) it's pretty good:

These next (and last) two are those that rarely, if ever come up for sale and they'd be plenty pricey if they did. Actually, the Anna Di Brooklyn (US title - Fast and Sexy) Italian poster is for sale from at least one source for $700 currently, but that's too rich for my blood. Anyhow, I took the best images I could find online for these two and had prints made of them. The frames are 24x30, sourced inexpensively from Walmart, so you can kind of gauge the size of the prints from that. I'm pretty pleased with the results:


That's all I can think of to dig up for today. Thanks again for having a look. Crank up some car themed tunes, and have a fantastic day!

 

I'm not sure if this was posted!

 

Oh heck, it was probably posted, but the more the merrier! There's lots of repeats in this thread, but that's just more to look at. It appears that there were a few movies that used midget car racing as a backdrop. It must've been pretty big during the late 40's and (early?) 50's, which begs the question, where did all the cars go? I was reading an online Hot Rod Magazine article about nitromethane, and it mentions one of the earlier uses of the fuel stateside was by Vic Edelbrock Sr in a midget racer. Sounds like something Wile E Coyote would dream up.
Except for new acquisitions, which I'll post a couple of here, it looks like I'm probably tapped out on hot rod movie material for the time being. Just to make my post a bit more interesting, I'll throw a couple more pics of posters that have been on the walls in the past, but they're rock n roll and bad girl, not hot rod.

Here's a new 1 sheet for me. I'll still look for this under the better title of Hot Rods To Hell, but this will be a fine placeholder for now:


Here's a Hot Rod Girl/Girls In Prison Benton window card I got the other day. I'm still knocking around the idea of getting the Dragstrip Riot/Cool and the Crazy window card too - it's just kind of meh.


Here's some 50's - 60's rock n roll-ish stuff that I just took down a couple days ago:



And to wrap things up, how about some wimmins with questionable morals?



That's all for now, gang. Be good, stay safe, maybe crank up She Took My Oldsmobile, by The Romancers and have a great day!

 

Rockabilly777, you have a great collection of posters, enjoy seeing them.
Here's a pic of my "Hot Rods To Hell" poster, I also have the "52 Miles to Terror" poster.

Mick

 

Great lookin' wall, Mick!

 

Hey guys (and hopefully gals), I didn't think I'd have anything to post so soon yet, and this definitely isn't an offering that will change your life in any way, but these are both movie and car related, so why not? It may help everyone's boredom for a minute or two anyway.

First off, how about a Risky Business poster minus Tom Cruise? Just a nice, wholesome gal and a Porsche 928. It's a video poster, yes (reserve your copy on beta now!), but it's still pretty cool:



Next up, this is a set of stills (no idea if it's a complete set or not) for Hot Car Girl. I was kind of on the fence about adding them to the rock-o-car geek collection, as they're maybe the dullest set of stills known to man, but they weren't expensive, and I thought it'd be remiss of me not to get 'em. I have two that aren't shown here, but I assure you they're as dull as the others:



And lastly for now (sorry for the extra short post), a Belgian poster for Checkpoint. I have the US 1 sheet for this title, but the art on this one is different and in some ways better:



As always, thanks for looking. I'll continue to add car stuff as I can. Continue to stay safe, and wash those dang hands!

 

Very Cool - Thanks

 

Good morning, fellow hot rod hooligans and cubic inch delinquents! I hope today finds you all in good health and good spirits. In the handful of posts I've made to this thread so far, I've veered away from the original topic many times. It has all been in the general interest of automotive related art, but every time I post something that's not 50's or 60's hot rod movie related stuff, I wonder if it's enough of a transgression that a separate thread should be created. Since I've displayed the majority of the movie related automotive stuff I have and am now kind of sweeping the corners for more general automotive art, I'm not sure how far I'd be able to take a whole new thread. Let me know your thoughts on me continuing to add automotive art to this thread, whether it fits the original topic or not. I'm a newcomer, and definitely respectful of the thoughts and feelings of others, and especially long time members. I'm quite happy to post things I have that I think may be of general interest in terms of automotive themed art, but if anyone wants me to stop, just say the word.

Having said that, I'll post a couple car related movie posters, one from the 60's, but not hot rod, and the other is from the 80's, and arguably more muscle car than hot rod:

This one is a small (approximately 23x31 inches) French poster - the English title being Death In A Red Jaguar:


This one is generally out of my scope of collecting. My preference is to collect pre 60's movie stuff with the occasional 60's poster here and there, but this was inexpensive and combines women and cars, so I gave it a go. According to IMDB, it's actually an Australian film titled Running On Empty, and Fast Lane Fever was the US title:


Here's a bit of a departure from movie stuff. Here's a poster (24x32 inches) created by George Trosley, who we all know from CARtoons magazine and Krass and Bernie:


Next up, how about going back a few decades further? They used to have some very cool art on sheet music, and in some cases the subject was cars. I think most of these measure roughly 10x13, so they're very frameable.







And since most of this post has been non movie related, I'll end it with a couple posters promoting the Woodward Dream Cruise from quite a few years back. I grew up in southeast Michigan (and now live in east Tennessee), and it's been ages since I've been able to attend a Woodward Cruise. Hopefully I can make it back for one again at some point.





As always, stay safe, stay sane, take care of those important to you, and have a fantastic day!

 

Good afternoon, and happy Sunday to y'all. I hope this post finds all of you safe, happy, healthy and enjoying the holiday season, no matter what your spiritual or social inclinations are. It looks like it's been over a year since I posted to this thread. I've acquired more movie ephemera in the interim, so I thought I'd lay it on ya, and give you something to look at (and say to yourself "why the @#$% would he buy that??".) There's probably enough for 3 posts or so, so that none of them run too long. Some of these titles I've already posted, but the repeats I post here will likely be a different poster format than ones shown previously. Some of these are true to the original intent of the thread, and inevitably, some of them are not. As stated previously, if the latter of those two rub any of you the wrong way, I apologize. Without further ado:

Danish 1 sheet for Hot Rod Girl


And here's that one up on the wall with the US insert beside it:


Fury Unleashed (UK title for Hot Rod Gang) 30"x40" British quad:


Road Devils British quad and US 1 sheet - IMDB lists Road Devils as an "alternative title" for Hot Rod Gang, but I think it was the title they used for it's re-release in the 60's:



British quad for The Fast and the Furious:


Fast forwarding quite a few decades, a subway format poster for The Fate of the Furious (measures approximately 45"x60"):


And lastly for this post (8 posters seems a good limit), going in the wayback machine to 1939, a condition challenged insert for Burn 'Em Up O'Connor:


Thanks for looking, hot rod guys and gals. There's lots more to post - probably more than 2 more posts will accommodate, so tune in next time - same time, same poster channel! Until then, stay safe and be good to each other.