Art & Inspiration has anybody seen this?

i have never seen or heard of this movie, sweet merc. definite b lister but beggars can't be choosers

 

Muldowney hates that movie.... but none of the principles have ever really denied it either.

 

i cant say that i love it but i can only watch american graffiti so many times haha, so ive resorted to movies like this and last american hero and all the b&w ones like the thunder kids and hot rod (1950) the choppers etc... oregon has some seriously poopoo weather

 

I'm not going to complain about "Heart Like A Wheel". It has quality actors, isn't a soap
opera and has a basis in reality. I'll take it over "Snake & Mongoose", which was really a
cheesy movie, as are most car related films.

 

I had to go back and double check when this thread got its start ... I first thought it must be a old one that got rekindled or something then I saw its new....wow that thing has been out forever , I realize it was a low level move but I do remember it being advertised alot when it first came out.... I suppose next your going to say you have never seen Chitti Chitti Bang Bang either...... I just watched it a couple weekends back..for maybe around the 50th time in my life....hay it was a cold shitty rainy day outside and yes I also live in Oregon........

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im 30, i HAVE seen chitty chitty but the chances of a 30 yr old guy having seen a b list movie from before he was born unless by a fluke are slim. plus its not on any of the car movie lists ive searched. yeah i hate the rain

 

i've seen it , i think it was on TV once

 

Thinking I must live a sheltered life..... Never seen it !

 

I have seen it. One of my old time favorite musicians, the late Hoyt Axton plays her father.

 

Rented the VHS copy back when the video rental stores were in fashion.
Enjoyed it for what it was.
Wasn’t a A list movie but was a lot better than a lot of the dreck out there.

 

~ 1982? The night shot of the funny car fire is memorable.
Must say, Anthony Hopkins as Bert Munroe in the "World's Fastest Indian" is a fav.

 

Greased lightning with Richard Pryor is a favorite

 

Is that the one where the broad and her husband have a gas station and an SBC powered rail. Then she runs off with a dude with a better line of crap and he makes her famous?

 

Yep, I think the dude was supposed to be Connie Kaletta….

 

He was but I was not going to out him. My world is a little different than most of these guys you just don't run off with another man's woman I don't care how good she drives.

 

porknbeaner-I thought you lived in Mo. not disneyland?LOL sorry couldn't resist

 

spoiler alert sheesh

 

I believe there was a custom Mercury in the movie also....seems like it was kind of a odd looking one ..speaking of Mercs there was the one in Cobra that seemed to be able to fly I think that one was done before they started doing CGI so they had to actually jump a real car usually destroying a few before getting the right shot...

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Heart Like A Wheel used to be on HBO in the 80`s. Always liked the Merc. Isn`t it in Illinois.

 

The Merc showed up at Gas City at least a couple of years BITD...

 

Funny how the movie character was enhanced.

 

Is it any different if you leave the "with" out of the sentence?

 

The movie tells a somewhat true story. In the movie one of the guys that signed for her license was a short round guy. In real life he was Pancho Rendon. I got to be a friend of Pancho's in the early 2000's. Pancho was a partner with Dick La Haie in the La Haie and Rendon top fuel car. Pancho was also a partner with Tom Prock in the Detroit Tiger funny car. Tom Prock is the father of Jimmy Prock, who is the crew chief on Robert Hight's funny car.