What are your favorite car movies?

So I was watching tv and the original vanishing point came on and i was just curious of what everyones favorite car movies were. like smokey and the bandit, american graffiti, two lane black top, and Christine. I'm having a little trouble thing of some that are more about hot rods than muscle cars.

 

Duel, Cannonball run, How about Convoy...

 

gone in 60 seconds ( the original...not the crappy remake) and Used Cars with Kurt Russel

 

Movies, in random order:

vanishing point

American Graffiti

Mad Max(the opening chase scene still kicks ass, find the restored 20th anniversary dvd)

The Road Warrior

smokey and the bandit

Thunder Road (1958 / moonshine movie with Robert Mitchum)

Cannonball Run (the first one)

The Car (creepy killer/demon black car stalks a town and runs over people)

Ronin - kinda a caper/spy movie but it has an amazing chase sequence with very little music and lots of engine sounds and effects... great to watch on surround sound.

Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) - not the best movie, but at least they got the sounds of the cars right

The Transporter movies have at least one cool chase sequence per film.

Moonshine Highway - a made for cable movie supposedly about moonshine running... but it had a cool '54 or so lincoln with a cage...

When I was a kid I loved the movie Convoy because it had lots of semi trucks in it... but it's not really a great movie. We used to watch it while we played with our hot wheels.

 

Bullit and Christine

 

My favorite one has to be Christine my second is maximum overdrive, that goblin truck was wicked!

 

Not really a car movie, but the airplane, the parachute training, and the hitching the cadillac to the passing train with a steel cable, is all about rolling on the floor with laughter: Fandango.

 

Gumball Rally............number one in my book !

 

"The giant gila monster" is a goofy 1959 horror movie that has some really cool early hot rods running around in it.

 

there are so many ( hollywood nights ,american graffiti .christine ,the original gone in 60 seconds some episodes of the monsters duel,

 

tommy ivo's t bucket. i know it was based off norm grabowski's but i'm a nailhead fan.

 

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Thunder Road

Used Cars

Christine

 

In no particular order:

American Graffiti
Vanishing Point
The California Kid(made for TV,but great nonetheless)
Hollywood Knights
Thunder Road
Beach Blanket Bingo(great drag racing scenes-not enough,though-and it has Annette;need I say more?)
Gumball Rally

I've not seen many of the older "B" Hot Rod-themed movies;I'm sure there's plenty.

 

how about two lane blacktop? and what about motorcycle movies? like easy rider

 

Fandango is one of the great "unknown" classics.

 

I watch the original Gone in 60 Seconds 3-4 times a year, American Graffiti and Bullit's chase scene. I also like Le Mans, good racing movie.

 

Hot Rods to Hell...oldie but goodie

 

You beat me to it........Hot Rods To Hell!! also The Hollywood Knights!

 

always loved hollywood knights.
my favorite has to be Hot Rod. guy wrecks his mopar on the way to a drag competition and someone gives him a willys gasser frame. great scenes.
THE VAN -cheesy but funny Danny DeVito is in it.
High Riders- like a low budget 70s biker movie but with cars. all ther cars have side pipes and wheel flares.
then there's all the 50s car movies- hot rod girl, drag strip girl, hot rod riot, high school confidential is a good one. and The Choppers is a good one too

 

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry,Christine,Boulevard Nights and Bullitt....many others mentioned above....but these are my favorites....

 

Any Haliki movie.
Junkman, original gone in 60.
2lane blacktop
hollywood knights
graffiti (even the second, though its not so great)


As long as there's some cars and maybe a chase, and you don't say Fast and Furious (first through 17)
Grab the popcorn and dim the lights.

 

Hey, if anyone's curious there's like a 10+ page thread on favorite car movies already posted.

While not a car movie, McQ, the cop movie John Wayne made when he realized he'd made a mistake to turn down the original Dirty Harry, has some great scenes of him putting a '72 Trans Am through it's paces in Seattle that I never get tired of.

 

Christine, love that movie, can't tell you how many times I've seen it or read the book, got just about every diecast or model of that car.
Smokey and the Bandit, saw that at a drive-in in a full sized station wagon, am I dating myslef yet, never heard my Dad laugh so hard in his life.
Cannonball Run, Hooper, Road Warrior, Mad Max, Vanishing Point, Hollywood Knights, the California Kid.
You name it, if it's about cars I love it.
You name it,

 

anyone seen the new one that came out not to long ago called deathproof? Kurt Russell killing young girls with hopped up muscle cars. I liked it not many people liked it but i thought it was cool

 

Yeah, Deathproof was awesome...

 

Remember Van Nuys Blvd...??
I have most of the movies in this thread, but my copy of HOT ROD (Willys gasser) is not very sharp focus...

 

There is a lot
1) Christine
2) used cars
3)Two lane Blacktop
4) The Car
5) Gone in 60 seconds
6) Bulliet
7) Dukes of Hazard
8) The one about moving moon shin can't remember the name
9) Stroker Ace

Hell that is good for know but there is a bunch more.

 

Mirage...does that count ??
It had cool pickup trucks in the desert...banned horror film...

The Driver.
Days of thunder.
Sin City had lots of cool cars...

 

Corvette summer.
Cobra.

 

The last american hero...based on Junior Johnson stock car racer...