What are your favorite car movies?

I cant remember if it was a Tales of the Crypt or the later Twilight Zone series movie. It was about a street racer goin town to town looking for the top dog street racer. He finds them and races the guys but at the top end makes them wreak and kills them off so he will for ever have the title.He would tattoo there names on his arm.He has a yellow chevell or a nova. At the end he meets his last victim that pulls out his Nasty bad ass 55 Chevy and turns the tables on him. Does it ring a bell

 

Catch Me If You Can. Black Chevelle making money by street racing.

 

It's great on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Graffitti,
Bullitt, Best chase scene
Gumball rally,
Not a car movie
but bikes,
Easy Rider
Smokey and the Bandit,
Cars
Beach Blanket Bingo, Great drag racing.
American Graffitti 2 for the race scenes,
Cannon ball rally,

The first 5 minutes of War of the Worlds with Cuise's GT 350H.

 

No particular order:
American graffiti
Gone in 60 Seconds (the remake)
Phantasm (not many cars but one sweet 'Cuda in it)
Dazed and Confused (again, not really a car movie, but there are some SWEET rides in it).
Smokey and the Bandit
I know there are more, but I can't think of them right now.....

 

Oh, I forgot about "The Wraith", really cheesy 80's, but great chase/race scenes.

 

34 posts and no one has mentioned The Fast and the Furious Movies?! Instant classic!!

 

Favorite car movies in order:

American Graffiti
More American Graffiti
Two Lane Balcktop
Heart Like A Wheel
Hollywood Knights
Drag Racer
Hot Rod
The Lively Set
Last American Hero AKA Hard Driver
Greased Lightning
White Lightning
Bullit
Christine
The Real gone in 60 seconds and last but not leats, all the streets of San Francisco episodes!!!! RIP Carl Malden.
Sometimes they come back

 

I liked the SANDMAN in the Camaro!!!

 

what about Hot Rod with the primered Willys and Studebaker pick up truck and the girl version of Easyrider Me & Will plus ALLLLLL of the above

 

Cars
Blvd Nights
American Graffiti
Christine

 

my favourite car movies are
1.le mans
2.grand prix
3.mad max
4.dukes of hazzard

 

If you mean the original 1950's version you're correct, it is a classic. Chock full of early 50's British sports cars. IIRC there are even some on track scenes with Cunninghams and Allards. They may have called the Cunningham and Allard sports cars but they were true American hot rods in my book.

 

American Graffiti, and thunder road

 

Alot of these have already been said.....but here are a few of mine. Impossible to pic a favorite!

American Graffiti

Vanishing Point

Eat my Dust (with Ron Howard)

Gone in 60 Seconds (Both...I know...Guilty as charged)

Greased Lightning

Thunder Road (Oldie with Robert Mitchum)

Grease (Make fun if ya want...but I love that movie)

Bullit

Christine

Used Cars

White Lightning (Burt Reynolds)

Smokey and the Bandit

Hooper (Not so much a car movie...but since I was on a Burt Reynolds kick, haha)

Cannonball Run

The Car

I know there are more...but that is what I rotate regularly in my DVD/VHS player.

 

my mother the car, ha,ha, you got to be old to know that

 

Funny Car Summer. A summer on the road with Jim Dunn's rear engine funny car. Ch-check it out!

 

how about "California Kid"...been thinking of watching that one again lately...the KID out does the bad cop

 

american graffitti for me.

how about 'fireball 500', frankie avalon

 

My favorite one is Gone in sixty seconds THE ORIGIAL produced and starring H.B. HALICKI from 74

 

MadMax and cobra with Silvester Stallone

 

Aloha Bobby and Rose, Hollywood Knights, and Hot Rods from Hell.

 

Two Lane Black Top
King of the Mountain
American Grafitti 1 and 2
Vanishing Point - Original
Gumball Rally
Corvette Summer
Gone In 60 Seconds - Original
The Lively Set
Redline 7000
Greased Lightning
Aloha, Bobby & Rose

And a few more

 

American Graffiti, what about Stroker Ace , and The Last American Hero, & Thunder Road

 

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I've been customizing some of my die cast into sets of, mostly, main character cars from car movies. Need 2 more cars for my Gumball Rally set though, and I'm working on a couple more for my Hollywood Knights set.

I just bought and watched Hometown USA, directed by Max Bear (Jethro Bodine). It's not too bad. Corny acting but a good movie to just sit back and watch.

I copied and pasted this from one of my previous posts about car movies:
T-bird gang.

The blob. Has a 1940 Ford coupe racing backwards near the beginning.

Hot Rods to Hell.

The wild ride.

Hot Rod girl. Has some cool roadsters racing.

The Choppers.
The Lively set.

There are actually a ton of movies out that are "car related".
Not all of them are hot rod or traditional rod related. But, none the less, they are car related. Here's a short list of ones off the top of my head.
Tucker
Gumball ralley
cannonball
The cannonball run movies.
eat my dust
The last chase. Lee Majors had a race car buried in his garage.
Viva Las Vegas. with Elvis
Spinout. With Elvis.
The car. Laughed my ass off when the car is doing donuts outside the cemetery.
Chitty Chitty bang Bang. Love that car.
Those daring young men in their jaunting jalopies.
The great race. Love those old cars.
Village of the giants. I think this one had a T getting it's body tore off when it tries to wrap ropes around a giant and pull it down.
High School Caeser.
Ghost of dragstrip Hollow.
A bunch with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon have cars in them too.

There was an old beach movie where they go through a car show. I think they were chasing a go-kart or something like that. Can't remember the name though.
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Damn man do a search next time !!!

This one has be up way too many times !

 

I Finally watched the entire movie of Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry. Over the past couple years I watched bits and pieces of it but never finished it. DAMN, that's one hell of an ending!!! Totally threw me for a loop man..But what a great flick.

 

Hey anybody seen Humprey Bogart in High Sierra? They have some cool coupes. I think he drives a 1938 plymouth coupe up in the mountains. The car has a ship sail hood ornament. Or is a it a Dodge? Check it out.

 

I like most of the ones mentioned, My all time fav, best chase/crash scenes, not to mention an awesome soundtrack, "The Blues Brothers"
Went to the same high school as Tony Danza (really Iadanza), so grew up watching " The Hollywood Knights" too

 

Man, I'm glad I read through these after I posted mine. There were some I forgot about and need to watch ASAP! Stroker Ace, California Kid, and you can't forget...nor did I see mentioned (might have overlooked it) The Heavenly Kid. That movie was bad ass. Also, Phantasm II...even though the ending was crap.