Favorite car movie tough guy??

Wasn't expecting too much out of this thread, but I'm really enjoying everyone's input.

"Duel" was (I think!) a short story in Playboy magazine before it became a movie. No one mentioned it so far, but Dennis Weaver played the salesman in the movie. (You know, Chester, Matt Dillon's deputy in the old "Gunsmoke" TV series).

Yeah, Robert Mitchum in Thunder Road was pretty badass!

 

One of my all time favorite movie scenes is in "Thunder Road" when Mitchum flicks a cigarette out the window of his car. It hits the guy in the other car right in the face, causing him to crash and burn.

 

Stallone in Cobra

 

Roarin’ out of Harlan, revvin’ up his mill
He shot the gap at Cumberland, and screamed by Maynordsville
With T-men on his taillights, roadblocks up ahead
The mountain boy took roads that even Angels feared to tred.
Blazing right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike,
Then right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal strike.
He left the road at 90; that’s all there is to say.
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.

 

clark gable....to please a lady. Scene where he buys the sprint from frank curtis. "I'll pay the rest off after I win."

 

Steve McQueen in Bullit or Milner in Graffiti

 

he didn't fight anybody but Barry Newman in "Vanishing Point" Sat through that movie twice when it came out in '71

 

i believe that was a hudson in cars
and plym49 i talk to my car too u just have to console em sometimes
im goona have to go with McQueen
not really a car movie but i loved clint eastwood in (any which way but loose) loved that movie right turn clyde

 

Doc was a hudson. The sheriff was a merc. my boys watch it at least once a week.
Hey how about Sheriff Buford T Justice from "Smokey and the Bandit"

 

4 pages and no one knows how to post video clips???

Thunder Road
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Bullitt
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Christine-Buddy Reperton
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Mad Max-The Night Rider
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The Road Warrior-Wez?? The Humongous is THE Bad Ass of the Movie...
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Duel
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Deathproof
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Gone in 60 Seconds(the Original of course)
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How aboat the california kid , Martin sheen and the pete and jake 34 3 window.

 

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What about that guy drivin the hopped up Olds rocket in Hot Rod Girl.

Biff Tanon drivin the 46 Ford rag top in Back to the Future

 

OK, I was gonna post a Lee Marvin link and might have found another candidate. Do ex-presidents count?
The Killers
Larry T
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92KrKaoBuY

 

don't know if anyone has mentioned it, or if anyone even considers it a hot rod movie....but I'd say Mad Max. That is, up until it became about Thunderdome and the cars took a complete back seat.

 

I thought this thread was about real car movies...

 

Anyway, this isn't technically a "car movie," but how about Clint in Gran Torino?

 

Dean Martin in Cannonball Run. ...Oh wait, he was a drunk priest. Nevermind. Ha-ha!

 

kowalksi,vanishing piont,ya gotta be tuff to out run a bulldozer!

 

i didnt see the eastwood --the gauntlet -- dont get much more badass than that.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi848101657/

 

"ALL WE WANT IS THE GASOLINE".-Lord Humongous in MAD MAX The RoadWarrior.-Weeks

 

Deathrace . ALL of the them . I don't even care about the story that was sick. Straight up Twisted Metal shit man.

 

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The original "Gone in 60 Seconds" was a masterpiece. The second "60 Seconds" never should have been made.

 

Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8coq2cUn1U

 

dirty Mary/crazy Larry? There's some great movies from the early 70's, but it's been all downhill since then. IMO. As far as cars and tough guys go.

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (very first movie I saw, don't remember it, but remember the car. I was 5)

 

My vote goes to Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. It's not an old car movie, but does have the Gran Torino and an early 70' Ford pickup. He is on bad mother fucker in that movie ....A must see

 

I thought Mad Max was a RatRod movie, not a car movie.

 

Bonnie and Clyde

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You can definitely argue that for anything other than Road Warrior.