Favourite car movie?

with the new italian job coming out and also the 2fast 2 furious coming out soon, what is the best car movie of all time. (ps it doesn't have to be vw movie) soem that come to mind

-Bullit
-italian job
-le mans
-gone in 60 seconds
-driven (yeah rite!):puke
-The fast and the furious
-the great race
-cannon ball run (the proper one, not the send ups)
-ronan
-bond car chases

[Edited on 4-6-2003 by BiX]

Mad Max 1 & 2 🙂

i like fast and the furious:bounce

Ronan :thumb

Terminator 2 no cars but the best truck vs motorbike chase there is. But then again i'd vote for it as best movie ever:thumb😀

As a kid I remember watching the john candy, cannonball run movies. they were so much fun. recently rented a copy of cannonball 2, where at the start the bounce a lamborghini across a pond. very cool. the fast and the furious, and gone in 60secs, is also very good.
and last but definately the best................. a big round of applause, for the winner........................HERBIE!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on 4-6-2003 by zac_smits]

You've all left out Herbie!!!! :o

What about that Aussie classic, Running on Empty. early 80's I think.

Had a blind dude who owned a black 2 door '57 Chevy, who drove it at night in the desert!!!??mmmmmm.

I'm with 356, Ronnin!
and you can't go past the car chase in Bullet and there's an Aussie film Running on Empty (schit movie but great car scene's, especially the '57 Chev).
Cannon Ball Run was a take off from Gumball Rally (which I first saw when I was seven in the back seat of my parents oval in the Clayton drive thru!)
And there's the original Gone in 60 seconds which came out in the late '70's. A yellow Mustang being chased throughout the whole entirity of the movie.

Sorry Robo, I missed that. I stand corrected. :thumb Zac also included Herbie, so I don't know what I was thinking. I think I was distracted by Jo's (BB house) butt in those 'pyjamas'. 😉

[Edited on 4-6-2003 by KruizinKombi]

Bullit and the original Vanishing Point are my two fav car movies.

car DVD's I have

Mad Max 1
Fast & Furious
Blues Brothers
Gone in 60 seconds (original)
Stone (bikes)

& Want

Running on empty
The Big Steal
Metal Skin
Gone in 60 seconds

American Graffiti :thumb

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the old one with Dick Van Dyke (oops, is that politically correct these days? :o)

Apart from the Painfully obvious choice for me, which I have several versions of each except herbie rides again, only a copy,

I am a huge Back to the future fan which must grade as a car flick,I have a bit of a collection of car movies that include all the back to the future series and
running on empty, mad maxs, the original 1974 gone in sixty seconds, Christine,coupe de ville, Catch me if you can,And the original italian job
I also have a copy of DUDU the Superbug that was the german answer to Herbie.

I do remember the cars that ate paris but havent seen it for many years.

I would love a copy of bullit, Vanishing Point, American Grafitti, Malcom,stone {bikes},Cannonball runs
although not all strictly CAR Flicks I think they are memorable for the cars that feature in them.
I also wish I could remember the name of the film I saw years ago that I cant remember the name of, It was about a guy who owned a beautiful gold mercedes which he was very proud of and attached to, he had decided to go back to his home town and with his beautiful gold mercedes to show everyone what a success he had become from the rag dressed kid he was, The movie followed his journey which along the way saw the slow destruction of his car so when he finaly got there his car was a rolled and totally stuffed very dirty Merc. It really touched a few nerves reguarding the love between a man and his car. I think the movie was italian but european for sure with subtitles.

I always love the early Bond Aston Martins, yummy.
The Bourne Identity had a pretty good mini chase, reminiscent of the original italian job. pretty cool.
2 Fast 2 Furious looks like its got some good action, the shorts look heaps better on the big screen than on TV though.

not a movie but...

knight rider... kitt & david hasselhoff... YEAH!

anyways, heres a picture to show just how cool it is!

A little known car race movie callen the gumball rally... Original shelby 427 cobra at full throttle!!! 4 webbers fully open!! awesome.😎:thumb😎

Fast and Furious
Gone in 60 Seconds
Ronin
Cannonball run

Some of Jackie Chans movies have some good car stuff too.

Boys n da hood! Not a car movie, but a nice KArmann cab, and A couple of nice lowriders! Great movie!

N!

American graffity is kool herbies great when your 8" but i have a collection of 50's Hot Rod films
Dragstrip girl
Hot Rod rumble
Dragstrip riot
Rebel without a cause
The wild ride[60s with Jack Nicholson]
And boys in da hood for same reason as Unity28 and Fast times at ridgemont high for the kool splity...Watched it last night on Foxtel

hey kustom, good call on the wild ride, I got it on DVD.
I like the wild ride, american graffiti, Hollywood Knights ( I highly recomend it) and two lane blacktop.

Scott i forgot Hollywood nights very cool call brother.

Scott i forgot Hollywood knights very cool call brother.

Look at all the love.... Hey KK, I got a call from ft customs asking me about the bags, They wanted to know how easy for a notch, must be for Lowdowns car!

I know its not the same topic, but...

N😀

sag a pow Nectari brother,I recon your right Lowdown must be gettin ready to make his ride even Lower.Like me trying to speak greek...

Man, I know how to speak Greek, but I gots to learn Italian (the missus' is trying to teach me!) Man thats hard!

Not a movie but more of a series

Post Man Pat

Who can resist that shiny red paint job !!! come to think of it I recon that he was driving a VW Fridolin

Scary hey
:alien

Hay man who's messin with my post's!

I just remembered another one,
Its a mad mad world, with Micky Rooney, it was made in the '50s and has a cool oval cab in it.

Also Dual, the one made in the '70s,
And the 80's movie The Hitcher with Ruet Gehre (spelling?) not strictly a car movie but see if you can watch that one without a pillow handy:o

DEATH RACE 2000!
What a movie!
all the good stuff..

what was the one with melanie Griffiths?
Cherry 2000????
:thumb:thumb:thumb

Mad Max 1

Sorry guys but I'm a bit of a V8 nut. If I could get a V8 into the Manx registered, I probaly would. The car chase in the begining is great, especially the scene where they race past the diner. The camera is inside the dinner with goose and outside you see and hear the V8s at full trottle going by. Sweeeeeet.

The worst movie "Leaning to drive", I saw it at the movies. Basical it's a move that slowly and painfully destroys a big beautiful Catalac (spelling?). Painfull.

The Mad Max beginning scenes are good but for me the Supercharged car and its performance is the highlight.
Also in fast and furious the supercharged V8 near the end ....mmmmmmmmmm
" good air ".

For pure petrol-headed thrills, watch Le Mans starring Steve McQueen (1971). He did much of his own driving, in a Porsche 917 alongside Vic Elford, Jochen Rindt and Jacky Ickx among others. Steve is a legend - he doesn't even speak for the first 40 minutes of the movie.

Herbie I have been looking for a copy of DuDu the Wonder Bug for years. I have Vanishing Point (both the 1972 original and the 1995 TV remake) on video - wanna swap?

A really cool car movie is Two Lane Blacktop. It stars singer James Taylor and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, driving the black '55 Chevy from American Graffiti, and Warren Oates driving a new Pontiac GTO. The sort of movie you watch after a few red wines.

A fantastic film (if you can find it) is Go Trabbi Go - about an East German inventor who makes a high-tech Trabant that runs on vegetable juice and can go 200 mph !! I have it on video.

I was going to suggest Go Trabi Go, but the first movie, the 2 sequels lost their charm. they originally showed it on SBS.
But it drove down the highway at 50miles an hour not 200

A fantastic film (if you can find it) is Go Trabbi Go - about an East German inventor who makes a high-tech Trabant that runs on vegetable juice and can go 200 mph !! I have it on video.

Car Napping. A great Italian car stealing movie with heaps of ferraris lambourghinis, a monteverdi and heaps more.
The highlight was stealing 30 odd porsches from a Paris showroom and driving them around the streets in the night with no other cars around.
This was shown on SBS early 80's but haven't seen it since. Perhaps we could lobby Des Mangan to show it as a cult film.

The Wiggles on Safari. had a converted buggy, little red thing but it broke down at the beginning and was never seen again.

I love Ronin and American Grafitti, but my favourites believe it or not are:-

The Brady Bunch
Emergency
CHiPs
....actually any 70's LA based TV series!

Great shows to see some nice LA VW's in the background!

Squiz.....

oh definately running on empty, without a daubt, except at the beginning when the holden launches itself of an early dub :🙁

Running on empty, the afor mentioned monaro getting launched off of a vw funly enough changes from a V8 to a straight six as it is sent flying through the air.....

What about "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Corvett Summer". I think there was another Australian one called "Mibnight spares" also.
Gary

Well i just back from seeing 2fast 2 furious, and the movie is awesome, even if some of the stunts are unrealistic (spelling!!) but its an awesome movie with some great car chases!!!!!😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

I would have to agree bout 2fast 2furious its a pretty cool movie! All the other movies are awesome, but if you want kool you cant go past all the chech 'n' chong movies, crazy 70s lowriders, the crazy low ridin delivery van and another van with the whole body made of hemp, Born in east LA even had a mad cal look karmann bug rollin on fuchs, Definetly the coolest car films for me!! By the way has anyone seen Gone in 60 seconds 2, it was made in the late 70s and was absolutly shite!:puke

A good one if anyone can find it was not a chase but a race of sorts across Paris (Fr).
Some guy with a Ferrari toof up some challange to race across the city, in something like 15 - 20min (still trying to remember the time). the run was early morning with onboard camera. F#$%&*g awsome to watch, especially as he near misses an early morning street sweeper. At the end he appears in front of the bonnet and lights one up.

Running on Empty's two door '57 was a four door with the back doors welded shut. Stars were Deborah Conway - Do Re Me fame, The blind guy was Max Cullen

Two Lane Black Top - was different but cool
Midnight Spares, RONIN, Bourne Identity, American Graffiti 1 & 2, where do you stop????

Yeah dudes,im with Grey 57,Vanishing Point,Bullit and Dirty Mary Crazy Larry,Last Run is good too a supercharged BMW 2002 and if you dont know what a 2002 is better stick with FF.PS anything with digital cars an stunts is total crapolla man,can you digit.I forgot one McQ -big John and his bigger green Hornet.😉

i saw 2fast 2furious on sat day night i like it except for the fact i herd 1 of the blonde chicks is a guy EWWWWW:puke :puke :puke
still good tho

i dont beleive we are arguing about this, there is only two movies that stand out,

1. Running on Empty

and

2. American Graffiti

Wobbley wrote:A good one if anyone can find it was not a chase but a race of sorts across Paris (Fr).
Some guy with a Ferrari toof up some challange to race across the city, in something like 15 - 20min (still trying to remember the time). the run was early morning with onboard camera. F#$%&*g awsome to watch, especially as he near misses an early morning street sweeper. At the end he appears in front of the bonnet and lights one up.

This movie is called Rendezvous. It is available on VCR and DVD - limited edition, hard to get etc etc.

Not sure what happened to my previous response to this - I somehow quoted the wrong thread.

Squiz.......