I liked the movie “Vanishing Point”, along with “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry”, and “Two Lane Blacktop”. Vanishing Point was released in 1971 I think, the same year I was born. The take the money and run car-chase movies from that gernre were awsome.
I finally caught up with Two-Lane Blacktop on latenight TV back in the eighties and thought I’d die of boredom. But I watched the Criterion version a couple years ago and now I own it. Rudolph Wurlitzer has a weird imagination, and we need that.
Another 70’s flick that really impressed me was The Friends of Eddie Coyle. (It’s filmed in Boston, where I live now, and literally down the street from where I grew up as a kid in suburbia.)