Posted on 03/13/2021 5:58:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
What an awesome movie Gumball Rally is. What a life where you can just throw everything to the wind and go for a cross-country non-stop race.
” Whatsa behind you is not important!”
I find it ironic that in several movies from the 60s to the 80s showed a dystopian future where California is regarded as a free state or the last bastion of freedom. Boy did that not happen.
Every Mopar fan should see this film. 440 magnum with a pistol grip 4 speed shifter.
As a 12 or 13 year-old, I must have enjoyed it on some level. Watched it quite a few times. I have the DVD, now, but haven’t watched it in years. That was a transitional period for the portrayal of law enforcement in cinema. Someone on the thread said they didn’t like the ending of VP; Electraglide was one of those. The “Easy Rider” ending. Maybe I’ll dig it out. Try to find Nick Nolte in the hog farm scene.
Yep!
Pretty cool movie. They never show it.
“Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.”
When I acquired my unending love for MOPAR.
/Banana Charger
Went up there in ‘82 for an AF friend’s wedding. Hagerstown. Felt right at home.
The plot for Vanishing Point reminds of the Brian Setzer song “Hellbent” from his album “Ignition.” (The band’s name for this album is “’68 Comeback Special,” but it’s a Brian Setzer album. Perhaps his best!)
If you’re a psychobilly music fan, check out Setzer’s song “Hellbent.”
The device of an admiring DJ narrating what’s going on reminds me of The Warriors.
The remake had a better story line. But the women on the bike was ah... Nowhere near as interesting.
Some scenes were filmed on I-70 around my hometown in western Colorado. It was kind of exciting at the time.
I think they promoted that original Gone in 60 Seconds with promos that said something like “come watch 95 cars get destroyed in 30 minutes”.
My favorite car chase movie is still “Duel”. Dennis Weaver’s Plymouth Duster dash was exactly like my ‘72 Dodge Dart at the time.
The guy who did it owned the biggest Hollywood junk yard, he supplied all the big studios junk cars they could destroy on film. Supposedly a lot of the amazing stuff in the original Gone In 60 Seconds was done on open streets. The part where he nails a phone pole was an accident on an open street, if I recall.
Freegards
Double-dated at a drive-in known as The Big Mo in Monetta SC to see that movie ... there were some serious muscle cars in the lot that night. The Big Mo is still there and still doing drive-in movies for families and teenagers. The three other people I went with ... my girlfriend, my best friend and his girlfriend are all dead now.
The place was packed that night. The movie was a big hit.
There was another movie on that night as well that I remember but have never seen it anywhere since, not even a mention. But that movie stuck with me as well.
The Farmer
It was about this guy who came home on a train from WWII to takeover the family farm which, to his chagrin, was being extorted by some NY gangsters wanting the land for some reason or another.
The Farmer went old school commando postal on them. So they hired a hit man ... but there was a connection ... and I remember this one line more than anything about that movie that went as follows. “G** D*** Shirley Temple.”
Anyways ... thanks for the memories. Think I’ll take my wife out for date night to The Big Mo this summer.
I saw it at the drive-in when it first came out. Meh.
Muscle-car era. Had a dodge charger with a 400 magnum engine. Absolute raw power. I have fond memories of that car.
I liked “Two-Lane Blacktop” with James Taylor (yup, the singer) and Warren Oates. Good drive-in fare!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
2 men drag-racing across the U.S., in a ‘55 Chevy. Dennis Wilson’s the mechanic, James Taylor’s the driver.
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