Great movie, TCM played the uncut version with Charlotte Rampling as a hitchhiker fairly recently. One of those crazy flawed 70s movies that had a lot of heart. That awesome white challenger wound out tight sounded great in that movie. Another one of those with cool cars is the original Gone in 60 Seconds.
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‘Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry’, ‘Return to Macon County’, and the original ‘Gumball Rally’ come to mind.
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”.