Favorite car movies, or chases, races, or scenes.
 

This list should be pretty long, and very interesting.

Lets hear about what car related movies you love, or even if the movie isn't that good, or not even about cars in general, does it have a good car scene in it?

Obviously American Graffiti has it all. It's a car movie with all types of car scenes in it, and of course there's the iconic race between the 55 Chevy and the 32 Ford.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High was "not" a car movie by any means, but the silver 1980 Z28 traffic scene with Spicoli crashing it into a wall was a car scene I'll always remember.

Definitely American Graffiti is the king of car movies.
Hollywood Knights with the Project X 57 was fun.
Adrenaline I just watched for the third time, really like that one.

Both the original Gone in Sixty Seconds, and the newer Nicholas Cage version have some great chase scenes.

Dazed and Confused......set in the 70s, right when I was in high school. The parking lot and driving scenes were well researched. Just the right amount of muscle cars and Pintos to make it seem period correct....lmao.

Huge fan of Hollywood Knights!!

Vanishing Point. Poor "stunt" Camaro took the hit for the Challenger in the last crash scene into the bull dozer.

Because of my age, the following cars/movies are my favorites:
Hollywood Knights - Just awesome cars with Proj X, Tony Nancy's yellow Ford Coupe, the '65 GTO, Pie Wagon, Jimmy Shine's Ford, etc.
American Graffiti
Aloha Bobby and Rose - Loved that Camaro
King of the Mountain - The Mulholland Dr road racing with Porsches and the Corvette of Dennis Hopper
Duel - Just freaked me out as a kid even though that Valiant was nothing special
The Car - Another scary movie as a kid that haunted me
Phantasm - The Cuda was just cool
Outrage - Made for TV Movie - Had a Nomad and other 70's street machine owned by some kids terrorizing their neighbor
Plus some commercials like the Die Hard Battery commercial with Corky's Cuda, Starsky and Hutch, Hardcastle & McCormick, etc.
The 70's were a good time to be a kid growing up with the Street Machine car culture.

I love all of the above. The only ones I don't know are Aloha Bobby and Rose, and Outrage. I'll have to look those up.

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California Kid with a young Martin Sheen and Corvette Summer with a young Mark Hamill.

Both made in the 70s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmhielOM3I

Corvette Summer trailer. Movies were so cheesy back then,...but I still loved them...lol.

Aloha Bobby and Rose Camaro
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Outrage
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Thanks Mark. I know what I'll be doing tonight...lol.

One of my favorite car movies of all time...Christine.

All the above plus ...

Bullitt
Grand Prix
Graffiti
Two-Lane Blacktop
The Hollywood Knights
Ferrari: Race to Immortality
White Lightning (4spd & column auto)
Rush
The French Connection
Funny Car Summer

and then some ...!

Also, The Last American Hero, and Thunder Road

Heart like a Wheel (1983) and Snake and Mongoose (2013) for you vintage drag racing fans.

God, there's so many. How about Mad Max? (any of the Mad Max/Road Warrior) movies. And Maximum Overdrive.

Cannonball Run

Gumball Rally was a great movie too.

Smokey and the Bandit,...and another Burt Reynolds movie, Hooper.

Two Lane Blacktop.

Agree with everyones choices so far.
Well done car theme/scene movies seem to be few & far between as we get older now.
The one recent movie I saw & added to my list was Ford vs. Ferrari.
That was done so well,with a good script,realistic driving scenes & acting by all.
And then the fact that it was based on a true story,made it a knockout.:burnout:

Has anyone seen F1? I've been wanting to see it but just haven't gotten around to it.

Death Race 2000...made in 1975. Not a favorite by any means, but figured I'd mention it anyway...lol.

Listen to the description of Death Race 2000......oh boy.

In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.

In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in the process. This year's competitors include Frankenstein (David Carradine), who is rumored to be more machine than man, and the tough-as-nails "Machine Gun" Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone). Some have a plan to stop the race.

There's a Death Race 2050 also,....here a link to this crazy plot. (It's too long to copy and paste).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_2050

Oh God, where have I been? Apparently there's a whole series of Death Race movies....lol.

"Death Race 2000" (1975)
"Death Race" (2008)
"Death Race 2" (2010)
"Death Race 3: Inferno" (2013)
"Death Race 2050" (2017)
"Death Race: Beyond Anarchy" (2018)

My pick also Greg, Two Lane Blacktop.

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think)




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For car scenes in a movie I always liked Chevy Chase in the Vacation movies with the family station wagon and especially Christie Brinkley in the Ferrari pacing Chevy and his family in their wagon.

Fast times @ Ridgemont High


https://youtu.be/TqEjG47WGHM?si=1V13TPSsw2-kIFxr

We bought it. If you go in with the thought of it's just entertainment you will like it.
It's a cross between Days of Thunder and Top Gun.

We really enjoyed it.:biggthumpup:

American Graffiti

Drive angry...Nicholas Cage and Amber Heard

Hard to believe Two Lane didn't hit this till page 3. It's one that I own, and watch at least a couple times a year....or at least it's on, I may be konked out.

You guys have named about all the great older movies. I really enjoyed Ford vs Ferrari. A couple of the early Fast & Furious moves were ok. The later ones pretty much sucked.

In addition to others posted previously ... Hot Rod with Gregg Henry (about a Willys coupe) and Fast Company with William Smith (NOT Will Smith) and John Saxon (drag racing).

Cannonball.. the original with David Carradine

Called "Hot Rod 1979"