Car Movies, Looking to make a wish list Options

[Jeroen]

same damn sound effects for the motorcycles as the tie fighers

IIRC the basic sound of the Tie Fighters was recorded standing next to a highway guardrail as trucks passed by...

cheers,

Jeroen

[boxstr]

The Porsche Cab and Ferrari race on Sunset in Against All Odds, starred Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward and James Woods. Great steamy scenes of the love kind.
Also a Movie about a Bonnie and Clyge type drive a Turbo 930 around New Zealand, ends with the car going off a cliff.
Another movie was a guy finds someone breakinginto his home, he pulls a gun and puts the bad guy in his 911 Porsche in the garage adn locks him in, the bad guy turns the tables and locks the good guy in the Porsche and, actually not much racing but it is pretty suspenseful.
CCLINSUNNYCAMP 914

[Curvie Roadlover]

Remember the movie "Harold and Maude"? A bizzare movie and not really a car movie but I loved the Jaguar hurse conversion. That was an awesome looking Jag!!

[Jeff Krieger]

need4speed (if that's your real name),

There were different versions of 917s. I think the
one in the movie was an open cockpit "Can Am" version. Others on the board will know.

You gotta love it when Jimmy Bly was doing 200mph + with out any eye protection. I'm sure he's blind now. And WTF kind of track is that in Germany? It's like 1 1/2 car width wide and I highly doubt anyone would get out of their cars in the middle of the race to save someone's ass.

[djm914-6]

Does anyone else remember a bad 'b' movie named It Takes Two? It's about a guy about to get married but need to buy a Countach clone first. Interesting car and chase seens, plus the headlights are nice. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Mike T]

Before Speedvision went in the Nascar dumpster it had a show called "Lost Drive-in" Hosted by Bruce Dern. Showed all sorts of obscure car based flicks. Anybody remember that? One of the good ones was "Johnny Dark" Cool old movie made in 1954 about a cross country car race. Had a lot of early kit cars like the Kellison, La Dawri, Glaspar and the "Woodhill Wildfire". Lots of driving.

Mike T

[Gint]

"Lost Drive-in" Hosted by Bruce Dern

Yes. I loved that program.

[VegasRacer]

I thought Stallone's "Driven" was an absolute piece of cr@p!

the scene where Stallone picks up the quarters off the track with his rear tires - SHEEESH (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

That quarter trick was the only thing I liked about the movie. Hollywood movie making at it's best worst.

I was working for CART 101 here in Vegas at the time. I drove most of the cars that were used in the movie (when they were shipped back from Canada). They totaled one in the scene where he was chasing the guy under the parked semi trailers. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

[Jeffs9146]

I still remember the car chase in The Seven-Ups (1973) I thought they lost there heads!! :gilloutine:

Jeff

[rick 918-S]

Anyone have any idea how to email Bruce Dern? He's Coool. He's been in a ton of those old Drive Inn Flicks. I'd bet he'd be interested in our little fund raiser.

Hey anyone mention Corvette Summer yet?

[914guy]

I got into this a little late, and you guys already took most of my suggestions :finger2: Ronin, Gone in 60 seconds were great, driven was a waste of time (and money, sadly I bought it on sale at Best Buy).

There is another one out there (not really a movie but eh.) it is called Mischief 3000. It is a documentary that a couple of guys who were entering in the Gumball Rally made. There is a ton of Porsche and Ferrari goodness. And on the bonus reel they talk to some guy with a 'GTR Mustang' for a good laugh. $12.99 at Best Buy and worth every penny. My only gripe is the DVD box promised a bikini contest, and there was none (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ! But there were 2 playboy bunnies driving a Mini that almost made up for it!

http://www.bestbuy.com/movies/productInfo....=270&e=11177040

~Eric

[Mike D.]

The Wraith - Charlie Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn and some other guy? Sheen is a ghost with an indestructable super car, who comes back to take out the drag racing thugs that murdered him. In the end he leave the super car to his younger brother.

-Mike D.

[Gint]

Suprised nobody metioned this one.

Charlie Sheen - No Man's Land Good flick for Porsche junkies.

[Aaron Cox]

here is a link to the original gone in 60...
HB HILACKI's Gone in 60 seconds

[Gint]

I have a copy of it on tape around here somewhere. The entire SpeedVision presentation woth his wife doing commentary, the works.

One of my favorites (because of the car chase scene) is McQ With John Wayne. Runs around in a early 70's green Firebird (Formula IIRC).

[silver six]

I saw the Fast and the Furious last night. Man, that was a lot of rice. And one Jetta, and one Detroit muscle car, and lots of hot chicks. And did I mention there was rice? Not a Porsche to be found. THere was, however, plenty of rice. Just so we're clear.

In the movie NOS plays a very prominent role. Everyone has NOS. Our protagonist has so much NOS in one of the early scenes that he blows up his engine (although in a subsequent scene the car seems to be working fine, but this is Hollywood so don't ask don't tell). Everyone has these little red NOS buttons on their steering wheel. It was kind of cool.

It got me to thinking, that no one in the Porsche community, at least not on this board or on Pelican, or at the PCA ever talks much (if at all) about NOS. So what's the deal with NOS. Why don't we use it? I'd like double or tripple horsepower for a few moments, at the push of a button.

Douglas

[Mike D.]

NOS - basically dumps pure oxygen (nitrogen breaks off when exposed) into you intake. Tends to make things REALLY HOT. Not good for air cooled engines. Even the water coolers will burn rings if used too often or too much at one time. Some of the Bug Drag Racers use it. I've also seen some guys out at Pamona with it on their bugs or notchbacks. But T1 engines are cheeper to rebuild every 5000 miles.

$.02 - Mike D.

[porsche735]

There was one I watched some time ago on Speedvision. I believe it was "The Quick and the Dead" (not the Sharon Stone in the bathtub flick). It was basically about formula and Can Am cars throughout the years. Some of the really bad crashes were there as well. Not something you want to show your SO's if you race....

[Curvie Roadlover]

Speaking of crashes, how about those "Havoc" videos. Check those out from your FLVS (Friendly local video store), if you want to see some carnage.