I saw this while I was in the service in 71 and it made such an impression on that 18 year old that I built my own version after leaving the service. I still race it at Eagle Field Drags in California and at Beech Bend Kentucky at the TRI-5 Nationals every year.
Beauty of a car that one is, in the mids 80's i had a 57 2dr ht i wanted to do the same but life got in the way. I envy you for being able to and still at it.
This movie and the Macon County Line were two movies that remind me so much of growing up in the '70's . We were alive at the best time in history as far as I'm concerned .
Yes he was, my uncle seen him several times at Pomona and lions, he also road raced at riverside, he had 2 cobras a small block and a big block, early on his first car was a split window vette I believe it’s shown on a album cover of there’s next to a Brian’s 63 Grand Prix Pontiac. There’s pics of him in his cobra on the internet at riverside.
I was taking auto mechanics in high School working in a gas station spending weekends at Dragway 42 West Salem OH....should have won an Oscar...as far as I was concerned..
ID love to build a gasser nothing like pulling up with a 283 staging it at 6000rpm then quick rev to 10 grand before launching on them sure to trick the guys today😁
This film was so formative for me, I saw it as something to aspire to and as a trainee tech back in ‘78 I fitted engine after engine and gearbox after gearbox to my car in a search for speed. I learnt more about cars, engines, suspension and brakes at the weekends than I ever did at college, Saturdays were fixing and prepping for street racing in the evening or going to a legit race meet. Ridiculous times really and probably not what I’d want my kids (grandkids now) to get into, but it was the scene at the time and I loved it. Two Lane Blacktop for the Tech heads and American Graffiti for everyone else.
Compared to the scene I had and the scene now yours still stands as the best youth scene and needs a comeback badly. Luckily. Not all of em are about the street takeovers. Some are about straight up racing. I'm tryna give the modern teens the ideals you guys had it ain't about what you have it's about what you do with what you have. Build what have learn on what you have then move on to the high end shit.
@@joebone3151 yeah, the "street takeover" thing was stupid and since F&F promoted it, it's gotten real out of hand, with the kids threatening the cops who show up. in this era of street racing, the LA crowd was doing it at 2am, like the NYC crowd, and not bothering anyone but the late night truckers high on amps. As for "run whatcha brung", back in this time a 13 second car was respectable, now its Honda Si territory :)
In my opinion this is the greatest car movie ever made, second place 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry', and third 'Bullit'. Smokey and the Bandit a close one following up.
It was the beginning of summer, 1969, saw my first drag race, at nine years old. Got to see my hero, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme. I was hooked for good! Loved the whole vibe; especially being in the pits with the cars, drivers & crew…watching from the track, behind the Christmas tree. Smelling the bleach burnouts & feeling the rumble of the cars spinning down the track! That was a magic era, the old defunct track was top fuel & drew many of the heavyweights in funny car. Loved the night drags, with the fire burnouts, the annual fox hunt, when the ladies got in free, wet T-shirt contests…it was the ‘70’s! 🇨🇦
I knew Bill Heisler, he was a friend of mine. I used to drag race at one of his tracks at Fort Worth, we used to sit and talk about the movie. It took a week to film this one shot because they wouldn't listen to him about how to get the '55 in front of him. Which he didn't mind, they were paying him 5,000 dollars a day. They had to finish the shot so they asked him on the last day how to actually do it.
Darkest ,enduring, endings that is impossible to forget once viewed. The hair in slow motion alone- spells a hellish doomnot just for the driver and the mechanic. But for all. Classic.
Three 55's were made for the movie, two had crate 454's with good heads and tunnel rams, and the stunt car had a 427 with a single 4 barrel. All had fiberglass panels, plexi windows, roll cages, 4 wheel disk brakes and good suspension. They were legit, capable of mid 10's. Two were repainted glossy black and used in American Graphiti.
And also my wonderful father gave me a 1968 Chevy rally sport Camaro for My 13th birthday gift before my dad death in 93 he did Winston cup NASCAR racing work land speed record racing and nhra drag racing with me he was a great man and taught me how to be a real man thanks dad said😢 for males kids who don't have a dad or a messed up bad Dad we can only pray they see films like thus fall in love with cars
I was never able to acquire a '55. I wound up buying a 1972 Nova 2 door and doing the best I could to copy the look. I never raced it. It had a 250 crate motor with a mild cam, glasspacks, and a Muncie 4 speed.
I saw this when I was a 12year old kid feel in Love with it I had a 1957 Chevy 150ultity two car give to me by my dad for my 17th birthday gift but sadly she was stolen and I lost her to low Life criminal people who live in the area
Am I mistaken that bleach used to help make the tires get stickey during the burnout? I remember going to the local drag strip in the early 70s I was about 7-8 years old and I'm almost certain they were using bleach,But eventually it was not allowed and everyone had to use water.
you are close. Rosin from tree sap was what was used since its naturally sticky and engine tech was superceding the potential of engines to make torque. But rosin got enough traction to make many rear axles break, and aftermarket support wasn't like it is today. And if you had a GM rear axle and took out the C clip inside the differential that held the axle in place, the only thing keeping your rear tire under the car was the brake line. Bleach is slippery like water, and makes for some great smoke, so you know the tires are warming up from inside the cockpit plus it gets the crowd going.
Rosin was used later on , plenty of guys used bleach back in the day . In a pinch , beer that has " skunked " also works . Why not , you're going to pour it out anyway .
I remember Big Wille. Those days were so much fun. The ending of the movie was kind of lame and left you hanging. James Taylor said he never watched the movie.
it seemed lame, but the point of the movie was they were going nowhere. many fans wanted to be like this, young and free and driving everywhere and racing, but it was pointless. they never fit in anywhere, the closest they came to "family" was the diner scene when GTO saves them from harassment by the locals thinking they're hippies.
I found a 28 year turbo 4cylinder, reliable, efficient, only $13,500, very very bolt on friendly, and could run a stock v stock quartermile time the same as a Buick Grandnational. That's my weapon of choice these days.
@@m42037 czcams.com/video/laixcKqBIjk/video.htmlsi=lvmdbPUNN3PF9k4a 13.2 in the quarter from the factory, this is likely mid 90s footage. Mines a 94 model and equipped with the same motor as that one from japan.
true, times have changed. as the saying goes, "the older i get the faster i wuz" on the flip side, fewer people brought a gun to these things. if you lost, you settled up. and probably got a few more race offers as a result.
No, they ran mid/low 13's stock. video proof: czcams.com/video/laixcKqBIjk/video.html This show was like the motor trend/car and driver/top gear of Japan in the 90's, this is how they determined quartermile times stock. @ From the factory they made about 240ish at the crank, 200 at the wheels on a dyno. The car weighs about 2700ish, all that adds up to about mid and low 13's stock. Don't worry, I did my homework, you're citing the quartermile times of slower/more pollution controls USDM MR2's that were often also heavier, and I'm citing the quartermile times of a JDM 94+ turbo model with the updated jdm motor.
Thats called a timing light. You set timing at lets say 35 degrees before top dead center. So this means timing is set to ignite the fuel mixture with a spark from spark plug before piston gets up to top of travel in the cylinder at high RPMs.
@@Gr1ff1nFrmFL basically, it's a strobe light, so it "slows" the appearance of the harmonic balancer at the front of the crankshaft, and you read the timing tape stuck to the HB to help with what bobsilver was talking about.
@@advjoe2 i've got some from Sears, when that used to be the Amazon of its time. Recently checked out a 1955 Ford at an estate sale. sitting on its rims in a lean-to garage. Parts from Sears were everywhere. oil cans in cardboard. brake parts. you name it. back when you couldn't afford a dealership price, you got basic repairs at Sears and walked around the mall, since some of its stuff was good (like Diehard batteries). now i suppose people go to Wal Mart for that level of repair.
eh, this is more accurate than a Fiero in outer space :) or four cars wide drag racing, or a wheelie and a burnout (yes, early slingshot jobs did that, but they had no weight in the front end) in the first F&F. "gotta change the jets" might be more accurate than "NAWS!" or needing two tanks of it.
The constant references to changing the jets are very accurate , if you remember that they left LA and headed East across the mountains . With the changes in altitude, it was necessary to keep that 427 running at it's best . And ys the tunnel rammed race car had a 427 L-88 in it , despite what was said at the gas station . The camera cars had 454s in them .
Yes and No. There were three 55's used in Two Lane Blacktop. One was sold to a mechanic and the other two were used in American Grafitti. The stunt car was destroyed at the end. Both the surviving Grafitti Car and the primer gray Blacktop car still exist.
I was a junior in high school when this movie came out. It turned me into a drag racer. First car was a true street strip car and ran high 12's in 74 2nd was a strip only Vega with a 430 Buick engine, ran mid 11's 3rd was a 66 Nova small block it ran 10:40 ish. the last car was a tube frame 69 Camaro it ran 8:80 ish with a Doug Nash 4 speed. I also had a 69 Nova that was all steel with a 355 and a Doug Nash 4 speed that was totally street legal and tagged, had a 6 point roll bar and was mini tubed , it ran low 11 teens in 82 . Funny story, the 69 street car was a real 396 4 gear and I was the 3 owner and it was perfect, a real diamond. Those were the good old days but very hard on the pocket book,lol.
those buford big blocks were so light, a nice choice for a Vega if you could just get a rear axle for it on the swing arm. and the Buick Two Speed/ST300 was like the cast iron Powerglide in that first gear reduced off the line torque..but you could find one with the Switch Pitch torque converter (i have one in my 1968 Olds 442, you can go from 1,800rpm stall speed to 3,300 stall speed, street or strip).
My dad took me to see this movie at the drive in theater off of Airline Hwy in Old Metairie... We used to stop at the convenience store right there called “Time Saver” right across from there to sneak snacks in with us... Man, those were good times in the 70’s...👍🏾✊🏾
I live just right down the road where they filmed the liscense plate swap and gassing the cars. The little town where they filmed that part pretty much looks the same...the people look exactly the same. Boswell Oklahoma
That '55 had disc brakes in the rear when most people didn't even have disc brakes in the front! I've never seen this movie but I am going to watch it this weekend.
This movie, American Graffiti, Return to Macon county line....YAAAASSSSSS I own and built my '55 chevy, work for NHRA and my local raceway.....LIFE.....IS....GOOOOOOD.
I am from Australia, and we cruised till the late 80's. I had a 1974 Ford XB Coupe, similar to the Torino 2 Door in the USA. It had a 351 Cleveland, 4 Speed Top Loader and a 9" diff. I won enough money dragging to actually pay it off! But those were the days! Wish I still had it. Today, I own a Commodore UTE, 2015 and t has a Chev 350 and a 6 speed box. Yeah, I know there are 4cyl Turbos faster, but I prefer the sound of a V8 over a screaming sewing machine! Loved this move, same as American Graffiti. For you Americans there is an Australian film called Running on Empty. Acting is not great, but you get to see some good Aussie cars and some American with a Mint 57 Chev at the end! Cant beat a good car film!
In memory of a very, kind loving mother who came with me to watch this film in Brighton, Sussex.
Mine took me to see the original home in 60 seconds in the theater. Don’t think she knows what she started
I saw this while I was in the service in 71 and it made such an impression on that 18 year old that I built my own version after leaving the service. I still race it at Eagle Field Drags in California and at Beech Bend Kentucky at the TRI-5 Nationals every year.
Beauty of a car that one is, in the mids 80's i had a 57 2dr ht i wanted to do the same but life got in the way. I envy you for being able to and still at it.
Well…you’re California Democrat overlords are shutting you down. Votes have consequences.
Bad ass story to tell. I’m 23 now and I’m into tuner cars and muscle, hope you’re on the track for years to come
I race at eagle field also every year
Baby killer
I love how they actually put the chevy and the pontiac in the cast list, the cars really were characters in their own rights
Long before the current cookie cutter era.
Warren Oates’ character was referred to as ‘GTO’.
This movie and the Macon County Line were two movies that remind me so much of growing up in the '70's . We were alive at the best time in history as far as I'm concerned .
You got that right 😅
The cool thing is, Dennis Wilson really was a racer and mechanic on his own cars
Yes he was, my uncle seen him several times at Pomona and lions, he also road raced at riverside, he had 2 cobras a small block and a big block, early on his first car was a split window vette I believe it’s shown on a album cover of there’s next to a Brian’s 63 Grand Prix Pontiac. There’s pics of him in his cobra on the internet at riverside.
He was also the only Beach Boy that actually surfed.
I was taking auto mechanics in high School working in a gas station spending weekends at Dragway 42
West Salem OH....should have won an Oscar...as far as I was concerned..
42 is nothing like it used to be
the movie that made me a 55 Chevrolet fan and gasser fan
ID love to build a gasser nothing like pulling up with a 283 staging it at 6000rpm then quick rev to 10 grand before launching on them sure to trick the guys today😁
This film was so formative for me, I saw it as something to aspire to and as a trainee tech back in ‘78 I fitted engine after engine and gearbox after gearbox to my car in a search for speed. I learnt more about cars, engines, suspension and brakes at the weekends than I ever did at college, Saturdays were fixing and prepping for street racing in the evening or going to a legit race meet. Ridiculous times really and probably not what I’d want my kids (grandkids now) to get into, but it was the scene at the time and I loved it. Two Lane Blacktop for the Tech heads and American Graffiti for everyone else.
Compared to the scene I had and the scene now yours still stands as the best youth scene and needs a comeback badly. Luckily. Not all of em are about the street takeovers. Some are about straight up racing. I'm tryna give the modern teens the ideals you guys had it ain't about what you have it's about what you do with what you have. Build what have learn on what you have then move on to the high end shit.
Great story man 🫡I feel the same way. This was college for me with a ‘53 Chevy 150. I worked 6 days a week to run that thing.
Believe it or not it's the same 55 Chevy in both movies two lane and American graffiti
It's the same 55 in both movies
@@joebone3151 yeah, the "street takeover" thing was stupid and since F&F promoted it, it's gotten real out of hand, with the kids threatening the cops who show up. in this era of street racing, the LA crowd was doing it at 2am, like the NYC crowd, and not bothering anyone but the late night truckers high on amps. As for "run whatcha brung", back in this time a 13 second car was respectable, now its Honda Si territory :)
In my opinion this is the greatest car movie ever made, second place 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry', and third 'Bullit'. Smokey and the Bandit a close one following up.
The California Kid & Hot Rod / Rebel of the Road (1979) come to mind as great car films
Don't forget thunder road
Vanishing Point?
Did I see rear disc brakes... What a great movie. Saw it when it first came out.
All Vetts had rear disc brakes in 71, since 65 actually. The Euro cars were disc brakes for ages and R&P way ahead of us..
@@m42037the 55 had rear discs here.
@@m42037 disc brakes were an option on the '65 Vettes , some of them still had drums .
Every drag racer converted to disc...Factory '55's had drums front and rear!
One of the greatest car movies of all time, and kids these days think "Fast and Ferocious" is a car movie, no, they're trash
Baddest movie car ever. Was in American Graffiti also if I recall correctly
Yes but the fans of that movie just sit in lawn chairs at car shows lol
Not all of us.
It was the beginning of summer, 1969, saw my first drag race, at nine years old. Got to see my hero, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme. I was hooked for good! Loved the whole vibe; especially being in the pits with the cars, drivers & crew…watching from the track, behind the Christmas tree. Smelling the bleach burnouts & feeling the rumble of the cars spinning down the track! That was a magic era, the old defunct track was top fuel & drew many of the heavyweights in funny car. Loved the night drags, with the fire burnouts, the annual fox hunt, when the ladies got in free, wet T-shirt contests…it was the ‘70’s!
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I knew Bill Heisler, he was a friend of mine. I used to drag race at one of his tracks at Fort Worth, we used to sit and talk about the movie. It took a week to film this one shot because they wouldn't listen to him about how to get the '55 in front of him. Which he didn't mind, they were paying him 5,000 dollars a day. They had to finish the shot so they asked him on the last day how to actually do it.
Dude at the gas station that actually built the car would tell Taylor say rev it till it floats the valves & dump the clutch 😂
Darkest ,enduring, endings that is impossible to forget once viewed. The hair in slow motion alone- spells a hellish doomnot just for the driver and the mechanic. But for all. Classic.
Three 55's were made for the movie, two had crate 454's with good heads and tunnel rams, and the stunt car had a 427 with a single 4 barrel. All had fiberglass panels, plexi windows, roll cages, 4 wheel disk brakes and good suspension. They were legit, capable of mid 10's. Two were repainted glossy black and used in American Graphiti.
Glad to see this video is back up.
This movie aired in syndication on TV when I was in the cruise/race scene of the mid-late 70s! The BEST of times!!!!
And also my wonderful father gave me a 1968 Chevy rally sport Camaro for My 13th birthday gift before my dad death in 93 he did Winston cup NASCAR racing work land speed record racing and nhra drag racing with me he was a great man and taught me how to be a real man thanks dad said😢 for males kids who don't have a dad or a messed up bad Dad we can only pray they see films like thus fall in love with cars
Must have seen this movie a dozen times since early 70s. Still haven't seen the ending.
I was never able to acquire a '55. I wound up buying a 1972 Nova 2 door and doing the best I could to copy the look. I never raced it. It had a 250 crate motor with a mild cam, glasspacks, and a Muncie 4 speed.
Barry Newman, R.I.P., least we forget the great car films we loved.
I forgot about Bill Heisler " Mr Bardall" driving a vette!? I recognized the paint job immediately.
I remember seeing this film at the local picture show a long time ago . It was 1970 and I was just a mere lad of six .
i did not think that JT could bang gears how cool!
I think I saw this on base in Okinawa at the Ft Buckner Theater. Made me a fan of those 55-56-57 Chevies.
Oh what a night!
that was a good movie
Weird watching this. I used to bracket race at this track in the late 70's. I've got to get a copy of TLB. It's a good movie. Thanks!
Love this film 😊
Tunnel ram 454 with aluminum heads, 4.88 gears and M-22 Rock Crusher 4 speed.
Cool James Taylor and Dennis Wilson musicians. 😎👍
I saw this when I was a 12year old kid feel in Love with it I had a 1957 Chevy 150ultity two car give to me by my dad for my 17th birthday gift but sadly she was stolen and I lost her to low Life criminal people who live in the area
Got the timing mark for racing and for driving love it
3:54 Now we know where Family Guy got the death pose from.
Ah... The days before cell phones and social media distractions.
Sweetness
They did good on the car sounds except for the four speed sound on the funny cars
I feel in love with cars beleave it or not cars kept me honest and real and true thanks Henry ford the first first on race day
One of the best in movie...! Well you get it! 👍👍🎸🎸🎸
Just can't drive 155! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Great movie
Still more fun than a 9 second Tesla!
I will always prefer American muscle cars until the day I leave this Earth❤
Dennis Wilson is in this 😢❤
Classic!
Genius
Can't believe they still let the duster do his burnout with that camaro in the far lane completely losing his ass by the 330
Am I mistaken that bleach used to help make the tires get stickey during the burnout?
I remember going to the local drag strip in the early 70s I was about 7-8 years old and I'm almost certain they were using bleach,But eventually it was not allowed and everyone had to use water.
In the 60's they used bleach a lot- IIRC at certain points & circumstances it would catch fire, so they quit using it
you are close. Rosin from tree sap was what was used since its naturally sticky and engine tech was superceding the potential of engines to make torque. But rosin got enough traction to make many rear axles break, and aftermarket support wasn't like it is today. And if you had a GM rear axle and took out the C clip inside the differential that held the axle in place, the only thing keeping your rear tire under the car was the brake line. Bleach is slippery like water, and makes for some great smoke, so you know the tires are warming up from inside the cockpit plus it gets the crowd going.
Rosin was used later on , plenty of guys used bleach back in the day . In a pinch , beer that has " skunked " also works . Why not , you're going to pour it out anyway .
1:40 that's a quick 55
Two lane blacktop
I remember Big Wille. Those days were so much fun.
The ending of the movie was kind of lame and left you hanging.
James Taylor said he never watched the movie.
it seemed lame, but the point of the movie was they were going nowhere. many fans wanted to be like this, young and free and driving everywhere and racing, but it was pointless. they never fit in anywhere, the closest they came to "family" was the diner scene when GTO saves them from harassment by the locals thinking they're hippies.
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I have never see this movie. I need to fix that!
Did not know Taylor was in a car movie
and the mechanic is Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys.
@@alertgasper wrong brother , that's Dennis Wilson , the band's drummer , car nut and the only member that surfed .
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 thanks, obviously i suffered a Brian Fart :)
@@alertgasper it can happen to the best of us . I blame it on being around young children . ( Under 25 or so .)
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 they do say insanity is hereditary, one gets it from their children....:)
There had to be some deleted/ lost footage during this part of the movie. The random, but familiar, guy is unexplained.
I found a 28 year turbo 4cylinder, reliable, efficient, only $13,500, very very bolt on friendly, and could run a stock v stock quartermile time the same as a Buick Grandnational. That's my weapon of choice these days.
Just say that you paid $13.5k for a SW20 Turbo 😭
Those stock ran 14:70s not 13s like many joker's like to say, and underrated they were more around 300hp
@@m42037 czcams.com/video/laixcKqBIjk/video.htmlsi=lvmdbPUNN3PF9k4a 13.2 in the quarter from the factory, this is likely mid 90s footage. Mines a 94 model and equipped with the same motor as that one from japan.
true, times have changed. as the saying goes, "the older i get the faster i wuz"
on the flip side, fewer people brought a gun to these things. if you lost, you settled up. and probably got a few more race offers as a result.
No, they ran mid/low 13's stock.
video proof: czcams.com/video/laixcKqBIjk/video.html This show was like the motor trend/car and driver/top gear of Japan in the 90's, this is how they determined quartermile times stock.
@ From the factory they made about 240ish at the crank, 200 at the wheels on a dyno. The car weighs about 2700ish, all that adds up to about mid and low 13's stock. Don't worry, I did my homework, you're citing the quartermile times of slower/more pollution controls USDM MR2's that were often also heavier, and I'm citing the quartermile times of a JDM 94+ turbo model with the updated jdm motor.
oh man, check the flames @ 3:13
Was that supposed to be Big Willie Robinson and his Dodge Daytona around 1:35 or so?
Yes..as far as I could tell..
It was , and his Street Racers of Los Angeles .
Was that Dennis Wilson ?
Whats he holding up to the engine at 4:14 before the final race ?
Thats called a timing light. You set timing at lets say 35 degrees before top dead center. So this means timing is set to ignite the fuel mixture with a spark from spark plug before piston gets up to top of travel in the cylinder at high RPMs.
@@bobsilver3983 Thanks for the reply. For a while i thought it was some kind of heat gun lol.
@@Gr1ff1nFrmFL basically, it's a strobe light, so it "slows" the appearance of the harmonic balancer at the front of the crankshaft, and you read the timing tape stuck to the HB to help with what bobsilver was talking about.
I have a timing like just like that. Forgot the manufacture. He probably clamped a radiator hose on the end to safely get up close.
@@advjoe2 i've got some from Sears, when that used to be the Amazon of its time. Recently checked out a 1955 Ford at an estate sale. sitting on its rims in a lean-to garage. Parts from Sears were everywhere. oil cans in cardboard. brake parts. you name it. back when you couldn't afford a dealership price, you got basic repairs at Sears and walked around the mall, since some of its stuff was good (like Diehard batteries). now i suppose people go to Wal Mart for that level of repair.
Does the ending indicate he crashed and died?
OMG that’s just nasty good
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Well, it may not be as authentic as the FF franchise, but it was 1971, so I guess we'll have to cut'em some slack.
eh, this is more accurate than a Fiero in outer space :) or four cars wide drag racing, or a wheelie and a burnout (yes, early slingshot jobs did that, but they had no weight in the front end) in the first F&F. "gotta change the jets" might be more accurate than "NAWS!" or needing two tanks of it.
The constant references to changing the jets are very accurate , if you remember that they left LA and headed East across the mountains . With the changes in altitude, it was necessary to keep that 427 running at it's best . And ys the tunnel rammed race car had a 427 L-88 in it , despite what was said at the gas station . The camera cars had 454s in them .
Does no-one realize I was jk?
So I guess guy in funny car knew they were filming and decided to do a long ass burnout and crashed it lol
Mein traumwagen 55er bad ass🥰👍
kinda like Steet Outlaws minus the bullshit
sandbag,sandbag,till the money's right this blow right by em,then leave,street racing every fri sat nite ,made more than my job,side bets
Dennis Wilson is very cool!
Yes Dennis was the real deal
Same Chevy in American grafeedi aka where were you in 62"vs yellow Ford
I have the film
What a weird movie
I have the movie on vhs
Better than American Graffiti
I remember that part, theyre broke and couldnt collect their money lol
Y’all are jumping all over the place! ‘Cuda smoke it off the line. Just my thoughts
Like how James Taylor steals his image from Nick Drake . And Jim Morrison .
Ever since this movie came out people been building this car . I hate this car now !
Mike Finnegans blasphemi is a tribute to that car.
That's BS! That Hemi Cuda would have smoked him!!
My dad and I built a 340 challenger that used to smoke big blocks all the time at Baylands raceway
I hate to see the chevy working against a piece of junk.
Two bit piece of Junk HA ! That 32 coupe had no chance , 55 ate his lunch !!
Is this the one where the girl talks about using dead run over rabbits as Frisbees?> I think she called them sail rabbits lol
ghhj
Arive alive.....in a 55
That's the same 55 that they used in American Graffiti.
What an incredible car, what an amazing lineage!!!
Yes and No. There were three 55's used in Two Lane Blacktop. One was sold to a mechanic and the other two were used in American Grafitti. The stunt car was destroyed at the end. Both the surviving Grafitti Car and the primer gray Blacktop car still exist.
@@davemeyer1423 read somewhere that these cars also provided the sounds for the trans am in smokey and the bandit
@@Roadhouse1997 yea, it was the same engine recordings
@@Roadhouse1997The Bandit TAs weren't stock actually 12 second cars
@@davemeyer1423And the fans of that movie just go to car shows they don't have the guts to go to the drag strip here in Michigan lol
I was a junior in high school when this movie came out. It turned me into a drag racer. First car was a true street strip car and ran high 12's in 74 2nd was a strip only Vega with a 430 Buick engine, ran mid 11's 3rd was a 66 Nova small block it ran 10:40 ish. the last car was a tube frame 69 Camaro it ran 8:80 ish with a Doug Nash 4 speed. I also had a 69 Nova that was all steel with a 355 and a Doug Nash 4 speed that was totally street legal and tagged, had a 6 point roll bar and was mini tubed , it ran low 11 teens in 82 . Funny story, the 69 street car was a real 396 4 gear and I was the 3 owner and it was perfect, a real diamond. Those were the good old days but very hard on the pocket book,lol.
those buford big blocks were so light, a nice choice for a Vega if you could just get a rear axle for it on the swing arm. and the Buick Two Speed/ST300 was like the cast iron Powerglide in that first gear reduced off the line torque..but you could find one with the Switch Pitch torque converter (i have one in my 1968 Olds 442, you can go from 1,800rpm stall speed to 3,300 stall speed, street or strip).
My dad took me to see this movie at the drive in theater off of Airline Hwy in Old Metairie... We used to stop at the convenience store right there called “Time Saver” right across from there to sneak snacks in with us... Man, those were good times in the 70’s...👍🏾✊🏾
Damn good movie here..takes me back to hot roddin in the 80's. Sure miss them days!
I live just right down the road where they filmed the liscense plate swap and gassing the cars. The little town where they filmed that part pretty much looks the same...the people look exactly the same. Boswell Oklahoma
The movie sucks.
you just can;t stay with the same ole high forever.
Those were the DAYS my friends,
I thought they'd NEVER end..
The final scene still gives me chills
Is it supposed to mean he crashed & dies?
I remember the 1st time it was on TV, I got up a 4am to record it on VHS tape so I wouldn't have any commercials. Now I have it on DVD.
how are you doing?
john milner Super
Would the real John Milner please stand up?
I've got a john milner automotive book from California ,was the guy in the movies real or just a thought up name,its not for sale,he signed it
strattuner just a thought up name.
I saw this movie at the drive in when I was 16 sitting in a 55 chevy. It's still a favorite!
That '55 had disc brakes in the rear when most people didn't even have disc brakes in the front! I've never seen this movie but I am going to watch it this weekend.
1968 offered 10 and 12 bolt options as a heavy duty option.
Film was from 1971.
They were hot rodders. They knew were to fit the goods, right?
1967davethewave .great hot rod movie back in the day.drive in sleeper.same55 in American graffiti.now known as a falfa( Harrison Ford , Bob falfa)car.
A few Camaros had rear disc brake 206 Camaros in 68
Good movie!! Along with "Hot Rod"
"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry"
a whole lotta good car movies
This movie, American Graffiti, Return to Macon county line....YAAAASSSSSS
I own and built my '55 chevy, work for NHRA and my local raceway.....LIFE.....IS....GOOOOOOD.
Did you know this 55 chevy is the same car used in American Graffiti? It was repainted as Bob Falfas 55!
i brought my richmond 4 +1 trans from racing head service [ RHS ] for my 55 chevy why back- still in her. Thanks for the video.
James Taylor and Dennis Wilson - drummer for the Beach Boys.Not to mention Warren Oates as GTO....Gotta love it!
I am from Australia, and we cruised till the late 80's. I had a 1974 Ford XB Coupe, similar to the Torino 2 Door in the USA. It had a 351 Cleveland, 4 Speed Top Loader and a 9" diff. I won enough money dragging to actually pay it off! But those were the days! Wish I still had it. Today, I own a Commodore UTE, 2015 and t has a Chev 350 and a 6 speed box. Yeah, I know there are 4cyl Turbos faster, but I prefer the sound of a V8 over a screaming sewing machine! Loved this move, same as American Graffiti. For you Americans there is an Australian film called Running on Empty. Acting is not great, but you get to see some good Aussie cars and some American with a Mint 57 Chev at the end! Cant beat a good car film!
"Green green is nice".....classic line....:)
351 Cleveland’s stop light to stop light were big block killers!
One of my favorite movies of all time.😁