The best car movies of all time, in no particular order, are... 01 September 2011 / 11:42BST. The existential truth of Kowalski’s motivation to ignore speed limits is less than clear.What’s undeniable is that those E-Body Mopars were about the best-looking and badass muscle cars ever let loose on the highways.Aspiring NASCAR driver Larry is played by Peter Fonda and his mechanic, Deke, by Adam Roarke, veteran of many '60s biker films. Marvel at how Southern California once had open, undeveloped lots all over the place. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.Three 17 year old kids live in a car for 3 months struggling to survive with one cell phone and their wardrobe in the trunk. The films of the '70s continue to resonate in the 21st century. Midriff exposed Susan George is along for the ride too. future of our automotive past.© 2017 The Historic Vehicle Association. GM, Ford and especially Chrysler were making Big Block dreams come true. A kind of ‘searching-for-real-America’ journey is sprinkled in between wide desert vistas and roaring Dodge Tri-Power glory. Nomads, they exist to move from town to town, drag racing their stripped.The three men agree to a race across the Southwest to the East Coast with with their pink slips at stake, but the race is as aimless as the characters. Armstrong. Courtesy of Mecum Auctions . – Travis Okulski, deputy editor,This nihilistic masterpiece exposes the immediate fallout of the “feel good” 1960s via a Southwestern road trip through religious cults, racism, drug abuse, homophobia, and police entrapment, and ends in an explosive “Fuck the Man!” suicide that eviscerates both its antihero and his awesome muscle car.
Mysteriously, the District Attorney and his car come back to life as a single being with a thirst for vengeance.A small town is terrorized by an unknown stranger who kidnaps and abuses little girls. Now, with bags of cash and double-crossing criminals on their tails, they have to get through Texas to sanctuary in Mexico. … The always-great Vic Morrow is the obsessed county sheriff leading the dragnet against the would-be racers.Halfway through the film, the trio swaps getaway cars and rips through the second half of the film in a.The film’s ending is a stunner. After a decade of love, peace and grooviness, America was once again ready for killer car movies. So, to steal a line from "Dirty Harry," are you feeling lucky? Throw in a psychic radio DJ, some homosexual hitchers and a naked woman on a motorcycle and you have the making of a cult classic car chase movie—one of the best of all time.Here’s pretty solid proof they don’t make movies like they used to. In this 1971 film, Kowalski—an ex-cop, ex-motorcycle and car racer, and Medal of Honor Vietnam War veteran turned car delivery driver—takes an assignment to drive a supercharged white, Dodge Challenger R/T 440 from Denver to San Francisco. A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it. It famously came out after the fact, but when director William Friedkin failed to get proper permitting for a five minute car chase scene in which Gene Hackman pursues a bad guy getting away in an elevated New York subway train, he went ahead and filmed it anyway—public safety be damned. The Gumball Rally (1976)A fine blend of fast classic cars, excess and silliness makes for the best … Yes, the story is predictable. This was marketed as a kind of two-crazy-kids in love story, but the characters are much darker than that. The female lead is giant-wigged and named Pumpkin. Then in ’72 clean-air smog regulations and the OPEC Gas Shock threw a wrench into the global gearbox and nothing was ever the same. Some are touching at the cerebral, some are just plain stupid. (HVA) is to promote the cultural and historical