Top Ten Car Movie List

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Yes "Cars" is on there. Agree or disagree with the list, "Cars" and "Doc Hudson" are forever imortalized.



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nhp1127 wrote:

This is list is on AOL today.

Yes "Cars" is on there. Agree or disagree with the list, "Cars" and "Doc Hudson" are forever imortalized.

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I'm glad the movie is on the list. But American Graffiti has to be my all time favorite car movie, nothing beats it hands down! And Mad Max (though The Road Warrior should have been there as well) is a great one too, not sure if it ever got popular here though. And Vanishing Point is a great film (anti-establishment! lol) also.

But nobody tops the Pharoah's '51 Merc Sled, thats the car that made me fall in love with Hot Rods!

Jay

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The fact that Bullet and Lemans are not on there make it a miss list for me.

I will say one thing I was watching Gone in 60 Seconds a month ago they rereleased it and I got it and I was sitting down enjoying the sheer scope of its bad acting when Haliciki is walking in the park with his girl and he is in the long suede pimp coat with large fur collar I almost swallowed the glass I was drinking from I was laughing so loud. Hadn't seen that movie for years and I just love how bad it is. Cars and chases are great the acting and script are so far beyond bad that it moves into sheer genius.

In fact I got some Hudsons a mini cam and a pad of paper just you folks wait my epic "Citizen Hudson" is coming instead of rosebud I am sitting in my chair with a model of a hash saying...."rambler f**king rambler" LOL

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51hornetA wrote:

The fact that Bullet and Lemans are not on there make it a miss list for me.



I will say one thing I was watching Gone in 60 Seconds a month ago they rereleased it and I got it and I was sitting down enjoying the sheer scope of its bad acting when Haliciki is walking in the park with his girl and he is in the long suede pimp coat with large fur collar I almost swallowed the glass I was drinking from I was laughing so loud. Hadn't seen that movie for years and I just love how bad it is. Cars and chases are great the acting and script are so far beyond bad that it moves into sheer genius.



In fact I got some Hudsons a mini cam and a pad of paper just you folks wait my epic "Citizen Hudson" is coming instead of rosebud I am sitting in my chair with a model of a hash saying...."rambler f**king rambler" LOL

I have to rent that movie tonight. My old neighbor was his girlfriend in both the movie and in real life. Haliciki had a neat car collection and movie memoribilia at a warehouse he owned. I saw it just before they sold it all at his estate sale. Small world.

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What about "Hollywood Knights" Some neat cars and a pretty fun movie. Or some lesser known flick such as "Smash Palace" (made in New Zealand, I think) had some intersting stuff.

JP

nhp1127 wrote:

This is list is on AOL today.



Yes "Cars" is on there. Agree or disagree with the list, "Cars" and "Doc Hudson" are forever imortalized.



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Bullit and the LeMans movie with Steve McQueen were great. Even though leMans was panned the slow motion crash scenes--with the flex until they burst fiberglas bodied cars was incredible. Car movie? What about Rebel Without a Cause? Yes I know they were not very nice to some cars people would love to have today.



JP

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51c8Joe wrote:

What about "Hollywood Knights" Some neat cars and a pretty fun movie. Or some lesser known flick such as "Smash Palace" (made in New Zealand, I think) had some intersting stuff.

"Hollywood Knights" should be right up there as one of the best! Also "used cars" deserves mention. And what about Porky's pink Hudson Hornet??

SamJ

"Driving Miss Daisy" :cool:

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SamJ wrote:

"Driving Miss Daisy" :cool:

that's not a car movie....

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hudsondad wrote:

"Hollywood Knights" should be right up there as one of the best! Also "used cars" deserves mention. And what about Porky's pink Hudson Hornet??

Volare :eek:

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The fact that Herb Bells's Commodore was in the movie along with some nice Cadillacs qualifies it as a car movie in my book. If it weren't for the cars, I may have never watched the movie. You have to love watching that Hudson whether its slithering down the road or parked in the Piggly Wiggly lot.

JP

TUCKER THE MAN AND HIS DREAM should make all "orphan car"/BRAND X-o-phobes cry. A real tear jerker--battling the automotive status quo is tough. Ask a Hudson owner/former dealer/etc.



JP





nhp1127 wrote:

This is list is on AOL today.



Yes "Cars" is on there. Agree or disagree with the list, "Cars" and "Doc Hudson" are forever imortalized.



http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/ten-best-car-movies/20060829153309990001

Aaron D. IL

JP wrote:

TUCKER THE MAN AND HIS DREAM should make all "orphan car"/BRAND X-o-phobes cry. A real tear jerker--battling the automotive status quo is tough. Ask a Hudson owner/former dealer/etc.



JP

Have to agree "Tucker a man and his dream" should be on the list. Anyone ever hear of a movie called "Moonshine Highway" ?? It was a canadian film I believe about the same subject as "Thunder Road"

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JP wrote:

TUCKER THE MAN AND HIS DREAM should make all "orphan car"/BRAND X-o-phobes cry. A real tear jerker--battling the automotive status quo is tough. Ask a Hudson owner/former dealer/etc.



JP

I know its a horror movie but "Christine" is a classic.

Unknown

JP wrote:

TUCKER THE MAN AND HIS DREAM should make all "orphan car"/BRAND X-o-phobes cry. A real tear jerker--battling the automotive status quo is tough. Ask a Hudson owner/former dealer/etc.



JP

Mega dittoes, JP. Unfortunately these so-called "best-of" lists are usually not put together by anyone really knowledgeable of the subject; probably by a bunch of 20-something or maybe 30-something yuppies (it IS AOL, for Pete's sake) that don't have much to do with the world outside of pop culture. I was one of the few that went to see "Tucker" in the theatre when it came out in 1988 (and I now have the DVD). It was awesome. Even the critics loved it. Unfortunately, the public didn't. Which is imperical, irrefutable proof for H. L. Mencken's dictum, "No one ever lost money underestimating the tastes of the American public."

dwardo99

The Mad Max movies were great -- obviously done by somebody who liked machinery. The second "Vanishing Point" movie remade in the 90s was GREAT; IMO the original stunk. "The California Kid" was another good one. A while back, I happend to see the second "American Graffiti", which I hadn't even know existed, but it was pretty good. If you want a real laugh, "Death Race 2000" is great.

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dwardo99 wrote:

The Mad Max movies were great -- obviously done by somebody who liked machinery. The second "Vanishing Point" movie remade in the 90s was GREAT; IMO the original stunk. "The California Kid" was another good one. A while back, I happend to see the second "American Graffiti", which I hadn't even know existed, but it was pretty good. If you want a real laugh, "Death Race 2000" is great.

Gotta love Max (before he got weird!). Was David Carradine in Death Race 2000, or am I thinking about another flik? I think I saw that years ago and liked it. I liked the 2nd American Graffiti (not as much as the first though), especially when Toad decides he's had enough of 'Nam and walks off into the jungle....classic!

I don't read movie reviews!

Jay

essexcoupe3131

jsrail wrote:

I'm glad the movie is on the list. But American Graffiti has to be my all time favorite car movie, nothing beats it hands down! And Mad Max (though The Road Warrior should have been there as well) is a great one too, not sure if it ever got popular here though. And Vanishing Point is a great film (anti-establishment! lol) also.



But nobody tops the Pharoah's '51 Merc Sled, thats the car that made me fall in love with Hot Rods!



Jay

If you are going o call up old classics you would have to add Two Lane Blacktop

cool movie

well I think so

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essexcoupe3131 wrote:

If you are going o call up old classics you would have to add Two Lane Blacktop
cool movie
well I think so

Hey Mike, thats a film I haven't thought about in a long time!