After the Best Ferrari thread and the mention of the Countach its got me thinking of what is the best Cars/Film moments.
I go for Cannonball Run (1 of course). The noise, the excessive gear changes, the defacing of the speed sign, the two great looking chicks. Above all tho it was the fact that the car was an original, rather than kit car (unlike late Cannonball Run movies) Lamborghini.
|
Being patriotic and all that, it's got to be The Italian Job and those Minis used in the escape from Turin - superb!
PP
|
|
For me it's got to be Ronin (1998) with Robert de Niro and Jean Reno. The star of course, is the Audi S8.
|
Ronin, I agree. Audi S8, disagree. The XM has it.
Hawkeye
-----------------------------
Stranger in a strange land
|
Hawkeye,
What was the movie where the Citroen drove off from the cops on three wheels?
That, and The Italian Job, stick in my memory.
Matt35.
|
|
|
|
Who else remembers the 1970 cult classic 'Vanishing Point' starring Barry Newman and a Dodge Challenger?
|
I do, I do.
What about 'Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry' and their Dodge Charger from the same era?
Hawkeye
-----------------------------
Stranger in a strange land
|
|
How about the original Day of the Jackal, in which he drives across France in a smart Alfa spider?
|
|
|
Yep - with Peter Fonda and Susan George (Sigh!.)
So how about 'Two Lane Blacktop'????
|
Postman Pat and red van in Hawkeye's country?????????
DVD
|
Ronin and the 'driving the wrong way down the motorway' chase.
OR, if this counts....
The Matrix Reloaded - Truely awesome stunts/crashes, and apparently most of it WAS actually done, not too much computer trickery used at all.
Bad Boys II has a good one aswell, involving a Ferrari chasing a car transporter
|
|
|
Now DVD you're just being flippant.
All time record for late delivery of this "morning's" post, 4.23 pm yesterday. Postman unfailingly cheerful, often in shorts and no sense of urgency at all!
Hawkeye
-----------------------------
Stranger in a strange land
|
|
|
|
Thanks, Helicopter. \'55 Chevy with a 454. James Taylor. Another guy. And a babe to die for. They were racing for pink slips 25 years before the Fast and the Furious.
HJ
|
HJ - The other stars were Dennis Wilson ( Beach Boys Drummer ) and a guy called Warren Oates.
Did you know that the 55 Chevy from the film was re-used in 'American Graffiti' ?
|
|
|
|
Ronin is brilliant, but Bullit started it all, so I'll go for that Mustang.
|
|
or maybe Martin Sheen in that '30s coupe with the flame paint job, the California Kid, wonderful.
|
And the most famous car-film combination of all.
I give you.............. Chity chitty bang bang.
Mal. :).
PS., is it on again this Xmas?.
|
The silver Aston Martin from the Bond film (Goldfinger?) or the sports car from the beginning of the original The Italian Job
Ian L.
|
|
Yes Ian L, was that not a Lamborghini Miura?
|
'was' being the operative word.....I seem to remember it was comprehensively trashed in the tunnel, shame it sounded wonderful.
Ian L.
|
No-one has mentioned any of the Herbie films. Strange that.
Seem to remember on the car chase front that Gene Hackman chasing the train in the French Connection was pretty cool - although I'm sure the Yankmobile he was driving wasn't. Which was probably what the thread was about....
So I'll depart...
|
|
The police and villians, both in Jaguar S-types, tearing through London in Peter Yates' 1967 film Robbery! As a result of this car-chase he was asked to direct Bullitt.
|
|
What car did George C Scott drive in The Last Run? A rare one that.
|
|
Just discovered.. 1957 BMW 503 complete with supercharger.
|
|
007 staying one step ahead of the police (driving BMWs?) in an Alfa Romeo GTV6 in Octopussy.
|
how about "a 1974 black and white dodge sedan with Illinois plates" i.e. the blues mobile from the finest film of all time...
P45
|
...with Cop engine, Cop shocks, Cop brakes....and it ran on regular gas!
My neighbourhood policeman says never buy an ex-police car - sound advice given what happened to the BluesMobile at the end.
|
and the winner of the sad award....
"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
You're right though Dodger - it did get trashed !!
|
...with Cop engine, Cop shocks, Cop brakes....and it ran on regular gas! My neighbourhood policeman says never buy an ex-police car - sound advice given what happened to the BluesMobile at the end.
Well, yeah, but then it HAD back-flipped and jumped to a height roughly equal to that of the Sears tower AND kept going, and all this after the engine had "thrown a rod" ;-)
|
"Burnout" - 70s drag racing film.
Woeful acting, but some great action...
|
Showing my age - Genevieve?
Blowed if I can remember make/model, so over to the anoraks...
|
|
"Girl on a Motorcycle" oh yes !
|
Anorak mode on.
Genevieve is a 1904 Darracq - I seem to remember seeing the old girl on the London - Brighton run a couple of years back.
Anorak Mode off.
|
|
|
|
|
I seem to remember Barry Newman was also in the 1972 film of the book FEAR IS THE KEY.
Most of the first half is a car chase ending in a jump from a jetty to a ferry (car is banana shaped after landing)...
John R
|
|
|
Was just going to say Vanishing Point, copy of which I still have. The final scene (I won't spoil this for anyone who didn't see the movie)is absolutely ace.
|
|
|
|
|
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=12666&...f
|
The Lotus Esprit in the Bond film 'the spy who loved me'.
It must be my age, because although the Aston is clearly better looking, this seemed like the lean, low, future of the motorcar to me (except for the underwater bit, obvously!).
It's a terrible pity that the future of the motorcar turned out to be more lke the double decker bus he drove in 'live and let die'.
|
|
|
|
|
Nah, it has to be the orginal "gone in 60 seconds" from 1974, checkout the guy with the hadlebar mustach being chased for 45 mins at the end of the film ! No words just pure action.
|
Some of the high speed driving in "Taxi" is pretty good, as is the opening high-speed moped sequence.
Also love the Alfa in The Graduate.
|
I've always liked 'Duel'with Dennis Weaver as the salesmen setting off for a nice quiet trip and being tailgated and threatened by that monster truck all blaring horns and belching diesel smoke.
Its a comfort thing - reminds me of a normal day on the M25 .....
|
I think \'Duel\' was Steven Spielberg\'s first movie. Originally made for TV, but went on general release instead.
HJ
|
Mad Max. Nuff said.
andymc
|
Ill chip in with the race scenes from the Herbie Love Bug film, mostly they were staged but some footage was from actual races where a VW was entered! Despite having a Porsche 356 engine and brakes, that makes a brave man to me.
Gareth
|
|
Do bikes count? If so, I'll go for Electra Glide in Blue. Top movie.
|
The Great Race (live action Wacky Races!)
Pure entertainment at its best. I think the Jack Lemmon was the proto-type Dick Dastardly, and Tony Curtis was Peter Perfect...
John R
|
|
|
|
If bikes count, then "Ghost Rider" gets my vote...
|
|
|
Well if bikes DO count, then it has to be Harley-Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Especially that scene where Mickey Rourke shoots his Kawasaki. So would I if I had one....
Anyone seen "Torque"? Plenty of action in that.
|
Growler,
How about "Electra Glide in Blue" about the American Motor Cycle cop who wants to be a detective.
A bit sad at the end... but I won't spoil it for people who haven't seen it yet.
Regards,
John R @ Home
|
|
|
|
|
|
Checkpoint - B&W film from late 50's?
Aston Martin DB3 in Mille Miglia type race.
Anyone seen it?
Haven't got much of a clue what the script was about, but I'd buy it for the race scenes.
|
Mine has to be The Blues Brothers. Doesn't this fine film still hold the record for the most police cars wrecked whilst filming a chase?
Superb.
Cheers
Rob
|
How about "Johnny English"?
Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean as a 007 replacement. Q gives him an Aston, which he parks illegally. On returning, he & sidekick hijack the tow truck that has the Aston suspended in mid air and drive off in pursuit. While in the suspended Aston, RA is caught by a speed camera - opens the glovebox to operate the rear-firing missile and hey presto no more speed camera!
Apparently, when it was shown in cinemas that bit got the wildest applause.
|
|
|
"Doesn't this fine film still hold the record for the most police cars wrecked whilst filming a chase?"
Maybe, but I think that Smokey and the Bandit (I think it was the second one) may have it beat.
Against the Odds had a nice race with a Ferrari 3?8 and Porsche 911.
|
|
One of my favourites is on in a few moments at 2:25 on TCM channel 327 on sky, yes it's 'grand prix' with Jim Rockford so if you've got nothing to do...
|
|
There's only one -- Jacques Tati's 'Traffic'.
|
anyone remember a film I think was called "The Car"? American (of course), seemingly driven by The Devil (who you never saw) behind darkened windows - it pursued and mowed down or forced off the road various poor souls - until someone took "him" on and coaxed him over a Grand Canyon to die in ball of red (what else) flames.
spooky viewing!
|
|
Not really a car but a great chase sequence nonetheless. Bond in Goldeneye, wrecking Moscow - well Prague I think really in a russian tank. But great fun all the same.
|
|
Agree with earlier posters who nominated Ronin - the most realistic I can recall.
|
|
|
|
|
|
David Carradine & Sly Stallone in "Death Race 2000"
Nothing really reconizable, just lots of Points for Pedestrians.
John R
|
|
Most of the cars in Death Race 2000 were VW Beetle based. I think one of the cars was a disguised VW Karmann Ghia too?
|
|
Just watched 'I, Robot' at the weekend. Very good film actually, but nearly walked out in disgust after the appearence of at least 5 blatant product placements in the first ten seconds. Audi were the worst offender, with almost every vehicle seen being a (deliverately) poorly disguised TT.
|
I think you'll find that...
"C"etait un RENDEZVOUS a film by Claude Lelouch" is the most realistic movie with a car in...
a great 9 min film of a Ferrari 275 GTB driving across Paris so that he can meet his girl.
JaB
|
I think you'll find that... "C"etait un RENDEZVOUS a film by Claude Lelouch" is the most realistic movie with a car in... a great 9 min film of a Ferrari 275 GTB driving across Paris so that he can meet his girl. JaB
An absolute classic! The best car film ever as there's no stunt driving or trickery.
There are rumours that it was a stunt driver in a different car, but if so I certainly can't see the joins so I don't believe it. (Victor Meldrew?)
|
|
|
|
You got me riffling thru my consderable library of long-forgotten stuff. Not a road race job, but a real tear-jerker.
1966 - "A Man and a Woman"
Starring a gorgeous Anouk Aimee and a red Mustang which is very prominent and some lovely music scores.
|
|
|
