i remember when i was a kid i seen this movie where they did alot of drag racing set in the 60,s i beleave .and the guy raced a willys 40-41? coupe and he started with 2 fours then went to a tunnel ram then went injected and finally blown . they even stole a hemi from a police car in the middle of the night to keep the wily,s racing. ring any bell,s ? i would like to obtain a copy of this movie .. :confused:

Is that Two Lane Blacktop??? I remember movie though. Mike

The name of the TV movie from 1979 is Hot Rod. Here's the review:
HOT ROD (1979) (a.k.a. Rebel of the Road)
was an ABC made-for-TV movie that starred Gregg Henry, Grant Goodeve, and Robert Culp. This is one of the "alltime" kar krazy fav's, and is A MUST!

The plot in Hot Rod features our quarter-mile hero, Brian Edison (Henry), who is en-route to the fictional Munn's Rootbeer Drag Race Nationals. The "bigtime" drags are to be held in mythical Lyons, California. (The actual racing scenes were filmed at Fremont, CA.) Edison is driving a jet-black 1965 Plymouth Belvedere. This ol' MoPar is short on looks, with its spray-can paint job. But, it has awesome performance because the engine-compartment is stuffed with a fire-breathing 426-Hemi. Yes, YEs, YES!

Meanwhile, Lyons rootbeer soft drink magnate and "Hot Rod Hall of Fame" owner, T.L. Munn (Culp), has conspired to fix the upcoming drag races so that his kid, Sonny Munn (Goodeve), will win the top eliminator title. You see, then Sonny can go-on to certain fame-and-fortune. And, of course, papa-Munn can sell a train-load of rootbeer sodapop in the process, too. Good plan, huh?

"How does papa-Munn plan to accomplish all of this", you ask?

Well, every competitor who doesn't run a Munn's decal on his car gets harassed by the local corrupt cops, led by the cheezy "bought and paid for" Sheriff Marsden (Pernell Roberts). Drag racers who don't comply are run out of town, or summarily incarcerated, before the race even begins. That's how! Sheesh!

However, like a "true hot rodder", Brian just doesn't dig plastering stickers on the side of his race car. So, no surprise, he immediately develops an adversarial relationship with papa-Munn, Sheriff Marsden, and Sonny Munn.

By the way, Sonny Munn drives a hopped-up, lifted, and kustom-painted street-and-strip 1969 Olds Cutlass 2-door post sedan. Could this Lansing-mobile be packin' a dual-quad, tunnel-rammed, W-31 or W-30 underhood? Dunno. Edison suspects Sonny's Old's is just "a paint job". He may be right.

Anyway, no surprise, Brian and Sonny meet-up right away. Their first confrontation is a street race that begins at the Munn's flagship drive-in restaurant that is located in downtown Lyons. The dig concludes on the highway outside of town that runs through acres of beautiful grape orchards. But, some dirty-trick fender-bashing driving by Sonny results in Edison's Plymouth being destroyed in a spectacular end-over-end crash...Ouch!

Luckily, the ex-hippy tow-truck driver, Clay (Ed Begeley, Jr.), who comes to haul Brian's Mopar away from the crash-scene, is a kool-dude. Clay offers Brian some respite out at the laid-back roadside motel he operates with his Haight-Ashbury inspired family.

And, Edison continues to be one lucky "good-guy", when a sympathetic old junkyard owner in Lyons gives him a down-dead 1941 Willys body. That is, "IF" Brian promises to beat the hated Munn's out at the strip. Man, what a WONDERFUL fantasy!

That make of car is just what Brian had in mind in the first place. So, he installs the Hemi engine, and complete drivetrain, from his wrecked Mayflower, into the primer-gray Willys. Luckily, Brian's wacky old drag strip rat pal, Cannonball (Bruce Fischer), arrives on the scene just in the "nick of time" to help spin wrenches. Dig Cannonball's righteous-ratty ol'Stoodie pick'em up shop-truck.

When the local speed-shop owner throws a 6-71 GMC blower into Brian's little project, just for kicks, and to ensure that the Munn's are thoroughly defeated, Edison is ready to hit the staging lanes and take-on Sonny heads-up....WELL ALL RIGHT NOW!

In fact, things are looking so good for Brian that his only apparent problem appears to be that the doors on the Willys never seem to close quite right! No biggy.

Now, why a AA/GS Willy's would ever run heads-up with a C/MP Old's Cutlass in the top-eliminator finale at any kind of drag-event anywhere on the planet is never fully explained. But, lets not get bogged-down in pesky details. And, besides, the thought of handicap racing is just "too bogus" to even contemplate for true drag racers.

Anyway, Brian is one kool-dude himself, because even though he is spinning the wrenches day-and-night on his Willys, he still has time to steal the affections of Sonny's cute little carhop chick-a-dee, Jenny (Robin Mattson). Natch, this romantic move ensures that we are about to witness the duel of the century, on and off the track.

On top of that, Sonny Munn soons realizes that his chances of winning the drags have now been reduced to just about zero, even if he had the fulltime help of Dr. Oldsmobile and his pal, Elephant Engine Ernie...which he doesn't. So, with Sheriff Marsden's help, a desperate Sonny steals Edison's Willys at Clay's motel, and blows its huffed-Hemi by over-revving it on purpose. Gee, is it even possible to over-rev a Hemi?
Damn those Munn's....could Edison finally be finished?

Since Brian is an upstanding drag racer, his only hope now is to borrow another Hemi engine from somewhere so that he can continue to race the Willys. After all, there's no crime in borrowing few parts in order to win a drag race is there? Nope.

Now, it turns-out that Lyons, CA is apparently the only place on the planet with Hemi-powered AMC Matador police cars....gee, what are the odds? But, again, let's not get sidetracked with pesky details!

The big question is, does Brian Edison eventually get his hands on another elephant-motor and defeat Sonny Munn in the Rootbeer Nationals in order to preserve the honor of good-guys everywhere? Come on now, do you even have to ask? But, you'll still want to watch and see for yourself what happens.

Look, let's be honest, in Hot Rod , the story is preposterous, the directing is amatuerish, the acting is horrible, the writing is awful, and the continuity is pathetic. But, this movie is still a must-see kar-flic! They should'a made a sequel! Too, too kool!

Along the way, DJ Johnny Hurricane (Royce Applegate) keeps the oldtime rock'n'roll soundtrack hummin' along very nicely, which adds much to the proceedings.

For obvious reasons, no theater poster was made of Hot Rod ....too bad! Hot Rod really is a fun little flic and is considered to be one of the all-time hot rod movie favorites by just about everybody. You'll have some big-fun watching Hot Rod ! You betcha!

I do remember seeing that movie along time ago in a galaxy far far away. Just don't remember that many details. Still trying to figure out what movie it was with a Camaro. Kid had the cops pushing the car telling them it wouldn't start. Finally turns the key on and rips out of there.

"Aloha Bobby and Rose" has Paul LeMat driving a 68' Camaro with fender flares. It has like a two minute driving sequence where he whips all kinds of donuts in the street, takes off in front of the cops, shuts down a Mustang, and goes to the strip.

so were can we get it??
shane

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=617&item=6354734353&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=309&item=6354989340&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Did you read the bad reviews on the seller Koolcat76.
Looks like a poor quality import or bad quality DVD-R and shipped from Canada not US.

Just made a quick search for it. Seems its out of print.

It is OOP. I have an original VHS copy I bought off half.com

You can get it there or amazon........but will likely pay around $50

Bah. Just when I find another cool car movie to pick up....one can't get a good copy of it. :mad:

I live to watch this stuff.....

BTW, anyone seen "More American Graffiti". Pretty good (and sad) story.

Spike or one of the other networks should do a car movie weekend. Get a bunch of these movies so we can record them. Alright who's with me?

twilighttopics thats the movie.

Originally posted by daveseitz:
Spike or one of the other networks should do a car movie weekend. Get a bunch of these movies so we can record them. Alright who's with me? speedvision used to do what was called i think drive in movies.. and they uised to show all the old car movies. this was years ago (about 5-7). thast where i 1st seen 2 Lane Blacktop, American Graffiti, and More American Graffiti, Eat my dust, Vanishing Point, and many many more.

nothing like a good old school car movie, where they knew what they were talking about.

aaron

And not once in those movies did anyone say NOS.

Originally posted by daveseitz:
And not once in those movies did anyone say NOS. No bro yuz gots it all wrong.
Sit back down and don't be actn a clown.

Yo check it itz NAUWWWWWWWS :eek:

Don't be a hater you be straight tripn yo.
Be a strait up fat pimpn playa bro :D

slow and flurious is the shiznit we dont need no old school nothin' screw them and there 100 octane and high compression v8...
we've got BIG WINGS and FOLGERS COFFEE CAN exhaust
damn old folks whens them gonsta learns!!!!
shane

didnt know there was a sequal to american graffitti any of the original cast...
oohhhh suzanne and your t-bird

Ovelle, yes, alot of the original cast came back for "More American Graffiti".

Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith ("Toad"), Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark, MacKenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford were all onboard.

Notably absent was Richard Dreyfuss. Guess they couldn't sign him.

All I can say is that I thought it was a great movie, the last scene is tearjerker for me. Also, Harrison Ford is only in it for a few seconds and you have to pay close attention to where (and how) he pops up. I won't spoil it for ya.

FYI, I bought both Graffiti movies in a "The Franchise Collection: Drive-In Double Feature" at my local Wal-Mart for less than $15. One movie is on one side and the other is on the flipside. There is also a trailer and "The Making of American Graffiti" featurette.

Well worth picking up.

no it was hot rod aka rebbel of the road.

Originally posted by 70_FathomBlueMalibu:
Ovelle, yes, alot of the original cast came back for "More American Graffiti".

Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith ("Toad"), Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark, MacKenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford were all onboard.

Notably absent was Richard Dreyfuss. Guess they couldn't sign him.

All I can say is that I thought it was a great movie, the last scene is tearjerker for me. Also, Harrison Ford is only in it for a few seconds and you have to pay close attention to where (and how) he pops up. I won't spoil it for ya.

FYI, I bought both Graffiti movies in a "The Franchise Collection: Drive-In Double Feature" at my local Wal-Mart for less than $15. One movie is on one side and the other is on the flipside. There is also a trailer and "The Making of American Graffiti" featurette.

Well worth picking up. =
Here's another little tid bit for you More American Graffiti buffs,,,

I drove the Dragster for the first two days of shooting in the movie at Fremont Raceway (Baylands) & Dave Uhara drove it the last day as I had other commitments & it was the old S&S Automotive, Santos family front engine dragster with the Small Block engine out of the rear engine blown alcohol car I drove for the Santos family for about 10 years ;)

so im still looking for my own copy of hot rod

Originally posted by motown/malibu:
so im still looking for my own copy of hot rod Still have the copy I rented from Hollywood about 10 years ago :D It's out there!

Ask on Nitroland http://www.dragsters.net/nitroland/ the car still runs the Goodguys Nostalgia circuit and you might bump into somebody that could point ya in the right direction.

Anyone remember the name of the movie with 2 friends driving cross country in a 57 chevy 210 I think? Was yellow with flames. Remember it had nitrous.

Picked up a girl, think they got killed in the end.

was it "return to macon county" dirtrocker?

I think so.............thankyou!!

yes return to macon county with don johnson..

Here's one. A kid working at a gas station dropped a 440 from a Cuda into a Fargo van. I seem to recall the race was against a pickup - on the beach! I never watched all of it, Star Trek was on smile.gif .

I don't want the movie, but I thought there's a small chance someone might know it.

Wolfplace (Mike), wow on the tidbit of info regarding "More American Graffiti"! Any idea if you received credit at the end of the movie? I may pop it in and look for ya......... graemlins/waving.gif

BTW, did you get to meet any of the cast? Maybe at least Paul LeMat.....

Another BTW, my wife has a lot of family in Northern Ca...up in Burney, etc. I've been there once and if I get that way again, I'd love to stop by and say hi........