I know everybody talks of American Graphetti, Smokey & The Bandit, Two Lane Blacktop but what about car movies that never get mentioned

Last American Hero (one of my favorites)

King of the Hill (I know the guy that the movie was based on)

Greased Lightning

Eat my Dust

Grand Theft Auto ( Ron Howards first attempt at directing a movie)

Supervan ( hey I grew up in the van era, I have a soft spot for them)

my list goes on and on, whats some of your favorites

How bout Hollywood Knights?

Hi....How about the original "Gone In 60 Seconds".   Much, much better than that remake they did latter.....Wadaya  think?   Big Dave  

2 Lane Blacktop and American Grafitti are my favorites.

Other car movies I have seen that did not suck are:

Vanishing Point

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Canonball with David Carrodine

Ones that I did not find so great:

Return to Macon County with Nick Nolte

Fast and the Furious and its sequel

Gone in 60 seconds with Nicholas Cage

LeMans--greatest racing movie of all time.

Grand Prix--second greatest racing movie of all time--a tad melodramatic, though.

Funny Car Summer-- Big fun watching the Dunns try to make a rear engined flopper work in the days before everybody had huge 18 wheelers and multi-million dollar sponsorships.

Heart Like a Wheel-- The only hollywood drama I'm aware of that depicts drag racing with any respect and attention to detail.

American Graffitti--George Lucas used to know how to make movies.

Two-Lane Blacktop--"Make it three yards and we'll have ourselves an automobile race." Totally BOSS!

Vanishing Point (the original, not the lame Fox-TV remake)

Watchable but flawed:

The Green Helmet-- old movie about sports car racing.

Redline 7000-- old movie about stock car racing.

The Petty Story-- The King (not Matt King) plays "hisself" as the King of NASCAR

Smokey and the Bandit--Dumb but great car sounds and occasional cool action

Cannonball

Mad Max/ The Road Warrior

Dirty Larry and Crazy Mary (what a waste of a nice Mopar)

Moonrunners

White Lightning (look for the car to change back and forth between column and floor shift)

A Small Town in Texas (decent cop car crash action)

Gone in 60 sec. (original)

The Italian Job (original and remake--original is better, though)

On the bubble:

Hollywood Knights (only Project X and the other cars save it)

The Gumball Rally (not as good as Cannonball)

The Fast and The Furious (remake) / 2 Fast 2 Furious--sure, they're packed with ricer bling and implausible plots, but you know you watched them . . . and probably bought the DVD/video, too.

Bullitt--great chase, but most folks usually fast forward through the other stuff

The Seven-Ups (see Bullitt)

The French Connection (see Bullitt)

The California Kid--Milner's engine in Pete's coupe driven by a future TV president.

Fireball 500--Elvis

State Fair- (Young Ann-Margret and dirt track action is worth a look)

McQ -- (Fun to see John Wayne scrunch into a Pontiac TransAm)

The Blues Brothers -- (jumped the shark when the bluesmobile started flying)

Thunder in Carolina -- (old school stock car action)

Ronin -- (too many imports but awesome action)

The Racing Scene-- (James Garner documentary from '69; drags at times)

Driven-- (Stupid plot, but decent speed shots)

Duel--(Spelberg's only car film and the best case for why MoPars should always have Hemis or turbos)

MAJOR SUCKAGE:

Nearly anything with "Hot Rod" or "Drag Strip"  in the title.

Cannonball Run / Cannonball Run II

Last American Hero (way too many errors)

Stroker Ace

DAZE of Thunder

Smokey and the Bandit II/III

Hooper

Six Pack

Cobra

Yeah the car scenes in Ronin are awesome but not enough to call it a car movie same with transporter though the tv version is pretty hacked up  

Hollywood Knights is by far the best all around fun car guy movie, how many of us have watched this movie and said " I wish..."  

Hell yeah!!!  

On a whim I bought "The Junkman",  H.B."Gone in 60 Seconds" Halicki's second film.  The chase was fairly interesting, even if he only knew not that many camera tricks, and the horrid acting makes his first film look like Shakespeare.  

Yeah, the flying Bluesmobile had to be taken with a grain of salt, but that qickly gets topped on the "huh?" scale by the Nazi guys' car launching into the statosphere.  Fortunately for that film it's good enough that one can forgive the implausible scenes, and it's still a million times better than Blues Brothers 2000.

My favorite car movie of all time is "Mad Max".  One day I'll commit the Nightrider's rant to memory.

"I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine!"  -The Nightrider

any of the old movies  50's 60's 70's  hell some in the 80's  because of all the cars  hot rods or not in the back drop  ....  ganster movies with the crazy car chases fire'n guns  to funny .

its not maybe your favorite CAR movie but damn its got some badass cars the movie is none other than DAZED AND CONFUSED   if you hadnt seen it check it out  

My favorite car film has got to be The Fast and the Furious. I thought it was the best comedy of 2001. Even funnier than Pootie Tang.

"Nightmare"  which was an ABC movie of the week in 1975.  The movies premise was bad neighborhood car kids were terrorizing the new neighbors. Robert Stack was the new neighbor.

Movie had a tunnel rammed 56 Nomad, built 70-73 Camaro etc.  The movies premise was bad neighborhood car kids were terrorizing the new neighbors.

The new families dog was killed by the kids by running it over and Robert Stack  finally got fed up and went to the kids house who had the Nomad and beat the crap out of it with a baseball bat and then poured gas over it and set it afire while the kid watched out from the window.

Supposedly based upon a true story.

I agree that "Dazed and Confused" has some great muscle cars, but it's no "American Graffiti."  Or even "Hollywood Knights."  "Dazed" has few of the universal elements that made "American Graffiti" a milestone film or "Hollywood Knights" a moderately charming one.

But it does have a lot of affluent suburban stoners, with bitchin muscle cars, toking and getting wasted.

Actually, the cars are a little too nice to be believable.

If the same producers made this sort of "nostalgic" movie about today's high schoolers, the kids will probably all have show-quality twin turbo Supras, WRXs, Skylines or EVOs.  Not very realistic, IMHO.