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Watched it again last night with the kids. Still a great movie. Makes me laugh 30 + years later. You gotta love Jackie! floating.gif

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I eventually got in front of the TV and saw that it was on, but almost over. Oh well, just have to pop the DVD in whenever. If my wife hadn't been watching TV with me i may have left it there to watch Road Warrior, i've never seen it.

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I love Road Warrior. It's not for everybody though, kind of like Phantom of the Paradise, one of my all time favourites.

Back to the topic at hand, as you say, tough to beat Jackie!!!

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Makes me wonder if #2 will be on in another 20 min.

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Smokey is all fun. Road Warrior is a bit grim but hard to stop watching - probably have seen it 5 times. My favorites involving cars at high speed are 1. Bullitt; 2. The Getaway (original, not the remake); and 3. The French Connection, in which Gene Hackman reputedly did a fair bit of the driving.  

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Don;t forget "Gone in 60 seconds"

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Gumball?

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Cannonball?

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two lane blacktop is up there for me

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And who could forget "Two Lane Blacktop"? They used 3 cars in the movie and the main one went on to become Falfa's car in "American Graffiti"; another one was stripped right out in a junkyard and the last one that they used for interior shots for the movie is still equipped with all the camera mounts and Jay Leno owns it. Of course "American Graffiti" is one of this guy's
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Ditto. American Graffiti is still my hands down favourite.

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Two Lane Blacktop... Hands down...

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American Graffti by far coming from a GTO owner

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NEVER GET TIRED OF "TWO LANE BLACKTOP".worship.gif

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Another vote for Two Lane Blacktop - it can be watched at many different levels, far ahead of its time, very cerebral and existential.

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I should have added that Two Lane Blacktop and Vanishing Point would make the ultimate double feature.  It would be far out, man!wink

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69-Tin Indian wrote:

And who could forget "Two Lane Blacktop"? They used 3 cars in the movie and the main one went on to become Falfa's car in "American Graffiti"; another one was stripped right out in a junkyard and the last one that they used for interior shots for the movie is still equipped with all the camera mounts and Jay Leno owns it. Of course "American Graffiti" is one of this guy's
all-time favourite movies.





I remember reading somewhere that one of the cars was found in Canada..
Was it perhaps the camera car?.

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-- Edited by Ghost Post on Thursday 17th of September 2009 02:29:09 PM

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I HAD HEARD ONE WAS IN B.C., NOT SURE WHICH ONE.

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In june every year we go to Modesto junior collage for graffiti night. They usually have one of the not as big stars show up from time to time. Been a long time since i have seen it but it is cool that the Jedi Night is from my turf.

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TLB '55 camera car was at york in july....






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Dirty Mary, crazy Lary.

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80GPLJ wrote:

Don;t forget "Gone in 60 seconds"


Yes, Gone in 60 seconds was good for the car scenes, but man I had a hard time watching all those 60s & early 70s cars, including a bunch of big block cop cars, get beat up.

 



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Astro Jet wrote:

Another vote for Two Lane Blacktop - it can be watched at many different levels, far ahead of its time, very cerebral and existential.


Agree on that one too - plus loved the cars in American Graffiti

 



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2drpost wrote:

TLB '55 camera car was at york in july....



 Wonder what was done to the engine originally ?



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Holy antique thread revival...

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