Car porn - any advice on good car movies?

[TRnorwegian]

The boys are planning an evening dedicated to watching good car-videos. Are TR6s starring in any movies? Other suitable movies I should look for? Recommendations?

 

[philman]

I like "The Grimleys". It didn't have a TR6, but a Spitfire played in important scene. Plus the lead singer from the old rock band Slade played the music teacher in it. Its about a family in the UK in the '70's.

 

[brozach]

Try a look at IMCDB.org, the Internet Movie Car DataBase.

It allows you to search for movies that feature a particular car model, often with a description of how the car is used in the movie. It's an incredible site.

-Zach

 

[drooartz]

The best car porn I've run across (requires a purchase, not sure if they ship overseas)...

Victory by Design series:
https://shopspeedtv.speedfc.com/catalog/category/category/dvdandaccess

 

[sail]

"TheBank Job" set in London was a good movie and current. Lots of nice cars thru the movie but they smashed a Healy hood in the first clip. Jez. Don't remember a 6 but several other cool cars.
Old movie have looked for but can't find "Backfire (1964)
Alternate Titles: Echappement Libre, Scappamento aperto, Escape libre" have never seen but would love to. TR4 filled with gold the star of probably a not so great a movie.

 

[TRDejaVu]

The original Italian Job.

 

[poolboy]

There was an old Kirk Douglas (Einar..."Odin! Odin!") called the Racers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048531/

 

[JimmyG]

Two of my favorites are "Le Mans" with Steve McQueen and "Grand Prix" with James Garner. Both have some great racing action.

And of course "Bullit" with Steve McQueen and the Mustang chase through San Francisco.

 

[RobT]

All of the above plus:

Rendezvous (15 min flick of thrashing through pre-dawn Paris in the '60s in a Ferrari)
Ronin (modern, but great car chases)
The Bourne Identity (terrific classic mini car chase)
Vanishing Point (Pointless in fact, but good Yank Tank chase sequences)
The original "Gone In 60 Seconds" (see Vanishing Point - but even more pointless, and many more crashes)

Rob.

 

[AngliaGT]

"Electra Glide in Blue" - with Robert Blake
It has a great scene at the beginning with a TR6.

"LeMans" - with Steve McQueen.

There's one starring Alan Alda (I can't remember the name)-
- "Sweet Liberty"? Lots of shots of his girlfriend's TR6.

"The World's Fastest Indian" is one of the best motorcycle
movies made (even the women like it).

- Doug

 

[14dna]

Forget the name, but the story of the runner from Seattle who lost his life in an MGB accident

Good true story

Dave

 

[DougF]

Diner had the TR3. Gumball Ralleye was car footage the whole way through.

 

[PC]

Don't forget Elvis!

<span style="font-style: italic">Viva Las Vegas</span> and <span style="font-style: italic">Spinout</span> both have substantial car footage.

When was the last time you saw Elvis in a Cooper Monaco?


pc.

 

[AngliaGT]

Forget the name, but the story of the runner from Seattle who lost his life in an MGB accident

Good true story

Dave

I beleive his name was Prefontaine - they called him
"Pre".If I remember correctly.I also thought it was in the
Portland/Eugene area.

- Doug

 

[John_Mc]

Ditto on "World's Fastest Indian". Great flick!

 

[Brosky]

I thought that I posted this last night, but must have forgot to hit the submit button.

Robert Mitchum in "Thunder Road". All about moonshine in hopped up 1950's sedans. Some good scenes of a speed shop and mod's to a car to keep the "revenuers" off of there tails. Literally.

One car has a pressurized oil tank in the trunk and a pull down valve under the dash that dropped a pipe setup with nozzles that sprayed oil on the road behind you when someone got too close.

Kind of like a British car on steroids.

 

[toysrrus]

Hi Folks,

Personally I love the "Gumball Rally". I like the beginning when their racing out of the Garage & There`s the "E-Type" having a heck of a time getting started.

Russ

 

[71MKIV]

There's a horrible early 60's thing called "Pitstop" that features figure 8 racing with late 50's cars that pretty entertaining to watch for the automotive carnage.

 

[TRMark]

Not any good at all, but if you like to see old sports cars; The Fast and The Furious, the 1955 version by Roger Corman. Terrible movie, poorly filmed but on the good side, no Hondas.

 

[martx-5]

All of the above plus:

Rendezvous (15 min flick of thrashing through pre-dawn Paris in the '60s in a Ferrari)

You can watch Rendezvous on youtube. Hair raising ride through the streets of Paris in a 275 GTB. You'll lose count of all the red lights this guy goes through! :shocked:

This Wikipedia article says that the actual car used was a Mercedes 450SEL, and that the sound of the Ferrari was dubbed over. There is also some controversy as to how fast the car actually got to.

Anyway, it's a neat nine minute flick.