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The Original 'Fast and the Furious'...

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heh... neat
 
Thats a clip from the Roger Corman movie The Fast and the Furious, made in 1955. Really a stupid story but the old sports cars are neat. Kinda fun to try to identify them. The racing is kinda of interesting in that it looks like they have more in common with dirt track technique than the modern drift.
 
The guys in the Jags were acting like real idiots, and everyone was passing that poor Nash-Healy.

Didn't I see a C-type Jag in there???
 
swift6 said:
Not sure what the original intent of this video was... but it appears that much of the footage is from the original Monterey race venue.
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Super footage, even though the "story" makes no sense and there are some major continuity issues. There's an amazing array of cars - Kurtis, Allard, Nash-Healey, OSCA, Jowett (!), and a DB2 for starters. I even noticed Harry Eyerly's H-mod Crosley special.

Could be Monterey - could also be Pebble Beach, Stockton, or even Seattle. Or all of them. The year must be '53 or '54. I think there was a TF in there so it'd be 1954 if so.

Thanks for posting this one.
 
And what's with the girl with no helmet that looks
like she's out on a Sunday drive?

- Doug
 
coldplugs said:
Could be Monterey - could also be Pebble Beach, Stockton, or even Seattle. Or all of them. The year must be '53 or '54. I think there was a TF in there so it'd be 1954 if so.

Thanks for posting this one.
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Kas Kastner identified some of the scenes as being filmed at Pebble Beach.
 
lawguy said:
No Vin Diesel, no Paul Walker, no NOS....
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Oh I dunno, I'm sure there was plenty of New Old Stock parts in use to make that movie /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
I thought the Monterey race course and Pebble Beach race course were the same place. Weren't they?
 
The Pebble Beach racetrack was run on the
"17 Mile Drive",which is a pay to enter road.
Laguna Seca is a few miles up the road,& it opened
in 1957.I'm not sure if that's what you were referring to.

- Doug
 
I found that movie on a DVD for a buck at wal-mart. My kids and I watched it, well they tried to watch it, last Thanksgiving.

I loved seeing the race footage and the cars, but the story left allot to be desired, and the kids just couldn't take the pace...t-----o------o s------l-------o-------w
 
Nunyas said:
lawguy said:
No Vin Diesel, no Paul Walker, no NOS....
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Oh I dunno, I'm sure there was plenty of New Old Stock parts in use to make that movie /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
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Actually, when the movie was made, the parts would have been close to N, but not OS /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
Personally, I loved watching the old TR beating all those heavy-weights!! :G...Story? who needs a story? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Roger Corman had to slow the TR3 way down to let the Jowett Jupiter pass him in that scene!

They didn't hire stunt drivers, the crew drove the cars. This was Roger Corman's second film, before he got into the goofy outer space monster movies.
 
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