It's significant that you never get to see who if anybody is driving, but this car was ahead of its time because the amber tint drivers side views imply a dash cam
@@TheGearheadLoungesuggestion: have you thought about doing an episode on the suspense thriller "Maximum Overdrive" ? The movie was based on the novel by Stephen King whereas machines most notably vehicles take on a life of their own and turn on the humans who created them. The back plot of the movie which caused the phenomenon was 2 events, Earth passing through the dust trail of Haley's Comet and the military shooting down a UFO with a nuclear missile.
There was an episode of Futurama called the Honking in which Bender was turned into a Were-car. The episode was an homage cross between The Car and An American werewolf in London. Worth checking out!
I was going to mention that, too. Futurama Season 2, Episode 18, "The Honking" originally aired November 5, 2000. If you haven't seen it, I recommend doing an image search and you'll see how much Bender's car form looks like "The Car".
Where I lived during childhood, on Halloween night, some station would play Devil Dog: Hound of Hell and then The Car as a double feature. I remember that happening a few years in row.
i remember seeing this in the theater as a kid to along with movies like Phantasm Smokey and the Bandit and of course STAR WARS growing up in the 70's was the best time for me seeing these movies and now look what we got poor kids.
Same here I was also eight years old. My mother took me and my brother to the drive-in to see this movie. What really messed me up, was some years later mom would take us on Sunday drives and we ended up in North Hollywood one particular Sunday and came across George Barris’s custom shop. When I tell you, to drive down the street and look in a showroom and see the Batmobile sitting next to the car scared the crap out of me. Not only did it look sinister on screen, but to see it in person was awesome and chilling at the same time.
That was my only sad part about that movie is the one time when it's running through the desert when the cops are chasing it. I think after it went to the cemetery or right before where it's just out there going. I wish they'd had that part go longer. And on the funny side I do like how the horns almost like laughing after you know run somebody down.
Nope, that would belong to Starsky and Hutch’s Ford Gran Torino on tickover. That lumpy V8 is pure, unadulterated AUTOMOTIVE *_PORNOGRAPHY!!_* 😐 Okay, I’m calm now… 😂
I worked on that car with my father, Jim Stephenson, and Dennis Braid, at Barris Kustom. It was truly a "quick & dirty" job. Dennis did most of the metal work on it. Then it was slathered with bondo, cases of bondo, then shaped, primed, and painted black. I didn't know the studio made the fiberglass cars though. That's news to me! I went to see the movie when it came out. I was surprised by the stunts they were doing, but I didn't know they had the fiberglass bodied cars. The one we made had to weigh way more than those.
@@dentpulla Yeah it is pretty cool to see the process. I was just a young teen and mostly what I did was mix bondo for Dennis and my father to slather on the car and sweep up after they shaped it. Both of them were great metal men but that was a very "quick & dirty" job. It was only about a month from start to finish making it. If I remember right they cut up a Lincoln Continental to start with. Then formed the body out of sheet metal then slathered it up with bondo to shape it to the specs. :D
@TheOzarkExplorer iconic is all I can say and gotta be a memory you share all the time or at least when subject matter comes up. Great that your actually in the comments and responding. This year star wars came out and my family used to all go to movies and this movie was wild for me being a car kid back then. I could tell it had something to do with Lincoln by the big face. Definitely a cult classic movie and happy in not the only one who like the movie but the car was a great memory even scary 😫lol
I was a kid when this came out. Our local TV station ran it on a Saturday for the Creature Feature hour. That ending scared me to death! Never forgot about it. Loved it cause it was a Lincoln....our family had Lincolns. I searched for years for The Car until I finally found it. It's now in my personal movie collection.
The thing that made the car so creepy is that it was obviously from Hell, as it was bullet proof, it had no driver, it could not enter hallowed ground, it showed up unexpectedly like the boogey man, and in the climactic end when it exploded, the face of the devil can be seen in the fire. All those supernatural elements make it an awesome scary movie and a cult fave.
I saw this in 1977 at my local theater which was walking distance from home. So my sister and I walked to the theater and back home, looking over our shoulders for THAT car! Ha! It was such a a fun horror movie. It is one of my favorite guilty pleasures and I own an ERTYL 1:18 scale model of it. Fun stuff! Thanks for sharing.
@wkanost same here only i had to walk just under two miles the last part being past a factory , i was almost past the factory when a lorry inside blasted its horn i swear i must have jumped 5 feet in the air😱 , i ran the rest of the way home with my head on Swivel mode checking behind me
@@brianjones7907 - Ha! That’s hilarious! I completely understand too. When we got home my mom had left a note and we walked to my grandmothers and our aunt and uncle and were there. Lannie had a dark sense of humor and said I should just follow you home with the car lights off! If he’d done that, I’d have turned gray at 14!
Watched this when i was 12. 1980 ish. Parents just bought a Betamax and a dozen films. When they went out i sneaked downstairs and watched this film. Scared the hell out of me. Couldnt sleep for a few nights after that! What a classic.
OMG exactly the same we were like 6-7-8 we also couldn’t sleep for days we would sleep with the blankets over our head terrified of this film 😂such a cool classic brings me so much memories
The first time I saw The Car was on TV in the early 80s. I loved the movie. The front of the car looked so frightening to me. I've watched it numerous times over the years and I still love it.
My first car purchased in 1977 was a 1965 Lincoln Continental Royal blue metalic. I grew up in NY and everytime I passed kids going down the street they would scream and run away yelling the car the car! Cracks me up to this day. I loved that car I drove it to California in 77. If you look at the 65 it is looks more like the final custum one they ended up with.
Being born way back in 1955, I was of a good age to drive to see this at my local theatre when it first came out. When over and the patrons were back in their cars ready to leave, many started sounding our car horns as the one in the movie did. It was awesome! Good times!
Born in ‘76 this film is an absolutely legendary cult classic, we used to watch it late at night back in the 80’s it would give us the creeps , we would be terrified for days , some homes they parents were Christians they wouldn’t even allow they kids to watch it , man born the 70’s to me is the ultimate gold , there was so many cool films so many cool tv shows so many cool music so many cool culture , that was the golden era , another cool classic is Bobby Joe and the outlaw but there just so many cool classics . All the best from South Australia 🇦🇺 thank you for reviewing a such great cult classic film.
I loved these movies along with the original Godzilla and other movies as well as the 007 James bond movies at the drive in a kid, hmmm, telling our ages aren't we, lol, God bless all you old heads that are still reading and reminiscing these movies, oh BTW, don't forget about the trilogy of terror and the other early slasher movies.
@@maureeceposten47 Those were the days eh? I loved Matt Helm and used to pretend I was him on some spy mission around the house. And James Coburn as Flint!
I was 10 yrs old in 1977.....will always remember that horn...I also remember walking to the movie theater with my younger brother to see that new space movie that same year😎👍
I was 18 in 1977, and had just gotten my first real job. $2.30 an hour. Didn't have money for theaters. I didn't see any movies that weren't on TV till over 10 years later.
I saw one of the original on camera of ' The Car " when i went to Georges shop in north hollywood , it was in prestine condition sitting along side the batmobile and the munsters car . Incredible being there with george telling me stories of each .
I absolutely loved this movie and still enjoy watching it. Something about the way they made movies back in the day that has been lost. Classics will always be my go-to for quality color and captivating content .
I do remember The Car & it is a cult classic. I first saw it when I was in my teens in the 80's on HBO. I loved it's intimidating aggressive look & that it was possessed by the Devil. My favorite part is when James Brolin is trapped in the garage & the Car disappears right in front of his eyes. He realizes that it's no ordinary car & that it's something more. Love this movie. It should get more airplay on stations like AMC or SyFy or other streaming channels.
I was about four when the movie was on TV and it frightened the hell out of me. I only saw the ads for it but that was enough. My brothers, 16 & 14,were the ones that were excited to see it
I watched The Car on TV back when I was a kid. I then saw one of The Cars at Universal Studios while on a tour a few years later. Ticked off my parents when I jumped and yelled, "IT'S THE CAR!!" LOL I took a photo of it, but I have no idea what happed to it. On the same tour, close to where The Car was, sat one of the trucks from the movie Sorcerer (I think it was the Isuzu). Another very cool movie for gearheads.
Mark III gorgeous car. Got to drive one about 1990 when a frequent customer at our car parts shop asked for help moving it to his house from storage. Very nice!
I like them too, and I'm not even a Ford guy! I had two neighbors when I was a kid, that each had Lincoln "Marks" in succession new in the '70s. Always black too!
I remember watching this on DVD. Campy, unintentionally funny and filled with tactless cliches, this is a classic because of all those characteristics. The one thing that makes this one of my favorite movies is the fact that it shows just how effective it is to have the bad car (villain) be so threatening by saying absolutely nothing.
Saw this movie years ago on late night TV, but it was not until I got the Bluray that I could appreciate how evil this car looks, thanks for all the details about it in your video.
One of my favorite guilty pleasures. Saw it 4 times in the theater in 1977 - scared the living (expletive) out of me! It's a B-movie with a B+ cast and some of the best sound effects ever. That air horn! Glad to know there are other people who appreciate this movie.
"THE BLOB!" I was in 3rd grade the first time I saw it (I'm 62) and every corner in my darkened bedroom had a Blob in it. It was like Bart Simpson "Can't sleep, Clown will eat me!"
8:30 Just a little correction, everybody and their mother is looking for the authentic "THE CAR" horn sound. They weren't Hadley's. They were Grover 1700-1748 air horns.
This is one of my favorites, don't care what the movie critics had to say about this fast paced thriller it delivers for me. Thanks for the memories 😂😮😊
I have this movie. I like it for a lot of reasons. It's just cheesy enough to not be dark but does come across with some serious menace along with some legitimate human drama.
I have to share this little story every time I come across a video about this movie, The Car. So, back in the early 80's, my mom, sister and I were watching this movie playing on a local TV channel. I mention this because there were commercials played during the movie. God's honest truth, as we got to the part where the car ran over the hitchhiker outside the old guy's house over and over again, it went to a commercial. And what commercial would it be? A commercial for pizza sause!!! So, one minute, we're watching this guy get turned to mush by The Car, and the next, we're watching red pizza cause getting spread on a pizza crust! We laughed our asses off over that! One of my best memories of this great movie!
The Car, itself, when I was a kid, was in a small movie car collection, in East San Diego County.. Dude who owned the place had it setup on a remote starter.. When you stood in front of it, already kinda freaked out.. He would start it, and rev the engine.. Scared the bejeezus out of us! LoL... He had all sorts of cars, too.. One of the stunt Wraiths, a bubble car from Sleepers, one of the Blade Runner Spinners.. And a bunch of other stuff.. So cool as a kid!
Gear Head appreciates The Car for all the same reasons I loved the movie since I was a kid when it came out. I did not see it in the theater but maybe a year or two later when it was featured on network TV. Like he said it came out when the theater competition was too strong.
When I was in middle school, my best friend and I had a VHS tape of this flick from a TV broadcast. We were, as far as we knew, the only two people who had ever heard of it, and we didn't know about the "so bad it's good" concept, but that's exactly how we enjoyed it!
I saw The Car at the theater, when I was 12. I wasn't a car enthusiast, but I'd seen enough to know that this creepy thing couldn't be found tooling around on city streets. I only saw the movie one time, but I still vividly recall the scene where the woman is taunting the car from inside the graveyard.
I was too young to see it when it hit theaters, and it lived in the back of my mind until about a decade ago. And it lived up to my hopes. Totally worth watching.
Thank you sir. I did not know about this movie The Car. I am a classic car owner myself. I have a Pontiac Trans Am & my Grandad left me his classic Plymouth Fury in his will. I have drove it once because it scares the crap out of me lol. It's the same color as the Christine version.
I saw this movie in a drive-in theater when I was 7 or 8 years old. I very much remember this movie. As a boy, it scared the hell out of me. I've watched it a few times over the decades as it would appear on TV. And it kinda makes me laugh thinking how scared I was back in the day. I still enjoy watching it when I can catch it.
FACT CHECK #1 :Dean Jeffries was the builder of the Monkee Mobile, not George Barris. FACT CHECK #2: The Ford Motor Company and the series' production department worked together to create the original Starsky & Hutch Torino. George Barris purchased one of the promotional cars for his collection, he did not build any of the cars. Fact Check #3 Customizer Michael Scheffe built the original KITT for the Nighrider Series. George Barris would later build the convertible and super-pursuit KITTs which saw limited use in the series.
@@martinharris5017 Yeah, as much as I admire the work he, or his shop, did do, he was accused of taking credit for cars he had little or nothing to do with, just because it was in his shop at one time or another.
Barris is lucky he worked in the pre HD era. Having seen a few of his cars up close they were hack jobs at best. Great mind and design, terrible execution.
Back in 1977 I was 8 years old and going to the movies with my best friend once a week, every week from the 1970s-1980s. We were a couple of fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies. He lived in a distant neighborhood and I had to take a public city bus to get to and from his place. Normally, most times we went to one of the movie theaters in or near his neighborhood. After seeing our movie in the theater, we'd retreat back to his apartment to watch even more movies on his living room tv that happened to be airing that afternoon and evening. The Car was one of the few movies we didn't get to see in the theaters. We didn't see it until a couple years later in his living room when it debuted on tv. I think the year was either 1979 or 1980 when we were 10-11 years old. After seeing the movie on his tv, I took my bus home. The bus let me off a block or so away from my place. As I walked up my street to get home, it was after dark and I was scared of all the cars parked alongside the sidewalk, especially the ones with their front tires turned towards me on the sidewalk. I warily eyed them, worried that one of them would jump up onto the sidewalk and give chase to me! I finally reached my home and breathed a sigh of relief. Because as one will recall in the movie, there's a scene in which the car kills one of its victims by smashing through her single level house. But I lived in a 2 family apartment house and my apartment was upstairs on the second floor!
I loved this movie, 1st saw it back in the 80’s when I was about 8, loved the bit where the car rolls over the police cars, blows them up, and end up back on its wheels 😊❤
I’m from St. George Utah, where this movie was made. And when me and my friends first watched this movie back when we were kids we thought it was so cool because the whole movie was literally shot in our back yards. Another good old not well known movie made in my home town is “Harry’s War” from 1981. Worth checking out.
I was six years old when I first saw this movie back in 77. Just watching this video brought back so many memories of the movie. Im gonna watch it again this weekend. First time since I was 6!
Aw man. I loved this movie. An all black Lincoln Continental became one of my dream cars. Either a Mark 3, 4, or 5. All still looked menacing with those headlights. Luckily I got an all black Mark 5 that I daily drive today. Recorded some boring driving videos too. Car treats me well too.
I've got that ERTL replica too. Looks great, only flaws I saw were the wheels and tires. That is acceptable. But major flaws like on the "Phantasm" 'Cuda were unacceptable. It didn't look like any of the 'Cuda's from any of the movies and what's worse is it had vanity plates on it reading "PHANTASM". Shit.
@@charlesballard5251my ertl replicas front bumper broke off on one side but can be a easy fix,I would love to one day take my trans am to the drive in and see that movie once again.
I watched it at Los Altos drive in Long Beach, I was twelve. I remember my mom politely sitting thru it for me and Dad. We loved it, she was not entertained.
I remember seeing this as a kid in the early 80s. I was at a friend's house and had to ride my bike home.........I was freaked out as hell remember constantly looking behind me to see if there was a car behind me........😂😂. Classic movie!!
George Barris DID NOT BUILD the Monkeemobile, Knight Rider, or the S&H Torino. Two Monkeemobiles were designed and built by Dean Jefferies. Dean had first right of refusal to buy the cars after the show was finished for $2,000 each but passed. Barris boughtone and slapped Barris Kustoms badges on the front fenders. Pontiac’s design chief John Schinella sketched the modifications to the Pontiac Trans Am for Knight Rider and the work was done by John Ward. Barris did minor updates to KITTs in later seasons of the show. George Barris had a bad habit of attaching himself to other people's work. He'd buy cars, put Barris badges on them and show them amongst his own letting the public infer he built them. Barris sold the original Monkeemobile at Barrett-Jackson for $360,000 after making a copy of it.
1) Christine
2) The Car
3) The Wraith
My holy trinity of scary car movies
I love them all!
and duel. there was also that movie with an evil motorcycle cop from the same era that I forget the name of.
What about killdozer?
Jeepers Creepers - the Creeper Truck.
Maximum Overdrive
That was one badass Lincoln, I loved that car!
It's significant that you never get to see who if anybody is driving, but this car was ahead of its time because the amber tint drivers side views imply a dash cam
Nobody drives it. It's a demon like Horace.
@@ItsDaJax I don't think they say that in the movie....could be a robot like karr
@@resetsetmefree478 The movie doesn't say anything, but you see its demonic visage when it's blown up.
This movie is a kid literally scared the crap out of me I couldn't go to sleep that night cuz I kept on hearing that damn horn
They nailed it…The Car looks totally evil!
Thank you!
@@TheGearheadLoungesuggestion: have you thought about doing an episode on the suspense thriller "Maximum Overdrive" ?
The movie was based on the novel by Stephen King whereas machines most notably vehicles take on a life of their own and turn on the humans who created them.
The back plot of the movie which caused the phenomenon was 2 events, Earth passing through the dust trail of Haley's Comet and the military shooting down a UFO with a nuclear missile.
@ A few people have mentioned it! It’s on the list!
Yes I totally agree.but the second one didn’t even come close.I didn’t care for the second one
Great movie loved the horn
There was an episode of Futurama called the Honking in which Bender was turned into a Were-car. The episode was an homage cross between The Car and An American werewolf in London. Worth checking out!
The Car and The Howling, maybe?
That's it! I knew I've seen that face before...
The Werecar
I was going to mention that, too. Futurama Season 2, Episode 18, "The Honking" originally aired November 5, 2000. If you haven't seen it, I recommend doing an image search and you'll see how much Bender's car form looks like "The Car".
Rodger in American dad hunt young boys down after they ditched the limousine he has, there was many references like the suddenly appearing.
I watched that movie in 77 at the young age of 8yrs. Scared my mule back then. Now 47yrs later, love this move. Good video.
Where I lived during childhood, on Halloween night, some station would play Devil Dog: Hound of Hell and then The Car as a double feature. I remember that happening a few years in row.
i remember seeing this in the theater as a kid to along with movies like Phantasm Smokey and the Bandit and of course STAR WARS growing up in the 70's was the best time for me seeing these movies and now look what we got poor kids.
I was about the same age and it scared the heck out of me. I remember seeing one of the cars on a backlot tour of Universal.
Same here I was also eight years old. My mother took me and my brother to the drive-in to see this movie. What really messed me up, was some years later mom would take us on Sunday drives and we ended up in North Hollywood one particular Sunday and came across George Barris’s custom shop. When I tell you, to drive down the street and look in a showroom and see the Batmobile sitting next to the car scared the crap out of me. Not only did it look sinister on screen, but to see it in person was awesome and chilling at the same time.
why'd you bring a mule to the theater? did you not have a car >.>
I think it has the best car V8 engine sound ever put on movies when it's racing across the desert. It just sounds fantastic.
Straight piped Ford 460
That was my only sad part about that movie is the one time when it's running through the desert when the cops are chasing it. I think after it went to the cemetery or right before where it's just out there going. I wish they'd had that part go longer. And on the funny side I do like how the horns almost like laughing after you know run somebody down.
Yep it had open pipes and literally howled along the road, it sounded formidable and evil, the perfect demon car.
Nope, that would belong to Starsky and Hutch’s Ford Gran Torino on tickover. That lumpy V8 is pure, unadulterated AUTOMOTIVE *_PORNOGRAPHY!!_* 😐
Okay, I’m calm now… 😂
Yeah and 5.13 gears she was screamin
Loved this movie when I saw it as a kid and still love it today.
THAT HONKING OF THE " HORN " WAS ENOUGH TO 😱 SCARE IN OF ITSELF.
I own this movie on DVD! And remember getting to see The Car at the drive-in when I was a kid! And boy, did I love it!
Can you post it? Signed-Richard.
Yep, I saw it at the drive-in too as a kid. Thought it was great.
ME TOO !
You click your fingers and 'poouf' he appears - in your garage!
Had to be a good one to see at the drive-in, with all the Car's surrounding you, not knowing which one may be Evil! LoL
A master move of removing all sign of door handles.
Yes!
I actually did see this in the theater when it came out in '77. I was 9 and never forgot this movie. One of my favs
I did as well I was 10😂 I loved it and they wounded y we drove like maniacs later👍
I saw it in the movies also when it came out.
Same here. My dad took me to see it in 77 when I was 9.
Me too! I was 17 then. Not a car flick, but I saw Phantasm in the theater as well!
Me too and I was also 9. Not sure how I pulled it off .
I worked on that car with my father, Jim Stephenson, and Dennis Braid, at Barris Kustom. It was truly a "quick & dirty" job. Dennis did most of the metal work on it. Then it was slathered with bondo, cases of bondo, then shaped, primed, and painted black. I didn't know the studio made the fiberglass cars though. That's news to me! I went to see the movie when it came out. I was surprised by the stunts they were doing, but I didn't know they had the fiberglass bodied cars. The one we made had to weigh way more than those.
Thanks for the info!
Holy crap. Had to be cool to bring car to life.
@@dentpulla Yeah it is pretty cool to see the process. I was just a young teen and mostly what I did was mix bondo for Dennis and my father to slather on the car and sweep up after they shaped it.
Both of them were great metal men but that was a very "quick & dirty" job. It was only about a month from start to finish making it.
If I remember right they cut up a Lincoln Continental to start with. Then formed the body out of sheet metal then slathered it up with bondo to shape it to the specs. :D
@TheOzarkExplorer iconic is all I can say and gotta be a memory you share all the time or at least when subject matter comes up. Great that your actually in the comments and responding. This year star wars came out and my family used to all go to movies and this movie was wild for me being a car kid back then. I could tell it had something to do with Lincoln by the big face. Definitely a cult classic movie and happy in not the only one who like the movie but the car was a great memory even scary 😫lol
I was a kid when this came out. Our local TV station ran it on a Saturday for the Creature Feature hour. That ending scared me to death! Never forgot about it. Loved it cause it was a Lincoln....our family had Lincolns. I searched for years for The Car until I finally found it. It's now in my personal movie collection.
Holy crap. Creature feature. We're really old cause I remember that show😂
@@dentpulla.....good times lol
@tylee5291 so cool the family had Lincolns. Never knew this many ppl loved this movie. Cool car
The thing that made the car so creepy is that it was obviously from Hell, as it was bullet proof, it had no driver, it could not enter hallowed ground, it showed up unexpectedly like the boogey man, and in the climactic end when it exploded, the face of the devil can be seen in the fire. All those supernatural elements make it an awesome scary movie and a cult fave.
Yes, this is a great movie! It's one of my favorites, and I still have it on VHS.
I saw this in 1977 at my local theater which was walking distance from home. So my sister and I walked to the theater and back home, looking over our shoulders for THAT car! Ha! It was such a a fun horror movie. It is one of my favorite guilty pleasures and I own an ERTYL 1:18 scale model of it. Fun stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
@wkanost
same here only i had to walk just under two miles the last part being past a factory , i was almost past the factory when a lorry inside blasted its horn i swear i must have jumped 5 feet in the air😱 , i ran the rest of the way home with my head on Swivel mode checking behind me
@@brianjones7907 - Ha! That’s hilarious! I completely understand too. When we got home my mom had left a note and we walked to my grandmothers and our aunt and uncle and were there. Lannie had a dark sense of humor and said I should just follow you home with the car lights off! If he’d done that, I’d have turned gray at 14!
Same Here, When I Seen Damin Oman 2 @ The Theater. Walking Home I Keept A Sharp Lookout for A Raven !!!
I Also Have The DVD & Die Cast Display Model.
Neen trying to get an ERTL model for years ! Missed out on one just this week !
I'm a gearhead and all 3 of these movies are in my library. My kids love these.
What 3 movies?
@@Westyrulz The car, Christine, and Duel.
Watched this when i was 12. 1980 ish. Parents just bought a Betamax and a dozen films. When they went out i sneaked downstairs and watched this film. Scared the hell out of me. Couldnt sleep for a few nights after that! What a classic.
Hey wait a minute… I saw this on a Betamax tape too when I was a kid and got scared too! I thought I was the only one who could say that…
OMG exactly the same we were like 6-7-8 we also couldn’t sleep for days we would sleep with the blankets over our head terrified of this film 😂such a cool classic brings me so much memories
Me too. Scared for few days😂
@chocodiledundee1 funny stuff. All of us were scared so movie really worked😂
The first time I saw The Car was on TV in the early 80s. I loved the movie. The front of the car looked so frightening to me. I've watched it numerous times over the years and I still love it.
Me too. I was just a kid. Scared the crap out of me. It was on NBC or ABC. Don't remember.
My first car purchased in 1977 was a 1965 Lincoln Continental Royal blue metalic. I grew up in NY and everytime I passed kids going down the street they would scream and run away yelling the car the car! Cracks me up to this day. I loved that car I drove it to California in 77. If you look at the 65 it is looks more like the final custum one they ended up with.
Fukin awesome❤
Being born way back in 1955, I was of a good age to drive to see this at my local theatre when it first came out. When over and the patrons were back in their cars ready to leave, many started sounding our car horns as the one in the movie did. It was awesome! Good times!
That’s funny 😂
Born in ‘76 this film is an absolutely legendary cult classic, we used to watch it late at night back in the 80’s it would give us the creeps , we would be terrified for days , some homes they parents were Christians they wouldn’t even allow they kids to watch it , man born the 70’s to me is the ultimate gold , there was so many cool films so many cool tv shows so many cool music so many cool culture , that was the golden era , another cool classic is Bobby Joe and the outlaw but there just so many cool classics . All the best from South Australia 🇦🇺 thank you for reviewing a such great cult classic film.
Thank you for watching!!
Awesome movie from my childhood! I need to see it again as an adult!
You must!
This movie and the film Gargoyles are two of my childhood favorites. Channel 43 played them a lot
That Gargoyles movie seemed to come on once every year when I was a kid.
I loved these movies along with the original Godzilla and other movies as well as the 007 James bond movies at the drive in a kid, hmmm, telling our ages aren't we, lol, God bless all you old heads that are still reading and reminiscing these movies, oh BTW, don't forget about the trilogy of terror and the other early slasher movies.
@@maureeceposten47 Those were the days eh? I loved Matt Helm and used to pretend I was him on some spy mission around the house. And James Coburn as Flint!
@@davidreed3165 True that, true that.
I got to see this in theater with my older brother, scared the Hell out of me.
Join the crowd😂. Me too
I was 10 yrs old in 1977.....will always remember that horn...I also remember walking to the movie theater with my younger brother to see that new space movie that same year😎👍
I was 18 in 1977, and had just gotten my first real job. $2.30 an hour. Didn't have money for theaters. I didn't see any movies that weren't on TV till over 10 years later.
This movie is a CLASSIC!!! PERIOD.....
I saw one of the original on camera of ' The Car " when i went to Georges shop in north hollywood , it was in prestine condition sitting along side the batmobile and the munsters car . Incredible being there with george telling me stories of each .
My mother took me to see it in 77 and I still watch it.
Same Here and i have VHS tape and still plays great on VCR I purchased from Goodwill 2 years ago.
Born in 71, this movie scared the hell out of me when I was a little kid.
saw this movie a couple years ago. great scenery too. I think it was in Utah 👍💯
I got my first “Feel” watching the Car! I loved it and still do! 🤣
The sound of the horn was awesome 👌
Yes!
Yeah, I often wish my car had that horn when the idiot in front of me is too busy texting to know the light has turned green.
Hard to believe that the Car and Christine were released only six years apart, my two favorite evil car movies when I was a kid.
I remember when it came out in theatres. I distinctly remember that horn. Scarier than a tractor-trailer horn.
I saw this movie when it was released on TV. Incredible film. Everything about the car itself was bad ass. Even the tires were super cool.
I remember watching this as a kid it scared the shit out of me 😂 so awesome
I absolutely loved this movie and still enjoy watching it. Something about the way they made movies back in the day that has been lost. Classics will always be my go-to for quality color and captivating content .
Nice review, i love The Car, Barris captured the evil look and sound perfectly...
That horn... 😮
I do remember The Car & it is a cult classic. I first saw it when I was in my teens in the 80's on HBO. I loved it's intimidating aggressive look & that it was possessed by the Devil. My favorite part is when James Brolin is trapped in the garage & the Car disappears right in front of his eyes. He realizes that it's no ordinary car & that it's something more. Love this movie. It should get more airplay on stations like AMC or SyFy or other streaming channels.
That big block Ford with straight pipes is the best soundtrack.
I was about four when the movie was on TV and it frightened the hell out of me. I only saw the ads for it but that was enough. My brothers, 16 & 14,were the ones that were excited to see it
I saw the car on tv and never forgot it picked up the dvd 10 years ago Happy days
THE CAR WAS AND IS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!
I SAW THE MOVIE IN 1977, I WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD.
HAVE LOVED BAD ASS CARS EVER SINCE!!!!
Both The Car and Christine were preceded by and inspired by Steven Spielberg's movie Duel, 1971.
I have those 3 movies, Duel was Spielberg's first movie he directed
Should have given a nod to 'The Duel', great movie.
Different concept though, the truck wasn't sentient rather the driver was a psycho!
Especially when he had his victims number plates on his truck
@@mrfishbulb7187 Duel was mentioned in the video I just watched.
One of the best looking car s in movie history
Agreed!
Saw this one as a kid… scared the heck out of me!😂
I watched The Car on TV back when I was a kid. I then saw one of The Cars at Universal Studios while on a tour a few years later. Ticked off my parents when I jumped and yelled, "IT'S THE CAR!!" LOL I took a photo of it, but I have no idea what happed to it. On the same tour, close to where The Car was, sat one of the trucks from the movie Sorcerer (I think it was the Isuzu). Another very cool movie for gearheads.
Mark III gorgeous car. Got to drive one about 1990 when a frequent customer at our car parts shop asked for help moving it to his house from storage. Very nice!
I like them too, and I'm not even a Ford guy! I had two neighbors when I was a kid, that each had Lincoln "Marks" in succession new in the '70s. Always black too!
I remember watching this on DVD. Campy, unintentionally funny and filled with tactless cliches, this is a classic because of all those characteristics. The one thing that makes this one of my favorite movies is the fact that it shows just how effective it is to have the bad car (villain) be so threatening by saying absolutely nothing.
I saw the movie way back when I was 13. I was a gear head back then, and always loved that car!
Saw this movie years ago on late night TV, but it was not until I got the Bluray that I could appreciate how evil this car looks, thanks for all the details about it in your video.
Thank you for watching!
Loved this movie when I was a kid!
One of my favorite guilty pleasures. Saw it 4 times in the theater in 1977 - scared the living (expletive) out of me! It's a B-movie with a B+ cast and some of the best sound effects ever. That air horn! Glad to know there are other people who appreciate this movie.
Definitely a favorite from my childhood.
I swear that any manufacturer that puts this car in to production will sell more than they could build! I'd buy one tomorrow if they were available.
Yep!
Someone made a 1/18 diecast of it....
@@danielfoster2339 Have one, it looks sooooo cool.
"THE BLOB!" I was in 3rd grade the first time I saw it (I'm 62) and every corner in my darkened bedroom had a Blob in it. It was like Bart Simpson "Can't sleep, Clown will eat me!"
😂😂😂 We watch it every year!
I WANT that horn for my little VW GTI!!!!
Yeah! 😂😂
@@TheGearheadLounge do ya think that Hadley Horn will make that iconic sound? Had some truckers try to mimic it and they couldn't do it.
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Either that or the horn from Porky’s pink Hudson - (minus the pig squeal)
Hella Horn is close, the dual tone is what u need, put a set on my old Mazda Speed3 years ago. Wakes people right tf up
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8:30 Just a little correction, everybody and their mother is looking for the authentic "THE CAR" horn sound. They weren't Hadley's. They were Grover 1700-1748 air horns.
Wow thanks!
Really liked that movie. Saw it as a child when it first aired.
This is one of my favorites, don't care what the movie critics had to say about this fast paced thriller it delivers for me. Thanks for the memories 😂😮😊
Thank you for watching!
I have this movie. I like it for a lot of reasons. It's just cheesy enough to not be dark but does come across with some serious menace along with some legitimate human drama.
The first time i watch it back in1981 8 yesrs old.
Loved it when the devils face appeard in the end .
Great video! This movie inspired a game we played in my neighborhood as kids. The object of the game was NEVER let a car see you!
The best part of this whole movie is when THE CAR drives through the house! That part gets me every time!! I swear i can the horns!
"The car drove through that house four feet off the ground!!"
@TheGearheadLounge I know right! The best part in the whole movie!!!
I have to share this little story every time I come across a video about this movie, The Car. So, back in the early 80's, my mom, sister and I were watching this movie playing on a local TV channel. I mention this because there were commercials played during the movie. God's honest truth, as we got to the part where the car ran over the hitchhiker outside the old guy's house over and over again, it went to a commercial. And what commercial would it be? A commercial for pizza sause!!! So, one minute, we're watching this guy get turned to mush by The Car, and the next, we're watching red pizza cause getting spread on a pizza crust! We laughed our asses off over that!
One of my best memories of this great movie!
😂😂😂 Hilarious!
That is wild 😂🤣
Great review Boss!! As a kid in 1977 watching this flick on the big screen Scared the Crap out out of me!!! Thanks for the Memory!!!
Thanks for watching!!
The Car, itself, when I was a kid, was in a small movie car collection, in East San Diego County.. Dude who owned the place had it setup on a remote starter.. When you stood in front of it, already kinda freaked out.. He would start it, and rev the engine.. Scared the bejeezus out of us! LoL... He had all sorts of cars, too.. One of the stunt Wraiths, a bubble car from Sleepers, one of the Blade Runner Spinners.. And a bunch of other stuff.. So cool as a kid!
That's just awesome! 😂
I watched the movie "the car" in 1977. I was 10 and it scared the hell out of me. Wouldn't go outside at night for a year.
🤣 , When I first seen Jaws I had nightmares for weeks !
Gear Head appreciates The Car for all the same reasons I loved the movie since I was a kid when it came out. I did not see it in the theater but maybe a year or two later when it was featured on network TV. Like he said it came out when the theater competition was too strong.
I remember seeing the car in movie theater as a kid and thought it was a cool movie I even have it on DVD I think I'm going to watch it tonight.
Nice! Enjoy!!
When I was in middle school, my best friend and I had a VHS tape of this flick from a TV broadcast. We were, as far as we knew, the only two people who had ever heard of it, and we didn't know about the "so bad it's good" concept, but that's exactly how we enjoyed it!
Great presentation. The Car is one of my favorite movies to watch.
Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
Well done, I really enjoyed the video and the information it contained.
I saw this movie for the first time in the late '70s on TV (HBO?). Loved it immediately!
Same here. I never knew it was in theaters.
I saw The Car at the theater, when I was 12. I wasn't a car enthusiast, but I'd seen enough to know that this creepy thing couldn't be found tooling around on city streets. I only saw the movie one time, but I still vividly recall the scene where the woman is taunting the car from inside the graveyard.
I saw “the car” when it came out in theatres, would love to watch it again.
I was too young to see it when it hit theaters, and it lived in the back of my mind until about a decade ago. And it lived up to my hopes. Totally worth watching.
Thank you sir. I did not know about this movie The Car. I am a classic car owner myself. I have a Pontiac Trans Am & my Grandad left me his classic Plymouth Fury in his will. I have drove it once because it scares the crap out of me lol. It's the same color as the Christine version.
Awesome!
I saw this movie in a drive-in theater when I was 7 or 8 years old. I very much remember this movie. As a boy, it scared the hell out of me. I've watched it a few times over the decades as it would appear on TV. And it kinda makes me laugh thinking how scared I was back in the day. I still enjoy watching it when I can catch it.
FACT CHECK #1 :Dean Jeffries was the builder of the Monkee Mobile, not George Barris. FACT CHECK #2: The Ford Motor Company and the series' production department worked together to create the original Starsky & Hutch Torino. George Barris purchased one of the promotional cars for his collection, he did not build any of the cars. Fact Check #3 Customizer Michael Scheffe built the original KITT for the Nighrider Series. George Barris would later build the convertible and super-pursuit KITTs which saw limited use in the series.
Thanks, glad I'm not the only one who gets upset by Barris still being credited with stuff he didn't design or build.
@@martinharris5017 Yeah, as much as I admire the work he, or his shop, did do, he was accused of taking credit for cars he had little or nothing to do with, just because it was in his shop at one time or another.
Barris is lucky he worked in the pre HD era. Having seen a few of his cars up close they were hack jobs at best. Great mind and design, terrible execution.
"The Car" seems as a sequel to "Dual"
Fact check #4: Kathleen Lloyd is not the protagonist James brolin is
Back in 1977 I was 8 years old and going to the movies with my best friend once a week, every week from the 1970s-1980s. We were a couple of fanatics about the movies. We talked, read, ate, drank, and slept the movies.
He lived in a distant neighborhood and I had to take a public city bus to get to and from his place. Normally, most times we went to one of the movie theaters in or near his neighborhood. After seeing our movie in the theater, we'd retreat back to his apartment to watch even more movies on his living room tv that happened to be airing that afternoon and evening.
The Car was one of the few movies we didn't get to see in the theaters. We didn't see it until a couple years later in his living room when it debuted on tv. I think the year was either 1979 or 1980 when we were 10-11 years old.
After seeing the movie on his tv, I took my bus home. The bus let me off a block or so away from my place. As I walked up my street to get home, it was after dark and I was scared of all the cars parked alongside the sidewalk, especially the ones with their front tires turned towards me on the sidewalk. I warily eyed them, worried that one of them would jump up onto the sidewalk and give chase to me!
I finally reached my home and breathed a sigh of relief. Because as one will recall in the movie, there's a scene in which the car kills one of its victims by smashing through her single level house. But I lived in a 2 family apartment house and my apartment was upstairs on the second floor!
I loved this movie, 1st saw it back in the 80’s when I was about 8, loved the bit where the car rolls over the police cars, blows them up, and end up back on its wheels 😊❤
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I’m from St. George Utah, where this movie was made. And when me and my friends first watched this movie back when we were kids we thought it was so cool because the whole movie was literally shot in our back yards. Another good old not well known movie made in my home town is “Harry’s War” from 1981. Worth checking out.
The ultimate muscle car in my book and Christine's predecessor
The Car is Bender from Futurama as the Werecar 😂 Season 2 episode 18 "The Honking" (Yes I looked it up 😂)
All this time and I never knew the Werecar was a reference to something!
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it made me laugh hard at the time
I was six years old when I first saw this movie back in 77. Just watching this video brought back so many memories of the movie. Im gonna watch it again this weekend. First time since I was 6!
Enjoy!
Nice!
@@TheGearheadLounge Oh! Even better. I found it and it's Halloween!! 🤘HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
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Aw man. I loved this movie. An all black Lincoln Continental became one of my dream cars. Either a Mark 3, 4, or 5. All still looked menacing with those headlights. Luckily I got an all black Mark 5 that I daily drive today. Recorded some boring driving videos too. Car treats me well too.
I first saw it in a long Beach California drive in just after turning 9 in 1977,a few years ago I bought a 1/18 th scale die cast model made by ertl.
I've got that ERTL replica too. Looks great, only flaws I saw were the wheels and tires. That is acceptable. But major flaws like on the "Phantasm" 'Cuda were unacceptable. It didn't look like any of the 'Cuda's from any of the movies and what's worse is it had vanity plates on it reading "PHANTASM". Shit.
@@charlesballard5251my ertl replicas front bumper broke off on one side but can be a easy fix,I would love to one day take my trans am to the drive in and see that movie once again.
I watched it at Los Altos drive in Long Beach, I was twelve. I remember my mom politely sitting thru it for me and Dad. We loved it, she was not entertained.
@@WopRicci yes I believe that was the same drive in I saw it at,it was right next to cal Worthington Ford dealership.
Now I've GOT to see this movie 😃
I love this movie ever since I saw it on cable in the decades ago. I'm glad to see it still gets so much love.
I remember seeing the promo clips and advertising for The Car in 1977 but it was soon overshadowed by Star Wars and Smokey and the Bandit.
I remember seeing this when I was a kid, probably when it first came out. I had completely forgotten about it. Thank you for the memory.
Thank you for watching!
Only a person who knows nothing about cars would ask that question. Easy to recognise it's a Lincoln.
I remember seeing this as a kid in the early 80s. I was at a friend's house and had to ride my bike home.........I was freaked out as hell remember constantly looking behind me to see if there was a car behind me........😂😂. Classic movie!!
There might not be any of the original The Cars left, but I understand there are a couple of replicas floating around out there.
He just said there is at least one that survives
I have a Mark-3 & can see how much custom work went into this design. Amazing - Beautiful !! I want one 😅
George Barris DID NOT BUILD the Monkeemobile, Knight Rider, or the S&H Torino. Two Monkeemobiles were designed and built by Dean Jefferies. Dean had first right of refusal to buy the cars after the show was finished for $2,000 each but passed. Barris boughtone and slapped Barris Kustoms badges on the front fenders.
Pontiac’s design chief John Schinella sketched the modifications to the Pontiac Trans Am for Knight Rider and the work was done by John Ward. Barris did minor updates to KITTs in later seasons of the show.
George Barris had a bad habit of attaching himself to other people's work. He'd buy cars, put Barris badges on them and show them amongst his own letting the public infer he built them. Barris sold the original Monkeemobile at Barrett-Jackson for $360,000 after making a copy of it.
im 40 and seen a trailer on youtube a few years ago downloaded it and loved this movie ever since
Ho questo film in testa da sempre,quella macchina e' come un chiodo fisso.gran film!