I was around in the time this movie was made...I really miss the gas stations and diners from that era. Far fewer people back then as well, less people, way way way less traffic.
One of, (if not )"the" most technically correct gearhead movies of all times. The acting sucked, and content was sketchy at best, but the car scenes were the coolest. The whine from the M-22, the low gearing, and actual engine shots with a BBC and tunnel ram, twin Holleys,....really the best of the day, and today. Even the starting line runs show how quick this car really was. It could really hook up. Vanishing point, and Dirty Mary, and Crazy Larry were OK, but this one beats them all. But American Graffiti had the best story and acting. (IMHO)
While I was in the US Navy at the time. I just happened to be at Lakeland Dragway in TN where the film crew was making the racing shots of the 2 Lane Blacktop 55 making runs. I did not know that at the time but I was taking 8mm silent movies which I still have.
My first was a '56 Ford (2 door) Customline Ranch Wagon with the T-Bird 312. Many nights on Van Nuys Boulevard, Mulholland, the Drive ins... . Was born at Valley Hospital; Van Nuys and Sherman Way.
In 1959 a neighbor kid saved up his money and bought from a local drag racer a B Gas '34 Ford coupe with a 302 inch SBC. Chromed crank, Isky roller cam, three Strombergs, the works. Best recorded e.t. was a 12.36. The original gas tank was rusted, so the builder had installed a small racing tank in the trunk and a hand pump in the dash to pressurize it. The seller included rear wheels with street tires in the deal, so the kid took off the Bruce's slicks and put the street wheels on it. He drove it to high school, stopping to fill the small gas tank every so often, and had the fastest hot rod in Dallas until he was killed in a boating accident, September 1, 1959.
If you're a gear head, this movie set the bar. Technically, what they said about the car was correct. The couple pages of dialog in the movie was far more realistic than anything you see.
The engine was said to be a 454 in several articles on the car, but it appears to have aluminum heads in this shot, so it was more likely an L88 427 - a beast of an engine for sure.
There were three cars for the movie two of them had 454s one of them had the 427 And the sound of the car was also used in smoky in the bandit for the black Trans Am
It is pretty accurate, right down to the hard boiled eggs. Boil up a couple cartons of eggs and hit the road for the weekend driving around the state looking for money races.
My fav part in this movie is the end with the slow mo drag scene. I grew up at a teen ripping around in my little Hondas trying to be as cool as James Taylor "The Driver".
I saw this movie a hundred times at the Elgin theater in NYC. They would play double bills for a buck fifty and would pair this up with other car movies like Drive He Said.
Even at the time of this movie, the pump jockey isn't wrong to ask if it's a 396. That engine was the LS1 of its time--if you couldn't afford a 427 or 454, you could still find even a 2 bbl 396 and get it up to 450-500 hp with OEM parts. The Thames panel truck would have an advantage because it was so light weight.
@@alertgasper - Watch for a 402 then. Many have this idea they are dogs, but they are just a .030 over 396. The "dog" part came as they were about the time emissions was starting and the cams were very low profile. I had one in a Corvette with about a hefty of a hydraulic as I could find and it would put my Corvette up to around 150 mph top speed.
@@tommissouri4871 402's go for the same price around here (collector's value--sometimes i can land a peanut port 8:1 CR 454 for less), but I get what you're saying. Certain things can get an unfair rep, but that can benefit "those in the know" who operate on a thin budget. for example, when I was young and couldn't afford the insurance on a Fox Mustang...a Fox body thunderbird used the same parts, had less wear and tear, and didn't need as much bling to gain attention on a cruise night.
Thats the part that got me... .. pull over so I can check the jets.. Still a great movie. Taylor should not be acting. Still glad we have this piece of history.
The acting did not suck in this movie! Warren Oates was excellent, Taylor was passable, and Wilson was surprisingly good. Laurie Bird, a non-actress, was good too. I liked it better than 'Easy Rider'.
Yes, they built 2. The camera car went to Canada where the new owner removed the straight axle and painted the car. The Graffiti car was sold and the owner put in red crushed velour interior.
@@josemejia9349 Neither one ' if you look carefully at the '55 upside down and on fire 'it's a sports coupe ' not a sedan ' they put in fake door pillars made out of wood from what I've heard .
Funny story... Dad and my uncle were in their Teens in the early Sixties. Grandpa had given them a "strip out" '55 Chevy 150 two door to use as a shared car. They ended up building the Dickens out of a 327, found an M22 and painted the whole car in grey and red primer... Saddle blanket interior, etc. They'd cruise a few states on weekends, because they lived in Falls Church, VA... They could easily get to NYC in a few hours, or into Maryland, or West Virginia, etc... So they'd hit an unsuspecting town and find out where the hot drive in restaurant was. Before they got to the restaurant, they'd stop and pull a couple vacuum hoses or a plug wire and dump a bit of transmission fluid into the carburetor. They'd pull into the hot drive in revving their missing, smoking engine in their P.O.S. looking old Chevy... Then park, order a hamburger and start finding out where everyone did their drag racing. They'd limp the car out to whatever unused local road it was, open their hood and hook back up the vacuum and pop the pulled plug wire back on...line up with the local champ and proceed to eat the dude's lunch EVERY TIME 🤣 They won a little money doing that... A few cars, too. Things lasted almost like that until the late Eighties... We sure had a lot of fun that I really wish the youngsters could experience.
No power adders All motor four speed wide ratio trans, and I'd be proud to drive this 55 bbc down the street Just absolute old school street car beauty, WOW nice.... Stick Shifts for Life...
What I always thought was cool, and no doubt what the attendant and Ruth's character was thinking is, having a 454 transplant then in 1971 was the equivalent of getting an engine out of 2023 ZR-1 or something today. I think Ruth had a lot to say when it came time for scenes like this one, and is what makes it a mostly technically correct car guy movie.
Most modern day mechanics wouldn’t know how to tune one of these old beasts. They would look under the dash for a data port connector for their laptop.
Same car used in American Graffiti. Heavely modified for this movie. All motor, no NOS, no turbo no blower. Who ever had the begest motor and the lightest car won.
You have the 2 films’ timelines reversed. This movie was made first. AG was 1973, so they squirted this ‘55 gloss Black and slapped a set of chrome reverse rims and a low-profile scoop on it for AG.
From 2001-2013, I had white fender well headers on my ‘55 Chevy two-door surf wagon (turquoise & white), and she sat high in the front like a gasser. It’s currently residing somewhere in Cali now. Would love to speak to her current owner! (The car’s name was “Candie”)
I hear ya but where else would they check it 🤷♂️ It’s like the girls at the gym wearing pink yoga pants that ready “juicy” on their butt and get upset because guys are looking at them
It’s funny how two singers one who sings in a iconic group that embodied car culture and another who is pretty much known for the hippy type folk music comes together to make a very low budget movie that emulated how that sorta life really was. An for those who are into racing how many time have you heard that exact thing when you bring your ride out only to have someone tell you how fast this local guy is but some reason the car has an issue saving you the embarrassment of getting your ass handed to you and knowing it’s all bullshit but you just laugh just like he did making that exact statement probably would blew the doors right off our stuff. The plot of this movie was very strange to me but ever interaction they had in a racing type situation was dead on.
The star of this movie is a 55 Chevy I watched this movie about 10 times just to see that car at the time Tri 5 Chevys were in my high school parking lot and could be bought for a couple hundred bucks
Which really was a good chunk of change back then. Figuring a buck sixty minimum wage, a kid was lucky to make $64 a week gross so it would take about 4 weeks to gt enough cash for one.
And Sunoco Blue. When I had my license, they still offered 94 octane unleaded, good enough for 10:1 on some engines. But leaded fuel had its own scent...
@@alertgasper I also remember Sunoco 260 and their custom blending pump. You can get ethanol-free, 100 octane Sunoco racing gas at select stations in metro Denver. It's around $9.00 per gallon, though.
@@8avexp Around here, last time I checked, you could get it in a drum the size of the orange round coolers Gatorade used to sell. But yeah, it's not close to being cheap unless you run a quarter mile at a time. Not for me, thanks, I'll lose the 4% power per compression ratio point I drop--my Olds 455 can do 10:1 with its cast iron C heads due to its combustion chamber design on 93 Octane, and that's good enough for me. I know one guy who puts $100 into the tank of his 340 Dart just so he can drive to a cruise night on a Saturday night and get back home again.
This is the same car used by Bob Falfa, and since American Graffiti took place in 1962, it would be the Rat's little brother, the 409. so why pass off a 427 as a 454? Because this movie takes place when the LS6 had made its mark. It would be like putting an LS1 into a stunt car but telling the audience it's an LS3--they won't be able to notice the cost savings. of course a street racer would claim it was a 396 and not scare off competition :) as for people who think the acting is bad...the point of the movie is social disconnect. "the girl" leaves her boyfriend who is constantly toking up to run with these two, and finds they have no room for her in their stripped down life. GTO is constantly BSing people to get them to like him, but no one bites. so ironically two musicians who can't act are perfect--they spend all day together, they have no new tales to share with each other, they stick to their tasks and have nothing else to offer anyway. think of the dialog in the bar between the couple, who aren't connecting either. that's the theme of the movie--disconnect.
They weren’t passing a 427 off as a 454, of the three cars used in the movie, two had 454s and one had a 427 (the interior shot car, because it was quieter)
@@barrycuda3769 easy way is to read the suffix code on the front of the right hand and of the block . If the head is off , you can measure how far down in the bore the piston is at bottom dead center . If you're old and treacherous like some of us and have been around engines and racing forever you can tell by the sound . The car seen at the gas station was the same car in the racing scenes . That engine is a L-88 Corvette 427 , from the factory it has forged aluminum pistons which ake a slapping noise and it has 12-1 compression forcing those pistons down , so the exhaust pulses are louder . It also has a solid lifter cam in it clacking away and it has more lift and duration than the 454 cam . Notice that the in car scenes the actors can carry on a conversation without screaming at each other, you won't do that around a L-88 . Some people learned how to tune a guitar and make beautiful music , some of us learned how to build a Rat Motor and make our own kind of music .
@@leroywatermelon4025 No, I have been friends with Richard Ruth for many years ( he built all three cars for TLB the two main cars had early 9 1/4" Pontiac rear ends with a spool and 4.88's
@@garyallen8869 that would be so hard to get off the line with and go through the gears while keeping the rubber stuck to the ground. Hats off to whoever was driving it on the race scenes.
My little 327 with a M-21 Muncie in my 66 Chevelle is only 1 second slower than this Big Block with a M-22 , And mine pulls both front tires off the ground too , 475hp And my 66 Chevelle SS is Street Legal , Bumpers and interior , all metal , NO fiberglass front end or Trunk lid , I would like to add Two 4 barrel Holley carbs. like this engine has , My M-21 Muncie is the same gear ratio as the M-22 except it doesn't have the Harden gears , But this 55 is one bad A$$ car !
The LS6 was rated at 450 hp. The 427 L88 was factory rated at 430 hp. but was dyno tested at 550 hp. Just which one do you think would've been faster ? None of the car companies gave out the correct numbers .
I had a M22 in my ‘55 Chevy 2-dr post. I had it married to a “period-correct” 409 version of the AG car. That 1st Gear definitely wound up, like it was speaking to me!
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“…sure looks like an awful lot of work…” says Richard Ruth, who actually DID the work. Great cameo.
Yup! Just found that out today. 😎
Cool Glendale Speed Center t shirt! I use to go there!
Damn straight
I was around in the time this movie was made...I really miss the gas stations and diners from that era. Far fewer people back then as well, less people, way way way less traffic.
I was 8 yo, yes less people, and way way way less traffic!
I miss those days also! I was 19 and a gearhead. It was like the movie American Graffiti.
Mary's Cafe in Flagstaff,AZ is still open..I ate there a few years ago!!😊
A way better time to live back then.
Welp, you're the generation that gave birth to the amount of people running around now :)
The guy that built the headers was the guy asking if they built them...lol
" dual headers " nope just 1
That guy did a good job.
He built the whole car.
The spaghetti western of car movies. So good
One of, (if not )"the" most technically correct gearhead movies of all times. The acting sucked, and content was sketchy at best, but the car scenes were the coolest. The whine from the M-22, the low gearing, and actual engine shots with a BBC and tunnel ram, twin Holleys,....really the best of the day, and today. Even the starting line runs show how quick this car really was. It could really hook up. Vanishing point, and Dirty Mary, and Crazy Larry were OK, but this one beats them all. But American Graffiti had the best story and acting. (IMHO)
This was a real car. Same car Harrison Ford was driving in American Graffiti
…thank you Richard Ruth, of CE…
Ya, but seems like they spent too much time changing jets if my memory serves me.
@@bbb462cid no way
@@brianmathew09 way
While I was in the US Navy at the time. I just happened to be at Lakeland Dragway in TN where the film crew was making the racing shots of the 2 Lane Blacktop 55 making runs. I did not know that at the time but I was taking 8mm silent movies which I still have.
You need to post those it would be awesome to see it
Oh that is too cool 😎 That jem absolutely needs to be out there for fans to enjoy!
One of my absolute favorite old car flicks. 👍
At least this car was not destroyed by MotorTrend and turned into an EV like Project X 57 chevy.
And it has a big block in it again, that cars been rebuilt so many times it doesn’t matter anymore
Project X Chevy was turned into an EV?
That's blasphemy.
@@nitromartini1422- Yeah it was but has been properly returned to its roots.
@@backwoodsman5498 exactly. there is always gonna be someone that hates one version of project X lol
Well Hot Rod magazine was broke, and a rich yuppy came along with money. Typical destroy an icon.
I saw that movie at a drive in theater in my ‘55. It had a “stock” 265 cid under the hood. A real sleeper back in the day!🇺🇸🇺🇸
My first was a '56 Ford (2 door) Customline Ranch Wagon with the T-Bird 312.
Many nights on Van Nuys Boulevard, Mulholland, the Drive ins... . Was born at Valley Hospital; Van Nuys and Sherman Way.
My mother had a 56 ranch wagon with the 312 T Bird engine 😂I liked it
In 1959 a neighbor kid saved up his money and bought from a local drag racer a B Gas '34 Ford coupe with a 302 inch SBC. Chromed crank, Isky roller cam, three Strombergs, the works. Best recorded e.t. was a 12.36. The original gas tank was rusted, so the builder had installed a small racing tank in the trunk and a hand pump in the dash to pressurize it. The seller included rear wheels with street tires in the deal, so the kid took off the Bruce's slicks and put the street wheels on it. He drove it to high school, stopping to fill the small gas tank every so often, and had the fastest hot rod in Dallas until he was killed in a boating accident, September 1, 1959.
If you're a gear head, this movie set the bar. Technically, what they said about the car was correct. The couple pages of dialog in the movie was far more realistic than anything you see.
Didn’t the guy ask him if it had dual headers? 😂
“Yup, it’s a motorcycle”…
Dennis was cool, he had 2 cobras at the time a big block and a small block. He raced at Lyons and Pomona quite often.
James Taylor predicted the Tesla. "They all look the same. They perform about the same." 😂
That GTO was a good car during that model year. My Uncle had a red one with the three speed automatic transmission and it would scoot!
The engine was said to be a 454 in several articles on the car, but it appears to have aluminum heads in this shot, so it was more likely an L88 427 - a beast of an engine for sure.
I believe you are correct. There were 3 cars built by Ruth if I recall right. A 350 in the camera car. A 427 and a 454
A guy is Boston owns the car. There are videos of him taking it to car shows, lighting em up. Pretty cool car. Blows a little smoke.
There were three cars for the movie two of them had 454s one of them had the 427 And the sound of the car was also used in smoky in the bandit for the black Trans Am
@@johncarnes9803 the car used in Graffiti was one of the 454 powered camera cars , but the soundtrack was of the 427 L88 car .
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 I believe that is what I said
Dennis Wilson and James Taylor. This movie is a good snapshot of the times.
It is pretty accurate, right down to the hard boiled eggs. Boil up a couple cartons of eggs and hit the road for the weekend driving around the state looking for money races.
Love this movie. A time passed never returned
My fav part in this movie is the end with the slow mo drag scene. I grew up at a teen ripping around in my little Hondas trying to be as cool as James Taylor "The Driver".
Notice the guys T shirt. Glendale Speed Center & Fred Flintstone! Love it!
I have one of those shirts, I wear it to car shows just to see if anyone notices, someone always does.
I saw this movie a hundred times at the Elgin theater in NYC. They would play double bills for a buck fifty and would pair this up with other car movies like Drive He Said.
You have to love those old-fashioned hot rod specially when the tunnel Rams were in fashion with twin Holley carburetors makes you want to Drew
makes me want to Drew too ! good to see Dennis...forever young...
Dig the Glendale Speed Center T shirt!
Haven't seen one of those t-shirts in decades.......
Even at the time of this movie, the pump jockey isn't wrong to ask if it's a 396. That engine was the LS1 of its time--if you couldn't afford a 427 or 454, you could still find even a 2 bbl 396 and get it up to 450-500 hp with OEM parts. The Thames panel truck would have an advantage because it was so light weight.
Right on. Still love 396's! Especially L-78's
@@blacktopandmangos I'd take even a 2bbl station wagon engine, but around here a 396 costs about as much as a 454.
@@alertgasper - Watch for a 402 then. Many have this idea they are dogs, but they are just a .030 over 396. The "dog" part came as they were about the time emissions was starting and the cams were very low profile. I had one in a Corvette with about a hefty of a hydraulic as I could find and it would put my Corvette up to around 150 mph top speed.
@@tommissouri4871 402's go for the same price around here (collector's value--sometimes i can land a peanut port 8:1 CR 454 for less), but I get what you're saying. Certain things can get an unfair rep, but that can benefit "those in the know" who operate on a thin budget.
for example, when I was young and couldn't afford the insurance on a Fox Mustang...a Fox body thunderbird used the same parts, had less wear and tear, and didn't need as much bling to gain attention on a cruise night.
It's the jets, man ... I gotta' check the jets
You just wrote 1/3 of the dialog for this film.
Thats the part that got me...
.. pull over so I can check the jets..
Still a great movie. Taylor should not be acting. Still glad we have this piece of history.
@@here_for_the At least he still had hair. Though it was starting to recede even then.
The acting did not suck in this movie! Warren Oates was excellent, Taylor was passable, and Wilson was surprisingly good. Laurie Bird, a non-actress, was good too. I liked it better than 'Easy Rider'.
Blasphemy!
Saw a replica at a local car show a couple years ago. Pretty dead-on accurate.
James Taylor in his Oscar winning performance.
Was still a badass movie
Looks right at engine and asks, "Dual headers?" lol
I thought he asked, "doya make the headers", it wasn't uncommon back then to get a Headers By Ed kit and weld up a set.
@@albertgaspar627 Either way, he played the part of a Goober really well!
@@SomeGuyInSandy this he does....and every small town has one hanging around to offer an opinion on cars :)
He said " build the headers?" That was Jerry Ruth the guy that built the cars.
That's the same 55 Chevrolet from American Graffiti
Yes ' but in two lane blacktop 'I think they had two or three '55 s ' but probably the one in Graffiti was the one in this scene ??.
Yes, they built 2. The camera car went to Canada where the new owner removed the straight axle and painted the car. The Graffiti car was sold and the owner put in red crushed velour interior.
and which one was rolled at the end of American Graffiti? Was that a third 55 Chevy?
@@josemejia9349 Neither one ' if you look carefully at the '55 upside down and on fire 'it's a sports coupe ' not a sedan ' they put in fake door pillars made out of wood from what I've heard .
@@josemejia9349 Yes it was.
Back in this time you could buy 110 octane pump gas from Sonoco ..
still can by me , a few places actually. 2024
@@guysteel not in SoCal but you can buy race gas or , Avgas in SoCal
In Alabama you can buy 110 octane at the pump at VP FUELS stations. 6/2024
Funny story...
Dad and my uncle were in their Teens in the early Sixties.
Grandpa had given them a "strip out" '55 Chevy 150 two door to use as a shared car.
They ended up building the Dickens out of a 327, found an M22 and painted the whole car in grey and red primer... Saddle blanket interior, etc.
They'd cruise a few states on weekends, because they lived in Falls Church, VA... They could easily get to NYC in a few hours, or into Maryland, or West Virginia, etc...
So they'd hit an unsuspecting town and find out where the hot drive in restaurant was.
Before they got to the restaurant, they'd stop and pull a couple vacuum hoses or a plug wire and dump a bit of transmission fluid into the carburetor.
They'd pull into the hot drive in revving their missing, smoking engine in their P.O.S. looking old Chevy... Then park, order a hamburger and start finding out where everyone did their drag racing.
They'd limp the car out to whatever unused local road it was, open their hood and hook back up the vacuum and pop the pulled plug wire back on...line up with the local champ and proceed to eat the dude's lunch EVERY TIME 🤣
They won a little money doing that... A few cars, too.
Things lasted almost like that until the late Eighties... We sure had a lot of fun that I really wish the youngsters could experience.
I've never seen anybody in real life put their car up for grabs.
and for 5 bucks you could get a mickey and enough gas to cruise all night maybe even win a few bux...
They have neither the ability nor the gray matter to appreciate such real-life encounters.
maybe someone should've asked Charlie Manson's crew how Dennis "drowned"...just sayin'.....
No power adders All motor four speed wide ratio trans, and I'd be proud to drive this 55 bbc down the street
Just absolute old school street car beauty, WOW nice....
Stick Shifts for Life...
The M22 is close ratio 2.20:1 low. Have had a couple. 😊
Back when 130 octane was available at the corner gas station.
Best hotrod movie ever, the acting was great because it was real, not like cgi crap now days
Love the Finnegan Blasphemi car, really inspired by this thing.
L88 427. M22 rock crusher 4 spd. 4.88 Pontiac rear. 3 were used for this movie,then two were used for American Garffiti.
It was the same car han solo drove ? I've heard that but wasn't sure
@@monkeyearcheese420 it was.
@@monkeyearcheese420 he ain't nobody..he was Bob Falfa.
@@chrispaulson2934 was that his name in the movie?
@@monkeyearcheese420 Yes.
I went to see this movie at a drive in Va. I was driving my 67 GTO . It seemed like that any of us that could turn the tires over leaving did it.
What I always thought was cool, and no doubt what the attendant and Ruth's character was thinking is, having a 454 transplant then in 1971 was the equivalent of getting an engine out of 2023 ZR-1 or something today. I think Ruth had a lot to say when it came time for scenes like this one, and is what makes it a mostly technically correct car guy movie.
I was a freshman in high school that year , man if I had the cars now I had back then , oh man ! They were amazing . Pure power
they were, but my new ZL1 is badass.
Yup you can get upward of a 1000 hp in the new tech available today , but back then it was simpler and fun er I think . : - )
Most modern day mechanics wouldn’t know how to tune one of these old beasts. They would look under the dash for a data port connector for their laptop.
i am a OLD racer before all this computor stuff, to me it has ruined real drag racing
and vice versa
Same car used in American Graffiti. Heavely modified for this movie. All motor, no NOS, no turbo no blower. Who ever had the begest motor and the lightest car won.
You have the 2 films’ timelines reversed. This movie was made first. AG was 1973, so they squirted this ‘55 gloss Black and slapped a set of chrome reverse rims and a low-profile scoop on it for AG.
White headers! You just don’t see that anymore.
From 2001-2013, I had white fender well headers on my ‘55 Chevy two-door surf wagon (turquoise & white), and she sat high in the front like a gasser. It’s currently residing somewhere in Cali now. Would love to speak to her current owner! (The car’s name was “Candie”)
Saw a video just the other day that this '55 was also the one used in *American Graffiti"..
Dennis also had a split window vette he ran at Lyons, this was all before he started lighting Ferraris and Porsches on fire😂
Funny. “I don’t want attention or talk about my car” but I’ll pop open the front clip at a gas station.
I hear ya but where else would they check it 🤷♂️ It’s like the girls at the gym wearing pink yoga pants that ready “juicy” on their butt and get upset because guys are looking at them
true, a real street racer would pass off the engine as a 396 to get better competition.
i ran a 396 in a sand drg car, also a 454 borrowed , the 396 motor was better ets@@albertgaspar627
Yeah, a real street racer probably wouldn't have done that, but they really wanted to show off their cool motor to the movie audience
@@wilburross9709 yes sir. I just thought of the irony of the quiet no show off characters. I’ve never sent the movie though so what do I know.
Looks like Mike Finnigan's Blasphemi, or should that be the other way around?
Love this flick!!!
I'm with everyone else the sounds of the cars were the best ever, down to the quadrajet sound of Warren Oats Pontiac, have that movie on DVD.
Leaky carburetor nearly cost him the race
it was this film that inspired me to throw away my air cleaner assembly!
55 was the star
THE GUY TAKING THE TRUNK LID OFF IS...
DENNIS WILSON...R.I.P.😇
It’s funny how two singers one who sings in a iconic group that embodied car culture and another who is pretty much known for the hippy type folk music comes together to make a very low budget movie that emulated how that sorta life really was. An for those who are into racing how many time have you heard that exact thing when you bring your ride out only to have someone tell you how fast this local guy is but some reason the car has an issue saving you the embarrassment of getting your ass handed to you and knowing it’s all bullshit but you just laugh just like he did making that exact statement probably would blew the doors right off our stuff. The plot of this movie was very strange to me but ever interaction they had in a racing type situation was dead on.
Got to be one of my favourite cars in any movie
Bruce Springsteen definitely ripped this off for lyrics of Racing In The Street!
This car was painted black and used in the film American Grafitti driven by Harrison Ford.
The star of this movie is a 55 Chevy I watched this movie about 10 times just to see that car at the time Tri 5 Chevys were in my high school parking lot and could be bought for a couple hundred bucks
Which really was a good chunk of change back then. Figuring a buck sixty minimum wage, a kid was lucky to make $64 a week gross so it would take about 4 weeks to gt enough cash for one.
I REMEMBER MY MOM TAKING ME TO THE DRIVE INN TO SEE THIS MOVIE IN HER BUILT 1970 BOSS 302 MUSTANG.
I remember Super Shell gasoline. The good old days...
And Sunoco Blue. When I had my license, they still offered 94 octane unleaded, good enough for 10:1 on some engines. But leaded fuel had its own scent...
@@alertgasper I also remember Sunoco 260 and their custom blending pump. You can get ethanol-free, 100 octane Sunoco racing gas at select stations in metro Denver. It's around $9.00 per gallon, though.
@@8avexp Around here, last time I checked, you could get it in a drum the size of the orange round coolers Gatorade used to sell. But yeah, it's not close to being cheap unless you run a quarter mile at a time. Not for me, thanks, I'll lose the 4% power per compression ratio point I drop--my Olds 455 can do 10:1 with its cast iron C heads due to its combustion chamber design on 93 Octane, and that's good enough for me. I know one guy who puts $100 into the tank of his 340 Dart just so he can drive to a cruise night on a Saturday night and get back home again.
@@alertgasper At the station where I saw it, you had to tell them how much you wanted, and had to prepay.
@@8avexp oh, i bet at that price, they wanted to avoid "drive offs" and folks shaking the hose to get every extra drop out they could :)
Haha. Nice.
Cars were so simple back then. They're almost comical now.
This is the same car used by Bob Falfa, and since American Graffiti took place in 1962, it would be the Rat's little brother, the 409. so why pass off a 427 as a 454? Because this movie takes place when the LS6 had made its mark. It would be like putting an LS1 into a stunt car but telling the audience it's an LS3--they won't be able to notice the cost savings. of course a street racer would claim it was a 396 and not scare off competition :)
as for people who think the acting is bad...the point of the movie is social disconnect. "the girl" leaves her boyfriend who is constantly toking up to run with these two, and finds they have no room for her in their stripped down life. GTO is constantly BSing people to get them to like him, but no one bites. so ironically two musicians who can't act are perfect--they spend all day together, they have no new tales to share with each other, they stick to their tasks and have nothing else to offer anyway.
think of the dialog in the bar between the couple, who aren't connecting either. that's the theme of the movie--disconnect.
They weren’t passing a 427 off as a 454, of the three cars used in the movie, two had 454s and one had a 427 (the interior shot car, because it was quieter)
Does anyone known if the very last 1-2 seconds of this clip was I-70 in De Beque canyon, heading west toward Grand Junction, CO?
The inspiration for Blaphemi
The engine in that car is a 427..
Yep.
@@danmyers9372 an L-88 at that .
How do you tell the difference between a 427 and 454?
@@barrycuda3769 easy way is to read the suffix code on the front of the right hand and of the block . If the head is off , you can measure how far down in the bore the piston is at bottom dead center . If you're old and treacherous like some of us and have been around engines and racing forever you can tell by the sound . The car seen at the gas station was the same car in the racing scenes . That engine is a L-88 Corvette 427 , from the factory it has forged aluminum pistons which ake a slapping noise and it has 12-1 compression forcing those pistons down , so the exhaust pulses are louder . It also has a solid lifter cam in it clacking away and it has more lift and duration than the 454 cam . Notice that the in car scenes the actors can carry on a conversation without screaming at each other, you won't do that around a L-88 . Some people learned how to tune a guitar and make beautiful music , some of us learned how to build a Rat Motor and make our own kind of music .
@@barrycuda3769 The Balencer is larger on the 454
Love this movie
That Guy looks like Dennis Wilson ...
it should...it is.
Look at those kids !
Can you image Paul Newman+Steve McQueen in the title roles!!😊
I always wanted to see a movie that was like a combo of Two Lane Blacktop and Color of Money.
Yep great gearhead film also I knew a few dudes like the guy in the gto , good film
He's got his shirt unbuttoned and he's got beautiful hair.
👀..... 👀
Yer gaydar is going nuts!
What engine was in the two lane blacktop 1955 Chevy
I wonder what the 55's rear end ratio was 'pretty low I'd expect 'but it didnt really sound excessively high revving on the highways.
4.88's
@@garyallen8869 Best is could do on the highway might be 60mph
@@garyallen8869 I would have sworn they were 4.11 or 3.73.
@@leroywatermelon4025 No, I have been friends with Richard Ruth for many years ( he built all three cars for TLB the two main cars had early 9 1/4" Pontiac rear ends with a spool and 4.88's
@@garyallen8869 that would be so hard to get off the line with and go through the gears while keeping the rubber stuck to the ground. Hats off to whoever was driving it on the race scenes.
LOVE WATCHING THAT.❤
454 with a tunnel ram and 2 4 barrels. Be too expensive to drive nowadays. Gas was about 35 cents a gallon than.
Tall , dark , handsome and strapping ! Isn't he lovely .
RIP , Denny
Might be the jets ?
How's the AC in that buggy?
saw this on the lost drive in theater on speed vision
That's where i discovered this gem too!
Only it’s not a ‘55 engine, the 454 didn’t get produced until 1970
They never said it’s an original ‘55 engine. Never once did they claim any part of that car was original to it
This must be where most of the talking in the movie happened
Is that Steve Dulchic driving?
Don't forget about the jets
Also appeared in American Graffiti ! 😁😁😁😁.....driven by ‘Falfa’ ala Harrison Ford 😁👍🏼
Imagine if was a 454 ls6 w/ m22 rock crusher,,
My little 327 with a M-21 Muncie in my 66 Chevelle is only 1 second slower than this Big Block with a M-22 ,
And mine pulls both front tires off the ground too , 475hp
And my 66 Chevelle SS is Street Legal ,
Bumpers and interior , all metal ,
NO fiberglass front end or Trunk lid ,
I would like to add Two 4 barrel Holley carbs. like this engine has ,
My M-21 Muncie is the same gear ratio as the M-22 except it doesn't have the Harden gears ,
But this 55 is one bad A$$ car !
The LS6 was rated at 450 hp. The 427 L88 was factory rated at 430 hp. but was dyno tested at 550 hp. Just which one do you think would've been faster ? None of the car companies gave out the correct numbers .
Is that Evan Dando?
Yes same car 3 were built
One of the best movies
They say this is the same car
used in the film ...
American Graffiti
That was not a 454
Duel quad double humper pumper dumpers?!
Yup!
Did he ask “dual headers” ?.?.?
“Did you build the headers”
Thats how it was in those days.
Travel around pick up a race to make some gas money.
So what is the box? It’s straight cut so I thought it would be a Dough Nash rock crusher. What’s the difference between the M22?
the Muncies have straight cut teeth on the gears, hence the whine. One has it on all four gears, the other on only the first three.
I had a M22 in my ‘55 Chevy 2-dr post. I had it married to a “period-correct” 409 version of the AG car. That 1st Gear definitely wound up, like it was speaking to me!
Dennis Wilson was one handsome SOB. RIP brother.
Fantastic. I love campy films❤ and the accurate car scenes are a big +
I have one of those
That movie is so damn boring.
Funny James said 454 when in reality it was a 427 !!
The car in this scene was an L88 427, the interior shot car was a 454. The 454 car is still surviving in this setup…
There was three cars used making of this movie Two had 454s one had 427
Only 1 header the other is stock
🤣
WTF
Old america.