I saw this while I was in the service in 71 and it made such an impression on that 18 year old that I built my own version after leaving the service. I still race it at Eagle Field Drags in California and at Beech Bend Kentucky at the TRI-5 Nationals every year.
Beauty of a car that one is, in the mids 80's i had a 57 2dr ht i wanted to do the same but life got in the way. I envy you for being able to and still at it.
This movie and the Macon County Line were two movies that remind me so much of growing up in the '70's . We were alive at the best time in history as far as I'm concerned .
My dad took me to see this movie at the drive in theater off of Airline Hwy in Old Metairie... We used to stop at the convenience store right there called “Time Saver” right across from there to sneak snacks in with us... Man, those were good times in the 70’s...👍🏾✊🏾
Yes and No. There were three 55's used in Two Lane Blacktop. One was sold to a mechanic and the other two were used in American Grafitti. The stunt car was destroyed at the end. Both the surviving Grafitti Car and the primer gray Blacktop car still exist.
This film was so formative for me, I saw it as something to aspire to and as a trainee tech back in ‘78 I fitted engine after engine and gearbox after gearbox to my car in a search for speed. I learnt more about cars, engines, suspension and brakes at the weekends than I ever did at college, Saturdays were fixing and prepping for street racing in the evening or going to a legit race meet. Ridiculous times really and probably not what I’d want my kids (grandkids now) to get into, but it was the scene at the time and I loved it. Two Lane Blacktop for the Tech heads and American Graffiti for everyone else.
Compared to the scene I had and the scene now yours still stands as the best youth scene and needs a comeback badly. Luckily. Not all of em are about the street takeovers. Some are about straight up racing. I'm tryna give the modern teens the ideals you guys had it ain't about what you have it's about what you do with what you have. Build what have learn on what you have then move on to the high end shit.
@@joebone3151 yeah, the "street takeover" thing was stupid and since F&F promoted it, it's gotten real out of hand, with the kids threatening the cops who show up. in this era of street racing, the LA crowd was doing it at 2am, like the NYC crowd, and not bothering anyone but the late night truckers high on amps. As for "run whatcha brung", back in this time a 13 second car was respectable, now its Honda Si territory :)
I was taking auto mechanics in high School working in a gas station spending weekends at Dragway 42 West Salem OH....should have won an Oscar...as far as I was concerned..
In my opinion this is the greatest car movie ever made, second place 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry', and third 'Bullit'. Smokey and the Bandit a close one following up.
I was a junior in high school when this movie came out. It turned me into a drag racer. First car was a true street strip car and ran high 12's in 74 2nd was a strip only Vega with a 430 Buick engine, ran mid 11's 3rd was a 66 Nova small block it ran 10:40 ish. the last car was a tube frame 69 Camaro it ran 8:80 ish with a Doug Nash 4 speed. I also had a 69 Nova that was all steel with a 355 and a Doug Nash 4 speed that was totally street legal and tagged, had a 6 point roll bar and was mini tubed , it ran low 11 teens in 82 . Funny story, the 69 street car was a real 396 4 gear and I was the 3 owner and it was perfect, a real diamond. Those were the good old days but very hard on the pocket book,lol.
those buford big blocks were so light, a nice choice for a Vega if you could just get a rear axle for it on the swing arm. and the Buick Two Speed/ST300 was like the cast iron Powerglide in that first gear reduced off the line torque..but you could find one with the Switch Pitch torque converter (i have one in my 1968 Olds 442, you can go from 1,800rpm stall speed to 3,300 stall speed, street or strip).
Yes he was, my uncle seen him several times at Pomona and lions, he also road raced at riverside, he had 2 cobras a small block and a big block, early on his first car was a split window vette I believe it’s shown on a album cover of there’s next to a Brian’s 63 Grand Prix Pontiac. There’s pics of him in his cobra on the internet at riverside.
ID love to build a gasser nothing like pulling up with a 283 staging it at 6000rpm then quick rev to 10 grand before launching on them sure to trick the guys today😁
Three 55's were made for the movie, two had crate 454's with good heads and tunnel rams, and the stunt car had a 427 with a single 4 barrel. All had fiberglass panels, plexi windows, roll cages, 4 wheel disk brakes and good suspension. They were legit, capable of mid 10's. Two were repainted glossy black and used in American Graphiti.
I live just right down the road where they filmed the liscense plate swap and gassing the cars. The little town where they filmed that part pretty much looks the same...the people look exactly the same. Boswell Oklahoma
I raced a couple of 57 chevy's at Lakeland in the 70's. I had heard they were shooting scenes for this movie there. I had some friends that went and watched, still regret I did not go. Those were the good old days of drag racing.
Darkest ,enduring, endings that is impossible to forget once viewed. The hair in slow motion alone- spells a hellish doomnot just for the driver and the mechanic. But for all. Classic.
I am from Australia, and we cruised till the late 80's. I had a 1974 Ford XB Coupe, similar to the Torino 2 Door in the USA. It had a 351 Cleveland, 4 Speed Top Loader and a 9" diff. I won enough money dragging to actually pay it off! But those were the days! Wish I still had it. Today, I own a Commodore UTE, 2015 and t has a Chev 350 and a 6 speed box. Yeah, I know there are 4cyl Turbos faster, but I prefer the sound of a V8 over a screaming sewing machine! Loved this move, same as American Graffiti. For you Americans there is an Australian film called Running on Empty. Acting is not great, but you get to see some good Aussie cars and some American with a Mint 57 Chev at the end! Cant beat a good car film!
It was the beginning of summer, 1969, saw my first drag race, at nine years old. Got to see my hero, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme. I was hooked for good! Loved the whole vibe; especially being in the pits with the cars, drivers & crew…watching from the track, behind the Christmas tree. Smelling the bleach burnouts & feeling the rumble of the cars spinning down the track! That was a magic era, the old defunct track was top fuel & drew many of the heavyweights in funny car. Loved the night drags, with the fire burnouts, the annual fox hunt, when the ladies got in free, wet T-shirt contests…it was the ‘70’s! 🇨🇦
No. Harrison Ford drove a '55, but not that one. EDIT: I guess I may be wrong...Another comment said the car was painted black for American Graffiti. Makes sense.
two of the cars in two lane black top were bought and repurposed for American Grafitti... as Bob Falfa's wicked '55... yep... one for street scenes and the other one that crashed on paradise road... facts
I spent many happy days and nights at the old Lakeland dragstrip. Best time in history to be a young man. Fast cars, great looking girls, rock and roll, and just great times
GenXer here. Good you KNOW how lucky you were to live those times..Americas Golden age. Power. Speed, beauty and style. Great film. Really captures the essence and feel of the times.
That '55 had disc brakes in the rear when most people didn't even have disc brakes in the front! I've never seen this movie but I am going to watch it this weekend.
This movie, American Graffiti, Return to Macon county line....YAAAASSSSSS I own and built my '55 chevy, work for NHRA and my local raceway.....LIFE.....IS....GOOOOOOD.
Love that movie it turned me from a GTO fan to a life long Chevy man, and Aloha Bobby and Tore helped boost it too, I remember hearing that Harrison Ford's 55 in American Graffiti was the same 55
The '55 that Harrison Ford drove in American Graffiti was the main car used in this movie and it's been with a private owner in Texas since the 1980s. There was a second '55 that was destroyed in American Graffiti that was also built for this movie but unused, it was sent to the scrapyard after Lucas was done with it. The third car, the camera car, was restored a few years back and it's the only existing TLBT car that still looks the same as it does in this movie, sold at a Barrett-Jackson auction to a private owner.
I was never able to acquire a '55. I wound up buying a 1972 Nova 2 door and doing the best I could to copy the look. I never raced it. It had a 250 crate motor with a mild cam, glasspacks, and a Muncie 4 speed.
@@geraldscott4302 That's more like it... I'm a Chevy Guy myself. I had a '74 Van, and a '78 pickup, both with 250s. Not high performance, (But they could still smoke the tires...3-speed manual) but practically indestructible. Before I dropped a V-8 in the van, I drained the oil from the 250, AND drained the radiator. Then I started it, and held it wide open, to see how long it would take to seize. But it didn't. After 5 minutes or so, it was still running. I still had to turn the ignition off. It WAS getting there, but taking too long. I still had to swap engines. I also had a 1-ton van with a 292 six in it. Same thing as the 250 (Indestructible), just bigger.
I remember as a kid watching this movie and American Graffiti, then learning that the 55 was used in both. Even remember the combo in it......crate LS7 454 big block, M22 Rockcrusher transmission, 57 Olds rear with 4.88 gears. The thing could run high 10s at will.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could just go down a couple stairs in your house to the garage door.... Open it up and there sat the car you wished you had back in high school. I do it every day.
Yes so true ...I had a '55 Chevy 2-door post 150 just like this one in high school 1975-77 ..mine primer brown with a high performance 327 ci Muncie 4-speed , man did I love that car .....😎
Very influential movie featuring an iconic car. Even to this day there are dozens of YT channels showing guys building or having built TLB ‘55 Chevy clones.
I was absolutely blown away when I saw it really was a very young James Taylor! A friend of mine claim their mother was a nurse at a psychiatric hospital that James Taylor attended. While he was there he kept claiming he was going to be a famous singer! That's the story I heard!
I wasn't a serious racer but I did have a 75 vega coop, tubbed with a 350 four bolt main. I bought it already built so had to learn what everything did lol Not huge power but in a vega, trust me I stomped a lot people just from the red light at an intersection lol.
Two of 'em. There was one without the rollbar for the street scenes, and they killed the one with the rollbar in the roll-over scene. According to IMdB, one of the non-rollbar '55s was recently found in Quebec...
I've never seen this one. I'm gonna have to check it out. I still have a hotrod. 71 dart with BB 383. though we don't cruise like we did in the 70s and 80s but I take it out for a run now and again.
I can show you where they filmed the liscense plate swap and gassing the cars. The little town where they filmed that part pretty much looks the same, and the people look *exactly* the same and driving the same cars. But the gas prices are a little higher. Boswell Oklahoma About 15 minutes from where I live
And also my wonderful father gave me a 1968 Chevy rally sport Camaro for My 13th birthday gift before my dad death in 93 he did Winston cup NASCAR racing work land speed record racing and nhra drag racing with me he was a great man and taught me how to be a real man thanks dad said😢 for males kids who don't have a dad or a messed up bad Dad we can only pray they see films like thus fall in love with cars
Yes sir, Big Willy "King of the Street", I ran my drag bike a few times with the brotherhood in the early 70's around NYC, no racism there just loads of fun and plenty of $$, I did well with my sleeper H2 Kawasaki triple.
I learned in a 57 chevy, my sister's boyfriend had a 63 Chevy he'd race on a blacktop way out away from town...learned lesson, don't run off across a field, it's all barbedwired. Stay in the car, back then the cops didn't try hard, so you could meet at the burger joint to laugh about all the excitement!
I saw Don Nicholson run a 7.99 one Saturday night in ‘67 at Lakeland when everyone else was running 8.20’s. I think it was the first funny car in the 7’s.
I saw this when I was a 12year old kid feel in Love with it I had a 1957 Chevy 150ultity two car give to me by my dad for my 17th birthday gift but sadly she was stolen and I lost her to low Life criminal people who live in the area
I was in the service when this came out. We watched it in the Battalion rec room. At the end we all started yelling at the projectionist thinking he ruined the film. Little did I know the impression this movie and Hollywood knights would have on my building my 57 gasser many years later that can be seen now on my channel
I thought that drag strip looked familiar lol I used to race there when I was in high school and we used to sneak on the property after they closed it and built the mall where the slow down lanes were. Hang out on Summer avenue at RHS pick a few races and out there we would go. The starting line overhang is still there I think and it’s really falling apart but a lot of memories there in my big block Elky
I was 18 when this movie came out, a friend & I went & seen it at the theater. I can't remember who the guy was that pulled up next to him & wanted to race. Remember Taylor saying 500 mother fucker & we'll get it on! That was 48 years ago! LMAO
That Looooong Burnout the '55 did ln the opening scene was actually done by Richard "Fiasco Automotive" Johnson, as James Taylor didn't know how to do one... Who Put The Tune On? FIASCO!
@@dougauzene8389 Willie survived Tomiko . There were three Daytonas . One was destroyed in a wreck , another was destroyed by leaving it in an acid tank way too long in an effort to reduce weight . Last I knew the third car still existed , but it was cut up for racing so badly , it would take a major miracle, and truckloads of money to restore it . RIP Tomiko and Willie .
Am I mistaken that bleach used to help make the tires get stickey during the burnout? I remember going to the local drag strip in the early 70s I was about 7-8 years old and I'm almost certain they were using bleach,But eventually it was not allowed and everyone had to use water.
you are close. Rosin from tree sap was what was used since its naturally sticky and engine tech was superceding the potential of engines to make torque. But rosin got enough traction to make many rear axles break, and aftermarket support wasn't like it is today. And if you had a GM rear axle and took out the C clip inside the differential that held the axle in place, the only thing keeping your rear tire under the car was the brake line. Bleach is slippery like water, and makes for some great smoke, so you know the tires are warming up from inside the cockpit plus it gets the crowd going.
Rosin was used later on , plenty of guys used bleach back in the day . In a pinch , beer that has " skunked " also works . Why not , you're going to pour it out anyway .
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In memory of a very, kind loving mother who came with me to watch this film in Brighton, Sussex.
Mine took me to see the original home in 60 seconds in the theater. Don’t think she knows what she started
Rest in peace to your mum.
I saw this while I was in the service in 71 and it made such an impression on that 18 year old that I built my own version after leaving the service. I still race it at Eagle Field Drags in California and at Beech Bend Kentucky at the TRI-5 Nationals every year.
Beauty of a car that one is, in the mids 80's i had a 57 2dr ht i wanted to do the same but life got in the way. I envy you for being able to and still at it.
Well…you’re California Democrat overlords are shutting you down. Votes have consequences.
Bad ass story to tell. I’m 23 now and I’m into tuner cars and muscle, hope you’re on the track for years to come
I race at eagle field also every year
Baby killer
This movie and the Macon County Line were two movies that remind me so much of growing up in the '70's . We were alive at the best time in history as far as I'm concerned .
You got that right 😅
On any Sunday was a good movie about those times, also.
Agreed with all the above.
I love how they actually put the chevy and the pontiac in the cast list, the cars really were characters in their own rights
Long before the current cookie cutter era.
Warren Oates’ character was referred to as ‘GTO’.
The Cars are the Stars in this movie, No Question!
One of the greatest car movies of all time, and kids these days think "Fast and Ferocious" is a car movie, no, they're trash
My dad took me to see this movie at the drive in theater off of Airline Hwy in Old Metairie... We used to stop at the convenience store right there called “Time Saver” right across from there to sneak snacks in with us... Man, those were good times in the 70’s...👍🏾✊🏾
That's the same 55 that they used in American Graffiti.
What an incredible car, what an amazing lineage!!!
Yes and No. There were three 55's used in Two Lane Blacktop. One was sold to a mechanic and the other two were used in American Grafitti. The stunt car was destroyed at the end. Both the surviving Grafitti Car and the primer gray Blacktop car still exist.
@@davemeyer1423 read somewhere that these cars also provided the sounds for the trans am in smokey and the bandit
@@Roadhouse1997 yea, it was the same engine recordings
@@Roadhouse1997The Bandit TAs weren't stock actually 12 second cars
@@davemeyer1423And the fans of that movie just go to car shows they don't have the guts to go to the drag strip here in Michigan lol
This film was so formative for me, I saw it as something to aspire to and as a trainee tech back in ‘78 I fitted engine after engine and gearbox after gearbox to my car in a search for speed. I learnt more about cars, engines, suspension and brakes at the weekends than I ever did at college, Saturdays were fixing and prepping for street racing in the evening or going to a legit race meet. Ridiculous times really and probably not what I’d want my kids (grandkids now) to get into, but it was the scene at the time and I loved it. Two Lane Blacktop for the Tech heads and American Graffiti for everyone else.
Compared to the scene I had and the scene now yours still stands as the best youth scene and needs a comeback badly. Luckily. Not all of em are about the street takeovers. Some are about straight up racing. I'm tryna give the modern teens the ideals you guys had it ain't about what you have it's about what you do with what you have. Build what have learn on what you have then move on to the high end shit.
Great story man 🫡I feel the same way. This was college for me with a ‘53 Chevy 150. I worked 6 days a week to run that thing.
Believe it or not it's the same 55 Chevy in both movies two lane and American graffiti
It's the same 55 in both movies
@@joebone3151 yeah, the "street takeover" thing was stupid and since F&F promoted it, it's gotten real out of hand, with the kids threatening the cops who show up. in this era of street racing, the LA crowd was doing it at 2am, like the NYC crowd, and not bothering anyone but the late night truckers high on amps. As for "run whatcha brung", back in this time a 13 second car was respectable, now its Honda Si territory :)
I was taking auto mechanics in high School working in a gas station spending weekends at Dragway 42
West Salem OH....should have won an Oscar...as far as I was concerned..
42 is nothing like it used to be
42 was great in the 70s
In my opinion this is the greatest car movie ever made, second place 'Dirty Mary Crazy Larry', and third 'Bullit'. Smokey and the Bandit a close one following up.
The California Kid & Hot Rod / Rebel of the Road (1979) come to mind as great car films
Don't forget thunder road
Vanishing Point?
Damn, sleeping on Gone in 60 Seconds and Vanishing Point?
@@Z0MBIEB0YZ yeah VANISHING POINT,with the experimental CHALLENGER,THE WHOLE MOVIE was a commercial for DODGE
Did I see rear disc brakes... What a great movie. Saw it when it first came out.
All Vetts had rear disc brakes in 71, since 65 actually. The Euro cars were disc brakes for ages and R&P way ahead of us..
@@m42037the 55 had rear discs here.
@@m42037 disc brakes were an option on the '65 Vettes , some of them still had drums .
Every drag racer converted to disc...Factory '55's had drums front and rear!
That car was full race
I was a junior in high school when this movie came out. It turned me into a drag racer. First car was a true street strip car and ran high 12's in 74 2nd was a strip only Vega with a 430 Buick engine, ran mid 11's 3rd was a 66 Nova small block it ran 10:40 ish. the last car was a tube frame 69 Camaro it ran 8:80 ish with a Doug Nash 4 speed. I also had a 69 Nova that was all steel with a 355 and a Doug Nash 4 speed that was totally street legal and tagged, had a 6 point roll bar and was mini tubed , it ran low 11 teens in 82 . Funny story, the 69 street car was a real 396 4 gear and I was the 3 owner and it was perfect, a real diamond. Those were the good old days but very hard on the pocket book,lol.
those buford big blocks were so light, a nice choice for a Vega if you could just get a rear axle for it on the swing arm. and the Buick Two Speed/ST300 was like the cast iron Powerglide in that first gear reduced off the line torque..but you could find one with the Switch Pitch torque converter (i have one in my 1968 Olds 442, you can go from 1,800rpm stall speed to 3,300 stall speed, street or strip).
The cool thing is, Dennis Wilson really was a racer and mechanic on his own cars
Yes he was, my uncle seen him several times at Pomona and lions, he also road raced at riverside, he had 2 cobras a small block and a big block, early on his first car was a split window vette I believe it’s shown on a album cover of there’s next to a Brian’s 63 Grand Prix Pontiac. There’s pics of him in his cobra on the internet at riverside.
He was also the only Beach Boy that actually surfed.
@@StratBurst92
BEACH boys, not surf boys.
Geeze.
@largemarge1603 the previous poster was correct. Beach Boy ( singular ) Dennis Wilson, Beach Boys ( plural, the rest of the group ).
@@hoost3056 woosh
the movie that made me a 55 Chevrolet fan and gasser fan
ID love to build a gasser nothing like pulling up with a 283 staging it at 6000rpm then quick rev to 10 grand before launching on them sure to trick the guys today😁
Three 55's were made for the movie, two had crate 454's with good heads and tunnel rams, and the stunt car had a 427 with a single 4 barrel. All had fiberglass panels, plexi windows, roll cages, 4 wheel disk brakes and good suspension. They were legit, capable of mid 10's. Two were repainted glossy black and used in American Graphiti.
Damn good movie here..takes me back to hot roddin in the 80's. Sure miss them days!
I live just right down the road where they filmed the liscense plate swap and gassing the cars. The little town where they filmed that part pretty much looks the same...the people look exactly the same. Boswell Oklahoma
The movie sucks.
you just can;t stay with the same ole high forever.
I raced a couple of 57 chevy's at Lakeland in the 70's. I had heard they were shooting scenes for this movie there. I had some friends that went and watched, still regret I did not go. Those were the good old days of drag racing.
I saw this movie at the drive in when I was 16 sitting in a 55 chevy. It's still a favorite!
Those were the DAYS my friends,
I thought they'd NEVER end..
I remember the 1st time it was on TV, I got up a 4am to record it on VHS tape so I wouldn't have any commercials. Now I have it on DVD.
how are you doing?
john milner Super
Would the real John Milner please stand up?
I've got a john milner automotive book from California ,was the guy in the movies real or just a thought up name,its not for sale,he signed it
strattuner just a thought up name.
Darkest ,enduring, endings that is impossible to forget once viewed. The hair in slow motion alone- spells a hellish doomnot just for the driver and the mechanic. But for all. Classic.
I am from Australia, and we cruised till the late 80's. I had a 1974 Ford XB Coupe, similar to the Torino 2 Door in the USA. It had a 351 Cleveland, 4 Speed Top Loader and a 9" diff. I won enough money dragging to actually pay it off! But those were the days! Wish I still had it. Today, I own a Commodore UTE, 2015 and t has a Chev 350 and a 6 speed box. Yeah, I know there are 4cyl Turbos faster, but I prefer the sound of a V8 over a screaming sewing machine! Loved this move, same as American Graffiti. For you Americans there is an Australian film called Running on Empty. Acting is not great, but you get to see some good Aussie cars and some American with a Mint 57 Chev at the end! Cant beat a good car film!
"Green green is nice".....classic line....:)
351 Cleveland’s stop light to stop light were big block killers!
The final scene still gives me chills
Is it supposed to mean he crashed & dies?
It was the beginning of summer, 1969, saw my first drag race, at nine years old. Got to see my hero, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme. I was hooked for good! Loved the whole vibe; especially being in the pits with the cars, drivers & crew…watching from the track, behind the Christmas tree. Smelling the bleach burnouts & feeling the rumble of the cars spinning down the track! That was a magic era, the old defunct track was top fuel & drew many of the heavyweights in funny car. Loved the night drags, with the fire burnouts, the annual fox hunt, when the ladies got in free, wet T-shirt contests…it was the ‘70’s!
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Luck dog.We are the same age and the closest I came to the funny cars was with my hotwheels.
Baddest movie car ever. Was in American Graffiti also if I recall correctly
Yes but the fans of that movie just sit in lawn chairs at car shows lol
Not all of us.
No. Harrison Ford drove a '55, but not that one.
EDIT: I guess I may be wrong...Another comment said the car was painted black for American Graffiti. Makes sense.
two of the cars in two lane black top were bought and repurposed for American Grafitti... as Bob Falfa's wicked '55... yep... one for street scenes and the other one that crashed on paradise road... facts
@@BeamieYTThe one that was shown rolled over and on fire was actually a third car they had gotten from a wrecking yard, and returned it afterwards
I spent many happy days and nights at the old Lakeland dragstrip. Best time in history to be a young man. Fast cars, great looking girls, rock and roll, and just great times
GenXer here. Good you KNOW how lucky you were to live those times..Americas Golden age. Power. Speed, beauty and style. Great film. Really captures the essence and feel of the times.
That '55 had disc brakes in the rear when most people didn't even have disc brakes in the front! I've never seen this movie but I am going to watch it this weekend.
1968 offered 10 and 12 bolt options as a heavy duty option.
Film was from 1971.
They were hot rodders. They knew were to fit the goods, right?
1967davethewave .great hot rod movie back in the day.drive in sleeper.same55 in American graffiti.now known as a falfa( Harrison Ford , Bob falfa)car.
A few Camaros had rear disc brake 206 Camaros in 68
James Taylor and Dennis Wilson - drummer for the Beach Boys.Not to mention Warren Oates as GTO....Gotta love it!
I forgot about Bill Heisler " Mr Bardall" driving a vette!? I recognized the paint job immediately.
Good movie!! Along with "Hot Rod"
"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry"
a whole lotta good car movies
Had a red Barracuda fb like at 0:34. Raced brackets at Cornhusker Raceway Park, Omaha, in '73.Plenty fun.Iconic movie.
This movie, American Graffiti, Return to Macon county line....YAAAASSSSSS
I own and built my '55 chevy, work for NHRA and my local raceway.....LIFE.....IS....GOOOOOOD.
Did you know this 55 chevy is the same car used in American Graffiti? It was repainted as Bob Falfas 55!
Dude at the gas station that actually built the car would tell Taylor say rev it till it floats the valves & dump the clutch 😂
i brought my richmond 4 +1 trans from racing head service [ RHS ] for my 55 chevy why back- still in her. Thanks for the video.
Glad to see this video is back up.
Love that movie it turned me from a GTO fan to a life long Chevy man, and Aloha Bobby and Tore helped boost it too, I remember hearing that Harrison Ford's 55 in American Graffiti was the same 55
The '55 that Harrison Ford drove in American Graffiti was the main car used in this movie and it's been with a private owner in Texas since the 1980s. There was a second '55 that was destroyed in American Graffiti that was also built for this movie but unused, it was sent to the scrapyard after Lucas was done with it. The third car, the camera car, was restored a few years back and it's the only existing TLBT car that still looks the same as it does in this movie, sold at a Barrett-Jackson auction to a private owner.
Very cool, I never knew James Taylor was in a movie. It blew me away.... He's a favorite singer/ writer of mine for 40 years....
Not that favorite then his he? Lol
The mechanic is Dennis Wilson from The Beach Boys
Yea, and got to hear him say the words "Mother Fucker" also .... :)
One of my favorite movies of all time.😁
If i remember correctly, i saw this at the drive in, double feature with Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Still one of my favorite car movies of all time.
Hand's down one the best classic car movies ever1
I was never able to acquire a '55. I wound up buying a 1972 Nova 2 door and doing the best I could to copy the look. I never raced it. It had a 250 crate motor with a mild cam, glasspacks, and a Muncie 4 speed.
A 250? Tiny little six?
Gee. Musta been fast. 🙄
@@jaycoppola4324 Typo. It was a 350 crate motor.
@@geraldscott4302 That's more like it...
I'm a Chevy Guy myself. I had a '74 Van, and a '78 pickup, both with 250s. Not high performance, (But they could still smoke the tires...3-speed manual) but practically indestructible. Before I dropped a V-8 in the van, I drained the oil from the 250, AND drained the radiator. Then I started it, and held it wide open, to see how long it would take to seize.
But it didn't.
After 5 minutes or so, it was still running. I still had to turn the ignition off. It WAS getting there, but taking too long. I still had to swap engines.
I also had a 1-ton van with a 292 six in it. Same thing as the 250 (Indestructible), just bigger.
Weird watching this. I used to bracket race at this track in the late 70's. I've got to get a copy of TLB. It's a good movie. Thanks!
This movie aired in syndication on TV when I was in the cruise/race scene of the mid-late 70s! The BEST of times!!!!
I remember seeing this film at the local picture show a long time ago . It was 1970 and I was just a mere lad of six .
2 Lane Blacktop came out in 1971
Crazy how that's the same 55 that was used in America Graffiti one bad ass ride
I remember as a kid watching this movie and American Graffiti, then learning that the 55 was used in both. Even remember the combo in it......crate LS7 454 big block, M22 Rockcrusher transmission, 57 Olds rear with 4.88 gears. The thing could run high 10s at will.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could just go down a couple stairs in your house to the garage door.... Open it up and there sat the car you wished you had back in high school. I do it every day.
got 1 a69 z28 302 Muncie 421 had it for 30 yrs live in a small town now gonna let it rip
Yes so true ...I had a '55 Chevy 2-door post 150 just like this one in high school 1975-77 ..mine primer brown with a high performance 327 ci Muncie 4-speed , man did I love that car .....😎
Still have mine after 29 years. This is my first car.
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I do that too! But it's same car as in H.S.! 1972 Chevelle
Very influential movie featuring an iconic car. Even to this day there are dozens of YT channels showing guys building or having built TLB ‘55 Chevy clones.
I was absolutely blown away when I saw it really was a very young James Taylor! A friend of mine claim their mother was a nurse at a psychiatric hospital that James Taylor attended. While he was there he kept claiming he was going to be a famous singer! That's the story I heard!
Barry Newman, R.I.P., least we forget the great car films we loved.
I think I saw this on base in Okinawa at the Ft Buckner Theater. Made me a fan of those 55-56-57 Chevies.
I wasn't a serious racer but I did have a 75 vega coop, tubbed with a 350 four bolt main. I bought it already built so had to learn what everything did lol
Not huge power but in a vega, trust me I stomped a lot people just from the red light at an intersection lol.
This is Exactly what it was like back then. I miss all the sixties cars and the sounds of Headers and 4/11 twelve bolt posis.
Watched this film from a hospital bed recovering from a concussion when I was a kid ... that 55 was indeed Bob Falfa's car from Graffiti.
Two of 'em. There was one without the rollbar for the street scenes, and they killed the one with the rollbar in the roll-over scene. According to IMdB, one of the non-rollbar '55s was recently found in Quebec...
The other way around. This became Falfa's car.
@@hankdagmar2167 yup.
"Make it 3 yards motherfucker and you got yourself an automobile race"
Greatest line ever
Love this film 😊
I've never seen this one. I'm gonna have to check it out. I still have a hotrod. 71 dart with BB 383. though we don't cruise like we did in the 70s and 80s but I take it out for a run now and again.
Part of the Lakeland race track is still there... I'm in Memphis where it was at.. the track was just east of the city.
Not anymore they're building over it :(
I can show you where they filmed the liscense plate swap and gassing the cars. The little town where they filmed that part pretty much looks the same, and the people look *exactly* the same and driving the same cars. But the gas prices are a little higher. Boswell Oklahoma About 15 minutes from where I live
Often forgotten is the man behind that '55. The talented Richard Ruth
And also my wonderful father gave me a 1968 Chevy rally sport Camaro for My 13th birthday gift before my dad death in 93 he did Winston cup NASCAR racing work land speed record racing and nhra drag racing with me he was a great man and taught me how to be a real man thanks dad said😢 for males kids who don't have a dad or a messed up bad Dad we can only pray they see films like thus fall in love with cars
NASCAR, NHRA, AND speed record? Hard to believe. 🙄
Takes me back. Had a 55 Chevy then the law my Dad took it away that was 50 years ago glad he did RIP pop still Iam above ground 😎🍔🍟
Few cars have earned the right to be feared more than the 150 55 Chevy!
Why do I not see this anywhere on dvd?
Man i love that car she's bad nation wide!!!
Cool James Taylor and Dennis Wilson musicians. 😎👍
Really cool to see Big Willie. Not a lot of video of him and Tomiko out there. Lots of street racing in Eastern Canada in the 70's.
Yes sir, Big Willy "King of the Street", I ran my drag bike a few times with the brotherhood in the early 70's around NYC, no racism there just loads of fun and plenty of $$, I did well with my sleeper H2 Kawasaki triple.
@@Peter-V_00yes best of times 👍🙏
I learned in a 57 chevy, my sister's boyfriend had a 63 Chevy he'd race on a blacktop way out away from town...learned lesson, don't run off across a field, it's all barbedwired. Stay in the car, back then the cops didn't try hard, so you could meet at the burger joint to laugh about all the excitement!
I saw Don Nicholson run a 7.99 one Saturday night in ‘67 at Lakeland when everyone else was running 8.20’s.
I think it was the first funny car in the 7’s.
Badass 55, real 10.80et car. Mr Ruth actually ran it.
i did not think that JT could bang gears how cool!
I saw this when I was a 12year old kid feel in Love with it I had a 1957 Chevy 150ultity two car give to me by my dad for my 17th birthday gift but sadly she was stolen and I lost her to low Life criminal people who live in the area
That track is the old Lakeland drag way in Shelby county Tennessee. I sure had some good times there
I was in the service when this came out. We watched it in the Battalion rec room. At the end we all started yelling at the projectionist thinking he ruined the film. Little did I know the impression this movie and Hollywood knights would have on my building my 57 gasser many years later that can be seen now on my channel
I have that movie on DVD. I love the jackets those guys wear. Street racers association I think it says on their patch
Oh what a night!
I love that movie . thanks for the clips !
I thought that drag strip looked familiar lol I used to race there when I was in high school and we used to sneak on the property after they closed it and built the mall where the slow down lanes were. Hang out on Summer avenue at RHS pick a few races and out there we would go. The starting line overhang is still there I think and it’s really falling apart but a lot of memories there in my big block Elky
Great movie , a real classic with old school hot rodders...
I saw this back in 71 and didn't notice it had a tube axle .
You got yourself an automobile race.
Love this movie towards the end when the film catches on fire then spilts
Oscar Birch ya me too from the cockpit of that 55 Chevy
Tunnel ram 454 with aluminum heads, 4.88 gears and M-22 Rock Crusher 4 speed.
I was 18 when this movie came out, a friend & I went & seen it at the theater. I can't remember who the guy was that pulled up next to him & wanted to race. Remember Taylor saying 500 mother fucker & we'll get it on! That was 48 years ago! LMAO
One of my favorite car movies.........because of the realism! 454 big block sportin' a tunnel ram with 2 4bbls. Just frakkin' sweet.
a 427. But BAD ASS none the less!
From 4:04 is 5 miles from my house. McMinn County Airport. Athens, Tennessee
Only steers and queers come from athens, and you don't much look like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down
that was a good movie
When us old men were young men...😢
Outstanding Video
Got the timing mark for racing and for driving love it
3:54 Now we know where Family Guy got the death pose from.
BEST road movie EVER!!!!
I feel in love with cars beleave it or not cars kept me honest and real and true thanks Henry ford the first first on race day
Street legend Big Willie starts the race. Famous racer in the day with a Daytona. Google him.
Seth Kohut ya he still has the Daytona.
@@ronnorman7862 Not So Sure Bout That...Big Willie Died Awhile ago...His Widow Tomiko Also Had a Daytona Too; at least one was sold....
That Looooong Burnout the '55 did ln the opening scene was actually done by Richard "Fiasco Automotive" Johnson, as James Taylor didn't know how to do one...
Who Put The Tune On?
FIASCO!
Long live the Big man🙏
@@dougauzene8389 Willie survived Tomiko . There were three Daytonas . One was destroyed in a wreck , another was destroyed by leaving it in an acid tank way too long in an effort to reduce weight . Last I knew the third car still existed , but it was cut up for racing so badly , it would take a major miracle, and truckloads of money to restore it . RIP Tomiko and Willie .
Wow sooo many awesome cars..!!!
3:46 WOW! rear disc brakes?! im impressed!
Yeah in 1970 that was a REALLY big deal
Square port big block 427,4 -speed,4;88,s glass front end....hard to beat through a quarter!
alli hensley thought the 55 had a 454.
454
Thomas Trotta no 454 both cars 427’s. And one the graffiti car still has the original 427 in it. New owner has it in northeast car shows
Perfectly correct! 427, 4 speed rock crusher close ratio muncie and 4.88’s
Love bangin' gears behind a good RAT MOTOR . . . never gets old !
Am I mistaken that bleach used to help make the tires get stickey during the burnout?
I remember going to the local drag strip in the early 70s I was about 7-8 years old and I'm almost certain they were using bleach,But eventually it was not allowed and everyone had to use water.
In the 60's they used bleach a lot- IIRC at certain points & circumstances it would catch fire, so they quit using it
you are close. Rosin from tree sap was what was used since its naturally sticky and engine tech was superceding the potential of engines to make torque. But rosin got enough traction to make many rear axles break, and aftermarket support wasn't like it is today. And if you had a GM rear axle and took out the C clip inside the differential that held the axle in place, the only thing keeping your rear tire under the car was the brake line. Bleach is slippery like water, and makes for some great smoke, so you know the tires are warming up from inside the cockpit plus it gets the crowd going.
Rosin was used later on , plenty of guys used bleach back in the day . In a pinch , beer that has " skunked " also works . Why not , you're going to pour it out anyway .
Hey, John! There's a wicked 55 Chevy looking for ya.
saw this in Marshall Arkansas when it came out at the drive in in mu 57 Ford
Best movie ending EVER