Topic: Movie Star Cars: The 1970s

[Autos_Editor]

Sometimes, it's the car that's the real star. We look back at the ten best movie cars of the 1970s.

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[paul246]

What about Herbie the Love Bug???

[Brendan McAleer]

What about Herbie the Love Bug???

1968.

[Fobroader]

The Daytona from the Gumball rally......mmmmmm. The beginning of the race when they are racing through New York, one of the best sounding car moments on film.

[Bubba]

The Daytona from the Gumball rally......mmmmmm. The beginning of the race when they are racing through New York, one of the best sounding car moments on film.

Thanks for the reminder of that movie.  I may have to add the dvd to my collection.

[Fobroader]

The Daytona from the Gumball rally......mmmmmm. The beginning of the race when they are racing through New York, one of the best sounding car moments on film.

Thanks for the reminder of that movie.  I may have to add the dvd to my collection.

I was looking for it on Bluray for a while.....had to settle for DVD  That scene in HD sound would be spine tingling.

[Brendan McAleer]

The Daytona from the Gumball rally......mmmmmm. The beginning of the race when they are racing through New York, one of the best sounding car moments on film.

Thanks for the reminder of that movie.  I may have to add the dvd to my collection.

I was looking for it on Bluray for a while.....had to settle for DVD  That scene in HD sound would be spine tingling.

That's a genuine 427 Cobra too. They used two of them.

[johngenx]

Gumball Rally is a terrible movie that happens to be one of the greatest car flicks of all time.  The Cobra, Ferrari GTB/4, 1970 Camaro, Mercedes 300SL, and Porsche 911 were the true stars.  Fantastic driving shots combined with amazing sounds make it easy to put up with the goofy crap in the rest of the film.

There are several terrific sequences:  The start of the race as the cars howl through a deserted NYC.  The short duel at night between the Cobra and Ferrari.  The Camaro pushed to the limit on a two lane highway while Busey tries to pee in the bottle.  The Cobra and Ferrari pulling out of the gas station after getting "set up."  The lengthy chase through the LA River.

[Fobroader]

Gumball Rally is a terrible movie that happens to be one of the greatest car flicks of all time.  The Cobra, Ferrari GTB/4, 1970 Camaro, Mercedes 300SL, and Porsche 911 were the true stars.  Fantastic driving shots combined with amazing sounds make it easy to put up with the goofy crap in the rest of the film.

There are several terrific sequences:  The start of the race as the cars howl through a deserted NYC.  The short duel at night between the Cobra and Ferrari.  The Camaro pushed to the limit on a two lane highway while Busey tries to pee in the bottle.  The Cobra and Ferrari pulling out of the gas station after getting "set up."  The lengthy chase through the LA River.

Like most car movies are terrible....Vanishing Point was hippie drivel, but that Charger, awesome.....Fast and Furious, well ok, they are just all terrible, but I am waiting for the 7th one to come out and Smokey and the Bandit, plot, acting....nothing.....that beautiful black Firechicken shredding its tires along southern backroads, awesome.

[johngenx]

Smokey and the Bandit had the Trans Am, true, but it also had Sally...

[Fobroader]

Smokey and the Bandit had the Trans Am, true, but it also had Sally...

Yes....god bless Wranglers 

[paul246]

What about Herbie the Love Bug???

1968.

and 1974 and 1977 and 1980

[Snowman]

One of the better movies about driving recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1TLgqfjvw

[KD]

The first movie i ever went to without parents involved was Ride In A Pink Car starring a pink Plymouth Road Runner and haven't seen, or heard of it since. I was ten yrs old and went with two friends and I'm sure it was tres cheesey, but at that time we thought it was the greatest movie ever!   It was certainly the era of cheesey car chase movies and we went at least once a week after that, so we saw most of them.  Some of the more memorable ones for me not already mentioned here are Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, The Getaway and my personal favorite at the time The Duel starring Denis Weaver.  I must have watched that a dozen times on tv over the years. 

[Blueprint]

...Some of the more memorable ones for me not already mentioned here are Dirty Mary Crazy Larry...

+1

That movie still makes me crave '68 Chargers with black stripes. The Impala getaway car wasn't bad too.

In Vanishing Point, the remains at the end are clearly...a Camaro's...the Challenger lived.  The yellow "Dirty" Charger didn't fare so well though.

[Fobroader]

Not car related but awesome cars.....Dazed and Confused....meow....

Sent from my Galaxy S3

[Scarecrow]

The Daytona from the Gumball rally......mmmmmm. The beginning of the race when they are racing through New York, one of the best sounding car moments on film.

Thanks for the reminder of that movie.  I may have to add the dvd to my collection.

I was looking for it on Bluray for a while.....had to settle for DVD  That scene in HD sound would be spine tingling.

That's a genuine 427 Cobra too. They used two of them.

Obviously, for me the Gumball Rally Cobra is the #1 movie car of all time, let alone the 1970s.  It's literally the car that changed my life.

I spent some time with the new owner of CSX3243, the car that was used for most of the movie scenes, at the Monterey Historics in 2012.  This was a big moment for me.





I also saw the Gumball Rally Daytona Spyder at the Petersen in L.A. during that same trip to California.

[firewired]

For me, it was definitely the Ferrari Daytona *and* the AC Cobra battling in The Gumball Rally.  I fell in love with the Ferrari after hearing it.

I watched Gumball on the TV in the late 70's in my early teens, and I was clearly impressionable.  It was the first car movie I ever watched.  When I got around to watching Smokey and the Bandit, I was baffled about why anyone who loved cars could even like that movie... sorry to all the Bandit fans, but that movie was about Bert and Sally, not cars.  And that other garbage... Cannonball scum, sorry, same thing, except for the opening scene with the Countach, that was cool.

I am not a fan of remakes of TV shows or movies, but I think I would like to see a proper modern remake of Gumball - not that shite crap that the idiots are doing with the "3000" thing - they are hurting the Gumball name with their elitist idiotic behaviour (the make me think of Beavis & Butthead doing the Gumball, not car enthusiastic, and not even funny, just flat-out simply stupid).

[Rupert]

A few that come to mind :

49 Buick Roadmaster convertible...'Rainman'

38 Packard Super Eight convertible....'The Last Convertible'

68 Ford Mustang GT and Dodge Charger r/t ...'Bullitt'

63 Aston Martin DB 5....'Gold Finger'

[Scarecrow]

A few that come to mind :

49 Buick Roadmaster convertible...'Rainman'

38 Packard Super Eight convertible....'The Last Convertible'

68 Ford Mustang GT and Dodge Charger r/t ...'Bullitt'

63 Aston Martin DB 5....'Gold Finger'

You seem to be struggling with dates.  From your list only "The Last Convertible" was filmed/released in the 1970s.