Hot Rod movie posters

 A Sunday treat.

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 Mask of Dust.

Thunder in Carolina 1960 (Action film) The "World Series" Of Stock Car R...

Bikini Beach

 Lobby photo from the 1964 movie.

Sunday graphics

 Big full page newspaper ad for Grand Prix, the movie. From the January 7, 1967 Vancouver Province.

VANISHING POINT (1971) Build For Speed - Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, C...

Sunday movie

A t.v. show actually. Roger Moore passed away this past week. Here he is from The Saint with a racing episode.

Saturday morning trailer

The Bowery Boys in Jalopy. Not great. But it's...not great.

1969 racing movie, Pit Stop (originally called The Winner)

Lurid (for its time) racing movie that features lots of figure-eight racing action as well as some other stock car racing. George Barris makes a brief appearance about 44 minutes into it.

Some mushy stuff but the racing makes up for that ickiness.

New Year's Day movie

Pretty awful but some some good archival footage. And Richard Petty does have some (a lot actually) speaking lines.

Best line, though, goes to Buddy Baker: "I'm so mad I could spit."

a movie poster from 1967/8

Track of Thunder. I don't think I've ever seen it. Looks promising?

posters

Because it was Russ Meyer's birthday a couple days ago.

movie posters

I've heard that the Clova theatre in Cloverdale is closing at the end of the summer. Too bad. I never saw a car movie there. Saw a few other things though.

If they made a hot rod double bill, I'd go.

Friday night feature

The Blonde Comet with Barney Oldfield and racing at Southern (Ascot) Speedway, Oakland Speedway and Indianapolis.

a couple old movies

Found these ads in from the 1920s. Wallace Reid often had automobile racing themed movies.

Rush, the movie

Saw it a couple weeks ago. I see it's still in the theaters. Well, that's good.

Not a bad movie, better than many racing movies. When it comes out on DVD I'll grab a copy. Or suggest someone get it for me for Christmas. ;-)



Also read Niki Lauda's book from the late 1970s. Found it earlier this year at what seems to have been a bargain price (although still above the listed cover price from back in the day).

Again, pretty good.

Saturday morning video

A clip from a 1969 movie, "Explosion", that features a Jaguar XKE swooping around Langley Speedway.

on any sunday, on Xmas day

Full movie. Never sure how long these things will stay up.

The Green Helmet, 1961

Amazingly I can't find a clip, let alone the movie trailer, for this 1961 movie. Looks like a few sports cars from the SCCBC were at the Lougheed Drive-In to promote the movie and the races.

The Devil's Hairpin, 1957

Racing scene from the 1957 movie The Devil's Hairpin. Directed by and starring Cornel Wilde. Playing at the following theatres back then.