What was your first movie that got you into cars?

[david394]

I'm just wondering what was the first movie you had seen that really got you into cars?

[Gonthro]

st00pid question, F&F all tha way mang

[DJ Glue_gun]

Ronin S8:drool:

[EK 2.0]

Bullit...Steve McQueen, streets of San Fran, and a Mustang, need you say more??...It had what prolly is the coolest old school car chase...

[brandon]

the original gone in 60 seconds.

[turboMiata]

Magnum PI man!!! Love it when he drives the 308 under semi-trailers to do a lane change.

Yeah, I'm dating myself. I know.

http://members.aol.com/cotsmm/magnum.gif

[djfob]

Knight rider:D . Gotta love Kit but can't remember what it was either a firebird or trans am.

[ZorroAMG]

Miami Vice....even the black replica ferrari was hot, but the white one, :drool:

Oh and I liked the fashion too hahahaha


I've liked cars since I could walk, movies didn't really spark more interest for me, MB Ferrari and Porsche since i was like 4..:D :bigpimp:

[DonJuan]

Well... I was always a car fan, but stuff like Bulitt, & Dukes of Hazzard. But the thing that really got me into imports (I used to be the biggest Muscle head all jap is crap etc...) was I hate to say it Initial D... yes Initial D, (commence with making fun of me) when the game came to U of C, I found myself playing all the time! I then went home and downloaded the english subbed episodes. And became an import guy, I still know alot about muscle cars (know thy enemy)

[sputnik]

american graffiti

[phat97yukon]

Knight rider, dukes of hazzard, any of the smokie and tha bandit's, cannon ball run , speed zone... pretty much any late 70's early 80's car show :thumbsup: :D

[xkon]

knight rider... it was a trans am:drool:

i loved that car

[C4S]

Originally posted by ZorroAMG
Miami Vice....even the black replica ferrari was hot, but the white one, :drool:



:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Hakkola]

I know it's not a movie, but Gran Turismo 1 and Need for speed (Porsche Unleashed mostly), got me hooked on cars and added fuel to the fire more than anything else.

Ronnin kicked ass though, I think it's time to watch a DVD.

[TomTom]

Herbie the Love Bug haha jk

[JAYMEZ]

Mario Cart! lol j/j , umm Gone in 60 seconds

[x-MG-x]

BRO! NO MOVIE GOT ME INTO CARS!

I WAS BORN FOR CARS BIAAATCH!!
but nah maybe riced cars then F&TF and 2F2F

[dirty_magic]

TRANSFORMERS!!!! haha. Thats defiantely the one for me.

[david394]

I would also say herbie, transformers, mask, gobots, knight rider.

[hjr]

blues brothers for some odd reason, then when i was 14 or 15 or whatever gone in 60 seconds came out and that pretty much finalized the deal. of course i come from a car crazy family to an extent most here will ever know, so i was doomed from the begining.

[cocoabrova]

Boulevard Nights.....Set in the "barrio," 1979 East LA. Full of old-school hoopties

[Ducati]

The 50's B-Grade classic Hot Rods From Hell.

Then, as I grew older, and saw Two Lane Blacktop, I knew I wanted a real street machine.

However, after I saw Easy Rider I dropped the whole car thing and got into bikes, cuz those guys actually hung out with women and did some crazy things.

[hendosa]

Originally posted by Ducati
Then, as I grew older, and saw Two Lane Blacktop, I knew I wanted a real street machine.

That chevy in Two Lane Blcktop definately makes me want to have a serious street rod:drool: Vanishing point makes me want to drive like a crazy mofo. American Graffiti makes me want to cruise town in my car, no matter how shitty it is, but I would have to say the 1974 Gone In 60 Seconds got me goin.

[kevie88]

Movies? hmm.. probably Grand Prix!! Best racing movie ever..

But the first car/media memory I have is the first time I saw the General Lee jump over a cop car - I was hooked!! haha! After that that, I just became a total gearhead.

I used to watch racing as a kid, I never watched hockey or stick-and-ball sports, only racing. I remember clearly watching the Grand Prix at Zolder in 1982 when I was 9 and seeing the highlights of Gilles Villeneuve's (Jacques dad) huge crash in qualifying where he was flung from the car and killed.

[GTS Jeff]

degrassi high...

[EK 2.0]

Originally posted by GTS Jeff
degrassi high...


Was it the episode with Joey and that Mustang??

[barmanjay]

you guys never mentioned james bond!!!! aka. 007!!!!

He's always had cool cars!!! I remember watching him (sean connery and the other guy, lol - age setting in, losing my memory) when i was kid.

[Ferio_vti]

Canon Ball Run!!!

[Foz]

"Driving Miss Daisy".

And I wasn't driving..

;)

[Stapled4]

Yes, the orginal gone in 60secs...If you said FNF ur car is slow my truck will beat it...Cuz all them kids that seen it and then went out and bought a ricer just got what the audio people sell..Like a body kit or a intake....Nothing neat....I have a 450HP ford ranger that is slow it runs a 12.9 in the 1/4mile and i dont think a Honda civic SI can beat that even with a "TYPE R" sign


http://www.msu.edu/~habeldav/chapelle-5fingerslap-reized.gif

[Idratherbsidewayz]

I'm part of the F&F generation and I drive a 240sx with an SR20, doesn't seem too ricer to me...

:dunno:

[GQBalla]

no movies everything was started courtesy of my uncle AHHAHA

[Toms-Celica]

Vanishing Point
Driver on 'Speed' running a supercharged Challenger against the clock to deliver it on time.

[ryder_23]

Originally posted by Ferio_vti
Canon Ball Run!!!

:werd:
cant forget canonball run #2

and smokey and the bandit 1/2 :thumbsup:

[Orbie]

Actually I (hope I don't get slapped) hated cars before, what made me start loving cars is when I bought my first one. I just wanted to know everything about it, from there it stemmed into wanting to know everything about Honda's. Then I figured it would probably be good to know as much as I could about other competitor cars (so I don't try to take out something that would kick my ass and embarass me =))

Only then did I really start looking for cars in movies and on the street and such...before I probably wouldn't give a crap.

[CKY]

gone in 60 seconds, and you guys said the "original" gone in 60 seconds, is the one with nicholas cage a newer version??

[Dope Dealer]

Seabiscuit

[IntegraG2]

knight Rider....original and recent Gone in 60 seconds :bigpimp:

[ZorroAMG]

"The Lost highway" had a 560SEL that was twin tubo charged ...that thing got me into modding benzes....and the movie Taxi from europe had a few red 500E's that had a crazy chase scene....DAMN!!!

[Ben]

MAGNUM PI and Death Race 2000, hahaha

I was into cars without movies tho, grew up in a car enthusiast family with car enthusiast friends.

Gone in 60 Seconds is always inspiring however.

[GT2NV]

gone in 60 seconds

[GC84ever]

Originally posted by Orbie
Actually I (hope I don't get slapped) hated cars before, what made me start loving cars is when I bought my first one. I just wanted to know everything about it, from there it stemmed into wanting to know everything about Honda's. Then I figured it would probably be good to know as much as I could about other competitor cars (so I don't try to take out something that would kick my ass and embarass me =))

Only then did I really start looking for cars in movies and on the street and such...before I probably wouldn't give a crap.

When I was younger I was the same. I was a in love with airplanes and helicopters. You can't compare a Mach 2 (approx. 1400mph) fighter jet with a 200mph car. Only after I started to learn how to drive I fell in love with cars.

But back to the question
I would have to say the movie Gone in 60 Second (2000), and F&F got me interested in the Import scene. But cars like Kitt, the General Lee, the Back to the Future Deloren, the Mad Max cars helped nurture the interest in cars.

[DonJuan]

Vanishing point! That was another cool movie, more for Mopar fans tho! I remember the movie that really got me into cars. Can't remember the name tho, 80's movie with a early 70's (Mach1?) Supercharged red mustang, dude would race at night against all kinds or crazy shit, but no one could beat him, till some guy comes into town, with a blown white duster, and before going to the race the guy opens up the NOS bottle in the trunk. And he uses the nitrous in the race, blows up his car but still wins. guy in the duster drives by as the stang is burning and gives him the :thumbsup:. so lame but ah well...

[Stapled4]

OK "CKY" just asked if it was a newer version...... and Idratherbsidewayz
Not talking shit but i would have reather gone with a RB25DET

Its the skyline engine and it fits older 240sx's

[EK 2.0]

Originally posted by Stapled4
OK "CKY" just asked if it was a newer version...... and Idratherbsidewayz
Not talking shit but i would have reather gone with a RB25DET

Its the skyline engine and it fits older 240sx's


Why do you have so much hate and ingorance insde of you man??


He asked a valid question, just answer it for him...and great you would have done the RB, want a medal now??

[VWhooligan]

"The Van" a 1970's movie that details the van lifestyle. A teenager gets a tricked out Van to get chicks!

[Idratherbsidewayz]

Originally posted by Stapled4
OK "CKY" just asked if it was a newer version...... and Idratherbsidewayz
Not talking shit but i would have reather gone with a RB25DET

Its the skyline engine and it fits older 240sx's

Unfortunately all I had was $7600. The fact that I managed to get a 240sx with an SR20DET put in for less than a stock 240sx was quite a feat IMHO.

Give me 5 valid reasons why you would take the RB25DET over the SR20, and "Skylines are the shit and they own everything cuz I saw one in 2F2F and it was the best. Brian O'Connor is my idol." is not a valid reason...

[pinoyhero]

Ronin

[hatetank]

pfft noobs.

DEATH RACE 2000

http://www.horror-wood.com/race.h7.jpg

[NickGT]

Originally posted by black94gt
gone in 60 seconds

:werd:

Gone in 60 and Bullitt had a big influence on me. But I loved mustangs even before that. :thumbsup:

[civicrider]

gumball 3000

[hendosa]

Originally posted by hatetank
pfft noobs.

DEATH RACE 2000

http://www.horror-wood.com/race.h7.jpg
haha that car is so :bigpimp:

[SwitchBlade]

Speedracer inpector gadget but more recently the fast and the furious.

[david394]

How many fans of speed racer do we have?

[Dj_Stylz]

Originally posted by Ferio_vti
Canon Ball Run!!!

Yeah man for sure


also Gone in 60 Seconds.

[Dave P]

Who needs movies to be into cars?



Oh, and nobody can count out the general lee

[africano]

yeah, good old dukes of hazzards (daisy duke:drool: ). Also gone in 60 seconds, when F&F came out i thought it was a joke(granny shifting, 9 seconds flat........with a sound system in the back that weighs like 200 pounds).

The thing that really got me into imports though was this one guy who wrote into Hot Rod magazine. They had just started doing this project integra, and he went on how great his camaro is and how he spent 10 grand to make 400hp and no import can do that, his camaro is the shit. blah, blah, blah .

So I vowed to shut up every ignorant sob just like him.

P.S. Stapled 4 need to be :whipped: , insulting a sweet car like iratherbesideways. Prick.

[david394]

What movie you think had the best car chase? I say Bullitt is one of them.

[Gonthro]

Grease Lightnin :D

[DJ Glue_gun]

Originally posted by david394
What movie you think had the best car chase? I say Bullitt is one of them.

RONIN

[JustinL]

The last scene in "Bad Boys". Cobra vs. 911 turbo drag race to the death.

[EK 2.0]

Originally posted by david394
What movie you think had the best car chase? I say Bullitt is one of them.


not a chase persay...but GREAT driving shots, and views...


the TRANSPORTER...

or even in Bad Boys 2, the Ferarri chasing the Big Rig...

[T5_X]

It was definitly multifactorial....but...
Batman, knight rider and that lotus in james bond :drool:

[CKY]

Originally posted by Stapled4
OK "CKY" just asked if it was a newer version...... and Idratherbsidewayz
Not talking shit but i would have reather gone with a RB25DET

Its the skyline engine and it fits older 240sx's

i was just asking if the gone in 60 seconds with nicholas cage in it was a remake, i dont know what and why you're talking about me......

[DonJuan]

Originally posted by Stapled4
OK "CKY" just asked if it was a newer version...... and Idratherbsidewayz
Not talking shit but i would have reather gone with a RB25DET
Its the skyline engine and it fits older 240sx's
Is it me or are DSM owners getting more and more angry?

[driftkingAE86]

It aint' a movie But my dad's true stories about his 1958 Vette with a maxed out 327 in it got me into it.

[1badPT]

Originally posted by GC84ever

When I was younger I was the same. I was a in love with airplanes and helicopters. You can't compare a Mach 2 (approx. 1400mph) fighter jet with a 200mph car. Only after I started to learn how to drive I fell in love with cars.

I kind of went full circle - I started out crazy about cars thanks to shows like Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, AND.... (ugh) the movie "Six Pack" (SHUT UP!) :whocares:

Then I became a huge fan of warplanes and knew every possible thing there was to know about them, and stuff that a person shouldn't know, then I got back into cars again when I started driving :D

[SaabKraft]

Death Race 2000!!!! hahaha
uhmmm... Gumball Rally, Cannonball Run, those kind of epic cross country ventures.

[civicrider]

you all know it was The Fast And Furious!!!!!!

[Kobe]

all the pimp cars james bond had..

Gone in 60 Seconds
Gumball rally..

[cujo_cjc]

gone in 60 seconds
and then f&f helped it a little :poosie:

[GT2NV]

gone in 60 seconds the second one, cause im only 19 lol.... other than that probably the last race, its a short movie:thumbsup:

[GT2NV]

f&f helped me find out what NOT to do to my car lol:D

[habsfan]

what actually got me into cars was the first gran turismo for playstation. way back in the seventh grade. then gone in 60 seconds and, yes, F&F both helped.

[RSRT-4]

American Graffitti , Canonball runn , two lane black top, vanishin point , original gond in 60 seconds , Bullit, dukes of hazard , miami vice , Vegas ,

[iceburns288]

Gone in 60 Seconds, Jurassic Park (:dunno: ), playing with my dad's cars lol:burnout: :D

[Shaolin]

I was probably 5 or 6, living in Hong Kong.. There were 2 movies, I don't even know what the movies were called.. I just remember what it was about.

There's these rich kids, and Wong Gim plays the rich father of these punks. They drive daddy's cars (I remember a 944 was in the movie) and other exotics, racking up tickets and i think killed some pedestrians. The problem was they were getting away with it (I don't remember why, but the Dad wasn't the one helping).

Anyways, there's the cops that race bikes during off duty. So they setup to meet these rich punks while they're driving daddy's cars and race them on bikes. They set up car blocks at the very end and the bikes dodge them, but the punks couldn't stop in time and smoked the cars blocking the intersection at 160+.

The 2nd movie had Cheung Hok Yau in it.. they were street racers and convicts or somethin like that, cops go after them (pretty much the whole movie was about street racing). And at the end they fly out of a parking lot in a 4 door accord, gets capped by a bunch of caps waiting for them outside, car flips and the movie's over.

Yeah, I was liking cars ever since then.

[civic_stylez]

for me it was Formula 1...even though i have absolutely no chance of ever being close to their calibre of driving, its still the coolest form of car racing ever...IMO of course.

[ex1z7]

Gone in 60 was cool - but what got me into imports I'd have to say was Redline (or redlined) or whatever, its an australian street racing silvia movie Lol >_<

FnF and 2f2f was "thats hilarious" and "thats retarded" and "thats sooo more then 10g" etc. etc. comments Lol

[markymark]

gone into 60 seconds got me into having a fast car or caring at all. So I went out and bought a mustang.
Then after playing midnight club on my ps2 i wanted a more riced car.

[86max]

Teh new Acura Rsx Commercial:drool:

[markymark]

is that the one where it is a road course built on top of a city? like around the towers?

[86max]

nah the new one is matrix style.....it's for the new Type-S I beleive....it's done mostly by computer in some remote abandoned crater like place.....one sick commercial though...almost makes me want a honda:)


oh and throw another vote in for miami vice and dukes of hazzard:thumbsup:

[cobra347]

I just read about all these flicks an TV shows i think 1 that was great was Hollywood Knights (Tony Danza as Duke) it had the famous Project X yellow 56 belair and a killer 427 SOHC powerd 66 AC cobra drag race on the street and then i had a flash back to a not so good movie Corvette summer lol.

[cujo_cjc]

Originally posted by 86max
Teh new Acura Rsx Commercial:drool:

actually that just makes me want one of them even more! :)

[alpha_gangsta]

don;t knwo if these have been psoted yet, kidna skimmed really quickly but yup...

Speedzone starring a red Lamborghini Countache
http://www.varaces.com/db_images/17-1.jpg
and the older Nissan commercials
http://www.ttzd.com/mrk/smile.jpg

[markymark]

i remember that nissan commercial...i liked it alot

[5abi]

cheveron commercials

[ex1z7]

Originally posted by Shaolin


The 2nd movie had Cheung Hok Yau in it.. - - - was it "Off Track" ? ( http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/off_track.htm )

[Ryan@DerdallDesigns]

Vanishing point, dukes of hazzard, dazed and confused.

[Deetz]

Originally posted by Ferio_vti
Canon Ball Run!!!

:thumbsup: The 1st and second one still me me laugh, but wow, some nice cars in those movies!