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The model cars used in The Giant Gila Monster...

The Giant Gila Monster (16mm) - Roxie

...with my favorite being the valiant hero '32 Ford roadster that gave everything to save its humans from the rampaging lizard. 

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22 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

There are a lot of movies that I wouldn’t consider car movies that had a lot of great cars in them, but the movie wasn’t just a cheesy story to highlight the cars.

George V. Higgins mentions cars quite a lot in his novels - at the risk of going on ad nauseam here : Friends of Eddie Coyle. There's even more car references in the novel than in the (excellent) film.

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There was a VERY short lived TV show that was a spin-off of Smokey and the Bandit......... The hero car in it was a Dodge Stealth! I've always liked those, and their sister car the 3000GT.......... V6, twin turbo on some, AWD, what's not to like?

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O man, there’s so many nice movie cars that I like. But the first that came to mind was Eleanor but it has with when it came and what I had seen up to that point. Before that the Vanishing point Challenger from ‘97 was one of my favorite movie cars. Now days one of my favorites are more or less all the Aston’s in the James Bond movies, Especially the DB5 and DBS. And then the Laguna from Cannonball is an other favorite of mine as well as many of the cars in the FnF saga. 
 

 

The 1967 Ford Mustang GT500 'Eleanor' From 'Gone in 60 Seconds' Is ...

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IMCDb.org: 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna Type S-3 in "The ...

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Favorite movie car of all time is the '51 Merc that Stallone drove in Cobra.  Honorable mentions are Milner's top gas (top fuel in the movie) dragster, the '41 Willys from Hot Rod (great gearhead movie), & the Firebird funny car from Fast Company (horrible movie, but good drag racing scenes LOL!)

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On 12/30/2024 at 3:56 PM, ChrisBcritter said:

Well I was ridin' high and know was gonna score

Till I met that gal named Eleanor...

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Yes please!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 

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Sorry I think I screwed up my reply.But I gotta go with a tie between Bullitt,The French Connection.And of course The 7Ups cars.

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On 2/4/2025 at 3:06 PM, Falcon Ranchero said:

How could I possibly have forgotten

1970 Pontiac GTO The Judge

1971 Ford Maverick Grabber

1977 Chevrolet El Camino Classic Conquista [D80]

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454

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1973 Plymouth Duster

All right all right,lol 😮‍💨

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On 12/30/2024 at 10:06 PM, Chuckyg1 said:

 

 

The 73 Ventura in The Seven Ups was pretty cool. One of the greatest chase scenes ever in my opinion.

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Yup,The 7Ups w/o doubt had the best car chase scene.

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Adding a bit to the Mustang favoritism in this thread, I'd have to say my top movie favorite - seen almost entirely too briefly onscreen or too far away - is the off road-ish Shelby Mustang in the Thomas Crowne Affair remake. Mostly because it is in my favorite color, in a fabulous tropical setting, and is a bit on the blasphemous side ...

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A lot of good car chase movies but Bullitt set the bar in my mind. Between the music and the buildup with the "cat and mouse" just before the chase starts.  

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1 hour ago, Mothersworry said:

1967 Cobra CSX3243...from the 1976 movie Gumball Rally.

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Great movie,forgot all about it.👍🤣

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OH oh! 🤩  I can answer this with zero reservation now!  Gumball Rally is a top 5 favorite movie, some was filmed in my town.  One of the antique auto club's founding members just passed away, at the memorial service, family said the movie company paid him $400 to close his gas station for a day.  Always loved the Daytona, built the Fujimi kit last century, entered it in my first contest, no awards at all, but a fellow model club member encouraged me to continue, and I have.  Anyways, a Fakebook contact of mine who works on real cool cars (building a Speed Racer from scratch), and makes resin models, brokered this car for a deceased friend's widow.  Sent the check today, if you have to ask, it's about $1.5 million less than the real thing.  I'm calling it a Fakearri 350GTS Daytona Spyder, because it's a '69 Corvette with a boob job. 😅  I'm already wanting to put Cibie lights on it, like the movie car.  I never owned a sports car before, love them, just couldn't swing it before, so this is my retirement gift.  I see there is a forum in England for kit cars, found a thread about this Robinhood body, so I might join just to post pictures of sunny AZ, Route 66, Grand Canyon, autocross, etc.  😁

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3 hours ago, Mothersworry said:

1967 Cobra CSX3243...from the 1976 movie Gumball Rally.

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Okay this is Twilight Zone!  I didn't look above, before dumping my comment!  🙂

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Not exactly my favorite as I have no favorite but,,

Just to be random, anyone else remember this "Doctor's" Buick Electra? 😁😉

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