the 1970's street machine lover kid in me is yelling and cheering for this great themed site... .UpInBack.tumblr Shackles, air shocks, traction bars, wide meats, aluminum slots and glass packs... the Street Machines of the 1970's

 10 inch rims with the iconic 70's kidney beans and Pro-Trac racing Profile N50's... I had a set, loved them on my 71 Challenger

 air shocks maxxed out and Cragar SS. I've got a soft spot in my brain for this small town American midwest look.

http://upintherear.tumblr.com/ looks like I'll be spending some time looking through it!

cool photo from Endlessme Tumblr

I wish I was there... might be dangerous to street race in person instead of on the track, but as an image, looks attractive http://endlessme.tumblr.com/

For a fun 1980's street racing movie about a high schooler with a blown 350 Chevelle and a need to raise money betting on his wining the races, watch "Catch Me If You Can" on youtube, because it's no where else

 The movie starts with the guy racing a 73 Duster,  

 Then having to try his Chevelle against local senior talent, the Sandman. The Sandman was played by an incredibly long working guy, Bob Minor, who has been doing movie and tv stunts and stunt coordinator work since 1970. He's worked in lots of the blaxploitation movies, and Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Magnum PI, Boyz in the Hood, Die Hard 4, Conspiracy Theory, Oceans 11, The Italian Job and many more. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591567/

 The Sandman couldn't make the curve when the cops started chasing the streetracers, and wiped out

 then the guy has several races against some cool cars, and keeps winning.

And with his confidence at an all time high, he then takes a high stakes bet with the local gangster loan shark, the Fatman, that he can beat the gangters driver, the rotton crook gangster fixes the race with a ringer who destroys the Chevelle, and the high schooler loses his mony.

in a desperate attempt to win double or nothing, the kid bets he can beat the local street racing legend "Fast Freddy" 's historically famous high speed run from Minneapolis to St Paul. Surpise polt twist, the kids High School Principl was Fast Freddy, and the 57 Chev that made that race is buried under the football field, ready to get vengeance against the gangster

The high school auto shop class gets the 57 Chev race ready, and pulls off the first water soluble paint job in a movie I ever saw. Also the first example of the one car gets chased into a building by cops, but lots of identical cars leave, and the cops can't track the right car... trick. Mix them together and a red car goes in but leaves a car wash blue with a flamejob, among a dozen other cars or various colors

This movie is fun, but never going to get put on DVD, there just isn't a demand for 1980's high school action street racing movies. The VHS is so rare, the one guy who has them on Amazon, wants $170 dollars.

I hate price gougers, so I'm telling all of you you can watch it free on You Tube. The quality isn't sharp, but neither was 1980's tv and movie resolution.

For part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFQLo8XV-I then just look on the righ hand sidebar for hte related videos, parts 2 and 4... 3 has been deleted

Ever see a bad ass 62 Polara? Well, you have now

Found on http://thealwaysgentleman.tumblr.com

If you loved the Rendez-vous in Paris 1970's movie, you'll love the "Get-a-way in Stockholm" series...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6650811186775607339 for #2.. and skip the first 7 minutes. Escort Cosworth and Supra

300 kph is 186 mph... just so you know

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Getaway-In-Stockholm-6_203336.htm for number 6 and skip the first 2 minutes 45 seconds. Viper and Porsche
And for those without cages: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud_gXPCMUDw&feature=related

for the original movie:http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/07/for-next-8-minutes-you-will-hear-race.html

For the next 8 minutes you will hear a race car and squealing tires. Called the "Most radical car movie of all time"

http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.html

You will see 1978 street racing, and about 2 dozen ignored red lights, one forced sidewalk jaunt, 2 wrong ways against traffic, and 4 "nearly missed the turn". But not one spin out or fish tail.

Blew my mind.

I couldn't find a larger version, but the perspective of a bumper mounted camera speeding through mostly empty Paris city streets is phenomenal! The white lines just zip past the camera, and the engine roars up through the gears constantly. Better than any hollywood chase scene.

If you know of any videos on youtube, google, etc that are even close to being this good please email me at jbohjkl@yahoo.com so I can link them here for everyone to enjoy.

If you want you can operate the google maps feature to follow the car on a map, but it ain't worth it. Just glue your eyeballs to the movie.

For a COMPLETE write up, links about, photos of the cars involved, a mapped out route of the film, etc etc go to http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/most-radical-car-movie-of-all-time.html
Claude Lelouch drove his own "Mercedes" with the camera attached to its front bumper, reaching speeds of 150 km/h (this page gives a speed breakdown) - but then the ride was repeated a week later on Ferrari to use the sound of its engine for soundtrack.