Well chosen. Hal Needham was ahead of his time for REAL believable stunts. The ferry jump in White Lightning is unforgetable ❤

Good choice for the #1 spot. French Connection is a definitive 70s masterpiece all-round -- the car chase is the icing on the cake!

Bill Hickman did the driving in Bullitt AND 7Ups

Ever notice the wreck at the end isn't the correct car

The car that hit the bulldozer was a 69 Camaro

I watched it with my son many years later and wished I hadn't. In my older years it was stupid, but I did get to hear my son say "What The Hell" at the end for the first time. That was a riot.

saw it in the cinema along with Zabriski point

I was in my late teens when Vanishing Point hit the theaters. When the movie let out..the streets erupted with engines roaring and tires squealing. I had a '68 Dart G.T. with a 340 / Quadrajet and 4 speed so yeah..I left a patch of rubber of my own!

Best commercial Pontiac EVER had! If they would have continued to make COOL CARS (NOT UGLY AZTEKS!) they would still be a GREAT BRAND!

I bought a somewhat beat up '78 T/A in 1988. Red in color and stuck with the 403 Olds engine, I never quite appreciated it. My friend had a very rare '72 T/A with a 4-speed that he bought for $900 off a guy who didn't speak English and worked in a garden supply place. His family were Pontiac fans, his dad having a real '77 T/A 4-speed with straight pipes, and his older brothers having a couple GTOs. My car was frustratingly slow. At one point, a '79 Macho T/A came up for sale, and my friend and I were going to go into it together to part out all the good stuff (he needed a windshield and seats, for instance and I wanted that 400/4-speed). The owner wanted $1500. It ran perfectly. The only issue was that the owner had damaged all 4 'corners' of the car having to brake hard to avoid rear-ending the car in front of him, but spinning out on the center divider. It didn't look too bad, and like I said, it drove really nice. Well, when I went to look at it, a guy and his girlfriend showed up in a '78 Macho and paid $100 more for the car's asking price when he and the owner found out what I had planned to do with the car, lol. Both the owner and the collector (his '78 was his second Macho, and the damaged one became his 3rd) were quite offended about parting the beast out. Oh, well. I ended up buying a '86 Capri RS in '89 after getting tired at how slow my '78 was.

@@johnmaki3046 Pontiac was mortally wounded when they dropped the final 400 in a 10th Anniversary T/A in 1979. Even though 3rd generation Firebirds were one of the most aerodynamic cars ever built, it was still a rebadged Camaro with a shared drivetrain. 4th generation same. Their final mistake was putting the legendary GTO name on an imported Holden from Australia without giving it any real visible clue it was a GTO. It was a very good car but they should have had enough sense to put some retro styling from the muscle car era GTOs and it probably would have been a sales winner. Their last ditch effort was the G8 but Pontiac was never successful with 4 door cars. Pontiac was failing from the time GM went to basically all FWD crap box cars. There was no real excitement in any of them. You are right, the Aztec certainly didn’t help matters any.

Just yesterday, I was driving through a small farm town in southern Illinois (I drive a truck for a living), and I happened to spot a beautifully restored '78 in a drive-thru, and yes, it was black and gold, and the T-tops were off. I was about 30 feet away and moving at 30mph, but I could tell the owner spent a fortune on it - it looked like it just rolled off the assembly line!

I had a 1972 Ford Pinto, 122 ci version. Damn, what a chick magnet.

Born in the 50's. Best times on earth that can NEVER return.

Commented in the 20’s

Better than today. People were sane.

Yes it was the best of times.

Amen to that !

Agree 100% !

True dat

You couldnt pay me to watch the fast and furious crap

@@JamesWilliams-ii7yv Same here. And Iam 28yo.

The FF series are just pure bullshit compared to these classics!!!

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Just reading this I could definitely picture that!!!!.......hey Glenn you should change your middle name to ram air!!!!

LOL

Duel is the reason why I now own a Valiant. Love it.

I watched in the 70s on a 13 inch black and white TV. The palms of my hands were sweating. That has never happened again. I deliberately watched the credit to see who dumirected it. I wrote down his name, because I had never heard of him. Based on a short story that ran in Playboy, which I had read some time before.

Spielberg has said that he filmed "Duel" in two weeks and on-budget. It was one of VERY few of the "TV movie of the week" that was replayed a few times on network TV. Most TV movies played twice at most and have been long forgotten.

One of my favorite movies.

Quelle chance! la voiture de mes rêves.

I'm guessing that you don't have it anymore. They are worth crazy money today.

@@johnpopoff7950 Still available in basket case form to build as you like. Scored my ‘Cuda and took 12 years to build.

The ending though!

I had a blue 'Cuda in 1970, blue gut, white ragtop. I came out of the theater, got in & layed a track of rubber as I left! Fun times!

Yes! And "The Blues Brothers" was actually filmed in 1979, and released in 1980.

@@bobblowhard8823 some of the Blues Brothers I believe was filmed in 1980.

there is lots of room in this mall

Absolutely right!!! ☮️✌️

I believe it holds the record for most cars destroyed - - cop cars on top of cop cars and then more units on top of that sprinkled with more cop cars in hot pursuit. Far out!. And then some more on top of that

Yes sir and you can actually hear the valve overlap!

I agree with you and that’s such a great movie!

As an Aussie, I'm glad you mentioned this. The budget for the original (and best IMHO) Mad Max was so small that only 80% of the planned scenes were actually shot - director George Miller even donated his blue Mazda Bongo van, which is destroyed in that car chase. One of the stunt drivers in Mad max is Phil Brock - brother of Aussie motor racing hero Peter Brock (R.I.P.). And much of the original Mad Max was filmed in my home State of Victoria, Australia. :)

@@bury_the_elite65294 Just love this first issue of MM. Crazy humour, brutality and the all-out attitude. Can't force myself to rewatch the awful rip-off called the Fury Road.

YES! Max is the King!.... The Ford Falcon XB became my all time favourite after that movie.

I, too, was ten, in '70, when the movie debuted; it's stuck, with me, also.

I didn’t get the end? Wasn’t he doing speed the whole movie

@@pulaskicondoassociation6799 Yep. Geeked. Coulda had something to do with Suicide by Bulldozer.

@@pulaskicondoassociation6799 I have my own copy on DVD. So I've seen it A FEW times. Got the whole movie memorized. Kowalski...He used to be a cop,too.

@@pulaskicondoassociation6799 He was doing speed all the time, and being an ex cop, he did not want to go to prison. Basically, he had nowhere left to run.

You should try "the Italian Job". not the sh***y remake either, the film starts by trashing a Miura, goes through countless Minis, a pair of E types that succumb to a bulldozer and even a DB4 drophead, so rare they substituted a Lancia for some distance shots. Rumours abound that one E type and the Aston were later salvaged and restored, the Aston being one of only about 70 ever made.

Yes but back in those they where just available and normal. What hurts me and I really dont get it, if they crash these classics in today movies.

The ones that get me are the genuine, restored Escort RS1600s in Fast and Furious. There was no need for those to be genuine RS1600s, no need for them to have been good restored examples, no need for them to have even been real 50 year old classic Escorts (of which far too many have already been wrecked in motorsport). Only about 1200 of those were ever built.

I agree Vanishing point should be number one!

Yeah...the REAL "Vanishing Point" was GREAT...Remake, GARBAGE!

@@johnmaki3046 NUMBAH ONE, NUMERO UNO!!

YES ! GREAT SOUND TRACK TOO ! CLEVON LITTLE DJ REALLY GOOD !

Could well be. I'm just glad they didn't waste a Challenger in the bulldozer scene. The bonnet (hood) seen in the crash is the giveaway.

The movie 'The Driver' was made three (3) times and none were great movie's in my option.

Tip of the cap for "MMMMW." Absolutely hilarious stunt shots while absolutely part of the plot and totally germane, a couple are almost surreal, functioning almost as drop-ins to the wonderful character acting going on with this lot. You must be ___________ this tall to remember three-quarters or more of this cast. If it snows where you live, next big snowstorm, have a copy ready to stream or DVD whatever. They don't make comedies of the reality/absurd BLOCKBUSTER-style with this kind of casting today, and more's the pity. It's a good enough time to plan to take a brief intermission so you're refreshed as the plot comes to a climax, heh. Good time for sure. I believe it's a "G" rated, no higher than PG, IIRC. But it's been long enough that I"m likely wrong. Spencer Tracy ... Capt. T. G. Culpepper Milton Berle ... J. Russell Finch Sid Caesar ... Melville Crump Buddy Hackett ... Mrs. Marcus Mickey Rooney ... Ding Bell Dick Shawn ... Sylvester Marcus Phil Silvers ... Otto Meyer Terry-Thomas ... J. Algernon Hawthorne Jonathan Winters ... Lennie Pike Edie Adams E ... Monica Crump Dorothy Provine ... Emeline Marcus-Finch Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson ... Second Cab Driver Jim Backus ... Tyler Fitzgerald Ben Blue ... Biplane Pilot Joe E. Brown ... Union Official Alan Carney ... Police Sergeant Chick Chandler ... Policeman Outside Ray & Irwin's Garage Barrie Chase ... Sylvester's Girlfriend Lloyd Corrigan ... The Mayor William Demarest ... Police Chief Aloysius Andy Devine ... Sheriff of Crockett County Selma Diamond ... Ginger Culpepper (voice) Peter Falk ... Third Cab Driver Norman Fell ell ... Detective at Grogan's Crash Site Paul Ford .. Col. Wilberforce Stan Freberg ... Deputy Sheriff Louise Glenn n ... Billie Sue Culpepper (voice) Leo Gorcey ... First Cab Driver Sterling Holloway ... Fire Chief Marvin Kaplan ... Irwin Edward Everett Horton ... Mr. Dinckler Horton also did the narrator and other voices of "Fractured Fairy Tales" Buster Keaton ... Jimmy the Crook Don Knotts Mike Mazurki ... Miner Charles McGraw ... Lt. Matthews Cliff Norton ... Reporter Zasu Pitts ... Gertie - Switchboard Operator Carl Reiner ... Tower Controller at Rancho Conejo Madlyn Rhue e ... Secretary Schwartz Roy Roberts ... Policeman Outside Irwin & Ray's Garage Arnold Stang ... Ray Nick Stewart t ... Migrant Truck Driver The Three Stooges ... Firemen - Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk! Sammee Tong ... Chinese Laundryman Jesse White ... Radio Tower Operator at Rancho Conejo Jimmy Durante e ... Smiler Grogan Gen X and above should enjoy it the most, but there's laughs by the bushel in a flick in which the vehicles used alone is cause for wonderment. And more laughs.

Yeah "Thunder Road" with a young Robert Mitchum. Driving souped up moon shine cars. As I recall, see price signs at gas stations that say 29 cents a gallon.

Also add The Man With Two Heads with Rosie Greer. Crazy car chase, looks like it lasts 30 minutes.

The car chase through the mall was awesome!

That's because the movie IS the car chase. Minimal dialogue, great scenery, and no better looking car in my opinion.

Plus a top notch story of a car racer, who's hit hard times, moving cars whilst doped up on pills, who at the end, doesn't care about the dozer,---- he's had enough of life .......

Duel is so intense! I remember reading the original short story in Playboy and thinking what a kickass movie that would make. When the first trailer for Duel dropped I was speechless with excitement! The young Steve Spielberg knocked it out of the park.

Wow what a story 😮! Glad your mum didn't catch you, I also watched this with my father, but the stakes weren't that high to be caught though 😂.

That is a classic great memory. I never saw the film but the story you told is as good as it gets.

Always got a kick out of Duel because I grew up in a Valiant family. Was really cool to see a Val as the star (hero) of a movie even if it wasn't an Aussie Valiant. ( I'm a South Aussie, and all Aussie Valiants were built in Adelaide, South Australia.

Loved that movie as a kid in the 70s. Not only were the cars the bomb, but it starred Luke Skywalker!

Yes, I make that distinction as well!

Amen to that!

Pontiac was profitable right up until the government demanded GM downsize to qualify for the bailout. Bob Lutz wrote about it.

I miss what Pontiac was not what it became.

Why GM ditched that brand...??? Oldsmobile, too. A stealth car brand.

You can’t beat the 455.

It was the same '55 used in American Graffiti.

Remember Hot rods to Hell.

Two Lane Blacktop was sweet,but it is still Bullitt

James Taylor drove the '55

Your dad had good taste in movies.!🙂

I saw a vanishing point with my dad, I was so excited to see boobies. "Is that SuperSoul?"

The Duell coat only $5000.

I remember watching the Duel as a kid, the day after the talk of "Was it the devil chasing him...." great film, especially the panic of the car driver when the truck is coming down the hill.

@@blackcountryme the great dennis weaver who went onto becoming "McCloud" the arizona sheriff that went to N.Y. and was somewhat out of place

The Gumball Rally is the best car movie ever made !!

"It's Those Damn Fake Cops Again!" - Gary Busey

Shaped my obsession for car life

Yeah, the cobra and Ferrari scene was great with hearing the car engine and not some boring soundtrack!

Real Cobra and real Ferrari Daytona in that movie and they thrashed the hell out of them. Love it!

Yes the first one not the Nick Cage wanna be.

Totally agree, it's the daddy of car chases.

The remake with Nicholas Cage sucked ass.

@@Winterstick549 remakes always stink.

I saw the movie when it fist cam out and loved it. i can't imagine a better car chase.

@@johnjames77 I saw Gone in 60 in the 70's and it will always be #1 for me. Have the both Old and New.

I bought the DVD of it with all the extras, but when I started watching the movie, I could not finish it. Just too dumb and too boring.

Bullitt was released in 1968. Look at the title of the video again.

Yes those are great movies I know acouple more to add

The Road Warrior was 1982... it’s a 70’s review....😏

Lord l have not heard of checkered flag or crash in over 30 years or so it was cool watched it when l was a teenager 😄 like to see it again

Agreed Mad Max, 1979.

My favourite too Fearis the Key with Barry Newman on a1972 Ford Gran Torino.

Oh, I want to see that; thanks, for the tip!

Agreed. If nothing more, to see it the first time with Barry Newman, after you've probably already seen him in Vanishing Point. But good driving, good stunts. And being a Gran Torino owner myself, seeing a Gran Torino as one of the major stars in the movie. The cars are so often the stars in a lot of these movies. This particular one was more obscure, compared to other comparable movies...it's often been overlooked. So, people are thrilled to find it and see for the first time.

You cannot find it anywhere to buy

My Dad owned a Gran Torino, and my gf hated to ride with me in that car. It begged to be driven fast. Almost outran a CHP until said gf told me to stop.

Memories are perfect.

The late 60's, until about 1980 was certainly the Wild-Wild West of movie making, especially with car chase movie's! 😏

uh huh, yeah me too !!! my grandma was the one with the beehive & a 120 hagin out of her mouth waving.

The moment when they are speeding max through the city. I cam watch it over and over

I watched the blues brothers, the first and second parts, and this was one of the best I watched, the old movies have more suspense and excitement than today we are in 2022 and I am looking for some old movies 🇵🇸

For me, that was the best car chase ever.

Elwood: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

@@nostradamus7648 “Fix the cigarette lighter.”

Mine too and Junkman

I know, nearly killed himself right there and then. I have it on DVD and watch it every couple of years. Mostly just for the brilliant ending. Cheers

that car got so beat! the part where he hit the pole was not in the script, he had to do the rest of the shoot with broken ribs.... the end of that movie was just great!. the woman at the car wash going "this is not my car!!"

born in 64 but loved the 70's. the most fun i ever had and best music too

Whats the movie from the thumbnail

That was 1985. This list is specific to movies of the 70s.

Yes 1985..but an absolute classic car chase and great film👍👍

Had you wondering. Am I going to be late for class again?

The vehicles built for "Fury Road" WERE great, but I thought the movie itself was the worst movie I'd seen in 30 years. I'm a big fan of the '79-'85 Mad Max trilogy though.

Yep, "Convoy" was fun. And Ali McGraw... ooph...

He was also George C. Scotts driver in Patton...

@@marcdonato9322 Scott's driver in Patton was Bill Hickman. Loftin was the driver for Karl Maulden's Omar Bradley.

Agreed, and my all time favorite movies are Duel, and The Road Warrior.

same here. Gone in sixty seconds as a movie on the whole is awful but the Forty minute car chase and destruction is cinema gold . Vanishing point I had at number #1 Great movie All in All.

The VP has the best (deepest) storyline. The way to go, man

The original one.

Same here. Born in 1966. Did you catch the mistake: They show Sheriff Justice leaving his car door open. Then it's closed. Then it's open again right before the truck driver knocks it off.

The great Jackie Gleason made that movie but burt and sally were pretty darn good.

that movie definitely affected my attitude. about that age when it came out and there was nothing else to do that summer but sit in the theatre and watch it.

I remember seeing this a few times when I was a teenager in the 70's as well. I recommend watching it again.

I know that I was rooting for them to get killed.

I got the dvd...good flick, saw the ending at the theater in 74....blew my mind!

Ya, I thought Peter Fonda was one cool dude. Boy was I wrong!! Susan George was hot though.

My big sister took me to see it when I was a kid. She had told my mom we were going to see some other movie, a Disney movie I think it was, but at 8 years old, I thought the movie was great!

There was that nude chick on the minibike, when he got some "speed" from her hippie boyfriend. Kowalski was my hero for years and the "DJ" was cool also. Great movie but the ending upset me, esspecially as he was a returned Vietnam veteran. I wish i could watch it again. Bob. Australia

The nude Blonde on the motorcycle. Watch it again......

Nude girl on honda in the desert.

But the thumbnail ... wasn't like that in the movie.

Fun fact, John Wayne's son, Ethan Wayne worked as a stunt man on The Blues Brothers. Read the credits at the end of the movie, under stunts you'll see John E Wayne (Ethan was really his middle name, presumably because there was already someone around the house with the name of John he went by his middle name of Ethan). The Blues Brothers was the first of several movies Ethan Wayne worked on as a stunt man.

more so with any car chase now day's back then you felt you was in the car.

'Death Race 2000' was brilliant! A political satire, strangely prophetic and a black comedy to boot!

"Return to Macon County" 1975, w/ Nick Nolte and Don Johnson - was re-released in the '90s after Nick and Don got famous...

1974’s Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was great as well.

I'm not sure that last chase scene in "The Driver" is my all-time favorite, but it's near the top! That scene at the end of that chase with the Trans Am guys and Ryan O'Neil is possibly the best one in the whole movie. That movie is overlooked and under rated, but VERY good!

Idk how true it is, but I read that when they filmed "the French Connection", they didn't bother getting all the necessary permits and clearances from the city. Part of the crashes were unintentional. The guy in the white LTD wasn't part of the movie, he was a bystander who get slammed and it cost them a considerable amount of money to settle that. Like I said, idk how true this is, but I remember reading it on the internet. If anyone knows for sure, your comment would be appreciated

@@mikeadcock1592 The video itself says true. They hadn't gotten the necessary permits and clearances.

As a separate bit of info about paying extras, apparently in Quadrophenia when they had the fight on the beach between mods and rockers, they were paid 10 quid each. Good money back then.

vanishing point is number one..

@@mikeadcock1592 You've got it right. Director even did some of the in car camera work because he felt it was too dangerous for his actors. Just the director and a stunt driver. The lack of permits and an early morning shoot led to the LTD driver crossing the lines and hence the unscripted accident. The most realism in a car chase movie but for me it's the highway chase scene in To Live and Die in L.A. driving the wrong way on the freeway.

He and his guys did the stunt driving for The Italian Job (1969). I like this one better than the remake.

Yes, Barry, "The Blues Brothers" was released in 1980, but filmed and completed in 1979.

I loved that movie!! It is one movie that can't be beat.

Even with all the crisis like gas shortage, Vietnam, the hippie collage protest, with all that going on people still had enough time to learn how to play a instrument there is no doubt living was good back then.

My best car was a 67 Mustang fastback, 289/325, 4 spd, Carter AFB, duals and 3.50 posi. 140 mph no problem. GOD I miss that car. Sold it in 1980 for less than a grand. #@$%&(

Waste a Camaro,,,yes not a Challenger

😀 So great to hear. Same for me.

Well the category was 70's... that movie was released in 1980, so it just didn't qualify.

Released in 1980.

WAS sweet!

Totally agree, I loved two lane blacktop too, but it's a street racing movie.

Same year I was born. Great year indeed!!

Ironic cause performance was at an all time low that year due to mandatory catalytic converters.

People were bummed about unleaded fuel, the oil crisis, catalytic converters, and how the Big Three were taking away the muscle era for “styling” so Hollywood produced movies where they could get cars donated from the Big Three.

@@DSchea First catalytic converters came with the 1975 model year.

@@DSchea Not mandatory, but most used them. Mazda Wankel rotaries and Honda CVCC engines didn't need catalysts until about 1981.