There was an old movie on last night that I had seen at the theater
when I was 10 years old. For some reason I remembered it being about
Indy cars, but it was stock cars. Actually, I only remembered one scene,
an early scene where a driver pegs his tach to to a whopping 7500 rpm
and blows an oil line (?), spins the car and dies in a fiery crash. I
really didn’t even remember the crash, just the oil line, which must
mean that I was a gearhead from birth and didn’t know it. Anyway, I
cackled like an idiot through the whole thing. My substantially younger
wife laughed at me, but really didn’t get it until someone put 30 cents
in a cigarette machine (in a bar, no less). The movie was, of course,
incredibly hokey and was about as technically correct as we’ve come to
expect from racing movies, but there is a bunch of vintage stock car
footage, even 30 second pit stops where they jack the car off the ground
about 3 feet and unscrew a gas cap. Richard Petty (at about age 25) has
a cameo, no lines, just inside the car facial expressions. If you’re
over 40, or maybe not, you really need to see this, but not when you
have anything else to do.
08
Dec
Red Line 7000
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:10:34 GMT, Bill <maxx…@earthlink.net> wrote:
> There was an old movie on last night that I had seen at the theater
>when I was 10 years old. For some reason I remembered it being about
>Indy cars, but it was stock cars. Actually, I only remembered one scene,
>an early scene where a driver pegs his tach to to a whopping 7500 rpm
>and blows an oil line (?), spins the car and dies in a fiery crash. I
>really didn’t even remember the crash, just the oil line, which must
>mean that I was a gearhead from birth and didn’t know it. Anyway, I
>cackled like an idiot through the whole thing. My substantially younger
>wife laughed at me, but really didn’t get it until someone put 30 cents
>in a cigarette machine (in a bar, no less). The movie was, of course,
>incredibly hokey and was about as technically correct as we’ve come to
>expect from racing movies, but there is a bunch of vintage stock car
>footage, even 30 second pit stops where they jack the car off the ground
>about 3 feet and unscrew a gas cap. Richard Petty (at about age 25) has
>a cameo, no lines, just inside the car facial expressions. If you’re
>over 40, or maybe not, you really need to see this, but not when you
>have anything else to do.
Heck "Drag Strip Girl" was on AMC Tues, too. Daytona and Petty clips.
Fun:)
You know, I have yet to see a "Good" movie about stock car racing. Days of
Thunder was close, but not believable in the aspect of all that intentional
bumping. Not even DE would get away with that!
brad <brad…@scratchthistiac.net> wrote in message
news:38ebd8b1.13845616@news.tiac.net…
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> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:10:34 GMT, Bill <maxx…@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > There was an old movie on last night that I had seen at the theater
> >when I was 10 years old. For some reason I remembered it being about
> >Indy cars, but it was stock cars. Actually, I only remembered one scene,
> >an early scene where a driver pegs his tach to to a whopping 7500 rpm
> >and blows an oil line (?), spins the car and dies in a fiery crash. I
> >really didn’t even remember the crash, just the oil line, which must
> >mean that I was a gearhead from birth and didn’t know it. Anyway, I
> >cackled like an idiot through the whole thing. My substantially younger
> >wife laughed at me, but really didn’t get it until someone put 30 cents
> >in a cigarette machine (in a bar, no less). The movie was, of course,
> >incredibly hokey and was about as technically correct as we’ve come to
> >expect from racing movies, but there is a bunch of vintage stock car
> >footage, even 30 second pit stops where they jack the car off the ground
> >about 3 feet and unscrew a gas cap. Richard Petty (at about age 25) has
> >a cameo, no lines, just inside the car facial expressions. If you’re
> >over 40, or maybe not, you really need to see this, but not when you
> >have anything else to do.
> Heck "Drag Strip Girl" was on AMC Tues, too. Daytona and Petty clips.
> Fun:)