Ok one of the joys of the slow seasons and the way my job as taken a turn is that one of the mechanics has begun to bring in a different car movie each day. The first in this series was The Car.
A story about a 1976 Lincoln MkIII that has been possed by the Devil and is terrorizing a small western town.
Not much to say about this car other than the police department in this movie deserves to be honorary redshirts and that is one cool custom job done by Barris on the 6 cars used for the film.
For a few months, this movie was a regular in teh Sci-Fi channel Saturday at noon "well, no-one's watching anyway" time slot. Good, do-it-yourself MST3k fun.
You can check out that car and many others (some I've never seen before) at Barris.Com! The Mail Truck one (at bottom right) looks exactly like a toy I had when I was about 8 years old. In fact, I recall either getting two of them from two different people or I had one and my brother got one later, too, but I do remember us having two of the same thing.
Actually, by 1976, Lincoln was already on the Mark V. The Car from The Car was a converted '71 Mark III, according to the above Barris.com link (The Mark III itself was a gussied up Ford Thunderbird.)
Ooops. duh.....Yep
Tbird cougar mk# series all the same car different body/interior. I love how many crossover cars like that companies do. Makes things a bit cheaper for them.
Ooops. duh.....Yep
Tbird cougar mk# series all the same car different body/interior. I love how many crossover cars like that companies do. Makes things a bit cheaper for them.
I watched this when i was a kid, and i would love to see a remake of this
I'll agree that would be interesting to see.
Well, if it was remade then I doubt very strongly that no matter how cool the car looked the film would still tank at the box office but would probably do much better on DVD. Of course, the best thing that the film could show to do decent enough in theaters would be to feature Paris Hilton getting killed by the titular car in the most gruesome way possible at some point. Heck, she wouldn't even have to get run over by it. If her character, for whatever reason, got inside of it then it could eat her! Or she could get too close to its front while it sat still like a trapdoor spider awaiting its next meal and then its hood could open, the car would suddenly lurch forward, knocking her inside and then the hood could slam shut and you'd hear a nice loud chomping sound as the car rocked back and forth in masticulating joy.
At least that's how I'd write her death scene in it.
I'd love to see that. Also Jessica Simpson as well.
Maybe That would be another movie altogether though. Attack of the Bimbo Eating Car!
Now that's got Troma written all over it!
BTW, R, you've never kept us up to date on what all car-themed movies you'd been watching in the last two years since your initial post. What about Death Race 2000 (out in a new edition now), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Christine, Maximum Overdrive, Days of Thunder, Driven, Speedway, Spinout (those last two being Elvis films), and countless other great, and not so great, car films? 
Let's hope he hasn't had to suffer through (and hopefully no one else will ever have to endure) The Canonball Run and Cannonball Run II.
Now available in Tromavision.
Wow has it been that long? Where does the time go?
The original Death Race 2k was great for being drunk and making fun of (maybe one reason why I dont recall much about it)
Chitty was and is a classic disney car show. I mean CCBB is the ultimate tricked out ride.
Christine and Maximum Overdrive are awesome King movies. I'll try and post somethign on them seperate as they deserve it.
Days of Thunder was okay. The last three I havent seen. So I couldnt comment.
And what is so bad about Canonball run? Sammy Davis Jr, Jack Elam, Roger (bond) moore, Burt Reyonlds and most importantly of all CAPTAIN CHAOS!!!! (DUNDADUHHH) Low budget jokes, hot babes (barbeau and Fawcett) and fast cars. Not to mention an contractually required appearance by Jackie Chan as a subaru driver. As for CBR2 weeeell llets just say there are some things that there inst enough alcohol or drugs to make someone want to sit through.
And what is so bad about Canonball Run?
As Gene Siskel often said about a movie he hated, "That was 91 minutes of my life I'll never get back." It was just plain unbearable to sit through. Burt Reynolds acted so smarmy, Dom De Luise as Capt. Chaos acted so stupid. Neither Adreine Barbeau nor Tara Buckman in low cut blouses could make up for the sheer lousiness of this pic. I counted down the black dots in the upper right corner of the screen (the cue for a reel switch), the only time im my life I ever did that in any movie. I wanted to see For Your Eyes Only, which was playing at the same time, but my date dragged me to this. (I was not so nice to her later on. The day we saw Cannonball Run, she also bought play tickets for us to see Evita at a future date. I bugged out from the show at the absolute last minute, and she wound up taking a girlfriend.)
I love how many crossover cars like that companies do.
The most atrocius example of that was back in the early 1980's, when GM marketed their J-body cars. The Cadillac Cimarron was essentially a gussied-up and waaayy overpriced Chevy Cavalier. The car buying public saw right through that, and the Cimarron tanked big time.
The Car VS Christine: Which would win?