Amazing that the "Juvenile Court" actually holds the parents responsible for their kid's actions in this movie. Maybe that needs to be brought back in today's world. This movie was so corny and I absolutely LOVED IT...!! Thank you for uploading this masterpiece. sat here and watched the entire movie... :)
Aside from curing your ADHD, the observation you made is in error. Our, and others' parents utterly neglected us, except in attempting to thrust phony religion at us, while they swilled alcohol and acted brutally then. Rosy retrospection" is a recent psychological term for the confabulations made by elders whose Korsakoff/Wernicke Syndrome induced forgetfulness and dementia,
I watched this from start to finish. Born in the late 1980's and I don't find this movie corny at all. In fact, this movie is better than today's standards - it's wholesome, with equal mix of drama and comedy. Thumbs up!
Honestly this is Perdy much the way it was. Old Airport runways turned into Drag Strips in the middle of no where. The First EVER NHRA GRAND NATIONAL (It's called the "Big Go" by racers and thee Race to win at still by Pro and Amateur alike ) was held at Great Bend Kansas and I grew up in Nebraska and a local guy who was a Machinist/Engine Builder took his girl friend and went....the stories he told me....I was hooked... they had tons of photos and cool old trophies from when he raced and he helped me build my very first real race car as soon as I turned 15 and could get a learner's permit....I went to work nights and weekends to pay for my first 1968 Camaro SS it was a 4 spd car with the L-78 396 in it and was fast as it was but we made it faster and did all sorts of upgrades and new after market parts....I street drove it for about 2 years and decided to just race it and that's where it really all took off for me. Last Combo that we had in it was a 427 with tunnel ram and a pair of 1050 Dominators and a Liberty 5 spd, we kept it as stock looking as was safe to do with the exception of Narrowed 12 bolt rear end and big slicks under the fenders. But as for cutting up or hurting the body.... nope never did it...we swapped out the Steel Front Clip for a Fiberglass one and a Fiberglass deck lid and a set of stock appearing lexan custom made windows but left everything else alone except we put wheel tubs in the back....removed the rear seat ( no one ever sat in it anyway) put a Ladder/Link rear suspension in it and installed a full custom built frame under it. We kept the original front half that came on it from GM though in altered just in case.... anyway on and on and on....we ran a lot of different classes in NHRA before I sold everything and I mean everything but I'm 61 now and still Drag Racing to this day....though now I run 2 cars Both Nova's one is a real 1970 Super Sport that's never been anything but my Race Car it's got a 565 stuffed with all the good parts, a Nitrous Express 2 stage kit on it and the other is a 72 Rally Nova that we race in Street Stock classes so you see where good things can have a positive effect on a young guy who just liked to go fast can do.
In 1950 I saw this movie. I was barely 6 yrs old, and already a fan of HOT ROD magazine. The plot fits a 6 yr old child's interest and the Roadsters (do you know the difference between a Roadster and a convertible?) still excite my interest. At near 4 score years now, I still like Hot Rods with flat-head V-8s. BTW, the big brother in the movie is character actor Myron Healey. He had a long, interesting career. My favorite role he played was the cavalry sgt in LITTLE BIG MAN. The fear he showed as the Indians swept over the remaining soldiers at Last Stand Hill was realistic. I lusted for fast cars my whole life. I never had the money for a "highboy" or a "lowboy."
This movie is the reason I have been broke for the past 67 years. I saw this movie and after leaving the theater went right down to the drug store and bought a car book. If I remember right the title was CAR LIFE. If this movie had been about bicycles, would have saved me a lot of money. There was a hard bound book called HOT ROD that came out about the same time. The book was a lot better, and had nothing to do with this corny movie. Author Henry G. Felsen went on to also write STREET ROD and the sequel RAG TOP. All us aspiring hot rodders devoured every word. Incidentally, Felsen's daughter is still selling the HOT ROD book, soft bound. Somewhere on line and I purchased a copy. If I were writing an intro to the book, or the opening scene in a movie, it would go something like this as the letters scroll by on screen: Iowa 1950. No disc brakes No wide, low profile tires No seat belts No speed limit
I read that book and it was a great story. I still wonder about the electrical gremlin that caused the emergency light in the troopers car to stop working and then start working again behind the mother hen impeding them and wonder how big the mess in their shorts was when they did come back on.
Don't know about that electrical gremlin, but Bud memorized their license plate. I went searching online a few years ago and managed to find ORIGINAL copies of HOT ROD and STREET ROD, which I now have in my personal library. My Street Rod book is hardbound and I don't know if there ever was a soft bound copy.
The big mystery in HOT ROD is...what really was happening when LaVerne was in the back seat of that Hudson as Bud and his friends drove by? Remember this about LaVerne. She wasn't very loyal to Bud. Soon as he lost his license, she had another boyfriend.
Dang now I have to go re-read it. In my defense, it was over 40 years ago that I read it. "Jeep" or "The Jeep" was another good read I read about the same time. I'll have to find and read "Street Rod" as I don't recall reading it. My reading got cut into back then as I was in the middle of striking out on my own.
Street Rod came out around 1952. A friend in high school had found it in the library, told me he was reading it and I had to wait anxiously for him to finish, turn in so I could check it out. The book is set in and around Des Moines, Iowa, and that is where Henry Gregor Felsen made his home. Hot Rod was also set in Iowa, and the followup to Street Rod called Rag Top is as well. Rag Top is a Chevrolet convertible, maybe a 47 type that has been modified with a GMC six engine that is owned by a secondary character in Street Rod. That convertible is a big part of Street Rod and the owner of that vehicle is carried over to the follow up Rag Top book. Another book, not by Felsen that made all the rounds of the young car enthusiasts was called THE RED CAR. It is about a boy who gets hold of a wrecked 1949 MG TC and gets it going and enters a race, sorta.
As soon as I saw " Monogram Pictures Corporation " I thought back to all the Hot Rod model kits I built in the late 50's to the 60's , many from Monogram Plastics . 😊😊😊
Found myself at a HUGE weekly cruise in/car show in Scottsdale Az. 500 cars every weekend. I was showing my '96 Vette, hanging with club members... And it happened... "The California Kid" (Martin Sheen) poked his head in my Vette to check it out. YES!!!!
flat head 8s - pretty cool! My first car was a 37 chevy. Not a hot rod but I loved the musty smell, the grime from the steering wheel, the 3 on the floor. Wonderful old cars - much better than the sterile coffins of today.
Great old Movie there are parts in this movie that mimic my own Life My Dad owned a Gas Station and my Brothers and I grew up doing things very much like these young guys did..Thanks for sharing ...
Hey, I'm 68 and this is very close to how the country was back then. It was a lot better in every way. Oh and when I was young I street raced a 1976 Triumph Bonneville 750 and won every race for 10 years. Years later I had two Competition Orange 2004 Ford Mustang GT cars and they could hit 145mph + a little more.
I had the ultimate hot rod, affordable, liked it so much I bought another. 2008 SUZUKI B KING. A Hayabusa engine in a sit upright not lay down frame. 0-60 in 2.9. 0-100 in 5.5. Quarter mile in 9.9 at 140. Kept one stock, and did a custom exhaust and paint on the second. Traded them both on a SLINGSHOT, a two wheels in front one in the rear bike that looks more like a car. It was fun, but wish I had kept one of the B Kings.
That depends on who you ask , so thats just your perspective . My people were fighting for civil rights . Nothing big , just for people to treat us civilly
Totally agree me and my 1940 Ford deluxe two door coupe are still alive and well my car is now 50 years old with me no plans on ever selling it. High-performance 327ci turbo 400 street shift kit 373 true track posi traction. Weld wheels this thing is bad ass. DAGO. Ca.
I love watching these old films. You can see actors when they were very young. The actor playing "Jack" was the child actor who played "Butch" in the Our Gang films. In later life he was a Camera Man at Channel 30 in Fresno Ca. Also the Judge's younger son was in the film "Life With Father" He was the eldest son in that film.
Thanks, I wouldn't have known. Decades ago there was a series of paperbacks titled Where Are They Now? And it was so amazing to be able to get to see what happened after the limelight...
"Hot Rods make the world go around" Even if everybody hit the gas at the same time on drag strips facing the same direction, I doubt it. :) What hot rods were,---is an expression of personal and economic freedom, spurring innovation and invention, that we once had when we had the right to personally achieve our dreams, instead of living our lives for the collective state as we are being forced into today. Free people do amazing things.
Saw This Really Great Film in Theater 1950 (Des Moines Iowa) Real Hotrods of the day, have Poster and Copy of the Film , watch every year or so, yes i am an ole geezer! Enjoy it if you can,
Love the part when the dude pulling out from the curb, blames the kid for running into his car when he was guilty himself for not checking for traffic before pulling out.
Teenagers interested in mechanics and building or improving their cars, girls interested in those boys who had the hands to build those cars and showed their personality in them, cruising in those cars, racing, in other words, CAR CULTURE, plus respect for things and people and accepting one's mistakes... And today we're all living behind a screen all day long, in an egocentric and material world... Where have we gone?
You should have been at the Wild Horse Pass drag strip last night here in Phoenix, Arizona! That place was packed with kids! Young and old!!! 24 January 2020!
Riejurv Have you seen the movie WALL-E? We're heading that way like that fat dude in the movie that sits at a computer screen and he doesn't even know what his legs are for.
@RockabillyFox The 1952 Ford came out with a inline six with overhead valves, their first. Chevrolet had been building a similar engine for years, but that Ford six was faster then the flathead V8s and even the Oldsmobile to 60 if the Ford had stick.
Too bad for the robber that he had a flathead Cadillac. His Caddy (at 56:16) appears to be a '46 or '47. The OHV Cads and Olds Rockets came out in 1949.
I was a Hot Rodder in the late 50's thru the 60's and there is a lot of truth in this video as the times were simpler and most all the guys could work on their own cars and soup them up etc. The girls were the same=cute as hell and very clean and neat with nice hair and dresses and no piercings or tattoos and most were virgins through high school or at least close to it and we had the utmost respect for them. I would go back in a heartbeat if I could as I am totally disgusted with Society the way it is today. New Sub Today~! 🚔🚔🚔🚔
@@UfoDan100 Sorry to hear about your Brother and it's a wonder some of us ever grew up~!! I still have my '65 Hipo 289 with Borg Warner 4 sp. in a 1965 Falcon Ranchero. Better than any new car~!!! Rock On~!
You and me both, Rick. I was born in '51 and would LOVE to go back!!! My "factory built" hotrod in HS, 1968 was a Red '62 Impala SS "409" 4pd with hipo heads, dual quads, 411 positrack gears and dual exhaust. It passed everything on the road EXCEPT gas stations!! And for that car it was Chevron Custom Supreme (gold label) at .43c a gallon which I thought was horrible at the time. But back then minimum wage was around a dollar an hour. ;-)
@@USCG.Brennan "Semper Paratus" I too served on USCGC WACHUSETT W-44 HOME PORT SEATTLE and spent '68 and 69 in Nam on her. Don't you know that we would go back if we could~!
Love those old flathead Fords!! ;-) That's funny.....I saw this exact same racing scene in another Hot Rod movie a couple hours ago. Same cars, same road, same scene with the motorcycle cop trying to stop them. And isn't that little blond the same gal that played "Penny" on the old Sky King TV series.....Gloria Winters? Sure looks like her. She was an unforgettable little dolly. ;-). Also, at spot 50:00 that policeman giving the ticket is John Hart who temporarily replaced Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger for one season and later had his own TV show as "Hawkeye" in the TV show "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans." Another side note is that Hawkeye's co-actor who played the native "Indian" Chingachgook is none other than Lon Chaney Jr who was the "Wolfman" in the old 1930s horror films! Quite a line up here in this show!
Myron Healey, one of my all-time favorite actors, he was all over the screens in the 1950s, often as the outlaw cowboy, gets to play the big brother(I'm not so much older than you, that I can't remember how it was." - LQQKs quite a bit older), and a good guy, sympathetic policeman. He was very adept at playing heroes or villians. This is one of the few times that he was still alive when the movie ended.
In 1950, young actor and gentle sole Gil Stratton was 12 years away from becoming LA's "The Big News" sports and race tract announcer on KNXTV Channel 2 (now KCBS). He passed away in 2008 at the age of 86. RIP Gil.
Jimmy Lydon was an excellent actor,and had quite a career as an actor. From “Tom Brown’s School Days “, “Life With Father “,” Strange Illusion “...and many TV guest stars, but is best known for the “Henry Aldrich “ series. He played Henry in 9 of the 11movies.- (Jackie Cooper did the first 2).-became a big time TV producer. (And continued to act occasionally)
Thanks to King Rose Archives for posting this "classic" and to the commenters below and again to King Rose Arch. for all the background information. I feel like I just got a master class in "hot-rodding." :) I'll just add that actor James Lydon had played Henry in the "Henry Aldrich" series in the 1940s, and he's still alive as of this date. And Gil Stratton danced with young Judy Garland in the movie "Girl Crazy" and went on to be a popular radio sportscaster.
We used to fight over a library book called HOT ROD by a guy named Felson. Bud Crane was the main subject. I remember his famous quote, "The gas will get you out of more trouble than the brake!" Classic!!
have read that little paperback at least 5 times. it changed me forever. this may be the closest we'll get to a movie based on that book. Before I die... I will pull up to a late night diner in a red deuce coupe that begs the question... "Is that The car???" after blasting through the night down lonely roads on a... what did he call them??? Speed Runs???
Felsen's daughter is still selling new reprints of Hot Rod. Check it out online. She is working out of Iowa where here daddy was located. I have copies printed in the 50s plus the new version. What is nice about the new version, besides the fact that is is taller and easier to read, is that by reading it, you are not putting wear on your old collector copy.
Some of the hot rod footage featured in the first few minutes of the film was also used in the PRC feature, "Devil On Wheels" (1946) starring Darryl Hickman.
Thought that was pretty funny. The police stop the rod, then they resume the chase after the Cadillac that now has miles of head start, then they, and a NASH cop car and a flat head harley, catch it.
yes tried to watch it on youtube recently but they want you to pay for it but is on youtube Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crane & Mimsy Farmer RUclips Movies buy or rent 1967 ''Hot Rods to Hell"'
Over the years, I've enjoyed it it a number of times on TV. I think I have it on VHS somewhere. Some might find it kind of quaint by today's standards, but it's got a great finale!
The scene where the 5 jalopies were all racing together was taken from a 1946 hot rod movie I just watched about 45 minuets ago. The straight & level road they were on could have been Devonshire Blvd in the San Fernando Valley. And does anyone recognize the Judge Art Baker? He was the host of the TV show You Asked For It (sponsored by Skippy Peanut Butter). People wrote in and asked to see strange things and people and the show would get films of those subjects. He would read the letter from the viewer and then say OK Mr. So & So, "You Asked For It".
I liked the highly unlikely scenes you'd never see these days, i.e , when they pull him over for speeding while he's running 88 mph and his brother the cop says, "okay I'm going with you" to chase the liquor store theif and after they stop the driver of the fast convertible Caddy the cop tells his brothers buddy, "Hey how would you like to drive this Caddy back into town?" Would I?
The cops also used glue on their heads every morning just in case they needed to get in a Hotrod convertible and chase a bad guy . It wouldn't look good to arrest someone without your hat on .
Pretty loud gun the cop was using too, the Cad driver heard it from an open car and realising there was no way on earth he could be hit at that speed he decided to pull over. I like the cop’s optimism in getting into a chase with a Nash.
There was a famous car writer called Thomas McAhill if I remember right back around 1950. He wrote for Mechanix Illustrated and monthly books like that. A TV interviewer if I remember right asked McAhill what he thought of the Nash sedan, forget the model name, and McAhill replied, 'It handles like the Queen Mary." Nash was horrified, but strangely, it did not hurt sales. Turns out some people wanted a car that handled like the Queen Mary. McAhill never could figure that one out.
yah you noticed that also. Stolen hot rod had the right of way. He had no insurance because he did say it was going to cost him a lot of money. Also loved how corner store robbers drive convertible Caddies wearing a suit and tie. Not even going to touch the blond gold digger that will divorce rape in about 5 years the goofy judges son.
I love the movie. The mileage of his car and the Trip ometer never changed. His arm wasn’t up when his picture was taken in the police station until after the picture was taken. Lol
I don't know who's voice that is narrating, but i've heard him a lot. He has the distinct ability to make anything he is talking about sound illegal or dangerous.
Jimmy Lydon was a fantastic actor. Usually seen in “B” movies, he was every bit as good as any big name star. Many of these “B” actors were. They just never had the “Dream Factory “ machine pump them up. Great little movie. 📻🙂
John Hand People had become accustomed to seeing him in the “Teen “ rolls, especially since he was “ Henry Aldrich” for nearly a decade. But he also had some remarkable adult rolls as well, and was in almost every kind of movie possible, and every type of roll, from heavy drama, to action/western, to comedy. He had quite a career. Even some appearance in many TV shows. 📻🙂
Those hot rods are pretty cool , but I really got eyes for the Nash Ambassador the police use . One of the best looking cars of the day . ( my opinion )❤😊 Yes I know it looks like a bathtub , but it was very streamlined ,covered wheels , fastback , a 238.2 c.i. engine .
Lousybarber I agree completely. I dumped a couple of girls because they had tattoos. One had them emblazoned up/down her legs. I told they were a turnoff for me... the most unfeminine thing a girl can do.
language i could care less but im not big on tatts on guys or girls. ill never have one. i dont mind one or two on a girl if its nice and simple. i can tolerate that. but man these girls that get them over half there body is not attractive to me.
the actor who played Swifty I don't know the name precisely but he was in a movie in 1954 called the wild one starring Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin his character was one of the motorcycle gang members called the black Rebels Motorcycle Club and his nickname was Mousie.
The Wild One...Arrive Scene. "Please don't cross the Track, Don't get Hurt! Blood makes everything slippery". The actor's name was, Gil Stratton *(Mouse).
It's been a long time since I've seen the wild one but I thought it was the bent rods motorcycle club, and speaking of Swifty, wasn't he also in Stalag 17, it was 17 wasn't it, it's also been a long time since I saw that movie.
Great Old Time movie, I love the old-time slang, hard to believe that a Ford flathead with only 90 horsepower started at all . And a 32 Ford roadster is still the most sought after car of all time.
By the way my 1940 Ford two door deluxe coupe is 50 years old with me it’s hopped up 327 high-performance tunnel ram 750 Holly all MSD ignition turbo 400 Street shift kit 373 true track posit traction will never sell it. Bought it in 1971 $350 today it’s 50 years old with me! DAGO. Ca
Awww.... Alls well that ends well. Kid gets to keep his car, the mean kid confessed to the hit and run, the judge presides over his own kid in court changes his mind and forgives his kid, the kid finally gets the girl., and they get their track after all. Aren't these old movies swell?
Back when a kid could buy a car for 50 bucks and build himself a hot rod with parts from a junk yard. Now hot rods are owned by old retired corporation owners, because they cost 80 thousand dollars. Imagine delivering papers in a car ! Gas used to cost about 10 - 12 cents a gallon ! And cars ran on real gas - leaded ! I was 2 when this came out, but it wasnt much different during the early 60s . Those really were the "good ol' days". Going to the drive in in one of those little beauties, with your girl. Maaan !
The Nash was the car to have for Lovers Lanes and drive in movies. And don't forget if you wanted a fast car in couple of years the Hudson Hornet came available. Twin H.
Larceny had a lot more style back then. The worlds oldest and fattest stick-up man robbed a liquor store whilst dressed in a suit and made his get-away in a Cadillac convertible. Didn't cheapen the event by putting pantyhose over his head like classless amateurs do today.
Last year a bought an art book "Chicken scratch part 2" about hotrods from the LA Petersen car museum. It shows magnificent paintings of an American artist called Tom Fritz among others. I am sure the artist used the film as insperation in some of the paintings! Look it up!Thank u for the upload and greetings from Germany!
0:27 it says Tommy Bond . I knew I recognized him from later in the film . He's "Butch the Bully" who is always clobbering Alfalfa in the "Our Gang" Comedies . 3:01 looks like him right there ! Tooo Funny ! Waaaaaaay to Funny !!!!! You've got a Computer , look it up !
Yep , I just learned that Tommy played "Tommy" before he played "Butch" thanks to Wikipedia . Pause the Video at 3:35 where he is looking over his shoulder and compare to this : vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/looneytunes/images/8/84/Lt_bond.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170713171321 - that is Too Cool !
I was 5yrs old then...this picture really put those times in perspective. Enjoy these oldies and all the Hot Rods...
I love that the "jalopy" has a louvered hood and headers peeking out underneath before anything was done to it. An absolutely delightful film!
Amazing that the "Juvenile Court" actually holds the parents responsible for their kid's actions in this movie. Maybe that needs to be brought back in today's world.
This movie was so corny and I absolutely LOVED IT...!!
Thank you for uploading this masterpiece. sat here and watched the entire movie... :)
You have to be kidding
The two guys on bikes are glad the can't drive.
No way. Noone is responsible for the kids actions these days!
Corny yes, but what a happy ending. Too few of them these days!
Aside from curing your ADHD, the observation you made is in error. Our, and others' parents utterly neglected us, except in attempting to thrust phony religion at us, while they swilled alcohol and acted brutally then.
Rosy retrospection" is a recent psychological term for the confabulations made by elders whose Korsakoff/Wernicke Syndrome induced forgetfulness and dementia,
I watched this from start to finish. Born in the late 1980's and I don't find this movie corny at all. In fact, this movie is better than today's standards - it's wholesome, with equal mix of drama and comedy. Thumbs up!
Trying to convince yourself its not corny?
@@robertlund5694 You find this corny?
Oh it's corny alright, and I was born closer to it's time frame than you
Honestly this is Perdy much the way it was. Old Airport runways turned into Drag Strips in the middle of no where. The First EVER NHRA GRAND NATIONAL (It's called the "Big Go" by racers and thee Race to win at still by Pro and Amateur alike ) was held at Great Bend Kansas and I grew up in Nebraska and a local guy who was a Machinist/Engine Builder took his girl friend and went....the stories he told me....I was hooked... they had tons of photos and cool old trophies from when he raced and he helped me build my very first real race car as soon as I turned 15 and could get a learner's permit....I went to work nights and weekends to pay for my first 1968 Camaro SS it was a 4 spd car with the L-78 396 in it and was fast as it was but we made it faster and did all sorts of upgrades and new after market parts....I street drove it for about 2 years and decided to just race it and that's where it really all took off for me. Last Combo that we had in it was a 427 with tunnel ram and a pair of 1050 Dominators and a Liberty 5 spd, we kept it as stock looking as was safe to do with the exception of Narrowed 12 bolt rear end and big slicks under the fenders. But as for cutting up or hurting the body.... nope never did it...we swapped out the Steel Front Clip for a Fiberglass one and a Fiberglass deck lid and a set of stock appearing lexan custom made windows but left everything else alone except we put wheel tubs in the back....removed the rear seat ( no one ever sat in it anyway) put a Ladder/Link rear suspension in it and installed a full custom built frame under it. We kept the original front half that came on it from GM though in altered just in case.... anyway on and on and on....we ran a lot of different classes in NHRA before I sold everything and I mean everything but I'm 61 now and still Drag Racing to this day....though now I run 2 cars Both Nova's one is a real 1970 Super Sport that's never been anything but my Race Car it's got a 565 stuffed with all the good parts, a Nitrous Express 2 stage kit on it and the other is a 72 Rally Nova that we race in Street Stock classes so you see where good things can have a positive effect on a young guy who just liked to go fast can do.
In 1950 I saw this movie. I was barely 6 yrs old, and already a fan of HOT ROD magazine. The plot fits a 6 yr old child's interest and the Roadsters (do you know the difference between a Roadster and a convertible?) still excite my interest. At near 4 score years now, I still like Hot Rods with flat-head V-8s. BTW, the big brother in the movie is character actor Myron Healey. He had a long, interesting career. My favorite role he played was the cavalry sgt in LITTLE BIG MAN. The fear he showed as the Indians swept over the remaining soldiers at Last Stand Hill was realistic. I lusted for fast cars my whole life. I never had the money for a "highboy" or a "lowboy."
This movie is the reason I have been broke for the past 67 years. I saw this movie and after leaving the theater went right down to the drug store and bought a car book. If I remember right the title was CAR LIFE. If this movie had been about bicycles, would have saved me a lot of money.
There was a hard bound book called HOT ROD that came out about the same time. The book was a lot better, and had nothing to do with this corny movie. Author Henry G. Felsen went on to also write STREET ROD and the sequel RAG TOP. All us aspiring hot rodders devoured every word.
Incidentally, Felsen's daughter is still selling the HOT ROD book, soft bound. Somewhere on line and I purchased a copy.
If I were writing an intro to the book, or the opening scene in a movie, it would go something like this as the letters scroll by on screen:
Iowa 1950.
No disc brakes
No wide, low profile tires
No seat belts
No speed limit
I read that book and it was a great story.
I still wonder about the electrical gremlin that caused the emergency light in the troopers car to stop working and then start working again behind the mother hen impeding them and wonder how big the mess in their shorts was when they did come back on.
Don't know about that electrical gremlin, but Bud memorized their license plate. I went searching online a few years ago and managed to find ORIGINAL copies of HOT ROD and STREET ROD, which I now have in my personal library. My Street Rod book is hardbound and I don't know if there ever was a soft bound copy.
The big mystery in HOT ROD is...what really was happening when LaVerne was in the back seat of that Hudson as Bud and his friends drove by? Remember this about LaVerne. She wasn't very loyal to Bud. Soon as he lost his license, she had another boyfriend.
Dang now I have to go re-read it.
In my defense, it was over 40 years ago that I read it.
"Jeep" or "The Jeep" was another good read I read about the same time.
I'll have to find and read "Street Rod" as I don't recall reading it.
My reading got cut into back then as I was in the middle of striking out on my own.
Street Rod came out around 1952. A friend in high school had found it in the library, told me he was reading it and I had to wait anxiously for him to finish, turn in so I could check it out. The book is set in and around Des Moines, Iowa, and that is where Henry Gregor Felsen made his home.
Hot Rod was also set in Iowa, and the followup to Street Rod called Rag Top is as well. Rag Top is a Chevrolet convertible, maybe a 47 type that has been modified with a GMC six engine that is owned by a secondary character in Street Rod. That convertible is a big part of Street Rod and the owner of that vehicle is carried over to the follow up Rag Top book.
Another book, not by Felsen that made all the rounds of the young car enthusiasts was called THE RED CAR. It is about a boy who gets hold of a wrecked 1949 MG TC and gets it going and enters a race, sorta.
As soon as I saw " Monogram Pictures Corporation " I thought back to all the Hot Rod model kits I built in the late 50's to the 60's , many from Monogram Plastics . 😊😊😊
This movie scared the crap out of people back then.
Loved the California kid with the Brooklyn accent.
Found myself at a HUGE weekly cruise in/car show in Scottsdale Az. 500 cars every weekend. I was showing my '96 Vette, hanging with club members... And it happened... "The California Kid" (Martin Sheen) poked his head in my Vette to check it out. YES!!!!
Swiftly sounds like a young Curly of 3 Stooges.
Yes, they were part of the Western migration as well. Us- we came from Buffalo..no accent 😉😎
flat head 8s - pretty cool! My first car was a 37 chevy. Not a hot rod but I loved the musty smell, the grime from the steering wheel, the 3 on the floor. Wonderful old cars - much better than the sterile coffins of today.
And floor starter button
@@uncledoug9934 Oh how could I forget that.
I saw this movie years ago and I'm glad it's still around!
Great old Movie there are parts in this movie that mimic my own Life My Dad owned a Gas Station and my Brothers and I grew up doing things very much like these young guys did..Thanks for sharing ...
Hey, I'm 68 and this is very close to how the country was back then. It was a lot better in every way.
Oh and when I was young I street raced a 1976 Triumph Bonneville 750 and won every race for 10 years. Years later I had two Competition Orange 2004 Ford Mustang GT cars and they could hit 145mph + a little more.
That one kid sounds like Curly.
" I waz framed, framed!!!"
I had the ultimate hot rod, affordable, liked it so much I bought another. 2008 SUZUKI B KING. A Hayabusa engine in a sit upright not lay down frame. 0-60 in 2.9. 0-100 in 5.5. Quarter mile in 9.9 at 140. Kept one stock, and did a custom exhaust and paint on the second. Traded them both on a SLINGSHOT, a two wheels in front one in the rear bike that looks more like a car. It was fun, but wish I had kept one of the B Kings.
That depends on who you ask , so thats just your perspective . My people were fighting for civil rights . Nothing big , just for people to treat us civilly
Ever since I was a little kid these are what come to mind when somebody said the word Hot Rod 32 Ford.
I’d like to thank all of these cheese balls for setting the ground work to one of America’s greatest past times. Long live hot rods!!
All the kid had to so was tell his dad he could pick up some young stuff at the strip and funding would be there in a flash.
Totally agree me and my 1940 Ford deluxe two door coupe are still alive and well my car is now 50 years old with me no plans on ever selling it. High-performance 327ci turbo 400 street shift kit 373 true track posi traction. Weld wheels this thing is bad ass. DAGO. Ca.
@@eribertoacedo9505 A 1940 is 50 years old? What math is that done with?
Wow.... the sights and sounds of those cool roadsters....wish I had one now.....
I love watching these old films. You can see actors when they were very young. The actor playing "Jack" was the child actor who played "Butch" in the Our Gang films. In later life he was a Camera Man at Channel 30 in Fresno Ca. Also the Judge's younger son was in the film "Life With Father" He was the eldest son in that film.
Gil Stratton was a pivotal player in "Stalag 17" and went on to be an iconic sports reporter in Los Angeles.
Janie played 'Penny' on Sky King about 7 years later
Thanks, I wouldn't have known. Decades ago there was a series of paperbacks titled Where Are They Now? And it was so amazing to be able to get to see what happened after the limelight...
Decent movie Hot Rods make the world go around, Life’s short drive a Hot Rod. From a fellow Hot Rodder.
"Hot Rods make the world go around" Even if everybody hit the gas at the same time on drag strips facing the same direction, I doubt it. :) What hot rods were,---is an expression of personal and economic freedom, spurring innovation and invention, that we once had when we had the right to personally achieve our dreams, instead of living our lives for the collective state as we are being forced into today. Free people do amazing things.
Saw This Really Great Film in Theater 1950 (Des Moines Iowa) Real Hotrods of the day, have Poster and Copy of the Film , watch every year or so, yes i am an ole geezer!
Enjoy it if you can,
That is The purest form of racing no big budget
Great little movie. Loved it. Brought back a lot of old memories and good times................
Love the part when the dude pulling out from the curb, blames the kid for running into his car when he was guilty himself for not checking for traffic before pulling out.
Also loved that Buck Rogers Space Car the cops drove.
The arrest scene was hilarious.
Teenagers interested in mechanics and building or improving their cars, girls interested in those boys who had the hands to build those cars and showed their personality in them, cruising in those cars, racing, in other words, CAR CULTURE, plus respect for things and people and accepting one's mistakes... And today we're all living behind a screen all day long, in an egocentric and material world... Where have we gone?
You should have been at the Wild Horse Pass drag strip last night here in Phoenix, Arizona! That place was packed with kids! Young and old!!! 24 January 2020!
Riejurv
Have you seen the movie WALL-E? We're heading that way like that fat dude in the movie that sits at a computer screen and he doesn't even know what his legs are for.
nothing if it wasent loaded and was for show and tell.
The days when Caddy's and Olds OHV V8's were Kings of the Road.
True , by 1950 the flat head Ford was surpassed by the overhead valve engine.
@RockabillyFox The 1952 Ford came out with a inline six with overhead valves, their first. Chevrolet had been building a similar engine for years, but that Ford six was faster then the flathead V8s and even the Oldsmobile to 60 if the Ford had stick.
Guys in Los Angeles used to run "stones". These were Fords with big Olds engines in them.
@@edwardalamo2507 My second car was a 1953 Olds 'Rocket' 88.
Too bad for the robber that he had a flathead Cadillac.
His Caddy (at 56:16) appears to be a '46 or '47. The OHV Cads and Olds Rockets came out in 1949.
I was a Hot Rodder in the late 50's thru the 60's and there is a lot of truth in this video as the times were simpler and most all the guys could work on their own cars and soup them up etc. The girls were the same=cute as hell and very clean and neat with nice hair and dresses and no piercings or tattoos and most were virgins through high school or at least close to it and we had the utmost respect for them. I would go back in a heartbeat if I could as I am totally disgusted with Society the way it is today. New Sub Today~! 🚔🚔🚔🚔
I did a few hot rods from about 1968 to 1980. My older brother did hot rods around the same time you did , but died in a car crash in 1962 at age 20.
@@UfoDan100 Sorry to hear about your Brother and it's a wonder some of us ever grew up~!!
I still have my '65 Hipo 289 with Borg Warner 4 sp. in a 1965 Falcon Ranchero. Better than any new car~!!! Rock On~!
You and me both, Rick. I was born in '51 and would LOVE to go back!!! My "factory built" hotrod in HS, 1968 was a Red '62 Impala SS "409" 4pd with hipo heads, dual quads, 411 positrack gears and dual exhaust. It passed everything on the road EXCEPT gas stations!! And for that car it was Chevron Custom Supreme (gold label) at .43c a gallon which I thought was horrible at the time. But back then minimum wage was around a dollar an hour. ;-)
@@USCG.Brennan "Semper Paratus" I too served on USCGC WACHUSETT W-44 HOME PORT SEATTLE and spent '68 and 69 in Nam on her. Don't you know that we would go back if we could~!
Yep - Ol' Binyon remembers those days. Along with Greasers & Hoods. Ha.
Love those old flathead Fords!! ;-) That's funny.....I saw this exact same racing scene in another Hot Rod movie a couple hours ago. Same cars, same road, same scene with the motorcycle cop trying to stop them. And isn't that little blond the same gal that played "Penny" on the old Sky King TV series.....Gloria Winters? Sure looks like her. She was an unforgettable little dolly. ;-). Also, at spot 50:00 that policeman giving the ticket is John Hart who temporarily replaced Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger for one season and later had his own TV show as "Hawkeye" in the TV show "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans." Another side note is that Hawkeye's co-actor who played the native "Indian" Chingachgook is none other than Lon Chaney Jr who was the "Wolfman" in the old 1930s horror films! Quite a line up here in this show!
Reminded me of a book from the era called "Dragging and Driving" Great book.
Myron Healey, one of my all-time favorite actors, he was all over the screens in the 1950s, often as the outlaw cowboy, gets to play the big brother(I'm not so much older than you, that I can't remember how it was." - LQQKs quite a bit older), and a good guy, sympathetic policeman. He was very adept at playing heroes or villians. This is one of the few times that he was still alive when the movie ended.
In 1950, young actor and gentle sole Gil Stratton was 12 years away from becoming LA's "The Big News" sports and race tract announcer on KNXTV Channel 2 (now KCBS). He passed away in 2008 at the age of 86. RIP Gil.
Jimmy Lydon was an excellent actor,and had quite a career as an actor. From “Tom Brown’s School Days “, “Life With Father “,” Strange Illusion “...and many TV guest stars, but is best known for the “Henry Aldrich “ series. He played Henry in 9 of the 11movies.- (Jackie Cooper did the first 2).-became a big time TV producer.
(And continued to act occasionally)
Thanks for sharing the back story.
Jeff King Fahd
Life’s short drive a Hot Rod! DAGO!
Thanks to King Rose Archives for posting this "classic" and to the commenters below and again to King Rose Arch. for all the background information. I feel like I just got a master class in "hot-rodding." :) I'll just add that actor James Lydon had played Henry in the "Henry Aldrich" series in the 1940s, and he's still alive as of this date. And Gil Stratton danced with young Judy Garland in the movie "Girl Crazy" and went on to be a popular radio sportscaster.
Cool movie...I loved it. Thank you for the movie. Awesome!😎
We used to fight over a library book called HOT ROD by a guy named Felson. Bud Crane was the main subject.
I remember his famous quote, "The gas will get you out of more trouble than the brake!" Classic!!
Henry Gregor Felson. I took a book writing class from him at Drake University in 1966. Great teacher.
have read that little paperback at least 5 times. it changed me forever. this may be the closest we'll get to a movie based on that book. Before I die... I will pull up to a late night diner in a red deuce coupe that begs the question... "Is that The car???" after blasting through the night down lonely roads on a... what did he call them??? Speed Runs???
Felsen's daughter is still selling new reprints of Hot Rod. Check it out online. She is working out of Iowa where here daddy was located. I have copies printed in the 50s plus the new version. What is nice about the new version, besides the fact that is is taller and easier to read, is that by reading it, you are not putting wear on your old collector copy.
Some of the hot rod footage featured in the first few minutes of the film was also used in the PRC feature, "Devil On Wheels" (1946) starring Darryl Hickman.
I watched that yesterday it was good the judge the cop son and the boy that hopped up his car behind his dad's back, that was cool.
Donnie Gillis?
Dobie. Spell check got me.
Lots of laughs and I don't have any negative comment about the film....just awesome.....👍
Take your foot off the brake! 😂
Those flatheads sound mean though.
Back in the day, when people respected policemen, and a Harley could catch a car!
Thought that was pretty funny. The police stop the rod, then they resume the chase after the Cadillac that now has miles of head start, then they, and a NASH cop car and a flat head harley, catch it.
...and then there's the Beach Boys, with their (cough)
140 MPH flathead...
Does anyone remember a movie in the 60's titled "Hot Rods to Hell"?
yes tried to watch it on youtube recently but they want you to pay for it but is on youtube Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crane & Mimsy Farmer RUclips Movies buy or rent 1967 ''Hot Rods to Hell"'
Over the years, I've enjoyed it it a number of times on TV. I think I have it on VHS somewhere.
Some might find it kind of quaint by today's standards, but it's got a great finale!
I certainly do, I have it on dvd. My sisters and I went to see it when it first came out. It was 1967 and I was 8 or 9 at the time 😊
@@yolandaturner417 I would love to see it again.
Ha! Was just thinking about movie...like to see it again...been years! Great flick
That judge is perfect fodder for MST 3000. :)
All of them, especially the judge, were great actors
Seeing “Edelbrock” on a flathead. Something to behold.
Gosh, that was swell, it really was!
Your gonna drive Me to drinking, if you don't stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln.🔥🔥
It's got 12cylinders and uses them all and an overdrive that just won't stall.
Thanx for Sharing our old past
And Thanx 👌 for the Great Movie 🎥
Have a Great Day 👍
God Bless America 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
The Ford Flatty ruled for 20 years!
Started what is now know as NASCAR. Today's NASCAR isnt my NASCAR. Pretty boy millionairs all santized and main streamed into the ditch.
@@uncledoug9934: What is NASCAR? lol.
NASCAR along with the NHRA have been jokes since '95.
The scene where the 5 jalopies were all racing together was taken from a 1946 hot rod movie I just watched about 45 minuets ago. The straight & level road they were on could have been Devonshire Blvd in the San Fernando Valley. And does anyone recognize the Judge Art Baker? He was the host of the TV show You Asked For It (sponsored by Skippy Peanut Butter). People wrote in and asked to see strange things and people and the show would get films of those subjects. He would read the letter from the viewer and then say OK Mr. So & So, "You Asked For It".
Ha! I watched the same movie today and now it's in this one too. Doubt I'll watch all of this one though, the first one was corny enough.
Gosh, so glad everything turned out so swell.
I liked the highly unlikely scenes you'd never see these days, i.e , when they pull him over for speeding while he's running 88 mph and his brother the cop says, "okay I'm going with you" to chase the liquor store theif and after they stop the driver of the fast convertible Caddy the cop tells his brothers buddy, "Hey how would you like to drive this Caddy back into town?" Would I?
The cops also used glue on their heads every morning just in case they needed to get in a Hotrod convertible and chase a bad guy . It wouldn't look good to arrest someone without your hat on .
The Hot rods made a couple of stops yet somehow, they managed to catch the Caddy which made no stops. Those were some really fast hot rods.
Pretty loud gun the cop was using too, the Cad driver heard it from an open car and realising there was no way on earth he could be hit at that speed he decided to pull over. I like the cop’s optimism in getting into a chase with a Nash.
That Nash cop car (around the 35 minute mark) is really something.. quite futuristic looking in an old fashioned sort of way.
Looks like it was hard changing the front tire on those cars.
There was a famous car writer called Thomas McAhill if I remember right back around 1950. He wrote for Mechanix Illustrated and monthly books like that. A TV interviewer if I remember right asked McAhill what he thought of the Nash sedan, forget the model name, and McAhill replied, 'It handles like the Queen Mary." Nash was horrified, but strangely, it did not hurt sales. Turns out some people wanted a car that handled like the Queen Mary. McAhill never could figure that one out.
It's been a LONG HARD DAY for that Nash !
This movie is 70 years old now.Think where those kids are now.
"Big Daddy" Ed Roth took them to another level... in art.
The crash wasnt my fault. I was parked, i pulled out, didnt look and hit a passing car... Ahh the good ol days!.
yah you noticed that also. Stolen hot rod had the right of way. He had no insurance because he did say it was going to cost him a lot of money. Also loved how corner store robbers drive convertible Caddies wearing a suit and tie. Not even going to touch the blond gold digger that will divorce rape in about 5 years the goofy judges son.
I love the movie. The mileage of his car and the Trip ometer never changed. His arm wasn’t up when his picture was taken in the police station until after the picture was taken. Lol
"You should have thought about that before you allowed him to rebuild that engine."
I don't know who's voice that is narrating, but i've heard him a lot. He has the distinct ability to make anything he is talking about sound illegal or dangerous.
91C4NVA Morgan Freeman
Could be the same guy who narrated at the beginning of the old Science Fiction Theater TV series.
@@r.g.5.0.h.o.51 Morgan Freeman was 13 when this move was made.
A TIMING STRIP // COMPLETELY
GREAT
In another 4-5 years these kids would be cruising around in their hot rods listening to Elvis & Chuck Berry.
they would be drafted for Korea...
You need to know how time works.
I wish..
In 1950 they were listening to Les Brown and Elliot Lawrence.
Jimmy Lydon was a fantastic actor. Usually seen in “B” movies, he was every bit as good as any big name star.
Many of these “B” actors were. They just never had the “Dream Factory “ machine pump them up.
Great little movie.
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Don't know how old he was there in real life, but he seemed too old to be in high school, along with his geeky buddy.
John Hand
He was about 26 years old when he made this movie.
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@@jeffking291 I figured. Thanks.
John Hand
People had become accustomed to seeing him in the “Teen “ rolls, especially since he was
“ Henry Aldrich” for nearly a decade.
But he also had some remarkable adult rolls as well, and was in almost every kind of movie possible, and every type of roll, from heavy drama, to action/western, to comedy.
He had quite a career.
Even some appearance in many TV shows.
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That would be swell if someone gave me some aluminum heads for my flathead. ha
For your jalopy
As Fonzie said: Rods make the world go round.
Even the legal racers at the sanctioned speed trials had no roll bars if tney flipped.
Decapitation, was the implementation of the rollbar
My 2 year old daughter and I really enjoyed this.
Those hot rods are pretty cool , but I really got eyes for the Nash Ambassador the police use . One of the best looking cars of the day . ( my opinion )❤😊 Yes I know it looks like a bathtub , but it was very streamlined ,covered wheels , fastback , a 238.2 c.i. engine .
Remember when PSA’s had lore for some reason
I don’t but it seems nice
Vary good video
Great film
Girls are more attractive when they wear nice clothes, stay away from the tattoo shop and do not use vulgar language.
Lousybarber I agree completely. I dumped a couple of girls because they had tattoos. One had them emblazoned up/down her legs. I told they were a turnoff for me... the most unfeminine thing a girl can do.
@@michaelrutledge7048 makes them look like pirates.
And not be serving a term in prison
So true
language i could care less but im not big on tatts on guys or girls. ill never have one. i dont mind one or two on a girl if its nice and simple. i can tolerate that. but man these girls that get them over half there body is not attractive to me.
the actor who played Swifty I don't know the name precisely but he was in a movie in 1954 called the wild one starring Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin his character was one of the motorcycle gang members called the black Rebels Motorcycle Club and his nickname was Mousie.
The Wild One...Arrive Scene. "Please don't cross the Track, Don't get Hurt! Blood makes everything slippery". The actor's name was, Gil Stratton *(Mouse).
It's been a long time since I've seen the wild one but I thought it was the bent rods motorcycle club, and speaking of Swifty, wasn't he also in Stalag 17, it was 17 wasn't it, it's also been a long time since I saw that movie.
He was also in Arnold Schwarzeneggers first film Hercules in New York, BAD MOVIE .they had to dub a different voice for Arnold.
Great Old Time movie, I love the old-time slang, hard to believe that a Ford flathead with only 90 horsepower started at all . And a 32 Ford roadster is still the most sought after car of all time.
I like to think the 1949 OHV Oldsmobile Rocket V8 , started the hotrod scene.
By the way my 1940 Ford two door deluxe coupe is 50 years old with me it’s hopped up 327 high-performance tunnel ram 750 Holly all MSD ignition turbo 400 Street shift kit 373 true track posit traction will never sell it. Bought it in 1971 $350 today it’s 50 years old with me! DAGO. Ca
I've said it before, I'll say it again; these is some old-ass teen-agers!
That old flathead chasing the Caddy sounded like Steve McQueen's Mustang in Bullet.
Best part of this movie is "Gloria" talking smack about hot rods and racing. Then she enjoys the top speed competition a few minutes later.
We street raced in Hemet CA. for years, 1970 s and 80 s much fun.
i like alot af these type movies. they have 1950s all over them. the wild ride the t bird gang..the girl in lovers lane ect ect.🏁
This movie was fun
Awww.... Alls well that ends well. Kid gets to keep his car, the mean kid confessed to the hit and run, the judge presides over his own kid in court changes his mind and forgives his kid, the kid finally gets the girl., and they get their track after all. Aren't these old movies swell?
Gee that old LaSalle ran great, those were the days.
Well don't ruin it for me.
The old movies like this are so Keen!
@@brianferrell4566 Gee Wiz Brian,don't get sore.
So few happy endings these days!
Hats, no roll cage unfreaking believable !!!!!!
Great flick! I street raced a '69 428 cj Mustang back in the day.
It sounds quaint now, but remember those annoying "pocket bikes"? Now consider a bigger fad for those but it's full-size cars.
I just watched this on TCM last night. How to build a hot rod: 20:24.
Opening credits kinda remind me of the opening credits to the 'Speed Racer' cartoon.
Back when a kid could buy a car for 50 bucks and build himself a hot rod with parts from a junk yard. Now hot rods are owned by old retired corporation owners, because they cost 80 thousand dollars. Imagine delivering papers in a car ! Gas used to cost about 10 - 12 cents a gallon ! And cars ran on real gas - leaded ! I was 2 when this came out, but it wasnt much different during the early 60s . Those really were the "good ol' days". Going to the drive in in one of those little beauties, with your girl. Maaan !
I remember Gil Stratton as a sports caster back in the day. How about Earl "Wilson" Hindman from Home Improvement.
Gil Stratton plays Swifty. He was in Stalag 17 as Cookie.
The Nash was the car to have for Lovers Lanes and drive in movies. And don't forget if you wanted a fast car in couple of years the Hudson Hornet came available. Twin H.
Bath tub Nash .......turned upside down that is what they looked like
Yes
The car that Boston Blackie drove.
Larceny had a lot more style back then. The worlds oldest and fattest stick-up man robbed a liquor store whilst dressed in a suit and made his get-away in a Cadillac convertible. Didn't cheapen the event by putting pantyhose over his head like classless amateurs do today.
Last year a bought an art book "Chicken scratch part 2" about hotrods from the LA Petersen car museum. It shows magnificent paintings of an American artist called Tom Fritz among others. I am sure the artist used the film as insperation in some of the paintings! Look it up!Thank u for the upload and greetings from Germany!
Thanks for the suggestion. Will have a look.
Always liked Jimmy Lydon . Is your mother calling " Henry , Henry Aldrich " . 😂❤😂
0:27 it says Tommy Bond . I knew I recognized him from later in the film . He's "Butch the Bully" who is always clobbering Alfalfa in the "Our Gang" Comedies . 3:01 looks like him right there ! Tooo Funny ! Waaaaaaay to Funny !!!!!
You've got a Computer , look it up !
Thanks for letting us know. The stories behind the stories are always great fun.
Before “Butch “, he played a nondescript character named “ Tommy” for 4years before the Butch character.
Yep , I just learned that Tommy played "Tommy" before he played "Butch" thanks to Wikipedia . Pause the Video at 3:35 where he is looking over his shoulder and compare to this : vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/looneytunes/images/8/84/Lt_bond.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170713171321 - that is Too Cool !
I THOUGHT THAT WAS HIM!
He did not become any more attractive with age
that judge reminded me of Bob Barker from the price is right
looked and sounded like him too. especially when he told the kids that when they get older, they must “spay and neuter their pets”
A few bucks under the table could go a long way.
40: 57 “betcha get a lot more GOW with that kind of set up.”
You've probably heard of 'gow jobs' too.
THAT WAS BALLS-TO-THE-WALL
Good movie❗️Fun❗️
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
I am 14 and I was thinking about building a hot rod and well…
I am sure doing it now!
Decent car flick for the time and better than some that came after. The way that Deuce picked up the inside wheel chasing the Cadillac…
Good fun. Amazing that 35 year-olds played high school students back then.
Ya had to much dope huh
Damn! Those Nash Ambassadors had a face only a mother could love.
AWESOME film