My vote still goes to "The Speed Merchants" by Toad Hall Productions.
This film chronicles the championship of makes in 1971 with great
footage of the Porsche 917s and Alfa whatevers (who won the
championship, by the way). Also has footage of Brian Redman doing his
Gorilla impression for his daughter... some things follow you for
life...
*8o)
PaceCars@aol.com wrote:
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> Some of my favorite old racing movies are "The Green Helmet" (Lister-Jag and
> Tojiero-Jag), "Johnney Dark" (Woodill Wildfire, Tatum Special and old kit
> cars), "Grand Prix", "Le Mans", "The Big Wheel" (Mickey Rooney as a dirt
> racer), "The Racers" (Kirk Douglass as a F-1 driver), "To Please a Lady"
> (Clark Gabel as oval tracker - shot in Arlington, TX)and the race scenes out
> of "Spin Out" and "Viva Las Vegas"(Elvis but worth watching for the shots of
> Old Yaller, 427 Cobra, Ferrari 250 TDF and Anne Margaret). Also a cult film
> called "Road Racer" made in the 1950s. Very bad but great footage of Ak
> Millers' Caballo II and his Devin-Corvette. Was redone recently by some idiot
> without cars (they were the only decent thing about it). Great book on race
> movies: "Races, Chases and Crashes" by Dave Mann and Ron Main. Classic
> Motorbooks usually has it. ISBN#0-87938-859-5
> Harold Pace
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