Manky's Pop.

[terry t]

na its just andy dreaming.



one day

[poprodder]

not gonna be piss-yella is it andy!!!

[flix]

Bob Falfa: Hey, you know a guy around here with a piss yellow deuce coupe, supposed to be hot stuff?
Terry Fields: You mean John Milner?
[Falfa nods slowly]
Terry Fields: Hey, nobody can beat him, man. He's got the fastest...
Bob Falfa: I ain't nobody, dork. Right?
Terry Fields: Right.
Bob Falfa: Hey, you see this Milner, you tell him I'm lookin' for him, huh? Tell him I aim to blow his ass right off the road.

[thebigdogsix]

A mankey novel perhaps 

[Manky Monkey]

Jeez, didn't you guys ever go to the movies?!
"American Graffiti". The classic hotrod film. Most die hard rodders could probably quote it line for line. George Lucas's first big film, light years before Star Wars.
John Milner's little yellow coupe was the first proper hotrod I ever saw, but I always thought Bob Falfa's evil lookin' black '55 Chevy was the cooler machine.
Milner was played by Paul Le Mat & Falfa by a young Harrison Ford -who went on to appear in Star Wars. The fillum also starred Ron Howard as Steve Bolander -he kinda reprised his role in Happy Days, very loosely based on American Graffiti with Henry Winkler's "Fonzi" taking the Milner character's place. Mel's Diner in Graffiti became Al's Diner in Happy Days. Curt Henderson was played by a very young Richard Dreyfuss -Jaws, Close Encounters etc etc. Fantastic rock n roll soundtrack with the songs linked by the legendary Wolfman Jack, who also guests as himself. The Pharoahs car club, lead sleds, coupes, T buckets, pick-ups, big Yank cruisers of all kinds. 

-& I thouight you lot were cultured. 

[thebigdogsix]

Cultured na not me 
never seen the film will have to keep an eye out for it
 

[terry t]

nor me. i will have to get out more 

[Manky Monkey]

You jest gentlemen surely!

As is the way with classics, it's been imitated many times, plus there was a distinctly lack lustre sequel. You might watch it & think you've seen a lot of the ideas before, but remember, this was the original. The car equivalent of biking's Easy Rider, for it's impact on the U.K custom scene. It almost single handedly launched customising & cruising in this country.
I can lend you my DVD copy if you like. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Jo1gH89VM

[cunningplan]

who can spot the cockup in this clip?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXFMnfQVINM&feature=related

[poprodder]

what a bitchin babe..................

[brock]

           "who can spot the cockup in this clip?"

  never spotted it before  , I believe that the car used was one of the Two Lane Blacktop ones

[Manky Monkey]

To quote my own words from my review of "Two Lane Blacktop":

If this machine looks familiar it’s because it had a second starring role. Once filming on Two Lane finished the 3 Chevys were left in the Universal Studios parking lot. One was sold privately, ending up white with a red stripe as a daily driver for a young college student. This car was later used to dub the engine noises for Burt Reynolds’ Smokey & the Bandit Trans Am.
The remaining 2 cars found fame again as the mean, glossy black, street racer piloted by an, as yet, unknown stetson wearing Harrison Ford in “American Graffiti”. The stunt car’s roll cage & Corvico 3 spoke steering wheel can be clearly seen in the Graffiti shots, but the bucket seats were replaced with a standard bench seat & a tonneau cover stretched across from the back of the seat to the rear parcel shelf. The steel stunt car was rolled during the drag race scene with Milner’s yellow ’32 coupe, but a 3rd ’55 was brought in from a local scrap yard for the shots of it burning.

The Monkeys at the Movies section of the main site will be back up as soon as we fix everything else. Always looking for more film reviews to add. 

[Archie]

Gah the dialogue in American graffiti made me turn it off halfway through

[Manky Monkey]

Pah! Kids, whadya know?!     

[Clive]

Well, I must have seen it about ten times, and now want to see it again!!!!!