These car movies and magazines are mostly posted on the internet. Click on a link to go directly to the resource. Each will open in a new window.
AMERICAN GRAFITTI - 1973 (Full Movie by chapters - About a group of recently graduated teenagers and their stories during one night of cruising the streets during the summer of 1962.)
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - 1955 (Full Movie by chapters - The landmark teen film that solidified James Dean's image with the public follows the story of rebellious middle-class teens, disenfranchised with their parents, and given to a life of thuggery and deadly dangerous drag racing to win over girls.)
TWO LANE BLACKTOP - 1971 (Full Movie by chapters - Arguably the best of the late 60s, early 70s existential road film genre (including "Easy Rider," "Vanishing Point" and "Electra Glide in Blue".)
LA BAMBA - 1987 (Full Movie - The story of rock 'n' roll performer Ritchie Valens, who died in a plane crash in 1959, along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. "The Day The Music Died at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.")
THE BIG WHEEL - 1949 (Billy Coy comes to Carrell which is a real speedway in Gardena, California when the movie was made. Red, Billy's late father's mechanic, hires Billy as a mechanic. Billy soon gets a job as a driver. Will he get to race the Indianapolis, the track where his father died?)
HOT ROD GIRL - 1956 (When his younger brother, Steve, is killed racing a hot-rod, Jeff Northup blames himself for the accident since he had built the car for his brother and had encouraged him to race it, with other boys on a special course provided by police detective Ben Merrill, who is working to reduce the city's hot-rod fatalities by providing supervision for the dangerous hobby.)
THUNDER ROAD - (Robert Mitchum (who also wrote the story and served as executive producer) stars in Thunder Road as Lucas Doolin, a Korean War veteran who returns home and promptly rejoins the family's bootlegging business.)
High School Caesar - (Matt Stevens is the big man at high school. He sweats the students for protection money, acquires copies of tests for a fee, and has rigged the votes so he can beat Kelly in the election for student president. Aside from his anointed acolytes, Matt is almost universally despised. His parents are obscenely rich and spend their time travelling in Europe rather than giving him the parental guidance he needs. Things begin to get ugly when some of the teens resist his power and show Matt up at the drag race.)
