Drag racing movie filmed in NC
 

Anybody seen this yet?
I just found it on moparts.com

http://www.shiftfilm.com/

http://www.dragzine.com/news/grass-r...silver-screen/

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posted it up here earlier this am, filmed trailer earlier this year @Farm' during gear jammers race. Looks cool !!!!

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Looks like maybe a cool movie about the sport we love. Can't wait to see it and how well it does.

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Jr Honeycut. Thats the moniker they give this guy? I would hope they would have picked it like a porn star.The name of your first dog and the street you grew up on. I would be Whitey Palmer and that sounds better than that breakfast cereal name!

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Boomer Honeycutt is a drag racer. His lone quest is to escape his father's shadow and become the next Classic Gear Jammers Champion. After separating from his fiancée Tina, Boomer takes refuge sleeping in his van. He awakes after a rough night out to find an eleven-year-old boy on the doorstep and a note from his high school sweetheart welcoming him to fatherhood. Set against the backdrop of stick-shift drag racing in the heart of the South, this is a story about fathers and sons, teaching each other what it takes to be a man.

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That part sounds great, but I could do without the beer-swilling, helmet-throwing redneckisms I saw in the trailer. They'd be better off doing a story on Chip Johnson's life -- got the whole rags to ri....er... well, World Champ thing, the family life story, hardship, blahblahblah, all with the southern twang, but without all the redneck.

Now if only he drove a stick. ;)

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I would pay good money to see the Chip Johnson story. The movie can't be better than some of the stories I've heard over the years about my buddy Chip!!!!

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Support the movie, redneck or not!

Fast & Furious, disdained by almost all here at one time. Did you like Part I, part II or part III the best?
Enough support and you could see more drag race movies.

The last good drag race movie with track scenes and some level of excitement (as I recall) was "Heart Like a Wheel".

My favorite all time is "Two Lane Blacktop", check out the 2006 remastered DVD edition.

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I too look forward to viewing this movie. I liked the drag movie,Fast Company that was released in 1979 more than Heart Like A Wheel.

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Hopefully the storyline and wheels-up launches will generate enough interest so more people will want to visit their local tracks and see what it's all about in person!

I agree with Mike that too much "redneckisms" can enhance the stereotype of a drag racer, which is not a good thing. ("Days of Thunder" comes to mind.) But I guess that's how the producers add some drama. Hopefully it will be a positive potrayal overall.

I missed Hemiparts' post earlier. :(

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Watch "Parenthood", with Steve Martin. Myron's in it! :D (no joke)

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:)
You'll have to look for my old, white with blue accents Challenger bracket car. I'm in a scene after the dragster wreck when 2 of the actors are walking through the staging lanes talking. Car is on the left and I'm standing in front of it with the previous owner's son.

Ben Dunhoffs rebuilt Mopar Missile Duster is also in it. (Orlando Speed World.)

I think they actually cranked up a jet dragster in the pits!

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Looks like could be a good movie, From the trailer looks like may be pretty realistic.
It's about stick cars I love it,hope it has the right sound playing for the stick cars not sound from automatics,high winding sticks on movie theater sound would be awwwesome. It would have to have Mike Boyles and good ol charlie brown to make it complete though.
Mike Taylor 3601

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And you should see Boyles' car now! Got it repainted this summer... still has the same look and re-lettered the same, it just looks FRESH. Absolutely gorgeous.

http://www.staginglight.com/photos/p...10/boyles1.jpg

http://www.staginglight.com/photos/p...10/boyles2.jpg

http://www.staginglight.com/photos/p...10/boyles3.jpg

http://www.staginglight.com/photos/p...10/boyles4.jpg

http://www.staginglight.com/photos/p...10/boyles5.jpg

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I agree!! could you imagine a pair of small block stick cars wound tight playing on an IMAX screen !!!!

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I can't wait to see it.
That said, I laugh when I read you guys saying you hope it brings in the crowds! Will you complain that the pits are too full and you can't even get to the lanes in time? The stands are so full your family has no seating? LOL!

What am I talking about? Remember wishing a few years ago "if only the factories would get involved again" "win on Sunday, sell on Monday, it would be so cool"
Now the factories ARE involved...and all I see is consistent bitching and whining!
I can see it now, "the 2015 gator's SUCKED! the pits were too crowded and the stands were so full you couldn't get a seat, I had to go to my toterhome to sit down"! LOL!

I say more factory involvement the better (even if it's not my brand and yes I'm talking to the chevy whiners) LOL!
I also say, the more drag movies the better....even to the detriment of overfull stands/pits!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZez1NS7Ptk





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deleted scene ???? :


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No wonder it got deleted if he said " loose " two hundred!

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What class do you run?

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Sorry to see you are so down on rednecks, ya know being from NC and everything, maybe your small town rural tracks don't have any rednecks racin' what they built in their garage, but I have been to many tracks here in the south and I sure see a lot of beer drinking redneckism going on, like you said. Maybe this is one of the reasons alot of racers don't want to join class racing anymore. Since you are so against rednecks and everything. Sorry, but most of the racers, class and bracket and street in the south are rednecks. Sorry we offend you so much.

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And just like clockwork........"oh yeah, if you were in their class......"

Look at the big picture. Movies, manufacturers, government inter...ok, maybe that's too far. LOL!

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To make it short and sweet, I want more of both. Wonder when the twin turbo 6cyl f-150 will be in the books and what will the factor be? hehehehehe
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ecoboost flex
Too bad 3/4tons aren't allowed or a turbo diesel stocker would be interesting.

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Correct the hp ratings and nobody cares how new, what brand, nor what they cost.

What class do you run?


No answer. Just what I thought.

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You don't offend me. I don't know you, so I couldn't possibly dislike you or judge you. Trust me, I'm far from an elitist, and I run at a number of "rural tracks". (even saw the car featured in the video race at Pageland) It's just my opinion that what we saw in the video doesn't typify southern drag racers. Moot point, anyway. I'll certainly watch the movie, and will be happy to see everything in the broader context. My apologies if my comments offended anyone.

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No offense here Michael. As someone who is a lifelong resident of NC and has grown up at several of the local tracks I too cringe when I see the southern drag racer portrayed in a beer drinking and helmet throwing fashion like I saw in the trailer.

I think a more accurate dipiction of a southern drag racer would be a racer exemplifying good sportsmanship and offering a fellow competitor a helping hand, the shirt off his back, or a home cooked meal.

Maybe they should have just followed Larry Stott around for a few days? :)

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America needs a redneck for a president, Either type will do. Get er done

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I think Mr. Beard already covered it.. But don't take offense to it. I do however agree with him. Some of my best friends are good ole boys, but this is not exactly the light that our sport needs to be seen in. Not in any time, and especially not in these economic times when people are leaving our sport due to lack of sponsorship after decades of racing..

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FOR THOSE THAT HAVE NEVER SEEN THE MOVIE, HERE IS A GOOD SUMMARY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZPY...1&feature=fvwp

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I can't wait for Shift to come out! Some of my friends don't really understand the whole drag racing deal....maybe I could talk them into seeing this movie!

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The trailer of that movie is a bit over dramatic....IMO.

I have been bracket racing for 14 years, and I may have seen 3 racers in all that time throw a fit after losing a round . (like was depicted in the trailer)
Seriously, I think that dude in the movie needs some anger management training! ....LOL
It's just bracket racing !

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Thanks for the link Jeff !

My favorite part of 2LBT is the first 5 minutes. That street racing scene brings back memories of when I was in So. Cal. in the early 80's.

Plus, that '55 Chevy reminds me of my first hot rod:
'69 Road Runner..
4 speed...4.88 gears and someone put a stock eliminator engine in that car and street raced it.
It had a 413 Max Wedge...cross ram 2 -4-bbls..solid cam...high compression, Accel dual point dizzy,etc.

I paid the guy $ 1,200 for it and burned rubber all the way home. Lucky I didn't get a ticket that day.:)

Those were truly the glory days for muscle cars for me...they were cheap because gas was high and nobody wanted big blocks.

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I remember beating a local hot shot S/ST racer and I thought he was going to go air born, he loaded his car on the trailer so fast! He had his losing ticket and was off the premises in about 5 minutes!
And I beat a Stocker two events in a row and he wouldn't even look at me the first time, much less the second time.
That is the extreme, but some do take it pretty hard!

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I have passed a few e-mails with the actor that plays Boomer. He is also the writer and one of the producers. His name is Randy Spence http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1267108/
His real father (Who I believe is really named Rossco) is the owner of that blue Nova and he (Randy) has raced it himself. I believe that his dad is a regular with that car in the Classic Gear Jammers. So I think that this movie is going to be pretty right on being that it is being made by real drag racers.
I think that this movie is going to be the Two Lane Blacktop of this Century. I think Randy and crew have a great handle on this deal.
I lived in Radford Va for two years in 92-94. I miss the heck out of those "Rednecks" Greatest people I ever had in my life. I am going to end up back there in a couple of years. Wish I never left.
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I'm not much of a movie goer, in fact the last 3 movies I attended were Rocky, Saving Private Benjamine and I just took my 81 year young Dad to see True Grit. I'm bringing the whole family to watch this one. My Dad, my wife, our 5 kid's and their spouse's along with the 12 grandkids. I wonder how much the popcorn bill will be? lol

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Well I'm willing to look past the dramatic overtones in favor of selling our sport to the masses. Remember, the ones in the stands don't know the difference between a 3.29 first gear from 3:29 on the clock. The only thing they care about is emotion and excitement.

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Exactly what Pinks did for us! Despite how much it upset many racers who complained about the theatrics, Pinks provided drag racing with tons of exposure on Prime Time TV.

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well it did say in the trailer that the round he lost was the last race and costed him the championship.....i would have probably done the same thing.....i guess you dont get those chances everyday

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The "real" wheels-up launches should be a draw to car enthusiasts!
Overall, it should stir positive interest in legal drag racing.

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I didn't hear that part. :o Oh well, he's forgiven. :D
I suppose there must be some amount of drama to sell movies.

I just hope the facts of bracket racing are not blurred and exagerated like NASCAR was in "Days of Blunder"....er.. I mean thunder.
One frame the car is clean...the next frame the car is filthy..then clean...then dirty...and so on.....LOL

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The trailer I saw made me think all "Days of Thunder all over again". I'm from Oklahoma, and I don't know anybody with necks that red.

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I really hate to say this but that's actually a pretty typical shot of farmingtpn dragway...I would have to say after being a part of plenty of bracket races at the farm that's a pretty dead on portayal of a typical scene during a bracket race and there is no too red in nc .....