Drag racing movie filmed in NC

[Michael Beard]

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

[Myron Piatek]

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!

[Mike Taylor 3601]

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

[Michael Beard]

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.

[Hemiparts]

Originally Posted by Mike Taylor 3601

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

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

[goinbroke2]

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!

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

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.

deleted scene ???? :

[Mark Yacavone]

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

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by goinbroke2

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!

What class do you run?

[borninamopar]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

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.

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.