Trading paint trailer

[over4T]

Few, if any, racing flicks have ever been very true to life and aimed at hard core racing people. The casual, or non racing fan might enjoy them more with the over the top crashes and the almost inevitable pretty female love interest conflict but the die hards will still go see it, if only to break the off season withdrawals.

The last racing flick that was realistic, in my humble opinion, was the old Robert Redford starring Little Faus and Big Halsey and that was about gypsy dirt motorcycle racing and the sleazy lead.

[over4T]

...or in the dirt stockers the old Burt Reynolds moonshine movie, White Lightning. Matt Clark played a dirt tracker in that one with a beat up Chevelle, a run down house, a run down garage and a run down long suffering wife. The dirt track scenes looked like any low end dirt track in the country.

Credit the realistic look at racing to Hal Needham, a legendary stunt man and buddy of Burt's, who directed it. Hal broke his back in a miscalculated car jump from a dock to a floating barge in the movie. He also was a racer at the old paved Saugus Stadium in the Late Model Sportsmen outside L.A. A lot of Hollywood stunt people attended Saugus to watch him, though he seldom got out of the semis in the '57 Chevy days. A very rugged looking bunch of guys and gals, as you might expect for those who made their livings falling off horses and buildings and wrecking and crashing things, and not the kind you would want to mess with.

[DurtyWimmin]

Another opinion

https://jalopnik-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/jalopnik.com/john-travolta-and-shania-twain-are-in-a-movie-about-dir-1831992616/amp?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fjalopnik.com%2Fjohn-travolta-and-shania-twain-are-in-a-movie-about-dir-1831992616

[MI Dirt Fan]

Was that Bloomquist in the cowboy hat at the :42 second mark? lol

Wasn't there an incident a couple yrs ago where a kid got in a wreck and his dad ran out to help him. I'm thinking the car was in flames.

[Josh Bayko]

Another opinion
https://jalopnik-com.cdn.ampproject....dir-1831992616

That article is written by an idiot.

[Krooser]

They had me at Shania Twain....

[PH88N92]

I could go see this movie but I doubt my wife would want to go.... I think the best dirt racing movie so far has to be SIX PACK...

[highgroove]

Where was this filmed i wonder...anybody know

[Mod Runner]

As far as best racing movie , I would say Red Line 7000. During the time period the movie was made, mechanics were having a hard time getting Big Block Engines to last at 7000 RPM. That issue was well presented in the movie.

[Jk19]

It was filmed at Talladega Short Track in Alabama