For a fun 1980's street racing movie about a high schooler with a blown 350 Chevelle and a need to raise money betting on his wining the races, watch "Catch Me If You Can" on youtube, because it's no where else
The movie starts with the guy racing a 73 Duster,
Then
having to try his Chevelle against local senior talent, the Sandman.
The Sandman was played by an incredibly long working guy, Bob Minor, who
has been doing movie and tv stunts and stunt coordinator work since
1970. He's worked in lots of the blaxploitation movies, and Starsky and
Hutch, Kojak, Magnum PI, Boyz in the Hood, Die Hard 4, Conspiracy
Theory, Oceans 11, The Italian Job and many more. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591567/
The Sandman couldn't make the curve when the cops started chasing the streetracers, and wiped out
then the guy has several races against some cool cars, and keeps winning.
And
with his confidence at an all time high, he then takes a high stakes
bet with the local gangster loan shark, the Fatman, that he can beat the
gangters driver, the rotton crook gangster fixes the race with a ringer
who destroys the Chevelle, and the high schooler loses his mony.
in a desperate attempt to win
double or nothing, the kid bets he can beat the local street racing
legend "Fast Freddy" 's historically famous high speed run from
Minneapolis to St Paul. Surpise polt twist, the kids High School
Principl was Fast Freddy, and the 57 Chev that made that race is buried
under the football field, ready to get vengeance against the gangster
The high school auto shop class gets the
57 Chev race ready, and pulls off the first water soluble paint job in a
movie I ever saw. Also the first example of the one car gets chased
into a building by cops, but lots of identical cars leave, and the cops
can't track the right car... trick. Mix them together and a red car goes
in but leaves a car wash blue with a flamejob, among a dozen other cars
or various colors
