# Please ID this movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989 "2005-06-27T03:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/1 "2005-06-27T03:25:01Z")
The movie is from the late 60s early 70s. I only remember one scene: A guy is chasing someone possibly in the desert Southwest. He’s on foot but comes across a used car lot. He runs up to the used car dealer and says, what’s the fastest car on the lot? The used car dealer says, Son, you wanna talk about fast! (cut to scene of mussel car flying down the highway running through the gears.) I thought this was from “The Getaway” with McQueen & MacGraw but I just saw that one and that’s not it. If ya know it please post it. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/2 "2005-06-27T03:26:23Z")
> [@Jeffro](#): > > (cut to scene of mussel car flying down the highway running through the gears.) I’m envisioning a clam-shaped car now… ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/3 "2005-06-27T03:29:40Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/4 "2005-06-27T04:34:04Z")
_Frankly Scallop, I don’t give a clam._ ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/5 "2005-06-27T06:11:51Z")
That’s such a classic moment, just after Scallop realizes she doesn’t really love Ashley Whelk. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/6 "2005-06-27T13:31:14Z")
And yet we know from history that Scallop won’t flounder. Adversity won’t turn her into a crab. She’ll salmon the energy from within, and be whistling a happy tuna in no time. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/7 "2005-06-27T14:32:58Z")
Don’t derail the thread like that. It’s shellfish. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/8 "2005-06-27T14:43:17Z")
There’s definitely something fishy about this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/9 "2005-06-27T14:58:26Z")
Check out our mussel car. Single intake valves? Heck, no! It has bivalves! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/10 "2005-06-27T15:03:26Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Check out our mussel car. Single intake valves? Heck, no! It has bivalves! Problem is you can only refuel at Shell. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/11 "2005-06-27T15:35:50Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Problem is you can only refuel at Shell. Yes, but when you uses your credit carp at the pump, it only takes a few minnows. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/12 "2005-06-27T15:58:52Z")
could it be [Two Lane Blacktop](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/) or[White Sands](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105813/)? I kinda doubt it, but that’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/13 "2005-06-27T16:51:03Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > could it be [Two Lane Blacktop](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/) or[White Sands](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105813/)? I kinda doubt it, but that’s all I got. Just thought you’d throw those out for the halibut, hoping you’d hit the right answer by a fluke? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/14 "2005-06-27T17:04:33Z")
“As cod is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/15 "2005-06-27T17:08:36Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > Just thought you’d throw those out for the halibut, hoping you’d hit the right answer by a fluke? I was just fishing on IMDB, but I’ll clam up now. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/16 "2005-06-27T17:46:24Z")
I hightly trout that. I got nothing ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/17 "2005-06-27T17:49:19Z")
Fast? You oughta see that escargot. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/18 "2005-06-27T17:53:40Z")
Steve McQueen… could it have been Bullit? > **[Bullitt (1968) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062765/)** > > Bullitt: Directed by Peter Yates. With Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon. An all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/19 "2005-06-27T19:05:29Z")
I know its not “Two Lane Blacktop” and I dont think its “Bullit” Thanks for trying. ``` Jeffro ``` ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/20 "2005-06-27T20:50:44Z")
Could the movie be [Vanishing Point](http://imdb.com/title/tt0067927/)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989.md?page=2)