# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/21 "2005-06-27T21:04:34Z")
After reading all these jokes, my head is swimming. I wait with baited breath for the next plastic sturgeon remark. On a scale of 1-10, this thread is wearing fin. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/22 "2005-06-27T21:15:45Z")
Yeah, the car is fast, but it only goes for a few miles, then the engine conchs out. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/23 "2005-06-27T21:49:46Z")
I don’t recognize the scene described in the OP, but maybe salmon else will. ---
**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, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/24 "2005-06-27T22:39:57Z")
I’ve sent emails about the OP to a grouper my friends. Ray is usually good with movies, but he’s got a haddock. I’m waiting on Gill, who said eel get right back to me. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/25 "2005-06-27T23:17:33Z")
Was it a Stingray? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/26 "2005-07-04T20:51:27Z")
Was the hero acting like such a bass? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/27 "2005-07-04T21:37:34Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Was it a Stingray? Stingray’s are more sports cars than mussel cars. I’m betting it was a Barracuda. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/28 "2005-07-05T18:11:06Z")
> [@Gilligan](#): > > Yeah, the car is fast, but it only goes for a few miles, then the engine conchs out. He blew a seal because he kept flooding the engine… Preventative maintenance is the key. One should tuna the engine regularly. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/29 "2005-07-05T18:27:10Z")
My first thought was Clint Eastwood’s “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” when Jeff Bridges steals the red/orange Trans Am. But I don’t recall him being chased at the time, nor running up to the used car dealer. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/30 "2005-07-05T18:30:08Z")
I ran this past a friend of mine who watches a lot of car movies, and he, too, thought of [Vanishing Point](http://imdb.com/title/tt0067927/), which I mentioned above. I can’t guarantee that this is the right movie, since I have not seen it in decades, but it’s a good, watchable movie, so if you rent it and it isn’t the one you’re looking for, at least you won’t have wasted your time and money. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/31 "2005-07-05T19:39:53Z")
Going through the desert and coming across a car lot? Hmmm… Maybe it was “Used Carps” with Kurt Mussel and Jack “Fish” Warden? ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/32 "2005-07-05T20:13:17Z")
I think **pinkfreud** is correct 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/33 "2005-07-05T22:50:09Z")
> [@akira5822](#): > > I think **pinkfreud** is correct 🙂 I don’t think so. The whole premise behind “Vanishing Point” was that he (Kowalski) was being paid to transport the Challenger from point A to point B - no need for a used car lot. And he drives the same car throughout the whole movie. I am referring to the original “VP”, BTW. A used car lot scene may be in the remake, but then that wouldn’t fit the 60’s or 70’s timeframe of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/34 "2005-08-02T21:18:01Z")
> [@Jeffro](#): > > 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. Just found this thread while browsing the Threadspotting archive. I was thinking that you saw William Atherton and Goldie Hawn in [The Sugarland Express](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0072226/combined) but you don’t mention a shootout in the used car lot. Here are some chase movies from that period, see if any of them ring a bell. [Charley Varrick](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0069865/combined) - Walter Matthau,.Joe Don Baker, and Felicia Farr rob a bank and end up with Mob money. Filmed in Nevada. [Dirty Mary Crazy Larry](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/combined) - Peter Fonda and Susan George kidnap the daughter of a grocery store owner. Features cops in Hemi-powered Chrysler products chasing a Dodge Charger. [The Gauntlet](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0076070/combined) - Eastwood, a Phoenix Cop, has to escort witness (and prostitute) Sondra Locke from Vegas. You’d probably have remembered the armored bus at the end, though. [Gone in 60 Seconds](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071571/combined) - no, not _that_ one, this is the 1974 original. [Mr. Majestyk](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071866/combined) - Charles Bronson vs. mobsters. Filmed in Colorado. [Newman’s Law](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071902/combined) - Officer George Peppard vs. some crooked cops. [Out of Sight](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0060807/combined#comment) - a young Robert Pine in a spy spoof along with bunch of people whose careers didn’t really go anywhere. [The Pick-Up](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0127108/combined) - Mobsters Wes Bishop and Stefan Zima are conned ouf of a million bucks by Tracy Saunders and Lynn Harris and have to get the money back before someone higher up notices. Filmed in Nevada. [Silver Streak](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0075223/combined) - Gene Wilder keeps getting put off a train. Filmed at various locations from LA to Chicago. [Sol Madrid](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0063621/combined) - G-Man David McCallum and hooker Stella Stevens vs. mobster Rip Torn and drug kingpin Telly Savalas. Filmed in Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/35 "2005-08-14T00:06:42Z")
Thanks a lot for the list of possiables Lute. The Sugarland Express sounds the most promising will check it out and post if its the one I remember. Jeffro ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989/36 "2005-08-14T02:24:43Z")
> [@GrizzRich](#): > > He blew a seal because he kept flooding the engine… “Just fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-movie/309989.md?page=1)