Thunder Road

[rmk57]

On tonight on TCM at 9:00 PST.

[BP57CUSTOM]

I don't know if we have that channel ! I have not seen Thunder Road since last Saturday morning.

[59meteor]

The popcorn is on, Randy!!

[gasman826]

I was watching an old Twilight Zone last night and they used the ending, crash scene from Thunder Road.

[hemidave]

  I stayed up and watched it from midnight on, and enjoyed every minute of it again !

[rovohn]

The popcorn is on, Randy!!

Frank and I watched it last time I was in Kamloops,pretty cheesy but lots of those movies were in the '50s
John

[RICH MUISE]

I'll stay out of the conversation. Last time I talked about it, I got my very first smite and was banned by one of the moderators for a week, lol.

[Ecode70D]

I'll stay out of the conversation. Last time I talked about it, I got my very first smite and was banned by one of the moderators for a week, lol.

   WHAT??

[lalessi1]

Ditto "WHAT"! I have never understood the smite thing though.

[RICH MUISE]

The smite thing is not to be taken too seriously.............just a way of letting someone know you don't agree with them.                                                                                                                                                       

[59meteor]

I was watching an old Twilight Zone last night and they used the ending, crash scene from Thunder Road.

I saw that exact same thing as well. After Thunder Road, I watched our local news for 1/2 hour, and switched to Twilight Zone. A few minutes later, I am thinking that I just saw this same 57 Fairlane 500 crashed into a power station 30 minutes ago! Only this time, Jed Clampett used his mind control to flip the 57 back onto its wheels. Kinda like a deja vu moment to be sure. I don`t know why on Thunder Road that they felt the need to dub in what sounded like a 6 cylinder with a split exhaust note, rather than just use the V8 sound. But then I also don`t understand why the Merc at the gas station flipped on its side when the 57 parked behind it exploded, or why the 50 Ford had a 51 dash and hubcaps either!

[Lou]

I watched it too. Did you notice that the bad guys in the 57 chasing the 50 ford were driving a Fairlane 500, but the car that went down the embankment was a Fairlane.
I counted 5 57 Fords destroyed or damaged in the film, that couldn't have been cheap as the 57s were new at the time.

[59meteor]

Yes I noticed that too, Lou. Also noticed one of the 57s had the turbine wheel covers, which I think are great looking covers.

[Hoosier Hurricane]

Did anyone notice in the first chase scene that the '50 rolled when making his U turn, but the car came out of the turn unscathed?   John

[BP57CUSTOM]

Gota love it!