Something Weird Speed Lovers

"Speed Lovers, run flat out of his time...Speed Lovers, devils covered with grime..."
It's 1968 -- but you'd never know it here. While the rest of the country was dropping LSD, protesting the Vietnam war, or freaking out at Woodstock, others were perfectly content watching stock cars zip around and crash into each other. And racing films -- speedsploitation, baby -- were still burning rubber at the box office. From Howard Hawks' Red Line 7000 ('65) to Fireball 500 ('66 with Frankie and Annette) to Thunder Alley ('67, with Fabian and Annette) to Elvis and Nancy Sinatra in Speedway ('68), speedsploitation was a clean-cut, conservative, and (generally) Southern-flavored way of tapping into the youth market without dealing with any scary social issues. Carrying on that tradition is The Speed Lovers, a swingin' & speedin' one-man regional rarity produced, directed, co-written, and starring on WILLIAM F. McGAHA, and real life racing champ FRED LORENZEN, "one of the world's really great speed lovers, and the only race driver to win at every major speedway in the South!" - Something Weird

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[emomotorgeek]

The make out scenes make this movie unbearable.

I'll stick to Bullitt and Gone in 60 Seconds.

[kindersczenen]

Gee, that sounds like Gene Pitney singing--I'm pretty sure it's not, though.

[blacklily8]

Just finished watching this film. Not bad! Worth watching just for the cringe-worthy acting and dialog. "I'm a doer, not a sayer." Uh, yeah!

[murcuillat]

It was worth getting shipped off to Nam after all!

[MalubaySyecado]

Even without the audio you can tell the acting is pretty bad. Sad but I guess he had to take a chance. I mean who would turn down the chance to star in a movie? He probably didn't know too much about the business to know this would be a grindhouse picture. Elvis was doing the same type of picture but those were with a major studio and of course he had those musical numbers.

[lizylinconhauntedhou]

'death proof" all real all new school, the dudes who were the stunt double in that were the originals from back in the day.

cheers!

[cycimian]

Goto love the plastisized hair long before cilicone and the lypo sukers thats now, seems times have changed but people, Judgments awaiting,

[DrRazorblade]

another great film to watch if you just watched death proof hehe

[TheSouthernGentleman]

yea nascar!