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By glrbird - 14 Years Ago
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I woke up this morning and American Graffiti was on TV. IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT!!
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By Rono - 14 Years Ago
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I watched it too! Never get tired of it. I always wondered if the story was based upon some real life charecters. Rono
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By mctim64 - 14 Years Ago
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Rono (1/17/2011)
I watched it too! Never get tired of it. I always wondered if the story was based upon some real life charecters. Rono It is! I saw a documentary on it and George said that Milner, Toad, Curt and Steve are all a bit of him and most of the others are people he knew, that's why it is based around Modesto and Turlock.
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By lowrider - 14 Years Ago
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One of my favorites also. I think we all can see either ourselves or people we knew back then in the film. The end of the movie that shows "what happened" to the characters kind of shows the end of that era. Just us oldtimers left.
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By aussiebill - 14 Years Ago
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Tim, it is the bible of hotrodding culture and just growing up in those mystery years, and if we all think about it, we could almost identify some of our friends as most of these characters and have a chuckle about it! ha,ha. Tim, after writing nice reply yesterday to your pm etc, it just disappeared, forgot to add bla, bla. Frustrating. oops, bla bla.
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By mctim64 - 14 Years Ago
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aussiebill (1/18/2011)
Tim, it is the bible of hotrodding culture and just growing up in those mystery years, and if we all think about it, we could almost identify some of our friends as most of these characters and have a chuckle about it! ha,ha. Tim, after writing nice reply yesterday to your pm etc, it just disappeared, forgot to add bla, bla. Frustrating. oops, bla bla. I know how it goes. Did you at least see the Sedan Delivery?
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By aussiebill - 14 Years Ago
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Yes tim, i was impressed how rare a body style in that year or most later years it was, i,m guessing it might be workshop truck or weekend ride? i commented it could make up the trio of larry, moe and curly or elwood, jake and earl?? Eitherway i would love to own it, hope we can enjoy the build. best regards bill. bla bla.
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By 'GB'ird - 14 Years Ago
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Great film and is what started my love of classic cars. If anyone's interested in what happened to the white '56 bird: http://kathyschrock.net/graffiti/tbird.htm Don't know what happened to the 'bird' driving it though! Richard UK
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By mctim64 - 14 Years Ago
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'GB'ird (1/19/2011)
Great film and is what started my love of classic cars. If anyone's interested in what happened to the white '56 bird: http://kathyschrock.net/graffiti/tbird.htm Don't know what happened to the 'bird' driving it though! Richard UK She moved in with Jack and Janet.
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By glrbird - 14 Years Ago
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I had read somewhere that Lucas had the coupe built for the move and after filming it sat on a movie lot for a while and the was sold for $1500.00!!!! You can't even buy a 32 body for that now.
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By slumlord444 - 14 Years Ago
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Graduated from high school in 1962. I can definately relate and it was my favorite movie from the firs time I saw it when it was first released.
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By 57FordPU - 14 Years Ago
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I might have mentioned this before, but I was there in Modesto during the time the movie was set. Promos for the movie by the Wolfman said "Where were you in 62?". I was attending Modesto JC and so was Lucas, but I never met him. Even though it was filmed north of San Francisco in Petaluma, I could relate to cruising down 10th and up 11th, both were one-way streets. I was driving my 58 F100 with a 312 and had my share of races from stop light to stop light. There was this guy in a yellow 32 5-window that kept asking me to go out to Paradise Road, but I always told him I had to go study.
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