Best Drive-In Car Movie – Two Lane Blacktop

The 1970′s were the heyday of the Drive-In movie.  It was a time were summer fun meant parties at the local Drive-In.  Who cares that the stupid sound boxes never worked or that the screen was always fuzzy.  It was never really about the movie anyway.

One of the best years for great car movies has to be 1971.  It was the year of Vanishing Point and our best Drive-In movie, “Two Lane Blacktop”.

A great drive-in movie has to have two things.

1. Great car racing
2. No messy plot or stories to get in the way of the great car racing.

Two Lane delivers on both accounts.  The movie didn’t require you to know anything about the characters, not even their names.  You could watch the whole movie without sound and not miss a thing.

For my friends it was party time until a race scene … then we hollered at the screen edging on our favorite car.  Once the race was over it was back to the party until the next race scene.

How perfect can a movie get..  Great action … no pesky plot.

I think it had a couple of  B-list actors but no one remembers who they were.   Of course it also had “The Ultimate 55 Chevy and 70′s GTO, that we all remember.