The Two Lane Blacktop 55 Chevy comes out of hibernation 

This car sends shivers down my spine - I still have the DVD and watch it every now and then :-)

Good to see the old car running. I talk to Richard from time to time, last time I spoke to him was last year about maybe doing an article about him for the magazine I write for. He told me someone was doing a documentary. I didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes. Richard is a big fan of my 55 too.

Having a roll cage in a 55 chevy is pretty useless. If i rolled my 55, i wouldn't want to live anymore anyways.

Ever since I watched that movie as a kid I fell in love with that car it's so bad ass

I watched (Two Lane Blacktop) at our local drive in back in the early 70's. Still love to watch it ! I have owned three 55 Chevys and I do believe this movie is one of the reasons I have always loved them! One of my three I had I drag raced at my closest drag strip!

i think about the only person alive from the movie is Taylor. Glad to see the car is still around, one of three made for the movie.

Looks and sounds completely awesome! Had a friend in the 80s had a 56 that I painted gray primer looked and sounded much the same! Thanks for sharing this with us!

I was 13 years old when I seen the movie . All I could think about ,dream about ,and talk about was a 55 Chevy by the time I was 14 i had one

Probably my all-time favorite hot rod movie....low-budget, minimalist, crude, but BAD-ASS ! James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, and Warren Oates had that magic chemistry. Better than all those bogus "Fast and Furious" movies put together....side note: Laurie Bird ("The Girl") was found dead in musician Art Garfunkel`s apartment several years later....

Two Lane Blacktop - love the movie and the 5-5 ! 55 Chevy brings back a lot of memories for me. Had one from 1967- 1970. Last motor was a 500+ hp 331ci Corvette motor w/Pontiac Muncie 4 speed, and a 4.11 (street) posi rear. Painted 69 Caddy Sapphire Mist Blue. w/4.88's and set up to race, ran the quarter best 11.96 at 114+mph. Off the line at 3800, shift at 7800 ! Selling that car (1970) after all the time, effort and $ was big mistake (sigh) !

Thanks for the clip. I really need to get back working on my 55. Got burned out and have not touched it in years.

A true badass when James Taylor was going through the gears with warren Oates in the front seat That car cranked

I saw this car in 2005 at the 50th birthday celebration put on by Classic Chevy Club at the GM Tech Center. It was nice to meet Walt Bailey.(the owner, and the man who found and restored the car) My hope is that someday, the AG 55 will be restored, and both of these cars will be shown together.

Saw that movie at the drive-in when i was 12 and it's been my dream car ever since.

“That Plymouth had a Hemi with a Torque Flite, I believe we sawed the guy off even though we did loose two hundred”

Probably the only car in history to get voice over work this car served as the overdubbed sound of the 77 Trans Am in Smokey and the bandit

THE MOST FAMOUS 55 OF ALL!! KEEP THE VIDS COMING ON THIS INCREDIBLE PIECE OF HISTORY!!

I love that car and the movie

Very nice car ....my dad brought me on to the movie and this car is a legend

Good to see it back out! I was afraid it would be in a private collection never to be seen again when it was sold. I live close to the previous owner Walt, who would bring it to local car shows. My favorite 55 in the world!

American Racing rims, model 200S, I had a set in my 56 and 57, they still look great after all these years !!

the most beautiful dashboard I have ever seen El salpicadero de coche más bonito que he visto

I was at Lakeland drag strip outside of Memphis the day this car was there for the drag race scenes.

Good to see it still exists. Did you forget to flip the front end? Great heritage for a lot of car folks.

It is still the baddest 55 I have seen thanks for sharing

Classic, glad to see it back

Man, I've wanted that car, or one built like it , since about 1990 when I first seen the movie. I would daily drive the heck out of that car. Only 3 55 Chevys ever made such as lasting impression on me. The two lane, the graffiti and the cheese wiz. I was fortunate to see this car in person about 20 years ago.

I had a tilt front end on my 57 Chevy and it sure made it easy to change the spark plugs. ;-)

Tri five chevy on my top 10 list, thanks for sharing

Just the best and A + from the bloody knuckle garage

I'm buying a 55 Chevy 210 2 door post in 2 weeks, and would really like to make it look like a Two Lane Blacktop...love your car!

Thank you for sharing this video with all of us.

As a German Guy, I guess, I am the only one within a big radius, who knows about this 55 and the story behind it. For me: this is the American Car. It is a big V8, it is made for the quarter mile, it is vintage and it made it to Hollywood. Big hands for making it running again...

If I remember correctly. This is the camera/back up car. The American Graffiti car was the main car from 2 lane blacktop? Been a long time but I think I remember reading that somewhere.

THanks for sharing a friend from canada Rob ✌

I saw Two-Lane at the PAL Drive-In Toombs County Georgia, 1971. I was 18 OMG!

Moved from Athens, TN to Needles, CA a couple years ago (those are arguably the beginning and ending of the filmed road trip). I don't fly so when I drive back to TN ('68 nova), I call it "the Kessel Run." Last time, I did it in .0000000000000001 of a Parsec! Suck it, Han Solo!

that would be something to show up at a james taylor concert and try to get him to sign the rig someplace

I'll always regret not taking better care of and keeping my '55 BelAir 2dr HT...Alas, misspent youth!...🥲😮‍💨😢😭

The owner was gracious and let me sit in the drivers seat at the Solon Rock and Roll Street Machine car show on a Tuesday night a few years ago. I love the car. The only thing I would change if I had it would be to update the engine's external appearance to more closely match the movie. Maybe put a painted balancer on it like they showed at the air strip at the end of the movie and swap on some early style float bowls on the dual Holley carbs.

That's awesome ride

Sure hope you got to go to your car show, well done.

"Better move over, one of those chargers behind us"

Love the daisy mags, someone in the U.K. owns a very good replica of this car.

You gotta love the Tri-Fives.👍🏻👊

Piece of heaven on earth.🇨🇦

Man I love that car!

Looks an sounds awesome.

From the movie or not,,, Great Car..! There’s just something about it... And this is coming from a Pontiac guy....! 👍

The real 55 Chevy of that time was called "Shakey Jake". You could find it in Hatboro, Pa. on Fridays. They used to call it, "Cruisin the Boro". I've seen that car stand straight up in the middle of town. It purportedly had a 454 with tunnel ram. The exterior was a beautiful navy blue with a white rolled and pleated interior, (no back seat). Carried a 656 Olds rear and spinned a pair of Mickey Thompson slicks. This car could not be beat in a quarter mile. The Owner/Driver was known to his friends as "JAKE". The name of the car came from him. You could find it on the front fenders. AND, it did SHAKE!

Old cars were so plain inside all you needed was there wish you could still buy them that way

Beautiful double nickel. Sounds healthy

Love that movie a true classic 👍

..love that Car!!!..it's a Fuckin Monster!!!...just yesterday met this cat at a bar,..Were talking about cars,..He said " Go out side an check out my Car!..Fuckin 1970 SS Camero LT 350!..4 on the floor,..Silver paint job!.Rally Wheels!..He even took me for a Spin!...Made my day!!!..

If that is the camera car (which I am almost positive it is), that was sold to one of the mechanics that worked on TLBT after filming. It wasn't used in Graffiti. They got the other 2 and the stunt car that was supposed to be rolled at the truck accident scene in Two Lane (stunt car had radiused wheel wells but a metal front with a different hood scoop and silver steel wheels). This car was found somewhere east of Vancouver in Canada in a classified section advertised as just "A 55 Chevy Race Car" or something to that effect. The only other survivor got turned into a pro street custom with an absurd paint job and tweed interior and resided in Maryland or Virginia. I am going off of memory from the magazine article I read almost a decade ago. I heard from friends that have seen it that the owner is a really super cool guy that truly loves the hobby. Other things I vaguely remember was that it was missing the original hood scoop but Ruth still had the template in his shop, the LS6 was missing, but it had the fiberglass body parts (Graffiti used metal doors), M-22 and Olds rear in place and it was bought really cheap considering what it is. Thanks for the update on what it is doing now. And for the guy asking if the Buick GN was inspired by this? Molly's original concept GN was burgundy, the 215 '82 GN's were mostly 4.1 N/A's painted like a WH1. I've had a couple TR's, so that comment stood out. The coolest LC2 car made was the black WO2's withhe chrome bumpers that they cancelled after the first 90 days that gave the '87 cars the moniker of "Turbo T" instead of "T-Type". Cheers to all of you car nuts that also love these somewhat obscure instruments of amazement.

Really nice car ❤

Sounds NICE!

Wow, literally one of my “if I become a millionaire” cars. What an awesome car to own. I hope you enjoy it!

Did you check the jets?

awesome car

Thank you! You sure made my day!!! Love that sound!!! What mufflers are they??

55 chevy best of the tri fives

I always assumed the band Primer 55 chose that name in reference to the car from Two Lane Blacktop.

awesome !!!!! is it tube front end or ibeam? 3 or 4 inch drop?

Sounds awesome, idle needs to come up a tad. Was it a cold motor?

You can never go too fast

RIP Monti Hellman 😢

Everyone isn’t wrong to love this version, but honestly I like the American graffiti version so much more. In the 90s and early 2000s it was so common to see primer paint jobs and I absolutely hate it 😂.

That's the actual movie car? That's awesome!

Nice car.

Amazing movie and amazing car, I am so so thankful one of the productions cars is still alive and in immaculate shape. Do you still currently own this beauty and what state is it located in? -Thanks!

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 DOUBLE NICKELS FOREVER. STILL GOT MY RAGTOP AND WE JUST PUT A BIG BLOCK IN MY SONS BLACK PRIME COUPE 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Please add video shots of front axle

Freaking Cool !!!

Dang that’s how ya run

Best looking thing chebby ever built. MOPAR2YA 😎

Just looks badass, no apologies and in your face.

Sounds great , is the cam solid lift or Hyd

55’s are the baddest & sexiest of the 50’s Chevys in my humble opinion. I gotta also say, that I dig the grey worn out tone on the Chevy/Two Lane Blacktop than the gloss black paint job that was on it in, American Graffiti. However I wish they kept the skull 💀 mirror decoration cause it really tied the car together haha!

its been 3 years.

How many of these 55 chevys have we seen on You Tube that claim to be the car from Two Lane Blacktop? I'm not saying this isn't the car. It is just that I don't believe anyone anymore. But it is a nice car

Im confused...i thought the same 55 was used in Two Lane Blacktop and American Graffiti? So how come there's videos showing both of them?

I love how the had to slow the 55 down when he ran the Ford in America graffiti so they could film the cars together because the 55 capt gapping the duece🤣😂💪

Way too cool!

That really sounds pretty close to my short wide that I had what's your PSI on your fuel if you don't mind me asking

So this car is in Ohio now? Just wondering after reading description. Always loved this car, and the movie. Love the sound of that rockcrusher in the movie.

Is this like the bullit mustangS that came out of hiding just in time for the anniversary

HOT DAM SOUNDS GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yah! want me to wipe the bugs of the wind shield...??

I've always heard that the main car from two-lane blacktop was used in American Graffiti which car is this

I have a director's cut, up two lane blacktop dvd set with all kinds of information on these cars. These haters have no business here making stupid comments. Car looks awesome by the way!

Watched show at a 5 bucks a car load drive in theater along with vanishing point. Age 16 almost got laid that weekend. A note worthy show.

I’ve sat in that car if it’s Walt Baileys old car. He at it at the Timonium car show here in MD years ago

I noticed the white headliner. Was this also, Bob Falfa’s hero car? Thanks

Anybody out there in the know, is this what you would call a Gasser? Great video thanks for sharing ✌🏻👍

RIP Dennis.

it was reported that this car was painted and became the black 55 in american grafitti

WHAT KINDA BUCKET SEATS ARE IN THE CAR? AND, IS THE STEERING COLUM STOCK?

There must be a100 two lane black top 55's out there.

Great car. Did it originally have that 56 radio?