This car set my whole style and love of hot rodding in motion. One of the very rare times when the "real deal" was used on film(including Graffiti). It still gives me cold chills when I see it.
don't feel bad,i've owned over a 11 of them,everytime I'd get one road ready some sob come up and offer me more money than I ever had,i was 19,don't beat yourself so much,go get another one
Lol, I owned 15, 55 Chevy's from 92 - 02 it was like a dream, never thought I would build one much less own that many of them. Love O'l 55's, met a lot of nice people.
Despite what sad little internet trolls post, this car is indeed the real deal. It's the #2 car, used as a camera car for filming scenes inside the car. It is one of three built by Richard Ruth for Two-Lane Blacktop. ( It was never used in American Graffiti. The other two were, and a junkyard '55 was brought in for the burn scene.) Richard Ruth documented the car, helped with the restoration, and was with it at Barrett-Jackson to answer questions and sign autographs. He also rode in the passenger seat as it rolled onto the auction block.There was extensive history and documentation on display with the car before the auction. Richard said there are lots of clones of the Two-Lane Blacktop '55 out there and some sold as supposedly the real car - but he has examined, helped restore, and documented the two that still exist.
Wouldn't it have been cool if James Taylor would have been there and bought the car himself? Classic cool ass movie. If you are a gear head, this movie should be in your collection.
Wouldn't it have been cool if James Taylor was there and he got in it during the auction and did a burn out and crashed it into the bidders and killed a bunch of them and stole the car crashing it after a high speed chase by the cops.
I think this is the car they found in Canada in Autotrader listed as a "Two Lane Blacktop clone"? I know they paid less than 10k for it, then figured out it was one of the originals. The straight axle got swapped out for an S-10 or maybe a 2nd gen F-body A-arm style, the rear was supposedly from a '58 Olds, and the original builder still had the template in his shop to re-make the hood-scoop. They got the "weathered look" on the originals by taking a brush and splattering lacquer thinner on the primer, then hosing it off quick. These cars were works of art for the budget involved to make them look and perform the way they did. The #3 car supposedly got turned into a tubbed yellow Pro Street car back in the '80's in Maryland. If I had the means, I would have bought this one for twice as much and daily driven it for sure. I'd at the very least go coast to coast either sleeping in it or cheap motels along the way.
Man coast to coast and camping out in it on the way like route 66 would be a fkn blast. Just might do that to this titled 4 Dr I picked up that is complete just needs some love to the floors and brakes mainly . LoL .
I was at Lakeland raceway, TN when filming was being done on movie 2 Lane Blacktop. I was using my 8mm camera and taking movies. Got movies of the 55. Still have movies,
I'm looking at a picture of both 55 cars used for the movie. Car 1 looks good n car 2 is set up with running boards for filming n has two shades of paint. Both 55 are parked along side of the orange GTO on a movie studio lot. Theirs an image of car two being pulled by a truck for filming scenes. It doesn't look as good car 1. Was car 1 taken for American Graffiti?
55 mechanic Rawlings is a douche. Fuck him and Barrett Jackson. Seeing this car on there is an afront to what the car originally symbolized. Anti-authority and anti-establishment. Guys like them continue to make it a rich man's hobby.
This is the biggest steal for a car BJ has ever seen. I think as time goes by, the current owner will see an increase of its value. I cant believe the car didnt get over 200k. I bet there was at least 80k in the restore.
Magnante is wrong about the brakes , in a scene in the movie Dennis Wilson removes the right rear slick and low and behold rear disc brakes they look like wilwoods to me , I wouldve thought the same as Steve but saw it myself.
Jerry I saw the GTO at a Pontiac convention in Charleston WV in the late 90s it was documented to be the driver from Two lane blacktop it was a numbers matching 455 HO judge I couldn't see the block no. but it had #64 D port heads they are correct for a 70 455 HO also had the correct exhaust manifolds The car was completely original down to the paint and decalsThe owner was not named the man showing the car said the owner wanted to remain anonymous ( for all I know he was the owner)
Jim did come up with that all by yourself They may have been over rated back in there day but the GTO in two lane blacktop would've easily won the cross country race against the shoebox now in a drag race the modified 55 wins hands down Now with both vehicles in factory stock condition the GTO would easily win either a cross country or drag race against a stock 265As for 1970 GTOs if you bought one with the RA IV 400 and a good rear gear it would hold its own even against the mighty HEMI
NoFive.o Kevin You crazy the studio did not put more that to or three grand make that car it was a low budget film there are junk car's all over the studio.
This is not of course the original raced 55' in the movie, but there is a guy out east or in texas i'm not sure that has the original no.1 car and restored it to original movie prestege, thats' the car i will own if i have the money to buy it ,or being at the right place at the right time to buy it! Since i first saw this movie back in the 70's iv'e always diged this movie (best drag car race movie) ever made! I had the same wheel's on my 55' big window 1/2 ton chevy when i street raced in the 80's but i had a hi-po corvette 350ci. with the rockcrusher 4 speed 411gears had a blast! I sure miss it >< !!!
martin750hp This is the original Two Lane camera car. All interior shots were made in this car. It still has the scaffolding brackets welded to the frame. The other surviving car is now the Graffiti car. The camera car is really a cleaner car. Both cars had been changed a lot by previous owners. Richard Ruth still has the original patterns, measurements, drawings and pics from when he built them. I've been around both cars and actually hands on the Graffiti car. Cool stuff. grancuda thanks for posting this video! I wasn't sure it got televised. :)
I don't usually write back to anybody but: The original car they raced at the track and in the movie has the 454 bbc no.1 car. With no camera! The camera car had a 427bbc no.2 car. Camera car is not the no.1 car look it up!
It's confusing which is which. I saw the black one at a local car show, and heading southbound on route 29 about 15 years ago. It's funny, I thought it was a replica! Since then, I've read and heard numerous times that the car was in MD. Ahah! THATS why everyone was crowding around it at the show!
Restored? That's not a "restored" car. It would never be a local show restoration winner let alone a national winner. It's a cool movie-car hotrod re-done to approximate how it looked in a movie, not the showroom floor.
My dad's friend owns this car and if u don't believe me go onto Facebook and put down max Powell and go onto his pictures u will find on there and I went in that car last night when me and my dad went out with his friend with their hotrods
@@joebone3151 negative. There were 3 cars built for two lane blacktop by Richard Ruth. This is the Number 2 car that was owned by Walt Bailey and now resides in Ohio. The “roll car” used in American Graffiti was not the only one, nor was it the same car was the “burn car” which was a hardtop or the car Harrison Ford drove, which was restored by Ruth and now resides in Texas. All of this information is common knowledge in the car community and also a Google search away.
@@DerekCastleSr. dude all of the originals have been destroyed or crashed one way or another. All cars that look like it are fakes or fan made ones even this one
@@DerekCastleSr. they were all destroyed beyond repair you ain't repairing a borderline crushed car. None were restored all are fan made builds. Done more research then you.
I say it a bunch of times Richard Rawlings SUCK!!! Now who cares what car is witch there all awesome and really fun to drive but I'm the type of guy that would pay $200k for a muscle car an drive it everywhere
