Hollywood needs to mine some old gems....

I remembered a book I read in high school-It was titled "Wheel of A Fast Car" by W.E. Butterworth. It was written in 1969, I think I read it about 1976. It would make a great action / coming of age movie. The main character is a 17 year old boy from New Jersey who tries to outrun the police one night in his Triumph TR4. He can't outrun the radio-and eventually they catch him. He loses his driver's liscence, his college scholarship, and his girlfriend over the incident. His exasperated mother sends him to live with his uncle for the summer. His Uncle is a Nascar racer from North Carolina. He gets put to work on his uncle's pit crew, meets his cousin Dewey who is a "good Ol' Boy" also on the crew. He learns a lot about life and what's really important. There's a lot of racing action and it's a great story. I'd much rather see something like this than another "Fast&Furious". Or if they must do re-makes, what about "Little Fauss and Big Halsy?"  This one featured a young Robert Redford and a young Micheal J. Pollard as motorcycle racers / buddies who want to race the big race ar Sears Point and have a falling out over a woman-a young Lauren Hutton who was totally naked in a couple of scenes. Johnny Cash did the soundtrack-and one of the songs "Wanted Man" was written by Bob Dylan and was a huge hit for Cash that year. It had great racing action and great dialogue-Redford's philosophizing is as good as anything Tarantino can come up with. Pollard's transformation from hero-worshipping geek to a man to be reckoned with is excellent. The look on Redford's face in the last shot says it all. Another good one would be "The Seven-Ups". This little known gem starred the late Roy Scheider as the head of an elite N.Y. P.D. unit-they investigated crimes where the penalty was 7 years in prison or more. Hence the title. An informant of Scheider's was kidnapping gangsters and collecting ransoms from them. There was some good suspense, and a great car chase between two Pontiacs-a '73 Ventura driven by Scheider and a '73 Grand Vile piloted by Bill Hickman-who also drove the Charger in "Bullitt". Anyhow-there's good stuff out there-they just need to think outside the box. Mastermind