Still more car chase classics people want to re-do......

Quentin Tarantino said another of his favorite B-movie action flicks is "The Driver".  This one starred a young Ryan O' Neal as a pro getaway driver that criminals hire to help them evade the police after jobs. Bruce Dern was the detective obsessed with catching him. There's an exciting opening chase with O' Neal driving a blue Ford LTD. There's also a great scene where he demolishes a Mercedes in a parking garage while auditioning for a job, while his prospective "employers" scream like schoolgirls from the backseat.  Ronee Blakely is his "Manager" / sometime girlfriend who books his jobs and it's her murder that sends him on a quest for vengenance.  Good story, good action, good acting. Then director Walter Hill-( "48 Hrs", "Undisputed" ) screws up the final chase. O'Neal is driving a '76 Chevy Stepside pickup with a granny-gear 4-speed and the bad guy he's chasing is driving a '76 Trans-Am. Puhleeze. If the truck was a 454 it might have made a good drag race, but around corners? The T/A would leave the truck in 3 blocks, and be completely out of sight, and that's if the T/A had a 400, a TH350 automatic and 2.56:1 gears. If it was a 400 or 455 / 4-speed model with 3.23:1 gears.....then 2 blocks.  I mean the only worse mismatch I saw was in the stinker  "Wanted" where the guy in the UPS type box van chased Angelina Jolie and James Macavoy in a Dodge Viper!!  Ironically-earlier in the film O' Neal had been driving a gold '77 Firebird like the one on the "Rockford Files".  If he was chasing the T/A in that it would have been believable, especially if the Firebird had a 350 Pontiac or a 350 Chevy under the hood. ( Which some '77's did. GM played musical engines in the late '70's because of smog laws.) Anyhow-the final chase ruined it for me-the other guy wrecks the T/A, O' Neal doesn't wreck the truck of course and he gets away and leaves Dern dumbfounded.  It would be easy to do, just match the cars up right.  # 2. "The California Kid"  This 1974 made-for TV- movie was set in 1958 and made a star out of an unknown actor named Martin Sheen. It also starred Nick Nolte as the town mechanic and Michelle Phillips as a lonely waitress who befriends Sheen. Vic Morrow was the evil sheriff who chased speeders to death in his hopped-up cop car.  A speeder he killed recently was Sheen's younger brother.  Sheen dirves a hopped up '34 Ford coupe with a sinister black and flames paint job. Flame lettering on the doors says "California Kid". The car was built by the late Pete Chapouris who started Pete and Jake's auto parts. The car still exists today-in Missouri with the new owners of Pete's auto parts business. After Morrow kills Nick Nolte's little brother, he and Sheen form a plan, and lure Morrow to the deadly stretch of road where he chases Sheen, who outdrives and out runs him, causing the sheriff to crash and die like so many of his victims. You could do it that way, or you could have the "Kid" decide to forego his vengenance, and leave town with the waitress, who of course the sheriff had a thing for-and the sheriff puts out a false report that the "Kid" kidnapped the waitress. More car-chase mayhem can ensue until the "Kid" and the sheriff finally have to face off.  # 3. "Moonshine County Express"  This one starred John Saxon, Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings, Susan Howard and Maureen McCormick. After their father is murdered by a rival moonshiner three sisters go to war with him. Saxon helps them. Lots of car chases and musclecars, Jennings shows hers boobs, there's even a bondage scene with Maureen McCormick, wearing a tank top and denim shorts, tied to a post in a barn with a bomb ticking at her feet. I mean if Marcia Brady bound and gagged won't get your freak on, then what will?  Kind of an NC-17 rated "Dukes of Hazzard" but still fun, and would still fly today with minor changes.  Anybody think of any others?  Mastermind