{"id":205,"date":"2009-04-12T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cars.zimbly.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-04-12T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T19:56:56","slug":"top-car-chase-race-movies-from-1900-with-free-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sftwrfctry.com\/sftwrfctry\/cars\/2009\/04\/12\/top-car-chase-race-movies-from-1900-with-free-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Car Chase & Race Movies (with free pdf)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eleanor the star of Gone in Sixty Seconds<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Car themed movies are my favourite type. I have extended it into movies with really good car chase scenes. I have been carrying a list of around 60 movies to add to my existing collection for the past 2 years and adding them slowly one at a time when I find them. These are Hollywood movies in English and range from 1900 till 2009. I still have not built up a non-English collection (just noticed that there seems to be a good number of Japanese and French movies that fit the car theme). This weekend, I delved a bit deeper into the data of movies available and tried grouping them into categories and also sorted them by year. In the process my list of 60 suddenly became 135. I have added this list as a free pdf\u00a0download<\/a>.\u00a0As of now, I own around 30 movies that I call car themed movies. If you have to ask who Eleanor, Bumblebee, Herbie, The Judge <\/strong>and\u00a0General Lee <\/strong>are you should probably stop here and decide if you want to read the remaining.<\/p>\n

The current decade (2000’s) seems to have the maximum number <\/strong>of car themed movies\u00a0 and movies with car chases occupying key parts of the storyline.The next closest decade was the 70’s. We are indeed in car-crazy times :-). The 80’s and 90’s didnt seem to be that into cars, did they ?<\/p>\n

The movies can be grouped into racing movies(including all forms of racing like NASCAR,Champ car, Drag strip, street racing, illegal racing), chase movies (car chases and crashes), Bio-pics(about famous racing legends), Horror , Drama (deeper story around car theme) and also finally about driving( typically high speed driving, stunts, long distance, getaways). Chases in movies comprise close to 35%<\/strong> of movies on my list and Race themed movies comprise 46% of the list. Interestingly the percentage of movies having critically acclaimed chase scenes in the 70s <\/strong>was around 18% and race themed movies at 76%<\/strong>.In the last 9 years the ratio is 57% chase<\/strong> scenes and 28% on race <\/strong>themed. The ratio has turned 180 degrees around in 30 years !<\/p>\n

The earliest car themed movie I could find was the 1913 <\/strong>movie –Speed Kings<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>based on automobile racing. If there is anything earlier than that please let me know. There was a movie called Speed <\/strong>in 1935 that was also based on auto racing which was pretty popular then.<\/p>\n

All time popular cars and movies they appeared in:<\/strong><\/p>\n