With Christmas rolling around again, you’re going through that annual dilemma of finding a gift the car lover in your life will appreciate. That’s not an easy question to answer.
You’ve bought them the all the car cleaning tools, appliances, soaps, waxes and more you can imagine. You’ve bought them shirts with the make and model of their favorite car broadly silkscreened across the chest. Last year, you bought them a clock with the make and model that is now on the wall in the garage. What’s next: bedding with the little logos of the make and model of their favorite car?
How about something different? How about a selection of DVD or Blue Ray movies that no car lover could resist? Not just on Christmas Day, but any day of the year, they can pop in a movie and enjoy the cinematic experience that fits their passion.
Here is a selection of some cinematic gift ideas for car lovers:
- “Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans” (2015 – story about the actor’s experience in the world’s oldest active car race)
- “Bullitt” (1968 – speaking of Steve McQueen, this has one the all-time best car-chase scenes)
- “Le Mans” (1971 – also with Steve McQueen)
- “The Fast and the Furious” (there are eight sequels and another on the way)
- “Baby Driver” (2017 – action comedy about a young driver trying to escape from his crime boss)
- “American Graffiti” (full of classic cars and a great drag race scene at the end)
- “Gone in 60 Seconds” (1974/2000 – Story about a car thief who has to steal 50 cars in 96 minutes)
- “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry” (1974 – Peter Fonda robs a supermarket and is chased by the law)
- “Duel” (1971 – Steven Spielberg’s first real feature film about a mild-mannered man terrorized by a mysterious truck driver)
- “Vanishing Point” (1971 – cult film about a street racer leading the police on wild chase scenes)
- “Speed Racer” (2008 – live-action remake of the earlier animated series)
- “Herbie Fully Loaded” (2005 – sequel about a loveable Volkswagen Beetle helping a girl – Lindsay Lohan – break into racing over her father’s objections)
- “Stroker Ace” (1983 – Story of a NASCAR driver)
- “Grand Prix” (Movie with James Garner about the 1966 Formula One season)
- “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” (1960 – comedy with Will Ferrell about NASCAR)
- “Death Race 2000” (1975 – Sylvester Stallone, David Carradine and Simone Griffeth in a futuristic transcontinental road race)
- “Days of Thunder” (1990 – Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in a story of romance and NASCAR)
- “Senna” (2010 – Biographical story of Ayrton Senna, three-time world champion Formula One racer)
- “The Cannonball Run” (1981 – Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin and other stars in a madcap film about a cross-country race)
- “Thunder Road” (1958 – Robert Mitchum is a bootlegger driving hotrods)
- “The Italian Job” (1969 – Michael Caine steals $4 million from the Mafia)
- “The Last American Hero” (1973 – Jeff Bridges goes from moonshine runner to stock-car racer)
- “Tucker: The Man and His Dram” (1988 – Jeff Bridges plays car maker Preston Tucker)
- “Rush” (Film about the 1976 Formula One race season)
- “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971 - a driver, mechanic and a girl race cross country against a man in a GTO)
- “Weekend of a Champion” (Jackie Stewart at the 1971 Monaco Grand Prix)
- “Cars” (2006 – animated Pixar film about a racecar that learns humility along the way to the top)
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