The Chase

There have been so many movies over the years that have built major plot points around one of the most exciting action sequences known to Hollywood, the car chase. The good guy chasing the bad guy or the good guys racing hard to get out of harm's way; however it's established these action packed five to seven minutes will get your heart pounding and you up on the edge of your seat.

Grant Cooper is an on line friend who lives out in Los Angeles. We started chatting on line when he commented on a blog post about Doug Painter, Sr.'s 1971 Dodge Challenger (http://turnerbudds-carblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/vanishing-point.html) . Doug had bought the car because he'd fallen in love with the one in the movie Vanishing Point. Grant and I began bantering back and forth about great car chases and great cars in movies over the years.

Grant knows a little something about cars. He worked as a mechanic for 20 years and worked on heavy equipment repair for 35. During that time he worked on everything from the typical daily driver to a 12 cylinder LaSalle and a four cylinder Puma to a right hand drive Bentley. He even helped a friend completely overhaul a '23 T-Bucket. "We rebuilt everything on it except for the differential and the transmission," he said. He promised to share some of those pictures with me.

Now Grant has put together a small web site where he has some of his favorite car chase scenes (and one areal classic). His favorites include some of mine as well. From Bullitt to The French Connection he has collected a hand full of great pieces of cinema.

What I hope you all do is take a look at this web site (http://grantwcooper.com/car%20chases.htm), watch the clips and tell me what you think. Tell me which are your favorite car chases and which ones you would include that aren't there. Either leave a comment or drop me an email at turnerbudds@yahoo.com.

The chase is on.