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The Gearhead Drive-In
Classic car films, hot rods, chase scenes, road movies, racing pictures, drive-in weirdness, and gasoline-era cinema worth watching again.
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Peter Fonda, Susan George, a Dodge Charger, and proper outlaw drive-in energy.
Two-Lane Blacktop
Cars, silence, attitude, and early-’70s road-film weirdness.
Bullitt
The Mustang, the Charger, and the chase scene that still owns the room.
American Graffiti
Cruising, radios, drag-strip tension, and teenage car culture at golden-hour temperature.
The Driver
Cool, stripped-down getaway cinema with serious night-driving style.
Smokey and the Bandit
Trans Am mythology, CB radio nonsense, and pure late-’70s road energy.
Vanishing Point
White Challenger, open road, radio mysticism, and existential horsepower.
Gone in 60 Seconds
The original. Lo-fi chaos, Eleanor, and relentless metal-on-asphalt mayhem.
Christine
Plymouth Fury menace, teen obsession, and one of the great evil-car screen presences.
Duel
Spielberg’s nightmare fuel: one driver, one truck, and escalating highway dread.
Return to Macon County
Southern road-movie trouble with hot cars, youth, and bad decisions.
The Last American Hero
Stock-car roots, bootlegger energy, and blue-collar racing mythology.
Corvette Summer
A custom Corvette, late-’70s weirdness, and teenage car obsession in full bloom.
Van Nuys Blvd.
Cruise-night drive-in culture, street machines, and late-’70s boulevard nonsense.
The California Kid
A ’34 Ford coupe, revenge, small-town menace, and proper hot-rod attitude.
The Road Warrior
Post-apocalyptic machinery, brutal road combat, and gasoline-as-religion cinema.
Fast X
Dom, family, impossible machinery, and a globe-spanning dose of full-throttle spectacle.
Le Mans
Steve McQueen, Gulf-liveried machinery, and racing cinema with the noise left gloriously intact.
Death Proof
Stunt cars, grindhouse swagger, and a final chase built from real steel and righteous revenge.
Used Cars
Cut-rate lots, outrageous salesmanship, and Robert Zemeckis turning automotive sleaze into comedy.
Add a New Car Film Later
Add the poster image to theatre/gearhead-drive-in/images/, then copy a movie card and update the title, poster filename, note, and Plex link.
<a class="movie-card" href="https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/server/SERVER-ID/details?key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2FMETADATA-ID" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<div class="poster">
<img src="images/movie-poster-filename.jpg" alt="Movie title poster">
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<div class="movie-info">
<div class="tag">Year / Type</div>
<h2>Movie Title</h2>
<p>Short note about why this belongs in The Gearhead Drive-In.</p>
<div class="visit">Open in Plex →</div>
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app.plex.tv, so they should work from other devices as long as you are logged into Plex and your server is reachable.