https://velocetoday.com/cars-and-stars-of-the-racers/ The Online Magazine for Italian and French Classic Car Enthusiasts Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:51:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://velocetoday.com/cars-and-stars-of-the-racers/comment-page-1/#comment-64920 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:51:38 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=83983#comment-64920 Isn’t that a coincidence…… As I read this story, I only have to look upwards on my wall, in my “car guy” room – which is covered with autographed photos and prints from the 1930’s and on up, to see my framed 10 x 13 movie lobby card of The Racers. I have an autographed portrait photo of Kirk Douglas inside that frame. Over the years, I’ve seen the whole movie on TV – plus caught repeated parts of it while channel surfing. Yes, some great vintage racing shots in there.

]]> https://velocetoday.com/cars-and-stars-of-the-racers/comment-page-1/#comment-63209 Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:36:17 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=83983#comment-63209 In UK this was called “Such men are dangerous” I saw it when I was aged about 9 or 10 & was ruined forever!

]]> https://velocetoday.com/cars-and-stars-of-the-racers/comment-page-1/#comment-62978 Sat, 02 Jul 2016 18:46:24 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=83983#comment-62978 Some years ago, I did an extended interview with John Fitch and we wound up talking more about The Racers and the Corvette efforts at Sebring than we did about John’s more successful ventures. He was fascinated by the movie-making process but left aghast at the finished product. We joked that this was his first venture into automotive manufacturing…transforming old racers into new Buranos! The movie is uniformly as bad as you would expect, but there are still several minutes of glorious footage. And John Frankenheimer said it was an influence when he started planning Grand Prix.

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