Rare Two-Lane Blacktop Behing the Scenes Shots

[cammer427]

Here's some more photos I found on the net. Some are from an article from Hi-Performance Pontiac magazine called "Behind the Camera: Two-Lane Blacktop" (article: http://www.highperformancepontiac.com/fe...ktop/index.html ).

There were three '55s used. One for racing, one for exterior driving shots and one for interior shots.

I believe this is the race car, as the other two cars I believe weren't set up with high performance, dual-4-bbl engines. The guy working on the engine is Technical Advisor Jay Wheatley, who was hired to do the driving in the racing scenes as well as keep the engines in all the cars in tip-top-shape.


This was the car used solely for "interior shots". You can tell by the fake mounted carburetor (from the inside, you can see down the "grump-lump" hood scoop, so they mounted a fake carburetor to fit inside the scoop to make it look correct Jay Wheatley again working on this car.

[FASTONE]

If I remember right the race 55 was painted black had a different hood scoop added and became John Milner's nemesis in American Graffiti. I also remember the AG 55 had an L/88 in it. The race 55 also had fiberglass doors, trunk and one piece tilt front.

[motionwannabe]

awesome. i love that movie