David’s post over at Hemmings yesterday got me thinking about car movies and I went looking for one of the greatest street racing B-Movies of all time. Ok, so street racing is bad. Forgive me while I regress to my youth for a moment and think about one of my fave flicks, King of the mountain. Featuring names like Harry Hamlin, Dan Haggarty and Dennis Hopper and cars like a scraggly old Vette and a Porsche Speedster replica, how could the producers lose? Well, the movie was a bit of a flop, but the racing scenes on Mulholland fueled my teenage fantasy of what California was all about.

Haggarty played an old racer who owned a Porsche race shop, while Hopper’s character was the drunk old tech who lives in the shop and was King of the mountain, once upon a time. Hamlin plays the current King, but otherwise his character didn’t leave too much of a mark in my brain. His speedster did though!

Thanks to the joys of Youtube the trailer is after the break
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Back in the good old days, it was pretty common for European manufacturers to offer stripped down sporting versions of their regular road cars. For a long time, the fun side of things vanished as corporations tried to be politically correct or something. Lately though, the design gods are bringing the fun back. Case in point, the Audi TT clubsport quattro concept. Borrowing styling cues from sixties era speedsters, this is one hot looking machine.

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Audi press release with all the details after the break
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