Let the spanking begin! If you listen closely you can hear one of the Viper team say, “I see Vultures.” refering to the Vette lap record.

I just can’t get enough of Lou Galanos’ photos from the golden days of endurance racing in Florida. This shot is of the John Greenwood Team Corvette taken at the 1973 24 hours of Daytona. Driven by Don Yenko and Bob Johnson, the car did not finish the event.

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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