car racing movie from the 80s or 90s set in america. \

Chronicling the history of street racing, this fascinating documentary takes viewers from Southern California drag races of the 1950s through the contemporary underground street competitions and the influence of films like The Fast and the Furious. Numerous interviews with street racers, racing aficionados, professional drag racers and magazine editors shed light on the pervasive illegal racing subculture.

Relive the glory years of sports car racing with this entry from the popular Automotive Series that draws on rare archival footage and interviews to explore the origins of many of the cars that have graced the racetrack over the decades. Highlights include a 30-year overview of Corvette racing, a jaw-dropping duel between a Ferrari F-1 and a Lola TC70 coupe, and the classic race cars that the made the 1984 Bahamas Speed Week one for the ages.

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

Racing Romance is a 1927 Action film. According to a brief article in the St. Petersburg, FL Evening Independent newspaper, the film was centered in the world of automobile racing. The article also noted that racing sequences in the film were shot at the "world famous Culver City Race track," which referred to the Culver City Speedway, a popular racing venue that opened in mid-Jun 1924 and was located adjacent to Washington Blvd., close to M-G-M and other movie studios. Apparently it's a lost film.

Short film about car racing.

The SUPER SPEEDERS series captures the illicit world of street racing with real, uncensored footage of expensive sports cars tearing it up on the roadways of America. This volume takes a coast-to-coast tour of the country with an impressive array of high-octane vehicles like the SLR McLaren, Pagani Zonda, Lamborghini Gallardo, and 850HP Corvette.

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.

The story of James Garner's year with his racing team, from the time he bought the car, and assembled his team through Mexico, England, Florida and Canada.

In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.