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Cars featured in films in the 1960s

The Italian Job 60s film cars

 

Here we put together a collection of famous cars from films of the 1960's

Some main featured others just used during filming.

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The Italian Job (1969)
Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam. (99 mins.)
Director: Peter Collinson
Stars: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone

The Winner (1969)
Grant Willard sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. The rise and fall of one such driver is the whole story behind PIT STOP. (92 mins.)
Director: Jack Hill
Stars: Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos, Ellen Burstyn, Sid Haig

The Love Bug (1968)
A race car driver becomes a champion with a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. (108 mins.)
Director: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett

 The Love Bug 1962 Volkswagen Beetle

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang. (111 mins.)
Director: Arthur Penn
Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. (144 mins.)
Director: Ken Hughes
Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill

 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car 1960s films

1910 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Musical about a miraculous car. Has made car guys out of millions of kids or scared the rest since 1968.


Bullitt (1968)
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. (114 mins.)
Director: Peter Yates
Stars: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon

Bullitt Dodge Charger


Weekend (1967)
A supposedly idyllic week-end trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams... (105 mins.)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Karl Marx

Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Race car driver Lucky Jackson goes to Las Vegas to earn money to pay for a new engine for his motor car. Working as a waiter, he still finds the time to court young Rusty Martin. (85 mins.)
Director: George Sidney
Stars: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest

Grand Prix (1966)
American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate... (176 mins.)
Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, Toshirô Mifune

Fireball 500 (1966)
Stock car racer Dave Owens plays into the hands of whiskey runners by agreeing to drive in a cross-country road race. He is assisted by Jane Harris and Sonny Leander Fox. Soon Dave and ... See full summary »
Director: William Asher
Writers: William Asher, Leo Townsend
Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello,

Fireball 500 : 1966 film, 

Faster Pussycat... Kill! Kill! (1965)
Three go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him. (83 mins.)
Director: Russ Meyer
Stars: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Ray Barlow

The Lively Set (1964)
Casey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving... (95 mins.)
Director: Jack Arnold
Stars: James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Doug McClure, Joanie Sommers

Psycho (1960)
A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. (109 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

The Great Race (1965)
When a popular daredevil proposes an automobile race across three continents, his arch rival vows to beat him, while an ambitious female reporter has her own plans for victory. (160 mins.)
Director: Blake Edwards
Stars: Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk

Goldfinger (1964)
Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. (110 mins.)
Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton 

 Goldfinger 1963 Aston Martin DB5

1963 Aston Martin DB5: The greatest James Bond car is fitted by Q with "modifications" for this 1964 movie.

You Only Live Twice (1967)
Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Writers: Harold Jack Bloom (additional story material), Roald Dahl (screenplay)
Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama 

 

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