Copperhead Road

[Fala]

Calling all writers...

If you don't see a story/movie in this then....somebody else will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk

Go for it.

 

[MGurkus]

I remember when I first discovered YouTube...

 

[DMBFFF]

Thanks for the easy link to Steve Earle.



Trailer park boys - Ricky smokes and swears in court
5:00

Junkhouse "out of my head"
3:51
Grungy song with a hint of country.

Mudmen - Saturday
3:18
Grunge-rock with bagpipe.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The story is already in the song.


Trying to flesh this out into a one-hour TV show would be tedious at best, and a feature film is out of the question.


Also, moonshiners drove Fords mostly, not Dodges or Chevys, unless they could get hold of an older luxury car with a huge old straight 8. It was about out-running the cops. Fords had v8s - the Dodges and Chevys has 6s until well after WW2.


But I never argued with the boy's sentiment, regardless.

 

[Ishmael]

The story is already in the song.


Trying to flesh this out into a one-hour TV show would be tedious at best, and a feature film is out of the question.


Also, moonshiners drove Fords mostly, not Dodges or Chevys, unless they could get hold of an older luxury car with a huge old straight 8. It was about out-running the cops. Fords had v8s - the Dodges and Chevys has 6s until well after WW2.


But I never argued with the boy's sentiment, regardless.

As a side note. A lot of 'runners' started driving Mopars in the mid 50's on. Especially in the mountains and the Mopar of choice was the Dodge D500. Not just for the monster engine, but also because it had the heavier Chrysler chassis and a longer wheel base which helped it corner better.

From the late 50's though the mid 60's the Arkansas State Troopers ran Fords in the flat lands but they all drove D500's in the Ozark region.

As far as the subject of the OP. Isn't Burt Reynolds a little too old to be the lead?

Ishmael

 

[Wat_Tyler]

As a side note. A lot of 'runners' started driving Mopars in the mid 50's on. Especially in the mountains and the Mopar of choice was the Dodge D500. Not just for the monster engine, but also because it had the heavier Chrysler chassis and a longer wheel base which helped it corner better.

From the late 50's though the mid 60's the Arkansas State Troopers ran Fords in the flat lands but they all drove D500's in the Ozark region.

As far as the subject of the OP. Isn't Burt Reynolds a little too old to be the lead?

Ishmael

I was probably half a generation earlier in my thinking, which would be where a 'Nam vet's granddaddie would be - flathead Ford country.


The first Chrysler v8 showed up in '50 for the '51 model year, and the world hasn't been the same since.


But Oldsmobile also had a damned good engine then, too.


There's a joke about how far Loni's tits have sagged by now, right below the surface . . . .


https://i.pinimg.com/474x/00/f7/d4/00f7d4716ff6dde1cc58aae01428d222--older-women-beautiful-actresses.jpg

 

[Ishmael]

Road racing was all the rage in Arkansas in the early 60's. One of the better races occurred in Apr. of '63. A fellow lit out of N. Little Rock in a '63 Pontiac Bonneville tri-power. Eventually ended up with 3 troopers chasing him, all driving 427 Fords. One of the troopers ran out of gas, the other two over heated and blew their engines. (Apparently Ford didn't do so well matching the cooling system to the engine.)

He made it to Ward Arkansas where a local cop ran him down in a '56 Dodge Coronet. The police car look like a refugee from the wrecking yard, but they had dropped a Chrysler 392 hemi with dual quads in it. Ran that pontiac to ground.

I think Loni has made one too many trips to the plastic surgeon.

Ishmael

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Calling all writers...

If you don't see a story/movie in this then....somebody else will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk

Go for it.

Kool! Looks almost like my first car 1949 Dodge Coronet coupe. Only it was a six with fluid drive. Faster than frozen shit on a flat rock along Copperhead Holler road.

Long before the hemi's and hot Old's, the Flathead Ford was king of the back roads.

Dontcha be talkin bad about Loni or the boys from WKRP will be on your ass!

 

[Rightguide]

Road racing was all the rage in Arkansas in the early 60's. One of the better races occurred in Apr. of '63. A fellow lit out of N. Little Rock in a '63 Pontiac Bonneville tri-power. Eventually ended up with 3 troopers chasing him, all driving 427 Fords. One of the troopers ran out of gas, the other two over heated and blew their engines. (Apparently Ford didn't do so well matching the cooling system to the engine.)

He made it to Ward Arkansas where a local cop ran him down in a '56 Dodge Coronet. The police car look like a refugee from the wrecking yard, but they had dropped a Chrysler 392 hemi with dual quads in it. Ran that pontiac to ground.

I think Loni has made one too many trips to the plastic surgeon.

Ishmael

I wonder if those are real nipples or plastic inserts.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Kool! Looks almost like my first car 1949 Dodge Coronet coupe. Only it was a six with fluid drive. Faster than frozen shit on a flat rock along Copperhead Holler road.

Long before the hemi's and hot Old's, the Flathead Ford was king of the back roads.

Dontcha be talkin bad about Loni or the boys from WKRP will be on your ass!

Well hell Dennis, no wonder you got all the hot girls!
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1949dodgecoronetclubcp0609.jpg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The Pontiac and Dodge sound pretty evenly matched. I'd wager the Dodge cop just had maybe a wee bit more practice, since I reckon it was his back yard they were rippin' through.


Loni hasn't been an even match in decades.


https://78.media.tumblr.com/c6733c9bf4e881646d401be78f13f598/tumblr_mmfdrfjBUM1spgqjxo10_1280.jpg

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Well hell Dennis, no wonder you got all the hot girls!
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1949dodgecoronetclubcp0609.jpg

Danged, that's my exact car. Mine was deep maroon which this could be.
I also shaved the hood, trunk, and removed the door handles using real lead and a torch.. VW starter solinoids were the lectric of those days.

Back seat a little cramped but comfortable.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

The Pontiac and Dodge sound pretty evenly matched. I'd wager the Dodge cop just had maybe a wee bit more practice, since I reckon it was his back yard they were rippin' through.

'49 Olds coupe V-8 was fairly hot back then, even with Hydramatic.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

'49 Olds coupe V-8 was fairly hot back then, even with Hydramatic.

Yep, first year of the OHV v8 and lighter than the Caddie.


The ol' flattie Ford was in the dust when the Olds came out.


Poor old Shivverlay didn't make a v8 until one nine and five five.


Chrysler was on its second incarnation of the gen1 hemi by then.