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Year in Review: Car and Racing Movies

December 25, 2023 By pete

Sorry, The Racers didn’t make the grade!

From the Archives, March, 2023

At the tender age of 19, Harry Hurst was track photographer for the Sebring 12-Hour race in Florida. Hurst also photographed races at Daytona and Road Atlanta during, what many think, were the “glory days of racing.” Hurst has published two books on the Sebring 12-Hour endurance race. In 2007, he helped Dr. Fred Simeone launch the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, twice selected as the best automotive museum in the world, and still assists the museum with communications and special events. Most recently, Hurst created the Glory Days of Racing Facebook group, and asked his audience to select the top racing movies of all time. We are pleased to republish the results in VeloceToday with permission from Harry Hurst. The direct link to Harry’s Group is https://www.facebook.com/groups/527146584145263
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Philadelphia, February 28, 2023 — The members of the Facebook Group, Glory Days of Racing, have selected the top racing and car movies in a poll that included 100 overall nominees. The group, with 75,000 members from all over the world, chose their top five favorite movies from 25 nominees in each of four categories: Racing Theatrical, Racing Documentary, Car Centric, and Car Chase.

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Greatest Car Movies Ever

March 6, 2023 By pete

Sorry, The Racers didn’t make the grade!

At the tender age of 19, Harry Hurst was track photographer for the Sebring 12-Hour race in Florida. Hurst also photographed races at Daytona and Road Atlanta during, what many think, were the “glory days of racing.” Hurst has published two books on the Sebring 12-Hour endurance race. In 2007, he helped Dr. Fred Simeone launch the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum, twice selected as the best automotive museum in the world, and still assists the museum with communications and special events. Most recently, Hurst created the Glory Days of Racing Facebook group, and asked his audience to select the top racing movies of all time. We are pleased to republish the results in VeloceToday with permission from Harry Hurst. The direct link to Harry’s Group is https://www.facebook.com/groups/527146584145263
Ed.

Philadelphia, February 28, 2023 — The members of the Facebook Group, Glory Days of Racing, have selected the top racing and car movies in a poll that included 100 overall nominees. The group, with 75,000 members from all over the world, chose their top five favorite movies from 25 nominees in each of four categories: Racing Theatrical, Racing Documentary, Car Centric, and Car Chase.

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The Fiat Vignale and the Movie, “The Racers”

April 19, 2021 By pete

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By Pete Vack

From the VeloceToday Archives, August, 2016

The last automotive star of the movie The Racers has been found and is now under restoration and being readied for Pebble Beach 2017. The Vignale-bodied 1400 Fiat had a very brief role in the movie. It was difficult for even the hard core among us to determine exactly what make and model it was.

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Tagged With: as found classics, Bella Darvi, Fiat Vignale, Hans Ruesch, Kirk Douglas, Peter Darnall, racing movies, racing novels, The Racer, the racers, vignale

As Found Classic Number 24: The Racers Fiat Vignale

August 2, 2016 By pete

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As Found Classic Number Twenty Four

By Pete Vack

The last automotive star of the movie The Racers has been found and is now under restoration and being readied for Pebble Beach 2017. The Vignale-bodied 1400 Fiat had a very brief role in the movie. It was difficult for even the hard core among us to determine exactly what make and model it was. [Read more…] about As Found Classic Number 24: The Racers Fiat Vignale

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Cars and Stars of The Racers

June 21, 2016 By pete

No, next week for this. Below is a Racer's primer.

What is it and where is it? All part of the legend of “The Racers”.

Zealous car hunters and restorers have long ago discovered the chassis numbers, whereabouts, and current fate of the Maseratis, Ferraris and HWM that were the stars of the legendary 1954 classic movie “The Racers”.

But there was one car that had a small role in the movie and was perhaps as beautiful as the female lead in the movie, Bella Darvi. And now, that too, has been discovered.

Or so we think. Find out next week and perhaps our readers can help us determine if it’s the real thing. In the meantime, with image artist, writer and photographer Peter Darnall’s help we offer up this story about the book and the movie to provide some background to the recent find. [Read more…] about Cars and Stars of The Racers

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