Hot Rod Documentaries

  1. 10th Funny Car Championships
  2. Classic Australian Touring Car Crashes
  3. Close Calls - Don Gartlis
  4. Billy Myers Texas Motorplex
  5. Bonneville Wide Open
  6. Desperate Generation - 10th Anniversary
  7. Hot Rod Havoc Vol 1
  8. Hot Rod Havoc Vol 2
  9. Hot Rod Heaven
  10. Hot Rod Story
  11. I Was A Teenage Monster Shirt Painter
  12. Mad Fabricators 1
  13. Mad Fabricators 2
  14. Mad Fabricators 3
  15. Mad Fabricators 4
  16. Mastering Skullmaster with Craig Fraser
  17. Pro Street
  18. Tales of the Rat Fink
  19. The Way It Really Was
  20. The Way It Really Was - Rough Cut
  21. West Coast Customs

Classic Australian Touring Car Crashes (2002)

There have been some memorable racing moments in the rich history of the Australian Touring Car Championship. And also lots and lots of crashes. There were plenty of crashes when they introduced V8 Supercars in 1993 If the fans were the winners, as they got to see some very hard racing, the panel beaters were a close second judging by the wrecked cars that were typically strewn around the circuit at the end of the races. Re-live the early years of V8 Supercars and the moments when the legends of Australian touring car racing were, well, just a little but less than legendary. And a few very special moments, so get ready for some action.

Format: PAL
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Languages: English (Dolby Digital)
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Rating: G
Run Time: 70 mins



Close Calls - Don Gartlis

This documentary video is a candid discussion with drag racing legend, Don Garlits. Hear about his life and career in this program. ~ All Movie Guide

Directed by: Dean Papadeas
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Main Event Entertainment
Genres: Sports & Recreation
Released: 1988



 

Billy Myers Texas Motorplex


(1 DVD)

 

10th Funny Car Championships


(1 DVD)

Bonneville Wide Open

The documentary video that reveals the characters that race on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. They talk about why they race, how they race and who has raced befroe them at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Experience what it is like to build a car or motorcycle designed to do one thng: race as fast as possible on one of the most extreme landscapes on earth - the Bonneville Salt Flats. See exotic race cars designed by creative amateurs who risk their lives by driving them - all captured in this video documentary.

Producers: Benn Karne and Steve Davy
Studio : Fire and Tools Productions
Number of discs: 1
Run Time: 105 minutes



Desperate Generation - 10th Anniversary

Desperate Generation is a documentary that encapsulates the 90's Rockabilly revival in Southern California. Each aspect of the subculture is candidly portrayed in short, music-filled vignettes highlighting vintage car clubs, tattoo artists, musicians, annual car & hot rod events, and much more!

Actors: Von Franco, Eric Maaske, Shifters, Lucky Devils Plus
Directors: Emily Dutton
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating:
Studio: Starlight Video
DVD Release Date: August 21, 2007
Run Time: 42 minutes (PLUS 1-hour of bonus footage)



Hot Rod Havoc

Hotrod Havoc is a pedal to the metal, hi-speed action video that showcases the thriving traditional hot rod scene on the West Coast. Hold on tight as we run through the gears and hit triple digit speeds across the dry lake beds and race tracks of Southern California. And we'll have you checking your mirror for the fuzz after the infamous "Shifters" car club takes you on a tour of their streets in the most fiendish rides you've ever seen. Prepare to be blown away by the wheeled mayhem that our featured builders subject their creations to, as we invade the regions finest shows from Paso Robles to the Blessing of the Cars. Hotrod Havoc - "In with the old, out with the new". Take a ride with the shifters, Also see the blessing of the cars And West Coast Kustoms at Paso Robles. Featuring Viva Las Vegas - Shifters Car Club - Blessing Of The Cars - Paso Robles - Jimmy White - etc. etc...pretty much a hotrod feast to a rolling soundtrack!


Hot Rod Havoc II

Hotrod Havoc is back! Back from smoke-filled garages and oil-stained driveways. Back with uncensored footage of real cars being driven real hard at the hands of the men who build them! We're laying rubber and racing through the streets of Brooklyn as we ride shotgun with the New York Rumblers. From the mean streets of the Bronx to the land of the Rising Sun, our cameras were rolling as the members of the Choppers CC invade the tight streets of Yokohama and make their way to the annual Mooneyes Japan show. Our top is down and foot to the floor as we narrowly avoid getting rolled by "The Man" on our way back to Southern California. With music by Agnostic front, Roger Miret and the disasters, A.d.h.d., Electric Frankenstein etc. 40 minutes + 60 minutes of extras


Hot Rod Heaven (2005)

The cult of hot rodding took root in 1940s America, amongst young enthusiasts with little or no money who were eager to play around with what was still a novel piece of machinery. Today specimens can sell for upwards of $1 million, and the popularity of these unique combinations of classic designs and state-of-the-art engines and chassis just keeps on growing.

This fascinating programme traces the evolution of the hot rod - from its post-war explosion in California, through the days of illegal street-racing, to the international spectator sport of drag racing. Along the way, we interview the people who have shaped this phenomenon, including Alex Xydias, Pete Chapouris, Tony Thacker, Jimmy Shine, and Andy & Roy Brizio.

We pay a visit to the Bonneville Salt Flats, regarded as one of the birthplaces of hot rodding, to break the 200mph record with the guys from the So-Cal Speed Shop. Plus, we check out the Grand National Roadster Show in San Francisco, and the biggest nostalgia drag race in Famosa, CA - capturing plenty of tyre smoke, ear-splitting noise and awesome speeds! Finally, we search out some of todays coolest street machines back at the So-Cal Speed Shop and Roy Brizio Street Rods.

Recreated using a mixture of archive and modern footage, alongside insightful interviews with the men who made it happen, this is the story of an American passion and the desire to build a dream.

Format: Color, NTSC
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Duke Marketing Limit
DVD Release Date: April 4, 2006
Run Time: 108 minutes


Hot Rod Story

No movie library is complete without the very first one: "The Hot Rod Story." Alex Xydias' classic motion picture professionally documents hot rodding's first four decades, beginning with 1930s' dry-lakes action. Enjoy rare color coverage of the '55 NHRA Nationals; early March Meets; Mickey Thompson's 406-mph Bonneville pass; the first Super Stockers; L.A. Roadster Club run, the birth of Hot Rod magazine and the formation of the NHRA, etc. Professionally filmed & narrated.
1965 (1 DVD) 70 minutes.

I Was A Teenage Monster Shirt Painter

Von Franco Low Brow Legend brings you his hit book on DVD. Explore the history of airbrushed painted monster shirts from ED ROTH, MOUSE, DEAN JEFFRIES, ED NEWTON, BARRIS, and of course VON FRANCO. See how VON FRANCO got his start as a kid in the 60's painting shirts for the neighborhood kids, to touring across the nation with ED ROTH later in life. Packed with rarely seen photos, stories, and home videos, this DVD provides an inside look into the life of one of the low-brow scene's most unique and highly acclaimed artists.
Also on this DVD: VON FRANCO demonstrates his secrets for how shirts were painted back in the day, to the technique that is currently used. With music from THE DYNOTONES, THE BOMBORAS, KNUCKEL DRAGER, THE HYPNOMEN, and THE INVISABLE SURFERS. This is a must have DVD to add to your HOT ROD collection!
(1 DVD)

Mad Fabricators 1 (2005)

Mad Fabricators Society, volume one, features more than two hours (two disk DVD) of interviews, photos and videos of "the Original King of Kustomizing," George Barris, and also showcases newer talents, such as Cole Foster, custom builder extraordinaire (and camera breaker...but that's another story). Cushioning these fabricating gems are featured car shows, such as "Viva Las Vegas" and Paso Robles, antique drag races, pin-up model shoots, music videos and an art show tribute to "Big Daddy," Ed Roth...and a lot more... this is just the first edition.

Issue Volume 1 includes:
1. George Barris/Barris Kustom City
2. Viva Las Vegas
3. Cheaters Car Club
4. Cole Foster/Salinas Boys
5. Hunnert Pile Up
6. Miss Carina Caliente
7. Donnie Baird/Imperial Customs
8. Vintage Drags
9. Merkt Family Treasure
10. Brett Barris/Barris Kustom City
11. Tribute to Ed Roth Art Show
12. Paso Robles
13. Jenny & Jamie

Disk Two
1. Music Videos
2. Commercials
3. Outtakes
4. Song List
5. Web Sites

Actors: Mad Fabricators
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Starlight Video
DVD Release Date: August 21, 2007
Run Time: 120 minutes


Mad Fabricators 2 (2005)

THE SEQUEL TO THE HIT DVD IS HERE READY TO TEAR UP YOUR TELEVISON SCREEN WITH THE BEST OF THE TRADITIONAL HOT ROD CULTURE. WITH 2 HOURS OF THE PEOPLE, STORIES AND OF COURSE THE CARS OF A SOCIETY THAT LIVES AND BREATHS THE LOW BROW, HOT ROD AND CUSTOM LIFE. Mad Fabricators Society is an honest tribute to the hard working, everyday "Joes" that get in the garage and bleed for their machine. Each MFS DVD offers a multi-dimensional, explosive way to capture the daring, bare concepts of hot rodders, something that will leap "off the page" -- images that will talk to you and show you something new each time you watch it. Each issue offers history, raucous music, beauty, artists and craftsmen, and of course girlsãthese are all intrinsic parts of hot rodding and I explore these concepts and artistic expressions in each piece found on the Mad Fabricators DVD. And of course the people: larger than life personalities and original thinkers that were and are way ahead of their time.

1. Asphalt Invitational
2. The Truckster Build
3. A-Bombers Hill Climb
4. Mark Moriarity
5. Lonestar Round Up
6. Mel Lawyers Survivor
7. Jimmy White
8. Heidi Van Horne
9. Hot Rod-A-Rama
10. Mr G
11. Sectioned Shoebox
12. The Adonis
13. Von Franco
14. Credits

Actors: Mad Fabricators
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Starlight Video
DVD Release Date: August 21, 2007
Run Time: 120 minutes


Mad Fabricators 3

The third installment of the best HOT ROD DVD is here with all the madness and mischief that MAD FABRICATORS SOCIETY is known for. A look into the lives of some of the most influential people and stories from the Hot Rod and Custom Culture. Over 2.5 hours of Hot Rod Chaos!!

Disk One:
1. Mark Moriarity Update
2. Primer Nationals
3. Chopping Jake's Shoebox
4. Keith Weezner
5. So What Speed Shop
6. Detroit Autorama
7. Show Circuit Survivor
8. Jalopy Showdown

Disc Two:
1. The Alexander Brothers
2. Psychedelic Tendencies
3. Sabina
4. Titus and the '32 Survivor
5. Hot Rod Reunion
6. Mysterion Clone

Actors: Mad Fabricators
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Starlight Video
DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
Run Time: 120 minutes


Mad Fabricators 4

The FOURTH installment of the best HOT ROD DVD is here with all the madness and mischeif that MAD FABRICATORS SOCIETY is known for. A look into the lives of some of the most influential people and stories from the Hot Rod and Custom Culture!!

Grand National Roadster Show - Days Of The Drags - Brain Bass - Roth Art Show - Dayna Delux - Mark Skipper - Fat Luckys - The Astro Sled - Hunnert Car Pile Up - Roth car display at Detroit Autorama - Asphalt Invitational - The Art of Coop - The Lazy Eight & more...

Actors: Mad Fabricators
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Starlight Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
Run Time: 180 minutes



Shake, Rattle and Roll

From the guys who brought you "Back From The Dead," Shake, Rattle and Roll throws a match in the gas tank and slams it in gear with a burning hot soundtrack, smking pin-up girls, and low-down dirty hot rods.

Join the Gonners car club as they cruise the hardcore streets of South Central LA and stop traffic with a kustom car block party

Jump in the backseat with top pin-up models as photographers Mitzi & Co and Dan gilday snap pictures for their upcoming book releases. With everything from kustom art and car show scenes, to under the hood and on the street blazing action footage.

Shot in drop-dead black & white film and living color HD, Shake Rattle and Roll is edited with a lumberjack's chain saw that keep the screen burning til the very last mile! --- "Shake, Rattle and Roll" Running Time 29:18 Clubs represented in the movie: Gonners Car Club (East L.A), The Road Zombies (Rod & Kustom Car Club) and the Rumblers (S.F. Car Club), Music by Speed Buggy, White Buffalo, The Mezcal Brothers, Once for Dead, Sore Thumbs and Jackass. 25:00 Minutes of Bonus Material (Gambino Kustoms, Shoe Box Clip with Ian Roussel, Back Seat Betties, Mitzi and Co. Pin-Up Slide Show) 9:11 Minutes of Trailers (Back From the Dead, Truck Jam: All Tricked Out, Road Rage IV)

Actors: Shake Rattle & Roll
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Circle King
DVD Release Date: May 15, 2007
Run Time: 60 minutes

 


Mastering Skullmaster with Craig Fraser

Craig Fraser reveals how to unlock the full potential of Artools's popular stencil series for rendering professional and complex looking designs. You'll learn the screaming stencil, the frontal, the multiple, the menagerie, the night & day, devil or angel, bones, masking the stencils, holding the stencils in place, why not to use spray adhesive, working with negative and positive stencils, halo outline, correcting mistakes, preventing over spray, highlighting, freehand airbrushing, positive and negative image system, sovent-resistant stencils, smoke, starbursts, fogging, head spikes, flaming devil skull, maltese crosses, and more.
(1 DVD)

Pro Street


(1 DVD)

Tales of the Rat Fink

From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales Of The Rat Fink, Ron Mann’s wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America’s alternative rodent—"Rat Fink".

Mann’s largely animated documentary-style film features the voice talents of: John Goodman 8-time Emmy® Nominee (The Big Lebowski), Ann-Margret Academy Award® Nominee (Carnal Knowledge), Jay Leno, Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys), Stone Cold Steve Austin, Tom Wolfe (author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), Matt Groening (creator of "The Simpsons"), The Smothers Brothers, And many more!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Big Daddy Lives! — Rare interviews with Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
• Rat Fink Reunion — Painting jam with Ed Roth and Von Dutch
• Big Daddy's Garage — Virtual art gallery
• Interview with director Ron Mann
• Deleted scene
• Theatrical trailer
• The Sadies music video

Actors: John Goodman, Ted Rosnick, Alex Xydias, Paul Le Mat, Ann-Margret
Directors: Ron Mann
Writers: Solomon Vesta
Producers: Ron Mann, Bill Imperial, Martin Harbury, Michael Boyuk
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Shout Factory Theatre
DVD Release Date: October 31, 2006
Run Time: 78 minutes

Review: Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann has specialized in making counter-cultural documentaries since 1978, and Tales of the Rat Fink is his masterpiece. Rarely has the combination of technique and subject matter been presented with such symbiotic perfection, and Mann's tribute to Ed "Big Daddy" Roth will appeal to anyone who recalls the glory days of hot rods and custom cars. Roth pioneered customizing in the late '50s, taking his cue from the legendary Von Dutch (whose automotive pinstripes "flowed like jazz") to become the first hot-rodder to sculpt custom cars out of fiberglass, the first to airbrush custom "monster" designs on T-shirts, and the inventor of Rat Fink, the "anti-Mickey Mouse" adopted as the drooling mascot of rodders, surfers, model-building hobbyists and assorted misfits throughout the '60s. Roth's best-known custom cars--The Outlaw, The Beatnik Bandit, Mysterion and others--remain timeless classics of southern California's custom-car culture, and they're all shown here on dazzling display.

It's a pity Roth (1932-2001) didn't live to witness Mann's exquisite collaboration with animator Mike Roberts, whose dynamic contributions bring Rat Fink to life in all his wretched glory. John Goodman splendidly narrates as a posthumous Roth, looking back at his creations as numerous pop-cultural icons (Ann-Margret, the Smothers Brothers, and author Tom Wolfe, who first brought Roth to the world's attention) lend their voices to custom cars that "talk" with flashing headlights, similar to (but more reverent than) Pixar's Cars. It's a perfect way of honoring Roth, the culture he created, and the enduring legacy of his "weirdo" ingenuity. Mann's playful tribute makes it perfectly clear that Roth and Rat Fink embody a creative spirit that will live forever. --Jeff Shannon



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Dreams of Legends - The Way It REALLY Was

Part 1- Real California Hot Rodding
Part 2- The Dry Lakes
Part 3- Drag Racing
Part 4- Bonneville .
A new documentary movie about the last 65 years of California hot rodding and early auto racing from the Dreams of Legends, titled 'the way it really was'. Amassing hours and hours of authentic, vintage footage, thousands of unique images and modern interviews with the legends themselves. All of this makes for a one-of-a-kind video that encapsulates our hot rod roots right down to the unmistakable sounds of Al Teague's 432mph, V8 streamliner, screaming across the Bonneville salt flats in a land speed record breaking run and the nitro cackle from iron hemi powered front engine diggers at the early drags. With in depth coverage of the personalities that were there to help make it all happen, photos that more often than not, have never been seen until now and newly remastered footage from as far back as 1947, this promises to give hot rodders what they want. This folks is genuine, the real McCoy, no Hollywood inflated claims, just how it was with some of the legends behind our modern day hot rodding pastime. This is the Greatest Hits download, with nothing but the sounds and images of Bonneville, the dry lakes and drag racing, from 1947 - 1966, set to the music of today's great rock-a-billy bands, The Juke Joint Gamblers, The Hot Rod Rebels, and the Keen Kousins to name a few...this is a must see for every 'traditional hot rodder'. Get ready for something you've never seen before. And be sure you have the sound turned up real loud!

Never before seen footage, photos, interviews and sounds! The movie that you've been waiting for is here! 65 years in the making, from Ed Winfield to Al Teague, Tony Waters, Don Garlits, Nolan White, Ed Iskenderian, Billy Frontuto, Vic Colvin, the Markley Bros., John Edmunds, Hayden Proffitt, Charlie Hamilton, Rick White, Mike Cook, Mickey Thompson, Don Long, Freddie Lobello, Russ Eyers, Gene Winfield, Rich Richards, Gary Richards, Joaquin Arnett & the Bean Bandits, the San Diego Roadster Club, Julio Hernandez, Nick Arias, Stormin Norman Weekly, Bob Herda, Harry Hoffman, the Smokers, Ernie Murashige & the M&V Speed Shop, Gray Baskerville, Paul Hornung and many, many more stories that you never even knew existed -- until now. Four-DVD Set!

Running Time: 7 hours 32 minutes


The Way It REALLY Was - The Rough Cut

Vintage footage from the olden days of hot rodding! Featuring drag racing and dr lake racing hot rods at Bonneville, El Mirage, Lions Dragstrip, Santa Ana Dragstrip and more. Featuring Gene Winfield, Big Daddy Garlits and other. Footage from the 1950s and 1960s, when hot rodding was REALLY dangerous!!!


West Coast Customs


(1 DVD)

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