The Last American Hero Part 2

[@robertdavis6708]

Miss the Can AM racing in the 70's. Pure factory muscle with great men driving them. After the race one could sit on a wheel and tire a drink a beer with them. Pure ass kicking speed.

[@judgegixxer]

I just like looking back in time to 1973 when I was 2 years old. I like seeing the regular people, the old signs, gas pumps, hairdos, bottles, cars, freezers, gravel roads, phones, radios, hotelrooms etc etc. Reminds me of being a little kid and memories that have faded to a vague dream but distinctly real. Time sucks.

[@mercoid]

I saw this on TV as a kid and loved it. My mom said, “hey. There’s a racing movie on you can stay up late and watch it”. Thanks mom!

[@cameronduff884]

Me too!

[@1982MCI]

What year did this come out, do you guys remember?

[@christopherfarmer1812]

@@1982MCI July 27, 1973 release date

[@BradCollier-zn2uc]

Cool mom

[@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys]

Damn I enjoyed this movie and wonder where I was when it came out in the early 70's as I never saw it before. Thanks for putting it out here for us all to enjoy~!!

[@countrymorgan2942]

Alan Horning for some that’s all they speak of and others are silent. I was a junior in high school before my grandmother let it slip my Dad has a Purple Heart. Years later I asked him if he was ever going to tell me about Vietnam he said one sentence. “It’s a place to be from and not at.” If I become half the man he is I’ll be happy.

[@randalltaylor3700]

I raced boats with the APBA back in the 70's. Another team asked me to drive their boat in another class. I won that race and at the Trophy presentation thanked the owner for making my day and gave them back the trophy. Those were exciting times

[@friguy4444]

So you gave the Trophy "Back" to the organization that put on the race? Or you just gave the Trophy to the other team you raced for?

[@chuckgrob6320]

Sure miss the real race cars of yesteryear and in no comparison like the generic jelly beans we have now.

[@shawnsnyder8876]

Amen

[@BruceAkaBRUISERCanady]

If you drove any of those "real race cars" back in the day you'd appreciate how much this sport evolved. Guaranteed

[@stephenmorris613]

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[@tomcroley7084]

Haven’t seen this since it came out in ‘73 and it’s just as good today as it was then. One of my favorite racing flicks. Bridges nails it. How I wish I could go back.

[@donaldblackburn3548]

One of the very best Hall of Famer Junior Johnson. Good ol days of life has surely changed drastically. World got in a big ass hurry missing out on all the greatest things in this world even the simple things. The 2 greatest things of America moonshine and NASCAR wouldnt have one without the other!! Rubbing is racing son! Take the outside you can hold it. Days of Thunder one of my other favs.

[@b.w.22]

“We got a real good set of matched tires on it. Those tires are matched perfect and staggered special. The pace car’s about ready to duck on off - If you go to the outside you CAN hold it.” Hell yeah, Robert Duvall as Harry Hyde! I mean “Hogge.”

[@josephpatrickreason1222]

it s a pure Adrenaline ! seeing that Mustang ,1969 makes me remember Ford Faireline navy blue backseat of my Dad and my Uncle . Another Generation ! THX for sharing

[@johnprins4731]

MAN THE GOOD OLD DAYS..THE CARS ACTOR'S..WOW BEST TIMES EVER..PLEASURE TO WATCH AGAIN..PS WHAT A SONG..ROLLING ME DOWN THE HIGHWAY WOW WHAT A CLASSIC..AND JEFF BRIDGES..😍

[@PabloRodriguez-rw3eu]

beautiful movie. Better than "days of thunder". NASCAR had a great historical past. Great stories and legends. Greetings from South America

[@normangabbard8816]

They couldn't had picked a better Actor then Jeff Bridges to play the part of Good Ole Racing Legend, Jr. Jackson.. Jackson was one of the Good Ole Boys. Down to earth and wanted it so bad he tasted it everyday.. Great Ole movie.. Well done Jeff and Crew..

[@jeffcampbell2710]

He is representing Junior Johnson. Just like Kyle K8ngman is representing Richard Petty. If you look, Junior Johnson was the technical adviser.

[@lightinbrian5938]

Cant believe I have never heard of this movie before. Awesome!!

[@mcarlkv53]

love the sermon before the race...my how times have changed....my first sermon after I got saved was at CITA (Christ is the Answer) in Melbourne, Florida and it was on James Chapter 4...

[@freedom_323]

Nascar and Formula 1 were so huge then, I miss those years, life was simple, all you had to do was work hard...its all messed up now

[@DrMurdercock]

Working hard now a days gets you shit.

[@williamwyand5360]

Nascar went Hollywood and left its founding tracks behind. I'm from Rockingham and I'll never forget how they threw the Rock under the bus like the did several other tracks.

[@K-Effect]

I don't think anyone knows how to work hard anymore. Besides people with a drug habit, they work the hardest

[@michaelward9880]

@@DrMurdercock An early grave....

[@randyhutchinson9910]

the first time I saw this, on TV, I knew immediately, it's Junior Johnson's life story, I was in tears, am again, Thankyou,

[@paulgrieshop5024]

@Flame Resistant Troll check on ebay you might be able to find what you lost. I do go to the Indianapolis 500 every year the day before the race they have a collectable show and you see all kinds of memrobillia.

[@thomassparks8294]

Randy I thought the same thing. It's obvious who Kyle Kingman, was supposed to be. It didn't help that they used his paint scheme and number.

[@rodeoman2020]

My grandfather ran moonshine with Lee Petty. Later he owned a machine shop and made cylinder sleeves for Lee & Richard. He knew Jr as well, along with David Pearson. Used to take me to the Petty garage back in the 60's just to hang out! Miss those days!

[@vincentboon8299]

Its make s you feel like you missed so much but time s were hard but fun was to be had if you all look for it I guess

[@larrybone4565]

Wow you got to meet The Silver Fox ( David Pearson ) What a Great Honor ! My favorite Nascar driver.

[@kcool28]

Thanks for the post. Seen this movie when i was a kid growing up in Southern California. Stock car racing meant nothing to me. But after this movie i got into, Richard Petty was one of my favourite, man I remember Buddy Baker, Kyle, Cale Yarborough, Alan Parson, AJ Floyd, Ricky Rudd, Darrell Walstrip, Dave Pearson, Bobby Allison. Thank you again for remind me when life was simple :)

[@Apple-mh1sr]

Born in Rockingham, raised in Charlotte, N.C. and hated NASCAR. Loved dirt track racing. I was actually in this movie as an extra, but got cut out with the editing. One of my close friends played the red head bully at the gas station scene. I was almost run over by Buddy Baker's wife once in Harris Teeter's parking lot. Buck was his Dad and a hell of a driver also. Fireball Roberts was my favorite NASCAR driver and saw the ambulance drive in to Charlotte Memorial Hospital with him in the back after the wreck that killed him. Neil Castles lived two blocks from my house and drove the stunt cars in Thunder in Carolina, as well as, drove NASCAR. Just some trivia.

[@justjeph6927]

Where in so cal? I'm from Simi valley

[@1982MCI]

@@Apple-mh1sr hey Apple! Fantastic trivia there brother and thank you for sharing it with us. I live about 20 miles south east of Greensboro, bout 12 miles or so from high point. It’s a shame you got cut out in the Edit but at least you’ve got the memories and your buddy made the cut which is awesome and probly brings a flood of memories when you watch it!! Sure wish we were still living in those days. I knew things would change as we got older but Lord, I never thought things would have changed this much this fast!! Many changes were and are good but these damn computers have ruined this world!! They’ve brought a whole lotta good with em but Lord, the bad stuff that they brought is beyond bad. I’m really glad I’m a 60’s kid and I got to grow up then cause I sure wouldn’t want to do it now! Take care brother, be safe out there!! This sure ain’t the world you and I grew up in anymore!

[@jeffcampbell2710]

I remember getting Stickers from STP, Hooker, Thrush, and numerous other companies. Then some account figured they could save money and stickers stopped.

[@nelsonvargas7821]

Live was so good and simple back then , unlike the shit we're living in for 2019 .

[@HammerHeadGarage]

You cant even take a walk on the sidewalk on a sunny day without some rule crazy shithead bothering you.

[@RELopez-mk4ic]

Lkie this Covid-19...what the hell happened?

[@carolproffit7603]

And you thought 2019 was bad... This year is definitely one to remember good or bad.itll definitely go down and n the history book. For a year of a bunch of sh#*

[@moparone7962]

Wait till you see 2020's bullshit....

[@spankthemonkey3437]

@@carolproffit7603 wait until you see 2021

[@glenn8076]

RIP. Junior a real racer (Last American Hero)

[@chocodiledundee1]

Thank you so much for posting this fantastic motion picture, I really loved it !

[@kennethboydsr3966]

Thanks for a great movie. I love his race cars. I love the moonshine business.❤😊

[@matthiasschulze393]

classic movie about the glory days of car racing

[@CapstoneTider]

Last American Hero is the Grand Prix of stock car racing movies. Gold standard.

[@noviranger88]

Is it like Steve McQueen's Le Mans?

[@johnpotter1469]

What a fantastic movie. Very surprised I hadn't seen this before. Thank you so much for uploading it.

[@zackery5411]

One of my favorite Jeff Bridges movies! That and “Tucker”.

[@jasonvaughan2886]

That orange 72 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme pace car is the best looking car in the whole movie and I have one outside.☺️

[@chocodiledundee1]

That Step-Side Chevy truck is hot looking in so many levels as it is ... I love the originality with white colour hubs and bumpers ...I would drive it proudly everyday like I drive my 79 F-100 Ranger XLT

[@allenpoe7372]

TY I have been wanting to see this movie again.

[@johnmilner7603]

I still love this movie. 😊

[@charliebuckets8849]

WOW .... That was an awesome movie ...... Thank you for posting this flic .... This brings back lots of memories

[@danielyoung6630]

JEFF BRIDGES GET BETTER SOON! WOW THANKS FOR SHARING NOW I SEE WHY THIS IS SUCH A GREAT MOVIE! GOD BLESS1

[@elldre3]

Pauline Kael once wrote in one of her New Yorker movie criticism columns---'What did Lloyd Bridges feed his sons???!!!' Young Jeff (and Beau) Bridges literally radiated all-American open-faced amiability on the screen, but both had a lightening-fast don't-mess-with-me core when necessary. 'Hero' was an excellent cinematic display of that Janus-like screen personality.

[@danfrasher4342]

Saw this one during my HS days makes me sad cuz the world has changed so much since then and not for the better

[@jamesbonham626]

what a movie. 6.4 on imdb if im not mistaking. You kidding me? this is in the top 3 brilliant actor jeff bridges ever was in the big lebowski is second for all young kids out there that think your cool, number 1 is 1974's thunderbolt and lightfoot and i am only just born in 68' plus i know what im talking about cause i got to see 1 in the theater opening night in new jersey, back in 98' me thinks and ya its classic but it dont beat the classic with clint eastwood no way cause that movie was a gem like no other i ever saw in my 53 years....the other 2 top dogs would be resevoir dogs from 92 i think, which left an impact so ineplainable on a 25 year old. it changed the movie game for life for me. the other was from way back in 48' called bogart, the treasure of sierra madre and of course every spaghetti western i have ever seen

[@b.w.22]

I know this is about Junior “Jackson” and not Junior Johnson, as in it’s not a biography, but it is still odd to me that at the end he decided to keep driving for the JD Stacy type owner instead of running his own car and team. I understand that Junior raced for many different teams, sometimes three different teams in one season, but he also raced for his own Jr. Johnson & Associates team. His career as an owner was equal to or better than him racing and I’d think showing him using the winnings from Darlington to revive his own car and team would better reflect Junior’s independent spirit. Just my thoughts.

[@jesseortega8598]

I have a Model of Junior Johnson's 86 Monte Carlo that I'm building! I had no idea this movie was about him until almost the end ! I never knew his father ran moonshine! Holy cow! Very cool movie!

[@demej00]

Great movie. Loved cars back then living in Ok. Big block v8s and Muncies. Great days gone by.

[@michaelsanchez3901]

When movies had character and content

[@DrMurdercock]

Great movie. Thanks for uploading.

[@___michael___7165]

Good movie.

[@nickypoundtown9568]

The message in this movie is awesome, the target he has to better is himself, no main villain bullshit just a realistic moral to the story

[@bill4572]

Remember when they use to race at the Jersey fairgrounds back then you could go right into the pits use to watch the time trials

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Great film full o great cars. 👍🏆

[@jamesmason8052]

Don’t remember the last time I saw this. Great to see Gary looking young and talented :)

[@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys]

I second that~!!

[@justjeph6927]

Oh yeah. Think I'll watch the Buddy Holly story again...it's been a while

[@MissMarinaCapri]

A movie worth seeing..........

[@jeffcampbell2710]

Nuthin better than an Old School Ga Peach. I think a good Texas gal runs a close second. This country and people were soooo much better back then. Life was a rush.

[@country4lyfe365]

My great uncle used ta race last name was mantz. I guess he won ah couple. Lol. Jeff bridges is awsome. Hes my unsung hero.

[@noviranger88]

Hold up - Johnny Mantz? The winner of the first Southern 500???

[@davesanford4798]

Sure miss normal people not like these screw balls we got surrounding us now.

[@donpowell7612]

love the flim cars are in my DNA my family has been building cars in Pontiac since 1918 the Oakland to the Pontiac G-6 . next year is our 100th anniversary I built a 1964 Pontiac Bonneville . I dedicate the card to my dad he had a 64 Grand Prix Factory drag experimental when I was a kid we used to Cruise Woodward in I worked in Pontiac the old plant 8# GTO line to they closed it Dec. 10th 1987 . now I Cruze Woodward and think of pops . king of the Pontiac 64s ! yeah we had fun ! "PMD KIDD" OVER AND OUT !

[@chrisblum4063]

I'm a Pontiac nut myself! My last real Pontiac was a 66' Ventura

[@vincevegacustoms754]

Respect

[@ross5506]

Are you from Oshawa?

[@davidmcginnis2075]

64 to 72 Pontiac GTO,s are my favorite 73 and 74 are the ugliest and I would not own those sorry

[@davidwood1923]

Thanks for Sharing,..my first time seeing this movie

[@lsxShane]

Cool classic,thanks!

[@Doggymcdoggy664]

Good movie thanks 👍👍

[@willquigg8265]

I loved to see that Confederate flag flying above the race track. This type of racing started in the south, and we should be proud of it and fly the Southern Flag at every NASCAR RACE TODAY !!!!!! NASCAR should never go woke!!! Stick to your Heritage!! NASCAR and ICE HOCKEY are the only sports left that Have a majority of White Americans in them. There is nothing wrong with that!! The NFL and NBA are both majority of black players. So what's the difference???

[@FJ80Coop]

@25.12.. Farmtruck was there in 1971...video doesn't lie... Didn't see Azian nearby..

[@friguy4444]

I've watched this a few times over the years and I always wonder if it's based on any one drivers career or if it's just a conglomerate of the early racing days and the drivers that forged the way ahead?? No one that I've seen has said much on the matter so I tend to think it's just a general kind of over all telling of the early drivers and not one in particular. As the history tells that NASCAR was built up from the Moonshine runners of the 1930's - 1950's and even as late as the 1960's for some. SO seeing that I haven't heard otherwise I'm guessing this is that. GREAT MOVIE and well told for the most part! There were and still are a lot "JR's" in NASCAR and otherwise racing in general in the USA of course. After looking through the comments a bit more I see folks attributing the main character (Jeff Bridges) to quite a few racers. But I thought a lot of those names are not from the earlier days. But I'm not sure.

[@BigDaddyCrab]

its based on junior johnson

[@cowboysfan782008]

First time seeing this, and it's funny cuz I just saw The Last Picture Show for the first time a couple months ago and both are great early Jeff Bridges movies. My dad knew Lloyd Bridges. Seems weird though how the time setting of the movie is 20 yrs later than it really was. The movie seems to be set in the early 70s but Jr Johnson first raced in the very late 40s/early 50s. Why not just have that be the era of the movie? Whatever, it's a good flick. Jr Johnson said that the parents in the movie were closest to reality of how his folks were.

[@alexcarter8807]

I had a Wynn's sticker on my Schwinn String-Ray back in 1974, and I only just now looked up what it is - now I want to try the stuff on my trumpet valves.

[@andy1366]

Awesome classic me happy

[@danabrahams7892]

This was really cool

[@nickmalone3143]

Nothing like those AHs of NASCAR ....this was real racing with country boys back then..nows its all big corporate money and politics

[@johnkemp5243]

Blue flame 🔥 liquor was all I ever made , even the hippies liked it .

[@bryan17293]

From the fire under the bonet to the firey circle of tread ,Team work and lots of sponsors

[@karlosvulture7707]

Gotta love those cars....true American muscle...... I miss these awesome beast's.... Yay Joy happy joy we have electric cars now......blurghh 🤢🤮🤮

[@timpriddy349]

Hey look ............not a CAMRY in sight

[@bigblocklawyer]

And the cars were stock.

[@justjeph6927]

Or Prius!

[@jorgieporgie9515]

a true inspiration

[@johnkemp5243]

A great 👍 movie 🍿, my moon 🌙 shine was as good or better than theirs , but only had a small still . Used to help Cale Yarborough push his car across the street to the pit at Jacksonville Speedway when I was in my early teens .

[@vincentboon8299]

It sound s good to me son loved to ave been their love from Sunny ? England can only dream

[@beast1624]

Thank you for sharing!

[@bobgomez9481]

"I'll be dipped" - This isn't Vice Grip Garage?

[@dashriprock2916]

I like the cars back then more like the "stock" cars.

[@alexcarter8807]

None other then Tom Wolfe, writer of The Electric Kool-Ade Acid Test, wrote a bit about Junior Johnson, and what stock car racing meant to Southern kids. Basically they only had access to cheap cars post-WWII and were just falling in love with the automobile. Imagine growing up, as firearms writer Roy Dunlop put it, "endlessly observing the geography of a mule's backside" plowing fields, and getting from place to place by "shank's mare" I.E. walking. And all of a sudden you could get a car, race it, run moonshine with it, etc and make more in a day than you could in a week, or a month. Wolfe's piece is well worth reading, if you can find it.

[@pkuudsk9927]

The story goes much deeper . We are from a generation much better and older than our age. Peace out ride the waves of life in love and harmony .

[@ianmangham4570]

Shanks pony here

[@confuciussay3669]

love the south

[@wesleysept6536]

That was a great movie!

[@philiphereford5657]

To bad there was a lot of background information that was falsified. I am speaking mainly how they showed Richard Petty.

[@drtb69]

These cars were the real deal and death at every corner was a real possibility

[@clutchburner9078]

The best years of Stockcar....

[@williamwhitney4818]

Credible film!

[@RobertJones-dn9wt]

Great film

[@windwhipped5]

Comin in gas-n-rubba...

[@waynegoss2970]

My dad was one of the cars driving on the dirt track at Concord, blue and white Falcon on the backstretch

[@jeffreybernard2532]

Thanks

[@SuperFaceman23]

just found out today junior johnson died a american racing hero R.I.P.

[@patpeterson2671]

The pure racing and roots of Nasar , the shit we see today is a bloody travesty

[@noviranger88]

It's the best it's ever been.

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@crumblenaut9776]

Thank you

[@ronbranum7858]

Was that Jr. Johnson that presented the trophy at the end ?

[@shellystaley3593]

It was the late Clay Campbell who owned Martinsville Speedway at that time.

[@jeffbecker8716]

Ed Lauter resembles Robert Duvall... who was in another stock car movie about cocky drivers - Days of Thunder.

[@justjeph6927]

No comparison..pleez!!

[@wilburross9709]

Wow they sure sacrificed a lot of '64 thru '67 Chevelles to build race cars! That first race was full of them

[@ianmangham4570]

Back when the food and water were good .

[@shart4429]

My God that was an absolute horrible story she told about the pig party. Oh how times have changed.

[@timothymcdonald6913]

Enjoyed the movie very much, but I do not remember the Ford Mustang Fastback being produced in the 1950s! Yes I do understand poetic license.

[@johnarntz1677]

They need to put them on TV.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”----- F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[@cameronduff884]

Had a school boy crush on Valerie Perrine back then,and still do,she has a cameo in Cannonball run. (Police woman)

[@robertyearian227]

Fantastic movie love Jeff briges and Gary Busey great actors shame Gary Busey turned out tge way he did great actors

[@FJ80Coop]

Junior Johnson,back when men were men,had huge brass balls,knew no fear,flat pedal to metal and not one of them; wore skinny jeans,talked chit,were rude or disrespectful,said yo dawg,or endorsed any racial hatred groups such as blm or took a knee when the American anthem was playing... Americans and patriots at their very best...

[@adamUDavies]

One of the Wood brothers in the pits just for a second around the fly over.👍

[@noelespirtu8165]

best nasvar movie

[@toddrobbins392]

That is spelled NASCAR kind sir!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@modeljetjuggernaut4864]

You are stirred awake. You flip on the light and roll around in bed and u see this - 30:29. What is your reaction 😬

[@EarthSurferUSA]

They must be using AI for the closed captions, because while the race cars are idling for a pit stop, with the exhaust note the only thing heard, the closed captions say "Music". Funny. But I can agree with the Prius driving programmers this time. lol