If you like trucks and movies, you are in the right place, as we have brought you a common engraving. In our three-piece subjective referral, we've collected our 15 favorite truck movies, which we recommend with a good heart for a boring night.
The previous section We took the classics of the '70s, and now we jump over to the' 80s. From this decade, we brought you four works of different parts of the world.
Electricity off, popcorn in the hand and continue the projection.
Maximum overpower (Maximum overdrive, 1986.)
A Stephen King story, complemented by AC/DC music, is guaranteed to succeed. Or not?
In 1987, our Earth is placed in a passing comet, which has inexplicable consequences. For example the machines come to life, that is, everything in which electricity dwells and turns against humanity in their own way and even try to kill them. Without electricity, bread slicers turn on, rollers drive through people, Trucks start on a standalone trip. Our heroes are trapped in the Dixie Boy Truck Stop truck rest. They are trying to find the way out, but more and more trucks are gathering on the scene-with the White Western Star 4800 masked by Green Goblin-and terrorize them. Anyone who tries to run away is relentlessly hit.
The basic idea is extremely interesting, which is now, nearly 40 years later, when we are surrounded by different electronics tools from all sides, splashing with artificial intelligence, perhaps more relevant than ever. It is therefore regrettable that The film is not secretly competing in category B.
Stephen King not only wrote but also directed the film (and even a short scene as an actor). However, it is no coincidence that this is the last one to be the last one. AC/DC music helps a lot in the otherwise boring story, but it does not save the movie alone. Events are almost parodistic, difficult to take or live seriously. With a larger budget and a more experienced director, much more could have been made from the basic idea. Once, they asked Stephen King why he didn't direct several films afterwards, who, with little self -criticism, said he just said to look at the maximum overpower, that's why. However, with its own panties As a truck, there is plenty to look at on so many different truck types, which appears in the movie.
The truck
Green Goblin as a "driver" of a truck barrel to life is actually a White Western Star 4800, From 1976. The company was created in a car/truck point of view in 1967, which was justified by the fact that in the '60s, the need for trucks on the western and eastern sides of the US was divorced, and the company focused on performance and weight loss in the western and medium-west areas. The version in the film was equipped with a 9.3-liter V8 Detroit Diesel 8V-71 engine. It was 318Le as a suction engine and 385Les with a turbo. Nowadays, very few Western Star 4800 tractors of that age can be met on the US, as the most have been transformed and continued as a dumper or mixer, and then finished their careers.
Beyond the peak (Over The Top, 1987)
Beyond the summit, the scander is much more than a truck, but we also find interesting aspects with a driver.
The protagonist Sylvester Stallone's old AutoCar truck is highly prepared for the Skander Championship, which could be the main prize than a brand new Volvo White Wim 64T tractor. Through this, maybe a lot of trucks can identify with the desire that drives Stallon that once to reach the freedom of being your own carrier business. Meanwhile, it turns out that he has to take care What difficulties and cancellations for truckmakers are absent from the family. The child can often be annoying to the viewer, but we know his behavior for dramaturgy and try to overcome it.
In the usual way from the majority of films of the '80s Turns and finishing are predicted, yet the movie is organized to get excited at the end. The truck eye will be a very pleasant sight in the southwestern US, the truck rolling in the sunset, the whole and the fantastic music of Giorgio Moroder makes it perfect. Stallone made this cinema after the first Rocky films, so it cannot be criticized for its muscles, but it is shocking to see that it is essentially dwarfed among the real Skander riders.
The truck
Stallone old, rusty AutoCar A-10264 Although his truck was worn out by time, it is nice to see how care he is trying to care for, because that's all. By the way, many details of the 1965 model are not available, probably equipped with a serial six-cylinder cummins diesel engine capable of delivering 2-300le power, but it is said that the film was used not for this, but the sound of a Detroit Diesel. It was a special feature that the booth body was made of aluminum.
Cutting bridge on four wheels (Roadgames, 1981.)
Let's switch a continent, a little outlook from the environment so far, heading for the southern hemisphere. Australia, where there is such a kangaroo at the beginning of the trucks that no herd of beef could not hurt, even in the paint.
Stacy Keach, as a truck, with her dog - or more precisely with her dingo - to the infinite roads, the extinct Australian countryside. During his journey, he collapses with a van who becomes suspicious. Every sign shows that he is the hitchhiker (The cutting kind), whom they talk about in the news, although the driver has no proof of this.
Therefore, at first, this is more of a game run in his mind. The fact that they show the protagonist several times in their own thoughts, dilemma, talking to his dingo, you reflect well on reality, the lonely everyday life of drivers. Later, you pick up a hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis) - since In this landscape, outside the dingo, only a hitchhiker breaks the loneliness of truck - with whom they try to find out what is the connection between the van and the murders.
In movies, it is unusual for the protagonist here to spit a lot about whether he has to heroic and find out the truth or leave it all, and as a simple truck, just deal with his own freight. A completely realistic idea, as opposed to all American films. Later, the van shape the events so that the suspicion is becoming more and more on the protagonist, and even the police are starting to chase him. So this is the real game (as the original title of the movie is: Roadgames)that the truck driver is about catching and crushing the murders to the van, while the van is on the contrary, trying to steer all suspicions on the truck, let's add it with success.
The pace of the film is very well built. Initially, we know the character of the protagonist more closely, then the events start nicely and the tension -generating action accelerates. It brings some surreal effect that the co -characters appear over and over again in a variety of scenes, often completely unreasonable. We can also discover the classic "Duel" in the film, but the beginning of barren roads and sin can even be perceived even as a pre -country of the Australian Australian Mad Max films. In terms of relevance, the number of hitchhikers has been severe nowadays, but it is worth checking out this work every truck.
The truck
The protagonist's vehicle is well known in a Europe Mercedes NG 2224, a 6x4 design. The model was equipped with two more serious engines, one of which was a V6 9.6 liter. It knew 192Le when it appeared in 1975, but later went up to 313le. The other is a 12.8-liter V8, 256le. Knowing the Australians, we can imagine the latter for the movie.
T.I.R. (1987.)
It is different from the other films listed here in that this is a 12 -part series. The story, presented in 1987, has put several ages in front of the screens, and there are many today's trucks who claim that as a child, T.I.R. played a decisive role in choosing this profession.
As it is Italian-Hungarian co-production Its title also shows, the two main characters (Franco and Vanni) carry the more interesting cargo (eg live elephant) in an international environment while they get involved in some strange adventure in each part. There is not as many actions as a Cobra 11 episodes, but sometimes an explosion, shooting, kidnapping, smuggling color the stories. That is why maybe It would be worth making a percussion remake of it, and not only because of the much more advanced camera technology, but also because of the much more elaborate action scenes today.
Looking back from 2024, it is quite amazing to see the scenes that are unimaginable in reality today. To mention only a few: diesel before the introduction of emission standards to drive with truck through the Chain Bridge, take two lanes to go to the Iveco on the Teréz Boulevard, but let's not forget a red -star parliamentor from the truck parked on the Red Square in Moscow. But there is a spare trailer in the woods, an Iveco van thrown from airproof, and even in one part Even the Paris-Dakar ralin starts The protagonists, but not in the usual 3 -man lineup today, but in the four -handed truck, that is, when one is tired, the other takes the lead.
It is also a memorable scene when the Hungarian trucks (in the series anyway Sometimes a wheel or hungarocamionos raban appears) They bring together criminals, helping to escape their Italian colleagues. But we can also see an example of women's truck driver, so Stories are quite diverse, however, it is common to bring the Western freedom that was almost a dream in Hungary at the time. However Red Cancer Calling Red Iveco Turbostaron have.
The trucks
The presented in 1984 Iveco Turostar When designing, the designers set two goals, ergonomics and performance. To this end, the shape of the cab was tested, among other things, in the Fiat wind tunnel, and the wind deflector on the roof managed to reach 0.53CW. Travel was made more comfortable with properties such as electrically adjustable mirrors, air spring seat, built -in fridge and further comfort equipment. In the spirit of performance, it was available with two types of diesel engines. The smaller one was a 14-liter line with 330le, and the model in the film was added to the larger 17-liter V8, which made 420Les with the help of a turbocharger. In 2021, by the way, Iveco made Turbostar's modern reincarnation from the current S-Way model with a special limited edition, keeping the legend of the series.
Our series in the third, one -in -one We make truck-themed movies that were made in the '90s and after that. Don't miss it to get the full picture.
