“Big things often have small beginnings.” Without a doubt, this age old aphorism could most certainly be considered a cliché, but that doesn’t negate the fact that the saying is very often true.

The late, great Burt Reynolds was indeed Tinseltown’s King of Cars.

He starred in no less than seven films in the period between 1973 and 1984 that celebrated the internal combustion engine.

In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, there was a rather dramatic change in the type of car movies that Hollywood began to produce.

The genre did not have to be solely composed of low-brow screwball comedies.

This month, Rob reviews Jack Vacek's '77 car movie, Double Nickels, the story of two Highway Patrolmen who monitor a strip of the US1.

Rob has found another movie packed with cool cars.

Check out Rob's review of 2 Guns.

The 1970s were truly the golden age for the car movie.

Rob reviews the cross-country chase film "Stingray".

One subgenre that rather inexplicably gained massive popularity in the 1970s was the bootlegger movie.

These were films in which the plot revolved around the need to transport illegal alcohol.