Talk:American Graffiti

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pharoe's car
Can anyone tell me the make. year and model of the car the Pharoe's had in the movie? Thanks, rck129@yahoo.com (please send to this email addy) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rck129 (talk • contribs) 14:04, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

The Axle Trick
There is an episode of Leave it To Beaver where one of the kids gets a car (Model T, how old is this?). I think it was Eddie Haskell. Anyway, he's so annoying that the other two older kids decide to pull a trick. They chain the rear axle to a tree so that he'll go screeching out out the driveway and jerk to a stop. This being sitcom TV, all we see it the two boys watching from behind a bush, then sound effects, then the rear axle with chain rolls into the picture and Eddie whining "Daaaaad!"

So I assume this trick was a common urban legend of the time.

59 - 62 discrepancy
The friends were from the Class of 59 but the movie is set in 1962. Could someone edit the article to explain why the gap? Comet Tuttle (talk) 21:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

License plate
Apparently one of the cars in this film has license plate THX138, possibly as a reference to Lucas's earlier film THX 1138 - can anybody find a WP:RS so that this may be added? -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:40, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Discussion pertaining to non-free image(s) used in article
A cleanup page has been created for WP:FILMS' spotlight articles. One element that is being checked in ensuring the quality of the articles is the non-free images. Currently, one or more non-free images being used in this article are under discussion to determine if they should be removed from the article for not complying with non-free and fair use requirements. Please comment at the corresponding section within the image cleanup listing. Before contributing the discussion, please first read WP:FILMNFI concerning non-free images. Ideally the discussions pertaining to the spotlight articles will be concluded by the end of June, so please comment soon to ensure there is clear consensus. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 05:17, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Legacy
Would American Graffiti be considered the first of the films about the end of high school? Would movies like "Can't Hardly Wait" be inspired by American Graffiti? 158.80.40.2 (talk) 16:36, 6 June 2011 (UTC)amyanda2000

I have tried to Edit the "Legacy" section of American Graffiti, but my edit's disappear quite quickly. What I wanted to add to the "Legacy" section is that guitarist Jeff Beck - renowned through out the world as one of the greatest rock guitarists - is also a huge Hot-Rod enthusiast. He builds his own cars and has built a yellow Deuce replica complete w/ the THX 138 license plate. On his 1999 album titled: Who Else! - he has a song titled: THX138

You can find Jeff on You Tube discussing this and showing his car off, just search on YT for: Jeff Beck - Music and Cars Part 1. DrDeath26 (talk) 00:30, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

New American Graffiti Jeff's All Graffiti All The Time
I would like to add an external link to the American Graffiti page. If someone(a human not an automated machine)would take the time to look at this site with the facts and pictures It would be a great addition to this page. there are other blogs listed so that excuse doesn't work. http://jeffsallgraffitiallthetime.blogspot.com 67.184.246.44 (talk) 21:18, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Dubious claim
The claim that ILM enhanced the film for its BR release, deleted from the George Lucas article on Wikipedia, has popped up again here, again without a source. If a source cannot be provided I will revisit and amend the text.Theonemacduff (talk) 16:40, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * If it's unsourced, there is no reason not to remove it. I would think such a claim, if true, could be sourced faily easily.  This is not an obscure film, a great deal has been written about it, same goes for ILM and George Lucas, and their activities are well documented. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  19:10, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Your challenge is as unsourced as his claim. It goes against the rule "assume good faith". The degradation of Wikipedia reliability, depth, and massive loss of editors directly caused by your kind of unsourced bad faith challenges. The lengthy list of citations in the articles, often a list longer than the article itself, shows most of your bad faith challenges to be sourced on utter ignorance, and are merely unnecessary bad faith tasking of good faith editors to find sources. Not that you have any published challenge. Just any anonymous troll on the internet looking for attention.

98.164.76.40 (talk) 14:09, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Resurrecting a 9 year old discussion just to make a point - especially when it's no longer applicable because the article has changed so much - might also be considered troll-like behaviour... Chaheel Riens (talk) 11:22, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

No mention of Falfa's '55 Chevy
I am new to this page, but since hot rods are such a prominent theme in this film, I think it's worth mentioning that Bob Falfa drives a '55 Chevy. I suggest adding it to the Plot section, since the lead-up to Falfa's race against Milner's deuce coupe, not to mention the race itself, is such an important part of the plot. Not sure how best to do that though, so I am open to suggestions. (Also of note is the fact that the '55 Chevy Harrison Ford drove in the movie was the same car featured in Two-Lane Blacktop.)Pistongrinder (talk) 16:50, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

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Baxter book source cites inaccuracies
Made changes on 28 Oct 2015 to certain info and cites to the Baxter book. Found at library hardback copy of the Baxter book and checked dubious allegations and cites from it included in this article. Baxter's unauthorized biography of Lucas is without any source citations for its claims, making them dubious at best. Even if claims from the unsourced book are to be included in this article, cite-checking the book (p 129-130 discusses gossip about conduct of the actors during filming) confirms several are misstated, not actually mentioned in the book or otherwise inaccurately cited in this article. Ex -Book doesn't claim actors were drunk between takes; doesn't mention any alleged bar fight involving Ford or his being arrested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmlesp (talk • contribs) 20:46, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

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Set in Modesto?
This might have been discussed years ago, I know. I have heard that American Graffiti was filmed in Modesto – in fact, the Mel's diner was still there when I was in the city in the mid-1990's – but the intro says that the film is "set" in Modesto, which is another thing entirely. It has been a while since I saw the movie, but I don't remember that the city was ever identified in the film, or even that it was supposed to be in California. Shocking Blue (talk) 08:19, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

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John and Carol.
Carol was 12 not 16. She was dumped on John as a prank by her older sister's friends and manipulated John into driving her round by threatening to report him for attempted rape.

John resented her and at one point reduced her to tears, after which he treated her more sympathetically. She was not "fond of him". She was more intent on the experience of being out on the town and was angry at the way he treated her as the child she was. Eventually he scared her into letting him take her home after he made suggestive approaches to her. He then gave her a keepsake and an innocent friendly kiss on the head. 90.248.76.197 (talk) 22:30, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Debbie last's name
I do read some online sources which identified Debbie's last name "Dunham," but they are likely false, as the trailer identified her as "Debbie Medway."]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ9Gp6Qc8LQ&t=56s]Speakfor (talk) 17:32, 31 January 2023 (UTC)