9: Burt Reynolds participates in an illegal cross-country race in The Cannonball Run.
8: Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine are forced into a race where they are forced to run down innocent pedestrians in Death Race 2000.
7: Steve McQueen drives a mustang after a mob kingpin for revenge in Bullitt.
6: A man is hired to take a 1970 Dodge Challenger to California from Colorado in 15 hours... no matter what the cost in Vanishing Point.
5: An undercover cop played by Paul Walker discovers that his friend, Vin Deisel, is a car thief in The Fast and the Furious.
4: An insurance agent is hired by a drug baron to steal 48 cars in one day and avoid capture in Gone in 60 Seconds.
3: C. Thomas Howell plays a man driving across the country alone and is terrorized by a psychotic hitchhiker in The Hitcher.
2: A nerdy Keith Gordon fixes up and becomes completely obsessed with a 1958 Plymouth Fury that seems to have a mind of its own in Christine.
And at number one we have a frantic Dennis Weaver who lives out every motorist's nightmare: being chased across a lonely desert highway by the sadistic driver of a massive semi truck in Steven Spielberg's first movie, Duel.
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