And now, fifty-one years after Ford played cocky drag racer Bob Falfa in American Graffiti, the world of Lucasfilm has suddenly made that nearly-forgotten character relevant again. In the first ...

A look at American youth culture in the pre-Vietnam ... Brown, Getty Images Then: Ford was 30 when he played Bob Falfa, a cocky street racer who ends up crashing his car into a ditch.

Before he made Star Wars, then ruined Star Wars, then saved Star Wars by selling it to Disney, George Lucas made another iconic film that has served as a cultural touchstone. American Graffiti ...

Here are a handful of our favorite "American Graffiti" cars and the stories ... a black 1955 Chevy 150 driven by brash out-of-towner Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford) in the film's climactic scene.

tries to get rid of precocious pre-teen, Carol Morrison, who has somehow become his passenger for the evening, while dealing with the challenge of bold out-of-towner, Bob Falfa.

That’s right: “American Graffiti” is 50 ... the cocky street racer Bob Falfa would wear a Stetson. (You can see Ford’s floppy, 1970s hair late in the movie, as a rattled Bob watches ...