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 ...

Ford’s first big film credit came in 1973, when he played Bob Falfa in American Graffiti. Yes, it was directed by George Lucas, but that is beside the point for this argument. After all ...

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.

You may know it as the American Graffiti coupe ... the bad-to-the-bone black '55 Chevrolet driven by street racer Bob Falfa, portrayed by Harrison Ford. A piece of movie trivia here: LeMat ...