Before a paint job and starring role in American Graffiti, Falfa’s '55 Chevy starred in Two Lane Blacktop... and now it's getting restored to make it "movie accurate"

The car made its movie debut a long damn time ago, in a movie I haven't seen since the 80s, Two-Lane Blacktop, 2 years before American Graffiti. 

In Two-Lane Blacktop, young James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (has any other half famous movie ever had a couple real musical A lister legends ever play non musician characters?)   portray a couple of no-name dudes cruising the southwest in search of drag races at the track and along the nation’s roadways.

https://www.chevyhardcore.com/news/restoring-the-american-graffiti-55-chevy/