CREDITS THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, 2001 dir: Rob Cohen Paul Walker Vin Diesel Michelle Rodriguez Jordana Brewster Rick Yune

“I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters – not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.”

Rob Cohen’s street-racing movie belts along with the power and speed of a rice rocket. It opens with Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) testing his car in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium, 1000 Elysian Park Avenue.

Cohen wanted to emphasise LA’s overlooked neighbourhoods and sets the world of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) in a picturesque and popular area of Echo Park, north of downtown LA.

The Fast and the Furious location: Vin Diesel's house: East Kensington Road, Echo Park

Toretto’s house is 722 East Kensington Road, and ‘Toretto’s market and diner’, where O'Conner insinuates himself into the community, is the nearby friendly local grocery store Bob’s Market, 1234 Bellevue Avenue at Kensington Road.

The ‘Racer’s Edge’, the garage at which O'Conner works, is an anonymous red-brick building at 1046 North Orange Drive, just south of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood and, no, disappointingly there’s no car on the roof.

The Fast and the Furious location: the ‘Racer’s Edge’: North Orange Drive, Hollywood

The motorbike gang scenes were shot in LAís Little Saigon district, way southeast of the city. The white statues are the Vietnamese Cultural Court, 9221 Bolsa Avenue, Westminster. The Asian gateway is at 9631 Bolsa Avenue.

The first big car rally filmed on Prairie Avenue, between 120th Street and 118th Street, just south of Imperial Highway in Hawthorne.

Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) and O'Conner enjoy a date at Cha Cha Cha, 656 North Virgil Avenue at Melrose Avenue in the Virgil Village district of Silverlake. O'Conner and Dominic stop off at Neptune’s Net, 42505 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu.

The Fast and the Furious location: O'Conner and Mia at Cha Cha Cha, Silverlake

The final race, with the train, is on Terminal Way, Terminal Island. The ‘Race Wars’ rally was filmed at San Bernardino International Airport, East Third Street at Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino.

O'Conner is arrested at Seventh Street and Valencia Street, downtown LA. There is no ‘El Gato Negro’, which was nothing more than a set built on a vacant lot in El Segundo.

In an homage to Bullitt, O'Conner chases the bikers down the slope of Micheltorena Street in Echo Park (where you can find the mansion of both Scream 3 and Halloween H20) and on to Glendale Boulevard.