Basically I looked at a bunch of movies I know and music videos I like featuring cars and I googled "What car was in [x]?" There are some cars I call "hero cars" because they're as much characters as the people driving them. The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray from "Turbo Killer" stands out.

I also just googled what cars were street racing cars in the 80s and 90s. By the 00s, the scene had changed a lot and it's hard to find any iconics there, so a lot of my "racing cars" are really cameos from other media. (Death's Mustang Boss 429 is John Wick's car, in case you were wondering)