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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Leatherheads, the movie, had some great vehicles from the 1920's... George Clooney driving a motorcycle and sidecar, and Rene Zellweger. Good movie

I looked carefully at the motorcycle, and can't see who made it. Could be any of several bike companies

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Hollywoods Golden age stars of the silver screen and their cars

Clark Gable and his 32 Packard

Laurel and Hardy in a 1930 Buick Series 30

Al Jolson and his Mercedes

Errol Flynn and his Auburn Speedster

Ginger Rodgers and her 37 Dodge

Jimmy Stewart and his Plymouth

Joan Crawford and her 32 Lincoln Model K

Bing Crosby and a 39 Oldsmobile at the movie studios

Cary Grant and his 1941 Buick Century

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Steve McQueen and Paul Newman... both motorbike riders, and featured on Karamelocycles.blogspot.com

and to make an important point clear... I've never seen these images before! Bravo Karamelocycles!
http://karamelocycles.blogspot.com

Saturday, January 14, 2012

the King of Sweden has a car collection, 1966 GT 350 Shelby Mustang, GTO, AC Cobra, and so on

thanks to Licolncadillac for letting us know! For a short post see http://grandprix63.blogspot.com/2009/05/raggarkung-for-sverige-i-bilen.html

Like many members of the Royal Family, the King has a keen interest in automobiles. He owns several Porsche 911s, a vintage Volvo PV444 a Ferrari 456M GT, a Shelby AC Cobra, 1966 Shelby GT350, and BMW M3 CSL, one of only 1,500.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Charles Bronson was a car collector... who knew?!?! His Bugatti type 49

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A couple famous faces and the cars they drove found on SwissStache tumblr

Frank SDinatra driving a car with dealership plates... I wonder why

Jimi Hendrix looks like he's posing in a dealership showroom

http://swissstash.tumblr.com/

Monday, December 26, 2011

Want to see the Pomona dragstrip with 1964 action? With Tommy Ivo's, Don Garlits', and the Greer Black Prudhomme top fuel rails? Plus Dean Jeffries Manta Ray in action. What if you have to put up with a 60's Annette and Frankie Beach Party type movie? well, it was worth it to get these shots

The movie starts with the bunch of surfer-dragster-dancer kids going to the beach to surf. That trailer has very era correct art, just take a look at the "Monster shirts" of Mouse, Jeffries, Roth, and Von Dutch... especially the Mouse art http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/mouse-monster-shirts.html

and here are a couple close ups

And the same artist did the set work of Don Rickles' character's bar

below photo has a couple cool dragsters on the wall behind the musician's stage

Dean Jeffries' Manta Ray in action, and towing a dragster http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-did-dean-jeffries-mantaray-have-289.html

the above C&T Automotive slingshot has a word painted just above the parachute, "Britannia" but it only appears on the car half the time this dragster is on screen

The movie edittors must have been going to Movie "Grade School" becuase they were real bad. The clip I got from a drag race sequence was flipped backwards, notice the above dragsters lettering

Tommy Ivo's famous "Showboat" , in the below video, which has the movie clip of it running down the track, Tommy explains how he engineered the 4 engines to work simultaneously

Don Rickles in the red jumpsuit, his character runs the dragstrip and owns the bar "Big Drag's Pit Stop" at the beginning of this post

There were about 10 sligshot dragsters on the movie set, the Manta Ray, and the Show Boat

Pontiac Tempest or Bonneville wagon for a team push car, way cool rims

And they even went so nuts as to include a guy in a chimp suit thoughout the entire movie, and even had it drive a Harley Davidson Topper scooter, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-did-harley-owners-ever-reinvent.html but with a sidecar... I've never seen a Topper with a sidecar... quite kooky