Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
WW2 was instrumental in changing the American culture in so many ways, but did you ever hear of car bumpers being donated to the scrap drives?
Rita Hayworth did her part... so if you come across her big old car with no bumpers, now you'll know what happened to them.For an example of immense largese in donating to the scrap drives, read about Panmsy Yount's 1933 Duesenberg Model J Judkins Berline that was turned over to the war effort for it's use as metal for armor plate, or whatever they did with all that steel
Thursday, August 26, 2010
the USA At Last hot rod from "Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation"
Anyone know what the story is about this roadster?
A couple of brass era vehicles from the movie "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" a Lee Marvin movie
Don't know what they are specifically, but the movie was fun to watch, and the antique cars were frequently on screen.
The biggest wagon I've ever seen! Might only have been a movie prop, because they blew it to smithereens
Three axles... I've never seen one with 3 axles. This was in the movie "Duck You Sucker" with James Coburnhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/
Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Munster's Coach was a birthday present for Herman from Lilly, according to episode 4 of season 1, custom built from a hearse and a hot rod
Some one else wondered about this too! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=298015&page=3
From page 70 and 71 of the March 1965 issue of Hot Rod, a bit of information:
Built by Erv Campbell of Santa Ana, CA from a cut down 1922 Ford touring body and a shortened Model A pickup bed on a 1930 Model A frame. At that time it was Erv's sixth rod and reportedly took over 5,000 hours to complete -- the hardest part, according to the owner, was fabricating the headers for the 1957 347 cu. in. Pontiac motor.
Thanks to Cord for emailing me, and Jimmy for putting the info on the HAMB
Monday, August 9, 2010
I didn't know the "Dark Knight" motorcycle was a real working cycle
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Popular Mechanics top 10 movie car chase scenes
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/vintage-speed/4270411 numbers 8 and 6 are terrific!
I knew that the chase scene from the Punisher wouldn't make the top ten, here's why: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/from-newer-movie-punisher-damage.html
A movie was made in 1953 about the London to Brighton historic race, Genevieve
from http://tukker.blogspot.com/ which is NSFW (not safe for work) for dissapointingly little info on the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045808
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