Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Watching Paul Newman start and drive a 1914 Puegot at Indy? Awesome!





If you have Netflix you can do it instantly, or you can catch various clips on You Tube. Stick with the ones loaded by wintershollywood, they have the original audio ...

Once upon a Wheel, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413072/ a cool movie that Paul narrated, and got greasy wrenching on a 71 Super Bee, and takes a look at a lot of racing stars, the Unsers, Andrettis, Pettys, and so on. A lot of 1970 NASCAR footage, but also dragsters, snowmobiles and more.

Clips from early 1910 races, land speed racing on the sand and slat, Pikes Peak, Indy, and so on are amazing to watch while Paul talks you through the scenes.

Getting a moment on screen are such obscure and cool vehicles as Buckminster's Dymaxion, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/favorite-sculptor-of-mine-was-first-to.html and the Marmon Herrington Rhino: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/marmon-harrington-4-wheel-drive.html

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Once-Upon-a-Wheel/70002931?trkid=1211018
Celebrity friends such as Kirk Douglas, Dick Smothers and James Garner join Newman at the classic Indy 500, Formula One and NASCAR events. Featured are some of the most legendary race-car drivers of all time, including Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones, Bobby Isaac, Richard Petty, Al and Bobby Unser and many more.

Some reeally famous people not named in the review, but getting moments on screen are John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Wilt Chamberlain, astronaut Pete Conrad, Glen Ford, and others as the cameras were takne through the pits at the first Ontario Motor Speedway celebrity pro- amateur charity race, which was won by Dick Smothers and Bobby Unser. Motion Picture and televison relief fund was the charity.

Watching Paul Newman start and drive a 1914 Puegot at Indy? Awesome!





If you have Netflix you can do it instantly, or you can catch various clips on You Tube. Stick with the ones loaded by wintershollywood, they have the original audio ...

Once upon a Wheel, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413072/ a cool movie that Paul narrated, and got greasy wrenching on a 71 Super Bee, and takes a look at a lot of racing stars, the Unsers, Andrettis, Pettys, and so on. A lot of 1970 NASCAR footage, but also dragsters, snowmobiles and more.

Clips from early 1910 races, land speed racing on the sand and slat, Pikes Peak, Indy, and so on are amazing to watch while Paul talks you through the scenes.

Getting a moment on screen are such obscure and cool vehicles as Buckminster's Dymaxion, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/favorite-sculptor-of-mine-was-first-to.html and the Marmon Herrington Rhino: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/12/marmon-harrington-4-wheel-drive.html

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Once-Upon-a-Wheel/70002931?trkid=1211018
Celebrity friends such as Kirk Douglas, Dick Smothers and James Garner join Newman at the classic Indy 500, Formula One and NASCAR events. Featured are some of the most legendary race-car drivers of all time, including Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones, Bobby Isaac, Richard Petty, Al and Bobby Unser and many more.

Some reeally famous people not named in the review, but getting moments on screen are John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Wilt Chamberlain, astronaut Pete Conrad, Glen Ford, and others as the cameras were takne through the pits at the first Ontario Motor Speedway celebrity pro- amateur charity race, which was won by Dick Smothers and Bobby Unser. Motion Picture and televison relief fund was the charity.

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?

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.

A couple of brass era vehicles from the movie "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" a James Coburn 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 Coburn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/

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 Coburn
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067140/

Sunday, August 8, 2010

BBNH tumbler has a couple of cool images I felt the need to share

Don't they realize they need to do some chassis work?

Kurt Russell movie still from the Deathproof movie... one of the coolest car chase scenes with a new innovative idea

Must be impressively loud and unusual sounding

Friday, July 16, 2010

Good news!



3 events added to the car show calendar


Also:
Fast and Furious 5 is being filmed, and I found the warehouse the cars are getting customized for the film stunts.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Beverly Hillbillies trucks


image via: http://thatcarguy.typepad.com

one is in a museum in Missouri http://www.rfostermuseum.com/ and another is at the Planet Hollywood at Downtown Disney http://wapedia.mobi/en/Downtown_Disney_(Florida)

One sold at Barrett Jackson in Jan 2008: http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/article/2008AZauctionupdate/ for 125,000

Friday, December 25, 2009

Old Hollywood, some stars and their cars, pre-1940

Above, the Little Rascals

Al Jolson and his custom 1928 Mercedes Spl

Buster Keaton and his 1928 Austin

WC Fields with a 1930 Bantam movie car, in the movie 300 Yard Drive

Rudy Valentino's (unbelievable biography: http://emol.org/emclub/?q=rudolphvalentino )cars above an Avoin Voisin, and below a 1925 Isotta Frashini. His 1923 Isotta can be seen in the Nethercutt Museum: http://www.pbase.com/gemc48/image/39217895


A 1910 Stanley Steamer and in the back is a 1940 Packard Darin

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in a 1914 Stutz Bearcat

a 1911 Ford and Jimmy Durante... what a pit crew!

Dragstrip Girl (1957)... looks like a fun movie! Frank Gorshin was the driver


Frank is best known ( perhaps ) as the joker in the 60's tv show Batman

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Laurel and Hardy and the breakaway special smashed jalopy 1924 Model T

Built so it could still move under it's own power when it was 1/2 it's orginal width. I wish this had shown up when I searched the web, but nothing out there about it. Wouldn't it be the coolest to look over and see how they built it?!

The Keystone Cops, about 1915, stars of the silent screen comedies

The Keystone Cops was a series of silent film comedies featuring a totally incompetent group of policemen who frequently were part of train robberies, train crashes (spectacular), cars that fell apart and motorcycle mayhem . They may have invented the car chase scene (as they were invented about the same time as movies and cheap cars)

These bumbling lawmen were often depicted crowded onto their jalopy to the point of overflowing into the street as they chased down the bad guys

A Hollywood movie prop special above, the 1924 special breakaway Model T

Above a 1921 Model T
Below is a movie prop Hupmobile