Did you know the black Charger from the Steve McQueen movie "Bullitt" has been found and is being restored? Here it is

For a magazine article that goes into the full detail, I'll need more time to work those photos, but it's the Mopar Collectors Guide April 2009 issue, page 91, 92, and 93

On the filming of Grand Prix, 1966. Using a GT40 to haul the Ferrari race car

found on http://asaucerfulofwheels.tumblr.com/post/9664588919/on-the-set-track-of-grand-prix-1966-the-cameras

the Two Lane Blacktop 55 Chev trivia

It has to be called trivia to learn something so obscure and momentary, but the 55 was also in an episode of Adam 12

the movie "Real Steel" is awesome, and has a cool International Harvester COE Sightliner as Hugh Jackman's mobile home/robot hauler... it's frickin cool

I hope they make a sequel... it is a no brainer in my opinion that this story line of a young kid and his absentee dad reuniting and getting a robot to win the world championship, is the newest in a line of Rocky, The Champ, Karate Kid  type feel good action movies... To let it go withough a great sequel of them continuing to be partners in the robot games, and further learning that the dad character has a lot to experience from his kids point of view .. that would be a shame

If you've already enjoyed the movie, you'll love reading this interview with Hugh http://collider.com/hugh-jackman-real-steel-interview-2/118641/ it sheds light on the characters of the kid and dad from Hugh's perspective as an actor helping out a young new actor. Great stuff. I read the whole damn thing, its that good

To learn more about the Sightliner, browse the Old IHC thread that was made when they filmed a sequence in Mid Michigan. ABC12 ran a short clip in the news September 20, 2010 3:35 pm, but don't have it available on the website... morons
http://oldihc.org/truck-talk/general-discussion/ih-in-upcomeing-hugh-jackman-movie-real-steel

Doc and Marty went back in time, way way back... The DeLorean has been found

Found on http://holodrome.tumblr.com/

Movie cars headline Leake auction in mid November in Dallas

the 1930 Ford Hot Rod that was driven in the opening scenes of Harrison Ford’s epic return to Indiana Jones franchise, the 1973 Ford Torino and the 1963 Chevrolet custom fuel heist truck that in Fast & Furious 4, a 1999 Ford Crown Victoria that appeared in the movie Taxi with Queen Latifah, and a 1948 Hudson Commodore Sedan from the movie Driving Miss Daisy

The annual Leake Collector Car Show & Auction will be held November 18-20 in Dallas Market Hall. http://www.leakecar.com/

who is Tura Santana?

found on http://tiberiusloft.tumblr.com/

Tura was the daughter of a Japanese dad, and Cheyanne Scot-Irish mom. Had puberty at 8, and was a target of male hormones the rest of her life, silent film star Harold Lloyd didn't know she was only 13 when he was photographing her nude, and told her she was a natural beauty that would make it in Hollywood films.

 This image is from the movie "Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill" and she also was in a variety of TV and movies, more famous of them The Man From UNCLE, and Irma LaDuce (Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine)

For a fun 1980's street racing movie about a high schooler with a blown 350 Chevelle and a need to raise money betting on his wining the races, watch "Catch Me If You Can" on youtube, because it's no where else

 The movie starts with the guy racing a 73 Duster,  

 Then having to try his Chevelle against local senior talent, the Sandman. The Sandman was played by an incredibly long working guy, Bob Minor, who has been doing movie and tv stunts and stunt coordinator work since 1970. He's worked in lots of the blaxploitation movies, and Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Magnum PI, Boyz in the Hood, Die Hard 4, Conspiracy Theory, Oceans 11, The Italian Job and many more. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591567/

 The Sandman couldn't make the curve when the cops started chasing the streetracers, and wiped out

 then the guy has several races against some cool cars, and keeps winning.

And with his confidence at an all time high, he then takes a high stakes bet with the local gangster loan shark, the Fatman, that he can beat the gangters driver, the rotton crook gangster fixes the race with a ringer who destroys the Chevelle, and the high schooler loses his mony.

in a desperate attempt to win double or nothing, the kid bets he can beat the local street racing legend "Fast Freddy" 's historically famous high speed run from Minneapolis to St Paul. Surpise polt twist, the kids High School Principl was Fast Freddy, and the 57 Chev that made that race is buried under the football field, ready to get vengeance against the gangster

The high school auto shop class gets the 57 Chev race ready, and pulls off the first water soluble paint job in a movie I ever saw. Also the first example of the one car gets chased into a building by cops, but lots of identical cars leave, and the cops can't track the right car... trick. Mix them together and a red car goes in but leaves a car wash blue with a flamejob, among a dozen other cars or various colors

This movie is fun, but never going to get put on DVD, there just isn't a demand for 1980's high school action street racing movies. The VHS is so rare, the one guy who has them on Amazon, wants $170 dollars.

I hate price gougers, so I'm telling all of you you can watch it free on You Tube. The quality isn't sharp, but neither was 1980's tv and movie resolution.

For part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFQLo8XV-I then just look on the righ hand sidebar for hte related videos, parts 2 and 4... 3 has been deleted

Ghost Rider 2, Spirit of Vengeance. Finally looks like Nicolas Cage is getting to bring the comic book character to the movies without the asinine love story forced into the 1st movie

Found via http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

the movie car that will be in the new version of Total Recall

It's good to live in San Diego for a lot of reasons, and one is that it's home to Comic Con. Of course, it's impossible to get tickets unless you are a celeb, a publishing company, or are working the event as a security guard. But this Hollywood prop was outside the convention center

Celebrities and their cars

 1909 WC Fields in the back of his American Traveler

1910 Teddy Roosevelt in the back of a Mitchell

 1921 to 1924 Jack Dempsey behind the wheel of a very special McFarlan roadster

 1926 Babe Ruth being given an Auburn roadster

 Clark Gable in his famous 1936 Model J Duesenburg body by Bohman & Schwartz

The wonderful Mickey Rooney (loved his performance in Black Stallion) in a 1949 movie The Big Wheel

all found on http://theoldmotor.com/

new getaway driver movie coming our way, looks good

found on http://www.rokemneedlearts.com/carsindepth/wordpressblog/

The Boys of Bonneville movie trailer

found on http://theoldmotor.com/ and if you'd like to see the movie, here is the schedule:

Carmel Concours d’Elegance Screening August 20

Boys of Bonneville Premiere Gala – SLC, UT August 24 By Invitation Only

MEGAPLEX Theatrical Release (Utah theater chain)August 26 – September 8

DocUtah Film Festival September 9th

DocMiami Film Festival September 23 – 25

Kansas International Film Festival September 30 – October 6

Carmel Film & Art Festival October 12 – 19

from http://www.boysofbonneville.com/screenings/

Cool stuff I found on pour15minutesdamour.blogspot, big variety, but in French, so open in Google Chrome or other instant translating browser

what an awesome shot. I don't think I've ever seen a celeb in the side mirror shot before

 Honor Blackman and a Solex

 Marlene Dietrich, 1944 I think the post said, the western front

The Playboy Bunnies, 1966

Elke Sommer in the movie with Peter Sellers "A Shot in the Dark" on an Excelsior I think