"The Great Race" Professor Fate and Hannibal 8 movie cars are ready to sell

See a huge gallery and get more details at http://volocars.com/1964-hannibal-8-professor-fate-the-great-race-movie-car-collection-c-1258.htm

Happy Days... where Richie and his dad fix up the convertible

found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585

It's been 2 years since the last time I saw a photo of the "Son of the Mask" movie car, Ridelust found another

I found the above photo at http://www.ridelust.com/the-fastest-street-legal-cars-of-all-time/
via http://megamoto.tumblr.com/

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-find-movie-custom-cars-fun-in-can-you.html was my last posting of the above photo, but it's necessary to post it along the top photo so you can see the interesting parts, like the blower, which the top photo doesn't show

Every now and then, Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55" needs to be played while driving my R/T

Tron Legacy artwork, by artist Daniel Simon

Found on http://lecontainer.blogspot.com but for a full gallery see: http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2010/09/29/amazing-new-high-resolution-tron-legacy-concept-art/

A better look at the "Topper" movie car trailer

Via: http://dieselpunks.blogspot.com/2010/10/topper-car-now-with-trailer.html

Anyone recognize this delivery van from a Munsters episode background?

I don't recognize it, and don't have any guess...

Dave commented, "Looks to me like and English Thames pronounced "Tems". What do you think?"

You might be spot on Dave, I think you have it... but Chris looked it up on IMCDB.org and nailed it!
Chris commented;
1955-56 Dodge US. Mail truck, rare today, Body was by Fageol
This Dodge postal vehicle built with right hand drive and a flat-head six cylinder engine with a push-button automatic transmission. A decal inside, above the windshield, says: FAGEOL - Pony Express Twin Coach - Kent, Ohio, while a tag proclaims “Post Office #6-A-1101 - Model #C3 - C6 - 95.” A Dodge tag notes - 105 net Hp @ 3600rpm.” The wheelbase of the truck is 95 inches, and the rear door opens like a minivan hatch.
The Twin Coach Company utilized their body manufacturing facilities to produce these "Pony Express" vehicles.
From IMCDB.org

Why hasn't anyone done this with their Tbird? From the movie "Murderers Row" a Matt Helm movie with Dean Martin (sort of a Bond similar role)

Just putting an LED message board in the place of the tail lights, clever!

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

Here's the place Lilly stopped to look for a car for Herman

The Fleetwood Cadillac Lilly's invisible chauffer drove her in

I'd love to know if this T Bucket is known becaue of who built it, or just happened to be available for this scene

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

Very unusual hearse, Lilly liked both the hot rod and the hearse and decided to have a customizer make them into one car for Herman, taking the best features of each

cool things found at Greyhandgang.com

What do you think, an airport runway snow melter?

Buckminster Fuller and a Dymaxion

Cuban taxi's.... aren't they awesome! Looks like a 55 Ford and a 53 Chev. I'd take a ride in these over a modern taxi, damn right I would

I'm not sure, but it looks like the trans-arctic vehicle

A street car used to build artificial reefs

The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm

The Munsters coach it looks like, it is on Santa Monica Blvd, and it's 1964

An Autogyro over New York

a photo of the Blitzen Benz I haven't seen before

looks like El Mirage

What an Americana moment, the purple car is a Studebaker Commander I think

via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/

Comedic use of automobiles in silent movies

Above Buster Keaton enacts a common concept that a Model T had to be put down like a horse when it's useful life was over, because like a horse, it was all give and no take, all heart.

1929 and 1924

the wheel chair has an attached power wheel, looks like something I just watched on the History channel show "American Pickers" an interesting show I like to try to catch. Also similar to the Briggs and Stratton motor wheel

For a timeline of power wheels and powered bicycles: http://www.mopedarmy.com/wiki/Motorized_Bicycle

Photos via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/

"My Mother the Car" the car was made by Norm Grabowski or Barris?

Premiering in 1965, what may be the strangest sitcom of all time is a reminder that borderline brain-dead TV executives have been with us for decades — and deserve no say in the big-budget boardroom. Jerry Van Dyke played a man who discovers that his mother's soul has been reincarnated in his automobile, enabling him to hear her voice through the radio http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/worst-tv-shows-100109

Hot Rod Deluxe, May 2010 issue page 69 says Norm made it, and it was owned by Kaye Trapp, Hollywood studio photographer who used it as a push car for the Zueschel, Fuller, and Moody dragster

But according to http://local.aaca.org/junior/starcars/mother.htm Barris built the car; The car's body (finished in Metalflake carnation red with a white top) was made up from various vehicles including a Model T Ford, a Maxwell (precursor to the Chrysler), a Hudson, and pieces of a Chevrolet, including drive train. The car had a custom-made hood and radiator shell.
2 were made, one is at http://starcarstn.com/index.html in Tennessee along with a lot of other cool cars like the Munsters Dragula, and a collection of Barris customs




The video is badly editted news shorts from a local tv station perhaps... it seems like it once had commercials, only the first half is really worth watching

Batgirls motorcycle... not what she'd get in the new batman movies... frills? Really? Yikes

via: http://nostalgiaonwheels.blogspot.com/2009/12/batgirls-custom-yds-3-catalina-circa.html

The Barris taxi for the Bob Denver tv show "Good Guys"

Read all about it: http://books.google.com/books?id=MoLmwZfLk_cC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=barris+taxi&source=bl&ots=liHlPj1jMC&sig=-rRVZTxcp-wk5V066b4Tu7ESw3w&hl=en&ei=FPhLS-jbIIaIsgPa5emiCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=barris%20taxi&f=false

But the cool kustom stuff was a grappling hook to slow or stop it, no tires and rims were the same, the taxi meter was a pair of coffee pots linked together top to top to form an hourglass that had metalflakes (that usually are put in hot rod paint)

Granny Clampett on a motorcycle!

Granny character's full name was Daisy Mae Moses, but who would ever think of her as that?
Via: http://ottonero.blogspot.com/

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