TCMfan23 Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 My favorite movie car is the DeLorian in "Back to the future". Ever since I was like 6 years old , I wanted to ride in that car. anyway , let's talk classic cars. I like Chevy's. '47 chevy pickup '68 Impala '55-'57 Bel Air (the car from "return to macon county") Anyone think it's odd I dislike Camaros and Chevelles ? not too crazy about Corvettes either. My favorite muscle car : Ford Mustang (1965-68 fastback). I've always wanted a mustang since my freshman high school year. The dream of driving a mustang is what helped me pass my DMV exams. The only modern car I like is the '99 - '04 Mustang GT. I'm no\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThelmaTodd Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 In the very stylised high fashion world so often depicted in classic 1930's films, cars play an iconic role. They signaled to the audience, through their well recognised trademark shaped radiator grills and hood ornaments, just where the owner and driver stood in the social pecking order! Here is a gallery of images that can serve as a handy guide to the luxury car statements so often made in these films: Duesenberg hood ornament. When used in films, this marquee was meant to convey great wealth, as a "Dusie" cost several times the price of a Cadillac. Cadillac hood ornament 1931 Lincoln used the famous greyhound trademark in the 20's and 30's. Packards were often used in 1930's films. Packard 1929 Besides a distinctive hood ornament, Packards featured a distinctive trademark radiator grill shape. “Damsels of the Dance and Human hood ornament – 1927 -Packard 343 Series Eight” You can’t make this stuff up! Another high end maker of the time was Pierce Arrow Foreign cars were seldom depicted in US films of the 30's; few Americans owned one due to a tariff that could be as high as a 100% of the vehicle value. Foreign makes like Mercedes and Rolls Royces, when used in a scene connoted something exotic and very very expensive. Mercedes cars from this period were easily recognised by their trademark angled radiator grills as well as by their timeless hood ornament symbol. Everyone should recognize this one! Rolls, from 1928 Buicks were for the slightly better off hoi polloi! A town car limousine with an open air compartment for the chauffeur was standard visual code for super wealth in 30's films. A 1933 Cadillac V-16 In those days scenes and everything in them were very carefully designed, composed and shot. If a certain make of car was used in a shoot, it was not: "go out and get me any car!"; it was an intentional choice meant to evoke certain dramatic and character associations in the viewing audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Tom Mix’s restored Super-charged 1937 Cord 812 Roadster built by the Auburn Automobile Company. This is the car in which Mix was killed on October 12, 1940 while traveling about 80mph on Arizona 79 when he crashed in a construction zone. Now owned and restored by Bob White of Scottsdale, AZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet0312 Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 I'm a Mopar girl myself. My last car was a '73 Dodge Dart. It was copper colored with a white vinyl roof. I had some body work done on it and slapped on some white walls. I drove it everyday. I ended up selling it when I almost crashed it during a snow storm and am now driving a Jeep. But I pretty much like the old muscle cars of the sixties. Super nice hood ornaments, there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 What a terrific thread! Thanks for posting those photos, Thelma. They're beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 I was always fond of the car driven by the Kirby's in *Topper* . Don't like Corvettes, TCMfan? Well, all I can say is that I started disliking them from 1968 on. I'll take a '63 "split window" any day! the '55 Mercedes "Gull Wing" ANY 1960's Jaguar XK-E An honest to goodness Tucker The '68 Dodge Charger Or MY first "real" car, the '65 Dodge Coronet 500! (damned thing had an azz-kicking 383 four barrel!) Early '60's Morgans A 1972 Olds 442 There's too much DROOL on my keyboard. I'll have to stop! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 In the movie "Annie" (1982) *1930 du Pont Royal Town Car* *1932 Duesenberg SJ La Grande Phaeton* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Of "movie cars", my favorites are the: James Bond's 1964 Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger Steve McQueen's 1968 Ford Mustang GT390 in Bullitt And, if we can include cars which were never in the movies but where owned by stars of the past, then my favorite in this regard would be the 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, such as the one made famous(or maybe infamous) as James Dean's "death car". (...the latter of which I've loved the looks of for so long that about 5 years ago I purchased a replica version of this mid-engined Porsche race car...couldn't afford the present asking prices of between $1-3M for any of the remaining 45 of 95 ever made of the real ones, ya see!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 There is a database of automobiles which have been in movies and in television programs. It is: http://www.imcdb.org/search.php I have found photographs there of many automobiles which I could not identify. There is a website which shows automobiles which are rare and classic which are for sale at a wide variety of sources. It is called: "Bring a Trailer". I do not understand many of the terms which they use but they have a section called: "Under $20,000" which has several which I would like to own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 I watched that crash reconstruction documentary about James Dean. There was a fatal tradeoff with the Porche, very light skin shell that gave it the fast speed but no match when it collides with a car that is built like a tank. Here is another photo of Dean with his 130, the car it collided with resembles that on on the right. Eerie, the photo looks like it was taken just yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Far as television shows, my most memorable is the 1967 Dodge GTS driven by Mike Conners in"Mannix". How about that unique roadster in "The Munsters" Got to give Dracula credit for having class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Ham, I don't know if you've ever watched the very VERY weird 1996 David Cronenberg film Crash (not to be confused with the 2004 Oscar winning Paul Haggis film), but in this film in which Cronenberg attempts to explore some strange sub-subculture of people who "get off" on seeing and actually being in automobile crashes, there's this following screen in which a dramatized re-creation of Dean's fatal accident is shown, and which on the whole has the facts down pretty well.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3yglMI40ns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 I believe this would be the perfect automobile for arriving at a picnic in the country: It is a 1950 Jaguar Drophead. The absolute perfection is maintained in that it has suicide doors! It is for sale for only $120,000 but I believe the added cost of importing it would make it seem extravagant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 The automobile was featured as the "Flying Wombat" in the David O. Selznick film The Young in Heart (1938), starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, and Billie Burke. The Corsair was featured in a segment of the Popular Science film series in 1938. Rust Heinz (company name) planned to put the Phantom Corsair, which cost approximately$24,000 to produce in 1938 (equivalent to about $370,000 in 2010), into limited productionat an estimated selling price of $12,500. However, Heinz's death in a car accident in July 1939ended those plans, leaving the prototype Corsair as the only one ever built. The Phantom Corsair now resides in the National Automobile Museum (also known as The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada. Cool data: When you open the door, a section of the roof gull-wing's upward a little to facilitate entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Isotta Fraschini used in SUNSET BOULEVARD: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Here is a link if anyone is interested http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/ He should have quite a number of celebrity automobiles. Will someone tell me where he got the $$$$ to own all that?? I know NBC don't pay *that* well. Got a chuckle out of the *Lamborghini* tractor. Is it for the Russian millionaire farmer? ****! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Jay's earnings for the past several years have been in the 30-35 million/yr range. I believe he's recently agreed to a 50% pay cut with NBC taking him down to around 15M/yr. You can buy a lot of BIG stuff with that kind of money http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443589304577635841079042920.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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