Folgende Beiträge enthalten das Schlagwort: TV and film cars

Enshrined on the National Historic Register, the Ferris Bueller “Ferrari” visits the AACA Museum

The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was really a 1985 Modena Spyder California. Photos courtesy HVA. It may be the most recognized Ferrari 250 GT California in t...

Bond’s DB5 from “Goldeneye” to hit the auction block in July

All images courtesy of Marc Wilmot. There are few things as associated with the James Bond character as the Aston Martin DB5. Okay, there are the women, the booze, the gadgets, and the totally unreal...

Pop quiz, hot shot: What’s the bus from “Speed” worth at auction?

Images courtesy Profiles in History. “Just like driving a really big Pinto,” except Sandra Bullock’s character from the 1994 flick Speed wasn’t referring to the handling characteristics of the GM New...

Shelby Celebrates the King this Weekend

The Shelby GT500 KR’s 50th birthday? It’s as good an excuse as any to put on a movie night and car show at Carroll Shelby International in California this Friday and Saturday. According to organizers...

Herbie rides (to the top) again, selling for $128,700 in Palm Beach

The record-setting ‘Herbie,’ a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle sunroof sedan. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. No one knows exactly how many Volkswagen Beetles Walt Disney Productions used in making the first...

Perhaps the world’s most famous hot rod, Norm Grabowski’s Kookie T started the T-bucket craze

Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions, except where noted. Dual superchargers. Dual headlamps. Dual slicks. The car that Jim Street showed for a few years and then hid away for decades seemed to have dual e...

Four-Links: Dodge Mirada memories, building a desktop Porsche flat-six, Ferris vs. Ferrari, the Mallard that really flew

Like the platypus, the Dodge Mirada went down an evolutionary path not shared with others. It may have blended into the scenery back in the early 1980s, but in today’s jelly-bean-sedan world, the Mir...

Willkommen to The Saint’s Volvo 1800S at 2018 Techno-Classica Essen, Germany

Images are courtesy of Volvo Cars. Europe is home to a great number of annual classic-auto events, and Techno-Classica Essen, in Germany, is up there with France’s Rétromobile and England’s Classic M...

In bid to interest millennials, Historic Vehicle Association chooses first Chrysler minivan for Cars at the Capital

Photos by Preston Rose, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association, unless otherwise noted. If automotive appreciation can be reduced to generational preferences, then Mark Gessler at the Historic Vehicle...

Thirty-five years later, there’s no van cooler than the A-Team’s GMC Vandura

Image via IMCDB. Yeah, the scripts were repetitive, the violence cartoonish, and the continuity near-nonexistent. So what, we children of the Eighties tuned into The A-Team every week for one thing o...

Ford introduces 2019 Bullitt Mustang alongside long-hidden 1968 original

The Bullitt hero car alongside the 2019 Bullitt Mustang at the 2018 North American International Auto Show. Photos by Ronan Glon, unless otherwise noted. The Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT fastback t...

A few reasons why vintage cars remain relevant, enjoyable, and collectible

With the holiday season upon us and the weather too slushy to drive my old Buick, my mood regarding cars has turned a bit contemplative. One of the main reasons why we continue to covet vintage cars ...

The Saabs of Sturgis: establishing America’s Saab Heritage Car Museum USA

Images are courtesy of Tom Donney. There have always been fine private collections of Saabs in the USA, but as far as we know–unlike in this automaker’s home country –there’s never before been a larg...

The allure, the legends, and the history behind Circuit de la Sarthe

The #23 Porsche Konstruktionen Porsche 917 K driven by Richard Atwood and Hans Herrmann drives under the Dunlop Bridge during the International Championship for Makes 24 Hours of Le Mans race on13 Ju...

Fresh from its role in upcoming DeLorean biopic, DMC prototype exhibited at AACA Museum

DeLorean prototype 1 at the AACA Museum. Photo by Nancy Gates. In October 1976, the first running prototype of John DeLorean’s futuristic gullwing coupe was delivered by builder Triad Services Group....

Hudson Super Six race car copy pays homage to Indy’s “junk formula” days

Looking to bring both spectators and American automakers back to the Indy 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker proposed a series of rule changes in 1929 that would become kno...

Open Diff – Do you embrace pop culture references to your car?

Image via IMCDB.org. So you’ve got a car, and it’s probably been referenced in the movies or on TV somehow. Or in comics. Or in a popular song. And, of course, at every car show people want to know i...

Four-Links – tintype sidecar, the Love Machine, Sally, Brasil to Canada

Rob Gibson shoots tintype photos, which is remarkable enough, but he also does so out of a custom sidecar attached to his 1938 Harley, as we learn from this PetaPixel profile of Gibson. * Apparently ...

Four-Links – Circuit Safari, cherry Jeep, 101 Dalmatians, Birmingham

Nissan’s doing something interesting in Australia. Rather than running their vintage race cars past grandstands full of spectators, they’re packing the spectators onto buses and running both the buse...

Mannix’s puller: Barris-built Oldsmobile Toronado roadster heads to auction

Photos courtesy Dragone Auctions. Most TV shows get at most one chance to introduce a cool hero car: the A-Team van, KITT, and the Batmobile all pulled solo duty on their respective shows. Not so wit...

Porsche 917K used in filming of “Le Mans” sets marque record at Pebble Beach

Porsche 917K, chassis 917-024, sells for a hammer price of $12.8 million, $14.08 million with fees. Photo by Jensen Sutta, copyright and courtesy of Gooding & Company. Porsche’s legendary 917K is a r...

Over the river and upside down: Astro-Spiral Hornet stunt car estimated to bring $250,000 at auction

Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. What started out as a way to save lives by studying highway crashes led to a cascade of events that culminated in perhaps AMC’s biggest marketing op...

One-off brochure-model 1976 Pontiac Trans Am Special Edition resurfaces, heads to first public showing

Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. You know how the new-car commercials these days include little disclaimers noting that the pictured car is a prototype and that “some features may not appear in produc...

Four-Links – Bandit film locations, Import Carlisle, Antarctic Velocettes, bridge dangler

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Smokey and the Bandit,” Horsepower Memories went in search of as many original film locations as they could find in the Atlanta area. * Former Hemmings Sports an...

On the genesis of the third-gen Pontiac Firebird – and how it became KITT

Chapter Three: The Dark Ages As the 1980s gathered steam, it was clear that Pontiac, like all auto manufacturers, was being led by legislation. The US government had, starting in the late 1960s, impo...

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