Images courtesy Internet Movie Car Database. With the news that actor Roger Moore died earlier today in Switzerland at 89, we can think of no better way to memorialize him than to consider his best B...
This one-of-a-kind 1990 special construction automobile began life as a Riley “Trimuter” three-wheeler before being converted to four wheels by Mike Fennel for use in the 1990 film Total Recall. The ...
McQueen pulls down his Nomex face guard to get a breath of fresh air. Photos by Don Nunley, courtesy Dalton Watson. There was just one scene in the can; the rest of the time the crew only shot racing...
Ralph Garcia (in the car-themed shirt) and Kevin Marti pose with the Bullitt Mustang stunt car. Photos courtesy Kevin Marti. Steve McQueen may have received top billing for the 1968 crime thriller Bu...
John Platt is an Australian photographer who specializes in stills for film productions and had the good fortune to work on “Mad Max: Fury Road,” so his photos of the movie’s automotive cast are pret...
My friends and I loved to watch Starsky & Hutch when we were kids. Cool plainclothes detectives, David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson, showing their righteous indignation toward the circumstances that su...
A Peugeot 403 convertible, similar to the one driven by TV detective Frank Columbo (which was a faded gray). Photos by Nick Kurczewski. What does a Columbo-style battered Peugeot 403 convertible and ...
The Sonny Bono (L) and Cher Mustangs. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. Following the remarkable success of their debut album, Sonny & Cher were bona fide stars by late 1965. Looking to capitalize on ...
We all know that work on electric cars and alternative-fuel vehicles really ramped up during the Seventies and early Eighties as a response to the gas crises, but one of the largest investments in hy...
Images are from the brochure collection of the author Few cars are as strongly identified with the 1980s as is the stainless steel-skinned sports car from the De Lorean Motor Company. This Giugiaro-s...
Photos courtesy George Ormrod. I once had a 1949 Plymouth club coupe that was used in the Troma Classic feature film Space Zombie Bingo. This is a straight to DVD film I directed in my younger days. ...
Dean Jeffries flies a GMC C6500. Photos courtesy Kevin Jeffries and the Dean Jeffries Archives, unless otherwise noted. Not many movies can blow up an interstate, have a star-studded cast, and severe...
For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he own...
One of the NASCAR Herbies from the 2005 film Herbie: Fully Loaded. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Even those with little interest in racing can recognize the white Volkswagen Beetle with red and blu...
The Dude’s 1973 Gran Torino. Photo via IMCDB.org. While it’s not considered much of a car movie, the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult classic The Big Lebowski is one of only a handful of films to inspire fes...
Photos courtesy Joe Fay. For all the glamour of Hollywood, movie cars generally have a much rougher time: Kept running just long enough to make the next scene without breaking down, many get repainte...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. For the first time starting next month, fans of the Back to the Future film series can get up close and personal with one of the most famous movie and TV c...
Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. For the first time starting next month, fans of the “Back to the Future” film series can get up close and personal with one of the most famous movie and TV...
There’s no mystery to cars, even modern hybrids: They’re just metal, glass, plastic, and electronics, and they can be taken apart and put together in all sorts of ways, as we see from one man’s effor...
A 1976 Ford Gran Torino, used in the television series Starsky & Hutch. Image courtesy Leake Auctions. Starsky & Hutch, which premiered on ABC television in April of 1975, was hardly the first crime ...
Bathurst has to be one of the greatest races that Americans don’t watch. Fortunately, there’s YouTube, where we can get the highlights of many great Bathurst races from years past, including this 25-...
Photos courtesy Barris.com and Barrett-Jackson. Solar panels? Check. Swanky interior with a rotating bed? Check. Its own logo? Check. In fact, the Super Van’s probably got more unique features than m...
The Dick Tracy Copmobile; images by author. Look hard enough at any swap meet, and you’re bound to find something from your formative years; it’s at that moment when you mutter, “Had I known it was g...