Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Camaro from "Better off Dead" found and restored


The late, great Lane Meyer, played by John Cusack in the 1985 flick Better Off Dead, made sweet on Monique over the engine bay of a 1967 Camaro.

Jeff was so taken with the car that he tracked it down, despite the fact that the man who owned it during the filming of the movie had sold it. It was in pretty rough shape, with a tacked-on spoiler, the beginning of rust creeping in, and lots of cracked interior vinyl.

Jeff put together a web site telling how he tracked the Camaro down, complete with unnecessary quotes from the movie playing in the background while you read it.

http://www.betteroffdeadcamaro.com/

You might remember it from the scene where John Cusack races the asian dudes in their rusted out ghetto sled(Muddy Waters playing in the background.)

http://www.timemachinesinc.com/ restored it.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Dual Ghia in the classifieds, and Hoagy Carmichael was selling it

More on Dual Ghia's later, but quickly, they were Chrysler Fire Arrow's offspring, built in Italy the slow way, by hand, and imported for sale into America by the Dual Motors company which had been making military vehicles during WW2.

But what caught my eye was Hoagy. John Lennon called Hoagy his favorite songwriter.
Hoagy had composed a lot of great stuff and lived for decades on the royalties. Georgia On my Mind (famous for Ray Charles), Stardust(famous for Bing Crosby), and my fun favorite: the 1943 song "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues"

Yeah, the stuff that clanks around in my head waiting for something to loose it, no wonder I can't recall a thing, too many odd bits already have filled my memory ability to absorb anything new.

Elvis had a Pantera, and he shot it. It wouldn't start


Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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/

Walt Disney

Why is this an easier image to find than Walt with a cool car?

Triumph Trophy Trail or Tiger T100c was Ann Margaret's motorcycle in her Las Vegas show in 1967

Above via: http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/ and that bike was for sale: http://www.happycarz.com/pics_and_descp.php?id=722
http://painteddayglowsmile.blogspot.com/2009/08/all-you-needs-strong-heart-and-nerve-of.html

For the full size click on it.
For a couple more photos of her 1967-68 act : http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3281885184/nm0000268
Looks like she's still performing too: http://www.ann-margret.com/

Black and white and cool all over

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi
From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/

Marlene Dietrich was a tough one... she brought a tank to a gun fight

image via: http://jesusplayingolf.tumblr.com/

Tere (Justakargal.blogspot) has chalked another hot rod legend to her record of icon encounters

She missed getting a photo with Gene when we were at SEMA, but took care os that at GNRS. So far she's met Gene, Kenny Youngblood, Don Prudhomme, Jim Wangers, and Randy Grubb (Blastolene Brother)
Tere's blog: http://justakargal.blogspot.com/

Hitchcock drove a 300sl convertible ... huh

from http://jesusplayingolf.tumblr.com/page/47 via: http://chromjuwelen.tumblr.com/page/23

Bo knows publicity

Above photo from http://42ndblackwatch1881.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/well-said-well-plaid-rocker-vintage-bo-diddley/
http://thescooterscoop.blogspot.com/2007/02/bo-knows-scooters.html

Back in 1959 Bo Diddley released THIS darling of an album called "Have Guitar Will Travel". and the scooter is an Allstate/Cushman Jetsweep

1930 FN, made to order for the Shah of Persia


The 1930 FN Type 1400 was a Belgian car made at the request of the Shah of Persia.
Ordered in 1912 but because of the war, it could not be delivered. The body was later transferred to a 1930 chassis and finished using hand-carved wood and lots of aluminum

the Beatles in 1963

via: http://farbror-sid.se/home/

You may not know what this is, but it's famous anyway... Johnny Cash, "One Step at a Time"


I effing love this photo, I had no idea they put one together! To explain, I put in in this video so anyone who doesn't know what I'm going on about can understand and enjoy the humor
Via: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/

Old Hollywood, some stars and their cars, pre-1940

Gen Pershing, 1924 Packard
Groucho Marx and his 1930 Packard
Clark Gable and his 1935 Duesenburg

Above, the Little Rascals
Al Jolson and his custom 1928 Mercedes Spl
Buster Keaton and his 1928 Austin
WC Fields with a 1930 Bantam movie car, in the movie 300 Yard Drive
Rudy Valentino's (unbelievable biography: http://emol.org/emclub/?q=rudolphvalentino )cars above an Voisin, and below a 1925 Isotta Frashini. His 1923 Voisin can be seen in the Nethercutt Museum: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/rudy-valentinos-voisin-hood-ornament-by.html

A 1910 Stanley Steamer and in the back is a 1940 Packard Darin
John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in a 1914 Stutz Bearcat
a 1911 Ford and Jimmy Durante... what a pit crew!


If you enjoyed this post, try this following link where I've posted many similar Hollywood stars and their vehicles like Rita Hayworth pulling the bumpers off her car for the scrap metal effort for WW2, John Wayne on a motorbike, Hitchcock in his 300SL, and dozens more: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/celebrity

WW2 was instrumental in changing the American culture in so many ways, but did you ever hear of car bumpers being donated to the scrap drives?

Rita Hayworth did her part... so if you come across her big old car with no bumpers, now you'll know what happened to them.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/28/Worldwarii/War_changes_fashion.shtml

For an example of immense largese in donating to the scrap drives, read about Panmsy Yount's 1933 Duesenberg Model J Judkins Berline that was turned over to the war effort for it's use as metal for armor plate, or whatever they did with all that steel http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/08/ive-posted-before-about-ww2-scrap.html

Rita was so good looking, the richest man in the world Prince Ali Khan gave her a Ghia bodied 1953 Cadillac series 62

Rampage Jackson (plays BA Baracus in the new A Team movie) unveiled his personal A Team van at SEMA, had the whole crew that built it there to thank

having a celeb, especially a movie star, have a press conference unveiling really drew a big crowd




He hung around for group photos with the Kelderman Air Ride crew, they built it for him http://www.youtube.com/keldermantv