Showing posts with label Packard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Packard. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2011

1100 cubic inches, 12 cylinders, 1200 horsepower.... that oughta do

http://rodneyrucker.com/album/slides/landspeedcar1.html
From the Goodguys Gazette page 88, I saw the 28 ft long boattailed speedster powered by a Packard PT boat engine... called the “Blastolene Daytona Special” roadster

On a side note Rodney bought two of the great movie cars from the 1964 movie with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, and Natalie Wood "The Great Race" : The Great Leslie and the Hannibal Twin 8 http://www.ci.concord.nc.us/greatrace_2.asp

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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/

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

Goodguys Del Mar 2010, The Dominator LaSalle, a 35 Ford, stretched T bucket, and the GTX and Packard from SEMA