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79% of our readers thought that $25,000 was a hubba-fied price for 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z , but maybe that's because 80s nostalgia hasn't taken a firm enough hold of our culture yet. That's why we're going with a car everyone appreciates: Herbie The Love Bug! Unlike what you'd experience with your $21,750 General Lee Replicas , you won't keep running across other Herbies out there, because the world Herbie-to-General-Lee ratio is about 1:150 these days. This '63 Beetle has had an obsessively thorough restoration, and the price shows it: $20,000. Cool car, but 20 grand worth of cool? You decide! galleryPost('NPCCPHerbie', 6, 'Herbie The Love Bug On Sale For 20 Grand'); [ Craigslist Los Angeles , go here if the ad disappears] 20 G's for an exact Herbie The Love Bug replica? ( polls )
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newVideoPlayer("/Star-Trek-Vette.flv", 494, 350,""); It looks like someone's snagged a bootleg of the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie off the front of the James Bond flick Quantum of Solace . While Wert may have been focused on the Ford Edge , we noticed the trailer showing a young Captain Kirk driving a C2 Corvette convertible off a cliff in an effort to evade a masked flying motorcycle lawman of some sort. The ever-defiant Kirk bails just as the Vette slides off the edge, saving himself while killing the car. The trailer goes on to show off all the well-known characters from the Trekiverse along with what appear to be a host of new baddies, the ship, and explosions. Come on, let it out — you know that closet Trekkie nerd just let out a silent whimper of excitement. We know, and it's OK, we did it too.
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We just saw Quantum of Solace this weekend. While most might get all googly-eyed at the Aston Martin DBS, gushing over it's sleek sexiness even after it's taken into a wall of a quarry , we took something else away from the new Bond flick. We noticed a Black Ford Edge (with odd hydrogen power stickering) playing the role of the basic bad-guy vehicle of choice rather than a Huge-UV. It's a strange change for us to have to wrap our minds around. It's especially true when you think about the differences between the Edge and the old basic bad-guy SUV — a black Ford Explorer, black Cadillac Escalade or black Chevy Suburban. Two main reasons we can think of. First, you just can't up-armor an Edge like you can a full-size SUV. Second, you can't fit as many "villain #4"'s along with the requisite guns, ammo and gear into the two-row crossover. But, in this age of environmental consciousness and the Financiapocalypse, even evil criminal masterminds take...
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There's no end to the Nice Price Or Crack Pipe choices here, even after 57% of voters went with "Nice Price" on the $4,500 Twin Stick Turbo Colt Bumper Car yesterday. Today we're going to explore the value of fame in a car, in this case a '69 Cadillac Fleetwood- a cool machine in its own right- that was once owned by Jack Haley , the man who played the Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz . The last time it went up on eBay, the $9,600 top bid failed to meet the reserve, so it's apparent that the seller feels the Tin Man connection to be an extremely valuable one. That's apparent in his selection of photographs; when the car itself isn't as important as its intangibles , you shoot the photos with the sun behind the car and your family posed in front of it, throwing in a single shot of the hood emblem for good measure. Well, what do you think? Cool car, interesting past… but worth over $9,600? galleryPost('NPOCPTinManCad', 3, 'The Tin Man Fleetwood'...
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While you might not be able to afford Jerry Lundegaard's Olds Ciera , Fargo wasn't the only downward-spiral Minnesota crime movie made in the 90s! That's right, the '66 Volvo 122S wagon driven by Bill Paxton's character in A Simple Plan is up for sale on Craigslist! It's not running, so it's more of a Project Movie Car Hell machine than a daily driver, but: fame! galleryPost('SimplePlanAmazon', 3, 'Simple Plan Amazon For Sale'); Thanks to Thunder for the tip! [Craigslist Minneapolis]
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Maybe you've seen Frank Zappa's excellent 200 Motels a thousand times by now- in which case you're probably unable to form a coherent sentence- but this sequence involving Flo & Eddie (non-Mothers Of Invention freaks might know them better as the guys who brought us 'Happy Together' ) behind the wheel of the Penismobile was left on the cutting room floor for some reason. We think more cars should have eyelashes on their blinky headlights. Now that your coworkers already think you're a Bad Person, you might as well confirm all their worst suspicions by watching this bit that made it into the movie.
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So there's this Australian fella, Peter Weir , and he directed movies like Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show , and it's nice that he made a few bucks doing that stuff. But before he hit it big in Hollywood, he made a movie about an Australian town in which the inhabitants cause car crashes in order to loot the wreckage: The Cars That Ate Paris! We haven't seen this one yet, but the trailer (jump to watch it) sure looks promising; check out the blade-festooned armored Beetle! Thanks to Rex for the tip.
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newVideoPlayer("/LoveTheBeast_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); Although Eric Bana only publicly mentioned he was working on a documentary about his '74 Ford Falcon for the first time at the Bathurst 1000 race this past weekend, we've got an exclusive first look at the trailer for the movie, titled "Love The Beast," set to appear in Aussie theaters in February, 2009. We've known about Eric Bana's love affair with his '74 Ford Falcon ever since news hit that the Aussie actor had taken the Falcon head-first into a tree during last year's Targa Tasmania rally . Now he's enlisted some A-list auto celebs and one not-so-A-list auto celeb to help tell his car-loving tale. Well, he couldn't just leave the Falcon sitting on the sidelines, no sense leaving it to rust as he'd already stayed true to it for 23 years. So Eric "Hoon-Hulk" Bana put together a documentary to provide the inside story of his dragon -like affection for the...
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The 1980 film Used Cars may be the finest Malaise Era car movie ever made, and that includes anything featuring a '78 Trans Am. We've already shared the Marshal Lucky and Test Drive For Toby scenes, and now it's time to watch a beautiful '57 Chevy two-door- priced at just $2,400 on the New Deal Used Cars lot- get completely destroyed. While we're here, we might as well enjoy the "Driver's Ed" scene, featuring a cornucopia of old iron hooning across the desert. Fiat 128! Ford Torino! Grand Wagoneer! Everything! Any of you who haven't seen this Malaise masterpiece in its entirety, we suggest you go out and get a copy right now!
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When some jerkola signals right and turns left right in front of you, or goes too slowly, or commits any one of the other moves from the Jerkola Driving Handbook, wouldn't you love the freedom to run that road hog off the road and then have your car instantly replaced by a new full-size sedan… whose driver has been following you for just this reason? SCROGGS , so inspired by the 2CV-versus-Bentley crash scene yesterday, has hipped us to a W. C. Fields film in which this is exactly what happens! Make the jump to read Richard's description and watch W.C. dispense a little vigilante road justice, 1932 style! As a kid, I remember seeing a flick called If I Had A Million, where a dying millionaire gives away his money, $1,000,000 at a time, to random people. Husband and wife recipients, WC Fields and Alison Skipworth, dismayed that their new car has been destroyed by a "road hog," utilize part of their million dollars to purchase a fleet of cars and then smash up every road...
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newVideoPlayer("/LeCorniaud_494.flv", 506, 423,""); I'd never heard of the 1965 film Le Corniaud when Franzouse pointed me to this sequence, but now I'm on a quest to get a copy. The disintegration of a Citroën 2CV in a slapstick wreck with a monstrous Bentley, leading to a crazed Naples-to-Bordeaux road trip with a '64 Eldorado packed with illegal goods? Yes!
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newVideoPlayer("/Killers_Reagan_Chase_494.flv", 506, 423,""); The Killers was Ronald Reagan's last film, made just a few years before he became governor of California. In it, the Great Communicator plays a crime boss setting up an armored-car-heist caper, and John Cassavetes - one of the greatest directors in cinema history, in my opinion- plays a down-and-out race driver hired as getaway-car wheelman. It's a car-freak-stravaganza of a movie, with Lee Marvin as an Impala-driving hitman, race sequences packed with Cobras, and- best of all- a '59 Ford chasing a '58 Olds in some dirt-road madness. Murilee says check it out!
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The lengthy tracking shot showing vast quantities of old European cars in Week End was pretty cool, but when you use the words "lengthy tracking shot" and "cars" together in a sentence, you've got no choice but to bring up the opening shot in Orson Welles' 1958 Touch Of Evil . A 1956 Chrysler New Yorker convertible is the ill-fated star of this sequence, but we're pretty sure- well, we hope - a beater stunt double was used for the last bit.
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newVideoPlayer("/cokebond_jalop.flv", 494, 400,""); With everyone looking forward to the new James Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace , there isn't a brand out there that doesn't want a slice of juicy cross-promotion. We can't imagine Bond to be the type that would prefer a sugar-free cola over a normal Coke, but that doesn't matter right now. We're just let down by how cheesy the CG Aston Martins look in this otherwise cool, stylized opening-credits-like ad. [via CarDomain ]
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When I think of horrible traffic jams in France, I always picture the scenes from Julio Cortázar's short story "Highway Of The South." However, it's hard to beat Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End in that department, with this famous 7-minute-plus tracking shot showing an incredible assortment of European cars. You'll see Citroëns, Panhards, Facel Vegas, NSUs, and much, much more. Thanks to SOS10 for the tip!
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