Comedic use of automobiles in silent movies

Above Buster Keaton enacts a common concept that a Model T had to be put down like a horse when it's useful life was over, because like a horse, it was all give and no take, all heart.

1929 and 1924

the wheel chair has an attached power wheel, looks like something I just watched on the History channel show "American Pickers" an interesting show I like to try to catch. Also similar to the Briggs and Stratton motor wheel

For a timeline of power wheels and powered bicycles: http://www.mopedarmy.com/wiki/Motorized_Bicycle

Photos via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/

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"Deuce of Spades" movie to be on the lookout for, grand premier Nov 14th in historic Fillmore, Ventura county

When a hotrod girl finds a mysterious letter dating back to the fifties hidden in her roadster, she is left with nothing but questions…
Who is Johnny Callaway? She sets out to find the answers and retrace her deuce’s troubled past. Fast hotrods, cool cats, gravity defying swing dancing and rockin’ retro music all serve as a colorful backdrop to this heartfelt, inspiring story.

Discover an underground scene where counter culture is in, old school is cool and nostalgia forever reigns.

Genra: Drama Rated PG 13 Runtime: 125 min Target release date: Sept 2010

For more about this independant film made without any movie studio influence http://www.deuceofspadesmovie.com/

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"The Road to Bonneville" DVD ! Cool !

Watched it, thouroughly enjoyed it! The Rolling Bones "Wicked Sisters" on a road trip from New York state to Bonneville, and we get to watch and enjoy instead of roadside repair the headgasket that blew.... now I'm all for a bonding experience that you get to relive forever as a great story of how you had to wrench on the roadside with only a flashlight to illuminate the process, but it's pretty cool to just watch from the couch as a couple of hot rodders cruise cross country to hot rod racing mecca, Bonneville.

All the drama and time limit builds on reality TV frustrate, this documentary doesn't!

It's cool just to catch a look at a couple hot rodders driving dueces, and delivering their B'ville ready race '32 to tech inspection. I was surprised at what it takes to pass tech, so the movie is informative on that aspect, as well as who and what Rolling Bones is without having to read the magazine articles (you know I just look at the pictures right?!) Another film by AtomicHotRods is Devil at Your Feet, and I'll fill you in on that in a later post, so check back!

The soundtrack is music from Electric Frankenstein http://www.electricfrankenstein.com/ and in the extra's on the DVD you can just close your eyes, turn up the volume and enjoy a flathead rapping away

Order one here: http://www.amazon.com/Road-Bonneville-Brian-Darwas/dp/B001HL31BG

Also, DVD's can be purchased and a trailer can be viewed online at:
www.AtomicHotRods.com or by mail, $24.95 + $4.50 for shipping (Foreign/ Non-U.S. orders add an additional $2.50 to cover shipping)
Payable in U.S. Funds to:
Brian Darwas - P.O. Box 467 - New York, NY 10461

Film Credits:
- Director: Brian Darwas
- Shot, Edited, and Produced by: Brian Darwas
- Executive Producer: Jennifer Carchietta
- Starring: The Rolling Bones, Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell

If you think I've posted one of these dueces before, so did I, but it was another they must have built for a customer: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/cool-stuff-that-caught-my-attention-at.html

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Awesome photos from Spritied Drive Tumbler

Burn baby burn, the devil's got your number via: http://spiriteddrive.tumblr.com/

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You won't see many '64-'66 Imperials in So cal for sale, the upcoming movie "the Green Hornet" needed 29 built

Seth Rogen (who is the lead in the movie The Green Hornet) unveiled one at the 2009 Comic-con http://www.accesshollywood.com/seth-rogen/comic-con-2009-seth-rogen-unveils-green-hornets-black-beauty_video_1138356 for the video, but a full gallery of photos are here: http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/comic-con-2009-the-green-hornets-black-beauty#6

The original was built by icon Dean Jefferies.

Dennis McCarthy is the picture car coordinator (just 6 years of doing this so far) in Hollywood that made the cars used during filming the last two The Fast and the Furious movies, which he had over a $7 million dollar budget on just Tokyo Drift http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/general/hdrp_0607_movie_car_builds/index.html

and now he's building the Green Hornet "Black Beauty" Imperials.
29 of them.

great interview with Dennis here: http://www.latinoreview.com/news/fast-furious-week-continues-interview-with-car-coordinator-dennis-mccarthy-new-poster-6189 which is the same as the one here, http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10961/tcid/1http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10961/tcid/1http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/10961/tcid/1 but with a different writer claiming credit for the writing... odd.

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Reason to want a Camaro, number one

The hoods aren't that heavy... Thank you Megan for demonstrating

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Very cool redesigning of vehicles as if they are all round and can hover, brilliant. The tank track is under it, so is the stage coach wagon wheel

'49 Ford?

metro bus

cop car like the 49 Ford

Stagecoach

58 Pontiac?

49 Ford and a Vespa?

Checker cab, 49 Ford, and ? blue Jaguar?

Several on a Woodie

Not sure about the brown one, or the grey nosed one, then there's the green VW, and a turquoise Cadillac tail

Checker, not sure, Cadillac, that blue Jag? Or Austin? green 61 Chevy? and wonderful iconic yellow school bus

The cool Caddy

Love the Kombi / VW micro bus

The VW bug

Not sure about this TV camera crew car

The military Jeep and other military vehicles

The gas stations

The cool tanks

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