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

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Men In Black 3 ( MIB3 ) is going to be another great MIB movie, and in this one, J and K ride motor wheels!

 Looks like they are strored under and inside the 66 Ford (Fairlane?) for quick deployment


Congratulations to "Ridesabike.tumblr.com" for getting a full page feature in Entertainment Weekly! And for making a book!

It sure is awesome to see another favorite of mine (on my blog list too) get media attention from the big magazines! I found Steven's site in Jan 2011 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/celebs-photographed-in-candid-moments.html ... so it doesn't always take very long when you are puttting quality out there. Maybe someday I'll get a turn in that spotlight. (Hope!)

for a cool trip through celebs and hollywood stars photographed on bicycles: http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/ or
http://www.facebook.com/ridesabike by film critic Steven Rea:


Steven Rea has been an Inquirer movie critic since 1992. He was born in London, raised in New York City, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Iowa City, Iowa. His column, "On Movies," appears Sundays in Arts & Entertainment, his reviews appear in the Weekend section on Fridays, and his blog, On Movies Online, can be found here. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

He also curates the movie stars and bicycling photo blog, Rides A Bike.
  Email Steven at srea@phillynews.com

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Hollywoods Golden age stars of the silver screen and their cars

 Clark Gable and his 32 Packard
 Laurel and Hardy in a 1930 Buick Series 30
 Al Jolson and his Mercedes
 Errol Flynn and his Auburn Speedster
 Ginger Rodgers and her 37 Dodge
 Jimmy Stewart and his Plymouth
 Joan Crawford and her 32 Lincoln Model K
 Bing Crosby and a 39 Oldsmobile at the movie studios
Cary Grant and his 1941 Buick Century

Saturday, January 14, 2012

the King of Sweden has a car collection, 1966 GT 350 Shelby Mustang, GTO, AC Cobra, and so on

thanks to Licolncadillac for letting us know! For a short post see http://grandprix63.blogspot.com/2009/05/raggarkung-for-sverige-i-bilen.html

Like many members of the Royal Family, the King has a keen interest in automobiles. He owns several Porsche 911s, a vintage Volvo PV444 a Ferrari 456M GT, a Shelby AC Cobra, 1966 Shelby GT350, and BMW M3 CSL, one of only 1,500.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A couple famous faces and the cars they drove found on SwissStache tumblr

Frank SDinatra driving a car with dealership plates... I wonder why

 Jimi Hendrix looks like he's posing in a dealership showroom

Monday, December 26, 2011

Want to see the Pomona dragstrip with 1964 action? With Tommy Ivo's, Don Garlits', and the Greer Black Prudhomme top fuel rails? Plus Dean Jeffries Manta Ray in action. What if you have to put up with a 60's Annette and Frankie Beach Party type movie? well, it was worth it to get these shots

The movie starts with the bunch of surfer-dragster-dancer kids going to the beach to surf. That trailer has very era correct art, just take a look at the "Monster shirts" of Mouse, Jeffries, Roth, and Von Dutch... especially the Mouse art http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/mouse-monster-shirts.html

 and here are a couple close ups
 And the same artist did the set work of Don Rickles' character's bar
 below photo has a couple cool dragsters on the wall behind the musician's stage
Dean Jeffries' Manta Ray in action, and towing a dragster http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-did-dean-jeffries-mantaray-have-289.html
the above C&T Automotive slingshot has a word painted just above the parachute, "Britannia" but it only appears on the car half the time this dragster is on screen


The movie edittors must have been going to Movie "Grade School" becuase they were real bad. The clip I got from a drag race sequence was flipped backwards, notice the above dragsters lettering

 Tommy Ivo's famous "Showboat" , in the below video, which has the movie clip of it running down the track, Tommy explains how he engineered the 4 engines to work simultaneously


Don Rickles in the red jumpsuit, his character runs the dragstrip and owns the bar "Big Drag's Pit Stop" at the beginning of this post
 There were about 10 sligshot dragsters on the movie set, the Manta Ray, and the Show Boat
  Pontiac Tempest or Bonneville wagon for a team push car, way cool rims
And they even went so nuts as to include a guy in a chimp suit thoughout the entire movie, and even had it drive a Harley Davidson Topper scooter, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-did-harley-owners-ever-reinvent.html but with a sidecar... I've never seen a Topper with a sidecar... quite kooky