"The Great Race" Professor Fate and Hannibal 8 movie cars are ready to sell

See a huge gallery and get more details at http://volocars.com/1964-hannibal-8-professor-fate-the-great-race-movie-car-collection-c-1258.htm

Happy Days... where Richie and his dad fix up the convertible

found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585

cool things found at Greyhandgang.com

What do you think, an airport runway snow melter?

Buckminster Fuller and a Dymaxion

Cuban taxi's.... aren't they awesome! Looks like a 55 Ford and a 53 Chev. I'd take a ride in these over a modern taxi, damn right I would

I'm not sure, but it looks like the trans-arctic vehicle

A street car used to build artificial reefs

The Vereycken Diwheel 1947 and you can read more about it http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/diwheel/diwheel.htm

The Munsters coach it looks like, it is on Santa Monica Blvd, and it's 1964

An Autogyro over New York

a photo of the Blitzen Benz I haven't seen before

looks like El Mirage

What an Americana moment, the purple car is a Studebaker Commander I think

via: http://www.greyhandgang.com/

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/

"My Mother the Car" the car was made by Norm Grabowski or Barris?

Premiering in 1965, what may be the strangest sitcom of all time is a reminder that borderline brain-dead TV executives have been with us for decades — and deserve no say in the big-budget boardroom. Jerry Van Dyke played a man who discovers that his mother's soul has been reincarnated in his automobile, enabling him to hear her voice through the radio http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/worst-tv-shows-100109

Hot Rod Deluxe, May 2010 issue page 69 says Norm made it, and it was owned by Kaye Trapp, Hollywood studio photographer who used it as a push car for the Zueschel, Fuller, and Moody dragster

But according to http://local.aaca.org/junior/starcars/mother.htm Barris built the car; The car's body (finished in Metalflake carnation red with a white top) was made up from various vehicles including a Model T Ford, a Maxwell (precursor to the Chrysler), a Hudson, and pieces of a Chevrolet, including drive train. The car had a custom-made hood and radiator shell.
2 were made, one is at http://starcarstn.com/index.html in Tennessee along with a lot of other cool cars like the Munsters Dragula, and a collection of Barris customs




The video is badly editted news shorts from a local tv station perhaps... it seems like it once had commercials, only the first half is really worth watching

Batgirls motorcycle... not what she'd get in the new batman movies... frills? Really? Yikes

via: http://nostalgiaonwheels.blogspot.com/2009/12/batgirls-custom-yds-3-catalina-circa.html

The Barris taxi for the Bob Denver tv show "Good Guys"

Read all about it: http://books.google.com/books?id=MoLmwZfLk_cC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=barris+taxi&source=bl&ots=liHlPj1jMC&sig=-rRVZTxcp-wk5V066b4Tu7ESw3w&hl=en&ei=FPhLS-jbIIaIsgPa5emiCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=barris%20taxi&f=false

But the cool kustom stuff was a grappling hook to slow or stop it, no tires and rims were the same, the taxi meter was a pair of coffee pots linked together top to top to form an hourglass that had metalflakes (that usually are put in hot rod paint)

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/

The Beverly Hillbillies trucks

image via: http://thatcarguy.typepad.com/

one is in a museum in Missouri http://www.rfostermuseum.com/ and another is at the Planet Hollywood at Downtown Disney http://wapedia.mobi/en/Downtown_Disney_(Florida)

One sold at Barrett Jackson in Jan 2008: http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/article/2008AZauctionupdate/ for 125,000

Dragstrip Girl (1957)... looks like a fun movie! Frank Gorshin was the driver

Frank is best known ( perhaps ) as the riddler in the 60's tv show Batman

Good looking redesign of the AMX by Geroge Barris for a tv show in the 70's

Images via: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/09/16/banacek-amx-crossing-the-auction-block/

More Munsters cars photos added

Whats not to love? for a clip of the drag race, and 5 more photos of the Dragula and the family car: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/munsters-dragula-car.html