Rita LaRoy from http://caughtatthecurb.blogspot.com/
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Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Monday, April 25, 2011
I'm in love with the Ruxton, and those awesome headlights
Rita LaRoy from http://caughtatthecurb.blogspot.com/
Friday, April 8, 2011
The cars of movie stars and celebrities before 1980
Above, Miss America Teen Ager and the 1969 Dodge Charger 
Monday, March 28, 2011
Nicolas Cage mansion and estate on the Rhode Island coast is for sale
Here's the odd part, 11 bedrooms but only a 5 car garage. Who is going to park in the drive way? About 100 cars.
Anyway, 27 acres, 10 million dollars.
Read more at http://carproperty.com/nicolas-gage-s-trophy-car-property-ad3715791.htm
Read more at http://carproperty.com/nicolas-gage-s-trophy-car-property-ad3715791.htm
two of Steve McQueen's homes (one with a 4200 sq ft airplane hanger) is for sale
The 4,200-square-foot airplane hangar where McQueen kept his car and motorcycle collection and his yellow Stearman biplane is on a Sant Paula ranch of 15 acres with a 3000 sq ft 3 bedroom home.
The asking price is less than half what it recently listed at (1.9mil) and now will sell at .8 million
read all about it at: http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-house-and-car-collection-ad8929699.htm
The other is a Palm Springs 4 bedroom, 4500sq ft, 4 car garage for 3.5 million
http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-palm-springs-house-and-car-collection-ad1963895.htm
The asking price is less than half what it recently listed at (1.9mil) and now will sell at .8 million
read all about it at: http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-house-and-car-collection-ad8929699.htm
The other is a Palm Springs 4 bedroom, 4500sq ft, 4 car garage for 3.5 million
http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-palm-springs-house-and-car-collection-ad1963895.htm
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
My Cousin Vinny hysterical comedy bit, and the awesome positraction Tempest defense
Vinny Gambini: Maybe you didn't twist it hard enough.
Lisa: I twisted it just right.
Vinny Gambini: How could you be so sure?
Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10 to 16 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 16 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
[She rips a page out of a magazine and hands it to him]
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.
Vinny Gambini: [tosses paper away] I guess the fucking thing is broken.
Lisa: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!
Vinny Gambini: And why not? What is positraction?
Lisa: It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
[the jury members nod, with murmurs of "yes," "that's right," etc]
Vinny Gambini: Is that it?
Lisa: No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60's, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.
Vinny Gambini: And because both cars were made by GM, were both cars available in metallic mint green paint?
Lisa: They were!
Lisa: I twisted it just right.
Vinny Gambini: How could you be so sure?
Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10 to 16 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 16 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
[She rips a page out of a magazine and hands it to him]
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.
Vinny Gambini: [tosses paper away] I guess the fucking thing is broken.
Lisa: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!
Vinny Gambini: And why not? What is positraction?
Lisa: It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
[the jury members nod, with murmurs of "yes," "that's right," etc]
Vinny Gambini: Is that it?
Lisa: No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60's, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.
Vinny Gambini: And because both cars were made by GM, were both cars available in metallic mint green paint?
Lisa: They were!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
the 1953 Cadillac series 62, rebodied by Ghia and given to Rita Hayworth, by the richest man in the world at the time
gorgeous car, Prince Aly Khan (Shia Muslim of the Ismailis) is said to have been the world's richest who gifted this to Rita, he was her 3rd husband and a Pakistan national, Orson Welles was her 2nd. She was married to Khan for 2 years before his affairs with other women forced her to file for divorce. Her daughter is Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. Cool name. Khan immediately became engaged to Gene Tierney. Due to all the wrecked marriages, and I speculate the dishonor to his family, he was passed over for the Imam position that his family held for the past 1300 years, the only eldest son ever passed over, and his son, a Harvard student inherited from the grandfather.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
George Lucas during the filming of the movie "American Graffiti"
For some more stills from the movie American Graffiti: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/great-movie-american-graffitti-cars.html#links Friday, February 18, 2011
Looks like Anthony Hopkins on the movie set for "World's Fastest Indian"
The license plate is close, but not the one on Burt's trailer http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/burts-trailer-simple-and-effective.html , and the tall guy is wearing new sneakers, nothing looked like those in the 60's, and Burt was skinnyfound on http://ihatemotorcycles.tumblr.com/
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
I think I located Jay Leno's Big Dog Garage
This isn't much evidence, but it's at the general location that is commonly known (by the Burbank Airport) and Jay is supposed to have more than one building, one for working on the collection, at least one for storing them, and the sign above the door says "Service entrance"
And the amount of rubber on this side street in front of that gate, well... draw your own conclusion... but the people I asked while taking this photo said Jay is always on these streets. Soooo, I'm figuring I've found it. Not like that is going to do anything for me, but it's neatSunday, January 30, 2011
Celebs photographed in candid moments just riding bikes, cool tumblr site
Steve McQeen
Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly
Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis
Shirley Temple
W C Fields
Roy Rodgers giving Trigger the warning about getting replaced
And Bill Murray just steals the bike.updated once or twice a week, see the whole gallery at http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/ I found this from looking through the cool stuff they post on Stipistop http://stipistop.com/
Friday, January 28, 2011
Kirk Douglas goofing off for the camera in a wheelbarrow
It's cool to finally post a photo of Kirk Douglas, I've enjoyed his movies, and he's the type of celeb movie star that I'd catagorize as "cool". In 20,000 leagues he even sang, and that song is part of the Disney songs catalog... not the guy you'd expect to find int he Disney song catalog huh?found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=1020
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Bi-Valve lnterior Combustion Twice-Exhausted Bi-Axle Nitro-Cycle, from the steampunk focused movie, Wild Wild West
If you are also a Kevin Kline, Selma Hayek, and Will Smith fan... or love steam and diesel punk, you'll love this 1999 movie. The bike wheels were built by http://www.hiwheel.com/custom_work/index.htm Thursday, January 20, 2011
"The Great Race" Professor Fate and Hannibal 8 movie cars are ready to sell
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