Cat in the Hat movie car for sale on Ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/super-luxurious-omni-directional-whatchamajigger-MOVIE_W0QQitemZ170176776912QQihZ007QQcategoryZ7251QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

2 days left, they'd like 3 million, but bidding is only around 30 thou at the moment. Stupid sellers, they should just go to a big Arizona auction. Nothing gets higher bids than the big Barrett - Jackson, or RM auctions... certainly not Ebay bidders. Not anywhere near the publicity to notify the rich investment types that something interesting is on an Ebay auction.

For more pictures see http://news.windingroad.com/history/ebay-auction-of-the-day-slow-from-mike-myers-the-cat-in-the-hat/#more-11906 because the ebay listing photos suck.

Milner's duece from American Graffiti... was at the Prowler's 60th anniversary car show

Think I'm making this up? No way, here's Paul LeMat (Milner) at the Over the Hill Gang's car show a couple years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/milner-and-duece.html#links

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/american-graffitti-duece.html#links

Pics of it from the movie http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/great-movie-american-graffitti-cars.html#links

Funky car that is from one of the earliest Sci Fi movies

Above via: http://megamoto.tumblr.com/page/24

The 1921 Rumpler Tropfenwagen, in the movie Metropolis. The movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film) was so visually stunning it's still on a lot of top 100 important fim lists. Because it was filmed in Germany post WWI, and so many were unemployed, extras were eager to get a job at near nothing pay... and the director employed an unbelievable 26,000 men as extras, 11,000 women, and 950 children... about 38 thousand extras. I haven't seen it yet myself.

The designer and builder of the Blade Runner vehicles, Gene Winfield

Above via http://greyhandgang.com

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/auctions/images/Auc17_189.jpg

Winfield was approached by director Ridley Scott to build the futuristic vehicles needed for his science fiction movie "Blade Runner."

The job required construction of 25 various vehicles ranging from flying police cars (called "Spinners"), to taxi cabs, buses, and everday transportation vehicles.

Winfield built all 25 units, but two were destroyed in a shop fire.

The "Spinner" was a marvel of technology, including forward-opening doors and wheels the folded-up into the body during the flight mode. Most of these vehicles were destroyed by the studio upon completion of filming.

However, one "Spinner" and one black & white police "sedan" were put on display outside at Disney/MGM Studios in Florida. Recently, after years of deterioration from the weather, they were moved and said to have been destroyed. Another "Spinner" has been restored and now resides in Japan. A red police "sedan" is currently on display in Miami, Florida at the police museum.

Sidenote, Sam Foose did some work on these too, how about that?

http://www.c-we.com/piranha/page9.htm

For an interview with Gene: http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/interviews/gene-winfield/

For a look at another Blade Runner vehicle: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/syd-mead-design-for-bladerunner-car.html

The Camaro from "Better off Dead" found and restored

The late, great Lane Meyer, played by John Cusack in the 1985 flick Better Off Dead, made sweet on Monique over the engine bay of a 1967 Camaro.

Jeff was so taken with the car that he tracked it down, despite the fact that the man who owned it during the filming of the movie had sold it. It was in pretty rough shape, with a tacked-on spoiler, the beginning of rust creeping in, and lots of cracked interior vinyl.

Jeff put together a web site telling how he tracked the Camaro down, complete with unnecessary quotes from the movie playing in the background while you read it.

http://www.betteroffdeadcamaro.com/

You might remember it from the scene where John Cusack races the asian dudes in their rusted out ghetto sled(Muddy Waters playing in the background.)

http://www.timemachinesinc.com/ restored it.

A couple odd ball pics from the El Cajon Cruise.... more car pics to come tomorrow

New look of Optimus Prime, vs original look

I bet you've no idea what this car is. . . the answer is in the next posting

You can see the similarity to the 69 Mustang, in the grill and headlights, and the chrome bumpers place it in the 68-72 era, but that's all I could get from the looks of it. It's not right hand drive, so it might be American, side marker lights and under the bumper turn signals also indicate late 60's early 70's.

I found it in the movie Lies and Alibies, with Rebecca Romjin... and nothing seems to be written on it to denote the maker, or the model. Enjoy.

Someone put together a youtube video of the 50 cars they'd steal in a "Gone in 60 seconds" tribute

Movie cars, from the great blog about the newest cars, The Hollywood Extra

http://thehollywoodextra.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-movie-cars.html

Vince has a terrrific, thourough knowledge of all the new cars, prototypes, and in development cars that are, or will be at the various US and European car shows.

Good racing movies, thanks Laura

I was emailing Laura and realized I could only recommend 2 racing movies, the rest were mediocre or I need to watch them again to make sure I would recommend them to someone whom I wanted to regard my advice as solid and trustworthy.

"The Worlds Fastest Indian" with Sir Anthony Hopkins, terrific story of struggle and triumph of the most stubborn and cool motorbike speed record guy I've ever heard of. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/

"Madison" with Jim Caviezel and Bruce Dern. Story of a Wisconsin town that owned a hydroplane, and once was a significant part of Hydroplane racing history. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206113/

From the newer movie "The Punisher" damage happened before the collision.

and look carefully at the GTO's rear tire, sitting in a four wheel dolly to let it slide instead of absorbing the force of the hit.

From the Stallone movie Cobra, my love for the 50 Merc grew

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/12/02/where-the-law-starts/ about it's being stolen from Stallone's garage, being found at auction, and the current lawsuit for it's recovery.

The 10 coolest cars in movies. Really

All of these links have a different and good top 10

http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2006/05/top_10_movie_ca.html

http://www.carroantigo.com/portugues/conteudo/curio_carros%20no%20cinema.htm

http://www.smthop.com/comments.asp?NewsNum=686&comment=true

From the movie Cars, these were a touring set of promos

Great movie, American Graffitti, the cars