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

Old Hollywood, some stars and their cars, pre-1940

Gen Pershing, 1924 Packard

Groucho Marx and his 1930 Packard

Clark Gable and his 1935 Duesenburg

Above, the Little Rascals

Al Jolson and his custom 1928 Mercedes Spl

Buster Keaton and his 1928 Austin

WC Fields with a 1930 Bantam movie car, in the movie 300 Yard Drive

Rudy Valentino's (unbelievable biography: http://emol.org/emclub/?q=rudolphvalentino )cars above an Voisin, and below a 1925 Isotta Frashini. His 1923 Voisin can be seen in the Nethercutt Museum: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/03/rudy-valentinos-voisin-hood-ornament-by.html

A 1910 Stanley Steamer and in the back is a 1940 Packard Darin

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in a 1914 Stutz Bearcat

a 1911 Ford and Jimmy Durante... what a pit crew!

If you enjoyed this post, try this following link where I've posted many similar Hollywood stars and their vehicles like Rita Hayworth pulling the bumpers off her car for the scrap metal effort for WW2, John Wayne on a motorbike, Hitchcock in his 300SL, and dozens more: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/celebrity

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

Laurel and Hardy and the breakaway special smashed jalopy 1924 Model T

Built so it could still move under it's own power when it was 1/2 it's orginal width. I wish this had shown up when I searched the web, but nothing out there about it. Wouldn't it be the coolest to look over and see how they built it?!

Watch this video (make up your own audio!) and you'll see about a dozen movie gag cars, they fall apart, lose their doors, and then there's the breakaway special at minute 7:07! The movie was titled "Highway Havoc"



Thanks to Peter in the Czech republic for finding it and sharing it!

The Keystone Cops, about 1915, stars of the silent screen comedies

The Keystone Cops was a series of silent film comedies featuring a totally incompetent group of policemen who frequently were part of train robberies, train crashes (spectacular), cars that fell apart and motorcycle mayhem . They may have invented the car chase scene (as they were invented about the same time as movies and cheap cars)

These bumbling lawmen were often depicted crowded onto their jalopy to the point of overflowing into the street as they chased down the bad guys

A Hollywood movie prop special above, the 1924 special breakaway Model T

Above a 1921 Model T
Below is a movie prop Hupmobile

For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Kops

Laurel and Hardy and the trolley smashed model t

The bottom two photos are of the diorama at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles on Wilshire

For more about the Model T and the duo: http://www.stanlaurelandoliverhardy.com/ford.htm

"Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow" ( i just get a kick out of that title )

motorcycle gang and the wicked witches flying monkeys morphed into this, from the movie "The Wiz"

ease on down the road!
read about it: http://thenewcaferacersociety.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-talking-in-front-wiz.html

the new movie, Planet 51, has revisioned what 1950's cars would look like as hover craft, very cool!

For a look at a couple in a clip: http://www.channels.com/episodes/show/7798866/Are-there-Alien-Zombies-Watch-this-Planet-51-Clip-#/episodes/show/7798866/Are-there-Alien-Zombies-Watch-this-Planet-51-Clip- several cars float by in the background and you can see Buicks, Chevys, Fords, Taxi's

Via: http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/planet51img1big.jpg

For trailers, posters, and images: http://planet-51-trailer.blogspot.com/