Jun 08
If you’re gonna sling moonshine all around Arkansas, you’ll have to have a very fast, powerful car. In case of Gator McKlusky, aptly played by Burt Reynolds, it’s a brown 1971 Ford Custom 500 for the movie White Lightning (1973). His car from a series of beefed-up full sized cars built by Ford for the …
Jun 07
Thelma & Louise was an award winning 1991 movie about chicks on the lam in the American midwestern highway. After killing a would-be rapist at a roadside bar, the two friends, Thelma played by Geena Davis and Louise played by Susan Sarandon, took off in a ’66 Thunderbird to escape immediate prosecution of the law …
Jun 06
I never intend to just blog about cars seen in the big screen. There are plenty of cool cars in the small screens as well, especially from the 70′s and 80′s. Who could forget the cars in Miami Vice, Magnum PI, The Dukes of Hazard, and Knightrider? However, one of my favorite shows today is …
Jun 05
How do you steal a scene from Charlize Theron? Easy, be a MINI Cooper S. At least that’s how most who saw the movie remember the film The Italian Job released in 2003. The movie itself, a remake of a 1969 British movie of the same name starring Michael Caine, was a hit. And the …
Jun 04
In a movie about illegal street racing and filled with muscle cars and modded imports, a truck stood out. That truck was the 1999 Ford SVT Lightning that Brian O’Connor initially drove in the beginning of the movie as we first met him. Bright red against a drab background, the SVT Lightning looked fast even …
Jun 03
In a film filled with guns, explosions, and military action, car chases can steal the movie. That’s basically the case with the 1996 action-packed, Michael Bay flick The Rock starring Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, and Ed Harris. One of its most memorable scene was Nicholas Cage “commandeering” a yellow 1996 Ferrari F355 Spider and chasing …
Jun 02
1969 Dodge RT Charger driven by Kurt Russell in the movie Death Proof
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