Archive for August, 2009

1996 Hummer (Humvee) H1 from The Rock

Two exotic vehicles running around in the streets of San Francisco.  That’s one of the more memorable scenes in Michael Bay’s The Rock.  I posted on this chase before with the yellow ’96 Ferrari F355 driven by Stanley Goodspeed (Nicholas Cage).  He was chasing John Mason (Sean Connery), the highly-trained British agent who’s been incarcerated [...]

2000 Honda s2000 from The Fast & The Furious

Despite the notoriety of American muscle cars driven by Vin Diese (Dodge Charger, Chevy Chevelle SS), the movie series, The Fast & The Furious, is very much about imports street racing in the US.  Imports street racing has been very popular around the US for close to 20 years now, maybe more.  “Racer X”, the [...]

1967 Sting Ray Corvette in Con Air

What car can credibly adorn the plate “AZZ KIKR”?  And just as curiously, what profession should a guy have to even want a vanity plate that says “AZZ KIKR”? From the testorone-filled Jerry Bruckheimer movie Con Air with action stars Nicholas Cage (Gone in 60 Seconds), John Cusack (Runaway Jury), John Malkovich (The Killing Fields), [...]