that cool old vehicle in the 2nd Sherlock Holmes movie, Game of Shadows... is an 1893 Duryea

This frail gasoline-engined buggy started it all when it was driven on the streets of Springfield, Mass., on September 21, 1893. The second Duryea built won the Chicago Times-Herald Motocycle Race, Nov. 28, 1895.

 The Duryea Motor Wagon Company constructed 13 identical automobiles in 1896, making them the first American company that moved from making one car to making multiple copies for sale. Although they did not build the first American automobile, the Duryeas—like a number of other early automobile pioneers—claimed they built the first American car.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/collection/object_1272.html

Movie prop bike was at the Steve McQueen car show

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086346/

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 

movie vehicles

 A Dangerous Method

 Marilyn

 Red Tails

The Great Gatsby movie has some of the most extravagant 1920's cars throughout the movie

 The reliance on CGI for all the vehicle scenes is obvious in these screen captures from the trailer, but not as noticeable when watching it all in motion

Dennis points out soon after I posted this, that the yellow car prominently featured as Gatsby's is a 1929 Duesenburg model J. Good choice of cars, too bad it's out of the movie's timeline

As the trailer states very early, the setting is New Jersey, 1922... but the movie makers didn't stick to pre 1922 cars. Since they included so many cool vehicles from the 20's, I'm going to compliment the marvelous looking vehicles they included without telling them what a gross blunder all us car types are going to notice when we see newer than 1922 models. 

Vanishing Point was remade, Viggo starred in it, and it's as good as the original, available through Netflix

 Of course, they didn't have two cars with the same working lights... sheesh.

  a huge explosion in an Arizona aircraft junkyard

 A hick small town sheriff with a 68 Charger R/T decides to use it to catch Kowalski

prayer to the car gods, and one of the best car race sequences to get an audience excited, from "The Fast and The Furious"

Dear heavenly spitirt, thank you for providing us with the direct port nitrous injection, four core intercoolers, ball bearing turbos, and titanium valve springs. Amen

Reminder, the Friends of Steve McQueen car show , June 1st and 2nd

June 1st and 2nd The Friends of Steve McQueen Car Show
 Boys Republic Chino Hills there is a lot more activities, cruise, dinner etc info at http://chinohills.com/news-articles-details/Fifth_Annual_Friends_Of_Steve_McQueen_Car_Show_June_2_2012-2275www.stevemcqueencarshow.com

Eddie Paul, maker and fabricator of Hollywood movie vehicles

 above image from http://www.epindustries.com

The photos here show the Cars 1 tour vehicles, and the blue bikes are from "Leathernecks" a George Clooney movie, and Eddie's company has also made the vehicles for Fast and Furious 1 and 2, a van in ET, and the vehicles in XXX, plus the Mercury for Stallone in Cobra http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/from-stallone-movie-cobra-my-love-for.html

below images thanks to Neil Larson

proof that learning never stops

Anyone know why these cars were in the Oceans 11 warehouse they filmed some of the movie scenes in?

terrible quality, so much for the nonsense they say about DVD quality.

Images vintage gas station and truck from the movie "Hoover"

some neat stuff shows up in period correct movies

Congratulations to "Ridesabike.tumblr.com" for getting a full page feature in Entertainment Weekly! And for making a book!

It sure is awesome to see another favorite of mine (on my blog list too) get media attention from the big magazines! I found Steven's site in Jan 2011 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/celebs-photographed-in-candid-moments.html ... so it doesn't always take very long when you are puttting quality out there. Maybe someday I'll get a turn in that spotlight. (Hope!)

for a cool trip through celebs and hollywood stars photographed on bicycles: http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/ or
http://www.facebook.com/ridesabike by film critic Steven Rea:

Steven Rea has been an Inquirer movie critic since 1992. He was born in London, raised in New York City, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Iowa City, Iowa. His column, "On Movies," appears Sundays in Arts & Entertainment, his reviews appear in the Weekend section on Fridays, and his blog, On Movies Online, can be found here. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

He also curates the movie stars and bicycling photo blog, Rides A Bike.

  Email Steven at srea@phillynews.com