Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts

Monday, May 28, 2012

Cool things found in the blog "Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long"

 Beer run! Filling up belly tanks with beer for the guys that just stormed the beach at Normandy
 probably looks like any old tank at first, but then, did you see that there are 4 tracks? Not the usual two

 Peter Sellers

 yup, it's a real Bugatti, factory racer
 amphib plane, stored in a hanger because getting it flying would take 2 fortunes and a winning mega millions lotto ticket
the 1936 Henderson before the restoration http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/1936-henderson-at-rhinebeck-grand.html
 a new image of the Count de Sakhnoffsky designed been truck, and this is a info card that was handed out at the trucks display... front above, and the reverse side below . For the gallery: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/09/extraordinary-designer-of-automotive.html

 terrific album cover art



 the cat tracks added onto the tractor give it so much more traction
a wheel pattern only used on Canadian trains, it looked familiar to me, and I remembered the train at the Nethercutt museum http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/05/private-pullman-palace-railcar-century.html

For the write ups of these photos, and so much more, including tools, munitions factories, Canadian museums, great things that were made in US and Canada, and extremely researched written descriptions of inventors and inventions: http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.ca/

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Men In Black 3 ( MIB3 ) is going to be another great MIB movie, and in this one, J and K ride motor wheels!

 Looks like they are strored under and inside the 66 Ford (Fairlane?) for quick deployment


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

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Leatherheads, the movie, had some great vehicles from the 1920's... George Clooney driving a motorcycle and sidecar, and Rene Zellweger. Good movie

 I looked carefully at the motorcycle, and can't see who made it. Could be any of several bike companies








 I just learned that these were both made by Eddie Paul, Thanks to Neil Larson for sending me these!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Hollywoods Golden age stars of the silver screen and their cars

 Clark Gable and his 32 Packard
 Laurel and Hardy in a 1930 Buick Series 30
 Al Jolson and his Mercedes
 Errol Flynn and his Auburn Speedster
 Ginger Rodgers and her 37 Dodge
 Jimmy Stewart and his Plymouth
 Joan Crawford and her 32 Lincoln Model K
 Bing Crosby and a 39 Oldsmobile at the movie studios
Cary Grant and his 1941 Buick Century