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Car in Movies- Roll 'Em!

Posted by Bambi B (A) on February 19, 2010 at 10:27:25

PHOTO: My old 1957 Jaguar XK140MC roadster


Mates,

While watching “Brideshead Revisited”, I was struck by the correctness of the cars- Julia starts out with a little 20's skiff-bodied roadster and later uses an Aston Martin, Lady Marchmain doesn’t appear in the usual Rolls, but has some unknown but expensive D-Back limousine. Lord Marchmain however does return to Brideshead in a Phantom II Rolls.

This episode reminded me that as a long-time car enthusaist I always take note of the cars in films and sometimes remember the cars more than the movie. I find it distracting when they get the cars wrong, for example in “Apollo 13", the Corvettes for the astronauts were correct, but the parking lot in one scene was filled with GM convertibles that appeared to be all alike. Even when it’s only a few seconds of cars that are obviously modernised colours, the wrong hub caps and wide tyres, or too colourful- period movies of the 30's where every car is bright coloured sports model whereas most cars were dark or even black boxy saloons. Look at the street scenes near the end of “The Untouchables” and about every car appears to be a black Model A- and that’s probably exactly what you would have seen.

Some memorable cars in movies/tv: An early 30's Fred Astaire movie has him in an MG PA chasing the love interest’s Duesenberg- (and, the 45HP car catches the 265HP one), Isadora Duncan getting killed when her scarf is caught in the wheels of a Grand Prix Bugatti (while she was actually killed in an Amilcar), the “Madame X” Cadillac V16 in “Lady for a Day”, the custom Buick in “Topper”, Bogart’s Hispano-Suiza in “Beat the Devil- this goes over a cliff near the beginning, Mastronianiannianni’s Triumph TR3 in “La Dolce Vita”, the various contrivances of “The Great Race”, The “Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang”, The Mustang GT350 in “Bullitt” jumping the streets of San Francisco, Hoffman’s Alfa Romeo Spider in The Graduate” (here’s to you Mrs Robinson), Hemming’s special Rolls ParkWard convertible in “Blow Up”, Bertie Wooster’s 1931 Aston Martin International in the Jeeves and Wooster series, Fiennes’ 4 litre Bentley in “The Avengers”, the Lotus 7 in the opening scenes of “The Prisoner”, Cagney’s Mercedes 300SE “Adenauer” in “One Two Three”, the big Plymouth coupe that stars in “Christine”- about an evil car that at least restores itself!, Cary Grant’s 1940 Buick 90 convertible coupe in “Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream house”, the Batmobile! in it’s various carnations, but the current one is actually a very interesting design that works, the cars in the wild, fatal race near the end of “On the Beach”- and so on and so on. I have a million of ‘em.

Does anyone else have favourite cars in movies? Or, movies where the cars are all wrong?

Cheers,

Bambi B

-About 35 cars since 1974

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