Charles Bronson was a car collector... who knew?!?! His Bugatti type 49

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A couple famous faces and the cars they drove found on SwissStache tumblr

Frank SDinatra driving a car with dealership plates... I wonder why

 Jimi Hendrix looks like he's posing in a dealership showroom

http://swissstash.tumblr.com/

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Want to see the Pomona dragstrip with 1964 action? With Tommy Ivo's, Don Garlits', and the Greer Black Prudhomme top fuel rails? Plus Dean Jeffries Manta Ray in action. What if you have to put up with a 60's Annette and Frankie Beach Party type movie? well, it was worth it to get these shots

The movie starts with the bunch of surfer-dragster-dancer kids going to the beach to surf. That trailer has very era correct art, just take a look at the "Monster shirts" of Mouse, Jeffries, Roth, and Von Dutch... especially the Mouse art http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/mouse-monster-shirts.html

 and here are a couple close ups

 And the same artist did the set work of Don Rickles' character's bar

 below photo has a couple cool dragsters on the wall behind the musician's stage

Dean Jeffries' Manta Ray in action, and towing a dragster http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-did-dean-jeffries-mantaray-have-289.html

the above C&T Automotive slingshot has a word painted just above the parachute, "Britannia" but it only appears on the car half the time this dragster is on screen

The movie edittors must have been going to Movie "Grade School" becuase they were real bad. The clip I got from a drag race sequence was flipped backwards, notice the above dragsters lettering

 Tommy Ivo's famous "Showboat" , in the below video, which has the movie clip of it running down the track, Tommy explains how he engineered the 4 engines to work simultaneously

Don Rickles in the red jumpsuit, his character runs the dragstrip and owns the bar "Big Drag's Pit Stop" at the beginning of this post

 There were about 10 sligshot dragsters on the movie set, the Manta Ray, and the Show Boat

  Pontiac Tempest or Bonneville wagon for a team push car, way cool rims

And they even went so nuts as to include a guy in a chimp suit thoughout the entire movie, and even had it drive a Harley Davidson Topper scooter, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-did-harley-owners-ever-reinvent.html but with a sidecar... I've never seen a Topper with a sidecar... quite kooky

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Celebrities and their cars

 Sir Stirling Moss and his 1961 Ferrari 250 SWB

 Charleton Heston in an E-type Jaguar

 Sean Connery and a 356 Porsche

 Clint Eastwood and a Healey

Hugh Hefner and a Cadillac

 Jack Palance and an Alfa Romeo 2600 Spider

 Peter Sellers 1965 275 GTB Ferrari

 Roy Orbison and Tony Curtis both with E-Type Jaguars

All found on a glamour, fashion, expensive luxury type website from someone who used to work at Details magazine, http://driven.urbandaddy.com/

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I found a single exquisite photo per post website, not much to read, and just one photo per topic, but I think you'll like it as much as I do

Dean Martin in his late 1960's movies about a secret agent, "Matt Helm" on a Lambretta Cento

A Lola

Jimmy Hendrix

Catherine Deneuve and Morgan plus 4

 Ferrari 458 Italia

Dmitry Ivanov  photography

1957 Ferrari 410 Superamerica

1947 Bentley Mark VI Cabriolet with custom coachwork by Franay

Take a look for yourself, http://driven.urbandaddy.com/ but be patient with the slow upload, and make it take less time by not clicking to load more, instead, load page by page like this http://driven.urbandaddy.com/page/24/ then change the last digit by the next larger number http://driven.urbandaddy.com/page/25

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The Wanderwell expedition was the way for a 16 year old Aloha Wanderwell to see the world, and be the first woman around the globe by car, and her 35mm home films and documents are ready to be made into a Hollywood feature film

What’s blonde, blue-eyed, six-feet tall and looks like a leading actress? She’s Aloha Wanderwell – the first woman to travel around the globe in a car; she was 16. And, AlohaWanderwell.com is dedicated to preserving her nitrate films, books and more.

 See all the badges that circle the cars belt line? Earned, not bought on E-bay

It all started when Aloha read an ad in the Riviera edition of the Paris Herald: “Brains, Beauty and Breeches – World tour offer for lucky young woman wanted to join an expedition – Asia, Africa….”

She quickly set out to convince the expedition’s leader, Captain Walter Wanderwell, that she was the one for the job.

“This true story of an incredible journey – the Wanderwell Expedition – took place in the 1920s. Over the years, it’s been buried and now needs to be preserved and retold,” says Richard Diamond, Aloha’s grandson.

During this world tour, Aloha took thousands of feet of 35-millimeter nitrate film while driving though 43 countries on four continents in nearly eight years.



“These nitrate films have to be transferred to HD,” says Diamond. “We need help now. This is a gold mine of material for any documentary or film producer. It would be a crime to let these historical films deteriorate. It’s a rich part of history.”

In addition, Diamond also possesses a 567-page manuscript written by Aloha that details the trip’s many adventures; an array of collectibles; photos; and the original auto badges.

During the expedition, Aloha and Walter married. They continued to travel, to film and lecture together. In 1932, their story tragically ended with Walter’s murder; it remains an unsolved cold case.

Aloha remarried and tended to her priceless collection of films, photos, journals and artifacts. Much of her work has been preserved in museums and educational institutions throughout the U.S. She passed away in Newport Beach, California on June 4, 1996.

“In addition to preserving these items, I believe that Ford has an amazing opportunity here,” says Diamond. “Just imagine a modern-day Aloha retracing these steps in a Ford Explorer? It would be a wonderful way to pay homage to the very first ‘Ford Challenge’ – the intrepid 1918 Model T that Aloha referred to as her, ‘Little Lizzie.’”

So, while the Model T that brought this couple together was not preserved, the story certainly can be.

AlohaWanderwell.com has partnered with CMG Worldwide: http://cmgworldwide.com/news/?tag=aloha-wanderwell  to provide information about and licensing opportunities regarding the Wanderwell Expedition.

http://www.alohawanderwell.com/ for all about the Wanderwell Expedition, or for the condensed Car Guy version: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/wanderwell-expedition-with-car-and.html

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Bill Goldberg's 1969 Hemi Charger R/T... serious looking tires in back!

see what I mean?

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