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Movie Car Monday
Dec 6th
This week’s Movie Car Monday is Mini shaped, but it’s not what you might expect:
This week’s MCM comes from the 1981 New Zealand film ‘Goodbye Pork Pie’ a completely bizarre low-budget movie about a loser who accidentally steals a wallet and a Mini hire-car.
There’s loads of great Mini-shaped action in the film and you can pick it up online for peanuts. A great film and a great car.
Movie Car Monday
Nov 29th
There’s no need for words on this. One of the greatest car chases ever.
Steve McQueen + 1968 Ford Mustang + Dodge Charger x Lalo Schifrin’s cool soundtrack = Awesome
So, sit back and watch Mustang chase Charger and wish you were as cool as McQueen.
Of course Ford played on the success of Bullitt with its Puma ad campaign:
Movie Car Monday
Nov 22nd
This week’s Movie Car Monday features Smokey and The Bandit, and the legendary Pontiac Trans-Am
The Trans-Am was pretty much the USA’s answer to the Ford Capri and in its later years became a bit of a cliche, but if you ask me it was at the height of cool with Burt Reynolds at the wheel with Jackie Gleason in ‘Hot Pursuit’
Movie Car Monday
Nov 15th
Mondays are generally a bit crap so I’ve decided to try and have a bit of fun on what for many, is the worse day of the week, so, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present
Movie Car Monday!
This weeks car is none other than the Bluesmobile. The wheels of one ‘Joliet’ Jake Blues and his brother, Elwood.
The Bluesmobile, is of course, a 1974 Dodge Monaco that Elwood bought at the Mount Prospect Police Auction, having traded Jake’s beloved Cadillac for a microphone (OK, I can see that) it featured a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It had cop tyres, cop suspension and cop shocks. It was a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll ran good on regular gas.
It also had a broken cigarette lighter.
The Bluesmobile was Jake and Elwood’s faithful companion, getting them to gigs and away from Illinois Nazis (I hate Illinois Nazis) and covered the 106 mile run to Chicago on a tank of gas, before self-destruction at the Honorable Richard J Daley Plaza.
The film used 13 different Monacos to play the Bluesmobile, with the movie itself held the world record for the most car destroyed in one film, a record later beaten by the (admittedly forgettable) sequel, Blues Brothers 2000.
