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business advertising made easy, stick a small car on the roof, make it a goofy one

I think I located Jay Leno's Big Dog Garage

This isn't much evidence, but it's at the general location that is commonly known (by the Burbank Airport) and Jay is supposed to have more than one building, one for working on the collection, at least one for storing them, and the sign above the door says "Service entrance"

And the amount of rubber on this side street in front of that gate, well... draw your own conclusion... but the people I asked while taking this photo said Jay is always on these streets. Soooo, I'm figuring I've found it. Not like that is going to do anything for me, but it's neat

Celebs photographed in candid moments just riding bikes, cool tumblr site

Steve McQeen

Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly

Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis

Shirley Temple

W C Fields

Roy Rodgers giving Trigger the warning about getting replaced

And Bill Murray just steals the bike.

updated once or twice a week, see the whole gallery at http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/ I found this from looking through the cool stuff they post on Stipistop http://stipistop.com/

Kirk Douglas goofing off for the camera in a wheelbarrow

It's cool to finally post a photo of Kirk Douglas, I've enjoyed his movies, and he's the type of celeb movie star that I'd catagorize as "cool". In 20,000 leagues he even sang, and that song is part of the Disney songs catalog... not the guy you'd expect to find int he Disney song catalog huh?

found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=1020

The Bi-Valve lnterior Combustion Twice-Exhausted Bi-Axle Nitro-Cycle, from the steampunk focused movie, Wild Wild West

If you are also a Kevin Kline, Selma Hayek, and Will Smith fan... or love steam and diesel punk, you'll love this 1999 movie.

"The Great Race" Professor Fate and Hannibal 8 movie cars are ready to sell

See a huge gallery and get more details at http://volocars.com/1964-hannibal-8-professor-fate-the-great-race-movie-car-collection-c-1258.htm

The famous vehicles for sale at Barrett Jackson this week

Stallone's Ford F150 that West Coast Customs built for Sly to drive in the movie the Expendables

Bret Michaels 1969 Camaro

Frankencuda http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/11/troy-brumbalows-frankencuda-design-by.html which is said to be int he 5th Fast and Furious movie, and corroborated http://fast-and-furious-5-movie-trailer.blogspot.com/2010/08/fast-and-furious-5-movie-pictures.html but my guess it's just a cameo split second moment... not more than 20 seconds screentime.

Jesse James 1954 Chevy 210 built on his TV show by Gene Winfield, Bill Hines, Dick Dean, Fat Jack, Norm Grabowski and Jesse.

Alan Jackson is selling 3 cars, a 1970 Ram air IV GTO, 1970 Challenger R/T, and a 1967 Vette

A Cadillac that Elvis gave his dentist

and NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick is bringing 13 cars from his collection.
read all about it at http://automotive.speedtv.com/article/autos-famous-cars-owners-at-auction

Happy Days... where Richie and his dad fix up the convertible

found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585

the new Fast and Furious movie preview

For an easy going enjoyable older movie, DC Cab. Its rated R, so send the kids to the other room, but Mr T, Gary Busey, Max Gail, and Bill Maher star

Sounds like a Richard Pryor swearfest, but it's got Checker cabs throughout, car chases, good guys becoming a team and facing the bad guys, solving a kidnapping, and overcoming adversity.

Jackie Gleason and Buick, they sponsored the Honeymooners, and he spent all day on the assembly line building himself one

top photo from http://forums.aaca.org/f117/nos-54-55-56-buick-factory-282948.html

Jackie spent time on the Linden NJ assembly line babysitting and building this Buick all the way

bottom photos from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=738

In the movie "The Great Race" you may have liked the "Leslie Special" ... but did you think they'd ever put it in another movie? I'm 1st to notice

above photo via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=733

There are differences, but the grill, hood ornament, and distictive doors are the same. The Leslie Special was made for the movie "The Great Race" and is not a vintage real car, it's a custom built to look like the Thomas Flyer that won the 1907 Paris to Peking race http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/winner-of-1907-paris-to-peking.html .

Both movies are Warner Brothers Pictures, and that makes it more possible that its the same car... what else would a movie company do with a movie car after the publicity is over for the first movie it was featured in?

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_65446-The-Ballad-of-Cable-Hogue.html demonstrates that no one has identified the car yet on the IMCDB site

Gotta love old movies for cool unusual cars

( http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/couple-of-brass-era-vehicles-from-movie.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/couple-of-brass-era-vehicles-from-movie.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/biggest-wagon-ive-ever-seen-might-only.html ),

and I was really surprised to discover this famous car isn't mentioned to have been in a 2nd movie anywhere on the internet. But it is undeniably the same car painted green, and until now, nothing was on the internet about it.

Smothers Brothers 68 Hurst Olds

I'm watching Season 3, episode 212, (you can get it from Netflix, mailed, it's not instant downloadable) and they filmed Dick taking his Olds (looks like a 68 Hurst Olds) down the quarter mile in 12.9 at 109

I can't put the youtube video here, the owner doesn't allow that option (he wants you to see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh3qg14K2-M or buy it on his website)

Some still photos are in a silent video, no action film at all, at minute 5:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv2KBEXlZiE&NR=1

WW2 was instrumental in changing the American culture in so many ways, but did you ever hear of car bumpers being donated to the scrap drives?

Rita Hayworth did her part... so if you come across her big old car with no bumpers, now you'll know what happened to them.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/28/Worldwarii/War_changes_fashion.shtml

For an example of immense largese in donating to the scrap drives, read about Panmsy Yount's 1933 Duesenberg Model J Judkins Berline that was turned over to the war effort for it's use as metal for armor plate, or whatever they did with all that steel http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/08/ive-posted-before-about-ww2-scrap.html