The Porsche 911 is an automotive icon with few equals. 1970s 911s are particularly coveted among the cognoscenti. A 1970s 911 owned by the King of Cool? Well that's just sick. Steve McQueen's 1970 911S that was featured prominently in his 1971 flick Le Mans is set to cross the auction block come Aug
Porsche Tapiro concept car, 1970. Since let’s just say forever, pretty girls have been used to sell everything because if anything is true in this world it is that sex can sell absolutely anything. If you’ve ever been to a car show or even seen images of car shows from the past (or present) then you know that having an attractive girl posing alongside the latest and greatest automobile at these kinds of events is as common as seeing a kid stuffing his face with a hot dog at a baseball game. Sometime in the late 1970s a woman named Margery Krevsky (who was at the time an employee of a large department store in Detroit whose many responsibilities included booking models for fashion shows across the country) got an idea after visiting the famed Detroit Auto Show for the first time. After visiting the show Krevsky began working on her concept that the glamorous girls standing next to the cars possessed the untapped potential to engage in “shop talk” with potential customers. Krevsky formed her company Productions Plus - The Talent Shop which to date has employed nearly 500 well-versed, attractive “product specialists” (including a fair number of...
The Kawasaki H2 750 Mach IV was introduced in 1972 to significant interest from both the leading motorcycle journalists and their readers, it was the
Um... I don't know what happened there. Normal MERCENARY service resumes with this picture of Pamela Anderson on a Slingshot... #PamelaAnderson #SuzukiSlingshot #Yoshimura #SuzukiGSXR #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
1975 Raleigh Chopper Mk2 1975: ABBA. Rocky Horror Show. Wombles. End of the Vietnam War. Bay City Rollers. Curly perms. Jaws. KC & the Sunshine Band. If that’s the way you like it, then r…
Вы до сих пор считаете себя настоящим знатоком автомобилей? ;) Думаю, вы точно удивитесь, увидев огромную коллекцию концепт-каров 70х годов, многие из которых я и сам вижу впервые. Довольно интересно и познавательно. Lancia Stratos Zero, 1970 De Tomaso Mangusta, 1969 DeTomaso Pantera, 1972 Porsche
STREET HAWK (1985, TV, USA) The man... the machine... Street Hawk (rrrm rrrm) I never missed an episode when this went out, and have been waiting years to get this on DVD. But a warning to newcomers - it's soooo 1980s... A top secret government experiment involves a souped-up attack-motorbike to fight crime. Jesse Mach (Rex Smith) can't tell a soul that he's secretly the rider of the mysterious Street Hawk. He has a 'co-pilot', who co-ordinates Street Hawk's missions back at their hidden base, inventor Norman Tuttle (Joe Regalbuto). The secret street exit was hidden behind a sliding billboard in an alleyway, which always reminded me of Batgirl's similar Batbike exit. Can't have been much of a secret location because Mach's flashy bright yellow Mustang was always parked outside, next to Tuttle's station wagon... The short-lived TV show had storylines and dialogue that a five-year old could follow, which didn't really sit comfortably with its atrocious lessons in road safety in road safety. Yes kids, try and jump your bike over police cars, through windows, and ride as fast as you can - you'll never hit anything, honestly you won't... Like so many other family-friendly action shows, the characters are two-dimensional (grumpy police chief, geeky engineer), and the comedy relief is goofy rather than funny. I only ever saw Rex Smith (Jesse Mach) in TV bit parts after this, which was a real waste of a leading man - his half-naked turn in the foam-filled, suit-moulding tube (glimpsed in the theme tune) made me an instant fan. Joe Regalbuto (Norman) had previously been in the bonkers Conan knock-off The Sword and the Sorceror (1982) - he was good, funny, but looked rather out of place amongst all the barbarian mullets. The technology is fantasy, rather than reality-based. A bike with jet thrusters, a laser, missiles! It's a comic strip, but at least it's an original custom-made concept, rather than an adaption. Despite the high-tech dressing, (when technology meant flashing lights and dry ice, and animation poses as computer displays) the thrills are not from the visual effects (like the 'particle beam') but from car chases and explosions, placing this in similar territory to Airwolf and Knight Rider. BUT. For all its faults, where else can you get so many car and bike (and boat and helicopter) stunts in a weekly TV show today? In every episode, there's never a shortage of genuinely exciting stuntwork. Street Hawk actually deserved slow-motion for its leaps and crashes. From the high jump through a (closed) window, to chasing a helicopter at high speed. The fake sped-up 'hyperthrust' mode wasn't as dangerous, but fired-up every episode - as Street Hawk was cleared to travel at 200 mph through Los Angeles at all times of the day. How traffic could be stopped for a stretch of twenty miles, with a guarantee of zero jaywalkers, was beside the point. The effect took a visual cue from Koyaanisqatsi - headlights and neon at night, flashing past as streaks. Guest stars included Christopher Lloyd playing almost too nasty a villain to square up to such cartoony heroes. There's also Bianca Jagger, Sybil Danning (Battle Beyond the Stars) and Marjoe Gortner (Earthquake, Food of the Gods), but famously this was George Clooney's second-ever featured role. Rex Smith was making much of that episode, on his recent UK publicity tour for the DVD launch, saying that Clooney owed him a return favour for Smith giving Clooney his big break in Hollywood... Another aspect that helps me rank this over Knight Rider, is the synthesizer soundtrack. Tangerine Dream's track Le Parc was used as the theme tune and the band provided the background score throughout. This is the same year they were brought in to score Ridley Scott's Legend for the re-edited US version, replacing Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack. The movie-length pilot episode (well, barely 75 minutes long) appeared on laserdisc, but this UK region 2 set is Street Hawk's world debut on DVD - the entire series runs only 13 episodes. It's coming to the US in July. For absolutely everything else about Street Hawk, there's an extensive fansite here. The theme tune is here on YouTube...
Amateur photographs of the stars and cars in action and in the pits during Grand Prix of the past.
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The customised Aston Martin DBS, made famous by Roger Moore in The Persuaders, is expected to sell for £550,000 when it goes under the hammer in May.
While the Citroen CX claimed the headlines in the 1970s, the Peugeot 504 might have been the best...
At the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa D'Este concours 2013. The Persuaders! Aston Martin DBS (from a photo shoot for Octane magazine, May 2013). Photo copyright © Martyn Goddard (www.martyngoddard.com) and OCTANE Magazine - All rights reserved.
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Op truckfan.nl staat een uitgebreide en dagelijks groeiende verzameling truckfoto’s. Een overzicht uit deze collectie beelden staat in De Top 10 om 10 over 10! De foto’s staan in willekeurige volgorde. Deze week: de laatste generatie Opel Blitz. Foto’s: Sem Beekers, Lucas Ensing, Henk de Groot, Marco Havers, René Henkes, Jan Korte, Hans Kramer, Harrie Kuiper, Alex Miedema en Dick Tijken. Samenstelling: Jaco Terlouw.
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words cannot describe the nastiness of this car. less than fond memories of peeling skin off the hot, plasticky seats.
Let’s carry on with our 60’S & 70’S ITALIAN CONCEPT CARS three-part series. If you missed our first chapter you can take a look at some fabulous Bertone concepts here. This second chapter is de…
The Iso Grifo 7 Litri was to be one of the fastest road-legal production cars of its time, with a claimed top speed
Doing inspiration posts is nothing new for me and my blog, but this time I felt like I really needed to do one. Sometimes, the need to be inspired week after week results in the exact opposite and rec
PHIL DUNCAN: Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg's attempts at maintaining a friendly rivalry are well and truly over. But as the pair's boss at Mercedes - the great Niki Lauda, no less - said: ‘You have to be a b****** if you want to win in Formula One.' And here are the sport's top 10 b*******...
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a car for all our summertimes
She’s kind of too cool for words.
A woman's '70s fashion inspired this vibrant example of one of Citoën's best
One of first true Touring car homologation specials which started the trend was the one of Lotus Cortina Mk1 during the mid 1960s.
The new Vauxhall Viva revives a name from the company's past in the hope of awakening some nostalgia in potential customers - but this isn't a new trick, as these born-again nameplates prove
Entdecke Kult-Spielzeug der 70er Jahre. Kindheitserinnerungen und Nostalgie pur. Gleich ansehen!
the conceptual and realized car designs of the swiss-italian '3D philospher and scientific reality artist', are presented in a 1,500m squared outdoor space at the triennale bovisa, milan.
We take a trip down memory lane to revisit the car that created Peter Brock's HDT Special Vehicles division
The great Austrian driver won two F1 titles for Ferrari and one for McLaren and came back from an horrific accident that left him severely burned and injured in 1976
