Coolest T.V. - Movie Cars
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Kowalski lives!
They make replicas of the 1966 Batmobile for only $150,000!
http://buybatparts.com/joomla/index.php/replicas
I would drive it every day and probably never get laid again in this lifetime but who CARES? I'd have a fuckin' BATMOBILE! "They see me rollin', they hatin'..."
from Six Feet Under
From Herold and Maude. Harold got pretty good with the smoke wrench featured in the background
Come on, people. It's a talking car!
...identical replica running aroun here in the summer, moving hood lights and all! 
"The Love Bug", the most ubiquitous car of the 60s, the V.W. Beetle! In it's more sinister incarnation, the platform for the dune buggies of Charlie Mansons motor pool... 
... any cars of note driven by women? .Consider that a challenge... lots of women with badass rides in song... "455 Rocket"..."Till Daddy takes the T-bird away"... "Little Old Lady from Pasedena"... but movies and T.V. I draw a blank. That's because I'm dum.
warning: I'm a serious enthusiast of bad-ass-car movies!
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"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?" Elwood
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses... HIT IT!"
1958 Plymouth Fury! Make mine the 413 red ram commando wedge with 2 4 bbl carbs on the cross ram intake. B-b-b-b BAD TO THE BONE!
66 Thunderbird Convertible!
But I need a v-8 to haul my big ass around. 91 Crown Vic Aero does the trick. That reminds me - the "Crown Vic" from "Men In Black"!
You should post it to the TV Theme thread (if you haven't already)
For better or worse, the automobile is deeply entwined in our culture. Once they were rolling works of art that the middle class could afford. Now they are more like appliances... My Dad died when I was 8. The only carhe owned in my lifetime was a big beautiful Olds Holiday Deluxe, circa 1956. A chrome and light blue monster with red leather interior. Huge clock on the passengers dash. Power everything. I came home from the hospital in that car. Mom sold it when Dad died, too much upkeep.
A few years ago I was driving down a country road, beautiful fall day. Sitting beside a barn, for sale, was a mint twin of Dads car. Same color, identical. It was pristine. The rubber floor mats with the "Rocket" logo looked unused. Tears welled up. It was out of my price range, and I had no garage anyway. But I got my moneys worth just seeing her, remembering the short time I had with a wonderful Dad.
Thanks to all, it is great to know DUers appreciate such things!
I think Michael Moore would get this thread, somehow...
"She ain't too good on gas, and she burns a little oil, she was built by union labor
On American soil, my sweet little '66"
- Steve Earle, "Sweet Little '66". ('66 Chevelle).
...and your Honda's history, I'll bee blasttin down some backroad with my baby next to me, in my sweet little '66".
The car is incredible but McQueen's driving will really sell you. I checked into it and these are *really* expensive for a decent restoration or well maintained original.
Dying to go for a ride in it!
oops wrong car!
But the only thing approaching film status was the television movie with Paul McGann. It was interesting with some good twists, different with a blatant violence not seen in the British versions.
I thought they did a good job, but as far as I know, the actors are all still unknowns, a one shot film.
Just for you, mucifer, the TARDIS in a couple of manifestations. Note the first picture appears to have tiny wheels underneath!
The classic blue box:
And the newer model:
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If you've ever seen one up close, it was a work of art, with the stainless steel and black leather upholstery. It was a shame they stopped making them. The chick next door to me had one and I used to oogle it. I was driving a Capri, the closest thing Mercury made next to a Mustang them.
After it went out of production a firm in Houston, Texas began to reproduce them. It is the only vehicle that inspired in me a feeling of excitement that I can only describe as lust.
Tikki
Tikki
You would have to be a true boomer to remember this! This show was the highlight of my cartoon day in the early 60's... which reminds me, WHERE'S MY FLYING CAR??!!
Mine had the 400, black buckets with slapstick, and was silver instead of black, no hood scoop. 73 Charger. Did my heart proud to see this in "Burn Notice"!
A neighbor of mine in NE Oregon owned it for a couple of weeks.
He had won it in a contest of some kind.
It was fun to see it around town.
Tikki
"the fishbowl on wheels"
A.M.C. did make some col cars though....
Tried to post an S/C rambler, but it didn't work
And here is the Scambler:
I just found this site from 8 years ago-anyone there? My most favorite Supercar of all time is THE SCRAMBLER. Power to weight ration like a 454 Nova and the surprise factor unmatched. Dragging the gut in Portland Oregon in the 80-90's will always be unmatched. I remember driving down the left lane going up Broadway and another guy from Vancouver was in the far right lane and yelling out to the poor soul in the Chevelle between us--"Stereo Ramblers!" We both left in 5-star burn-outs and dusted the poor thing. Then we would circle up past the Chevron and go back down 6th. There were cars, people, parties in and on all the cars. The motorcycle cops would eventually run us out of the area but not before making cherry bomb, and purple horny noise to keep all the 'downtowners' stay awake till we left,,,Then we would go out to 82nd or 122nd and repeat. Race, Race, Repeat. A time gone but there is underground street races but I am not telling where...Stuntgirl56
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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Interceptor:
Although, I prefer my first car ....
I had the opportunity to be at a classic car race at Laguna Seca back in the mid 80's and the featured car was the Shelby. You haven't lived untill you've sat at the exit of a turn and three or four of those bad boys open it it up coming out.
1.21 GIGAWATTS!
from "Greased Lightning"
They all pale in comparison to Professor Fate's car:
but it did belong to Diana Dors:
Car as sculpture. 
Amazing color, too.
Lloyd Dobler made that car cool!
To make the 76 cool! My h.s. sweetheart had a 73 malibu, canary yellow with black interior. It looked very similar to the Chevelle. We drove it to Youngstown from Pgh. In 1975 to see Commander Cody.
Not really - I just like saying it.
The coolest car in the Wacky Races
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Don't know what kind of car it is, but it was actually owned by Jack Nicholson.
...this guy?
had a '68 Dart in the series.