Wednesday, September 7, 2011

1937 Delage D8-120 S Pourtout Aero Coupe

This car was commissioned by Louis Delage for the 1937 Paris Auto Show and as his personal car. The design was entrusted to Georges Paulin, principal stylist for coachbuilder Marcel Pourtout. [via]






Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Best James Bond's Movie Cars Ever

Rolls-Royce Phantom III from Goldfinger, 1937

Aston Martin DB5 from Goldeneye, 1964

Aston Martin DBS from Quantum of Solace, 2008

2002 Jaguar XKR from Die Another Day, 2002

Saturday, September 3, 2011

How did it get up there?

Dangling precariously from a third-floor window, this smashed truck looks like a prop in the dramatic finale of an action movie blockbuster.

Sadly for the driver, however, there was no Hollywood budget to cover the damages.

Incredible photographs have emerged showing the crash, caused by a 16-ton salt-spreading truck being rammed from inside a third story Sanitation Department repair shop in Queens, New York, into - and through - the outside wall. [via]