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The Hotest Cars in Hollywood

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

The films from Hollywood are always condimentate exotic cars that individualizeaza main characters and meet the demands pasionatilor car or cinefililor. The history of Hollywood noted appeared platourile of filming a collection of models that were then sold in the huge amounts of private auctions.
Today AutoBlogShow will propose a rehearse of the most popular cars that have started in peliculele hollywoodiene.

Batmobil

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We’ll start with the oldest of celebritatile car, the car created for the Batman movie with the same name. First Batmobil took birth in 1939, was created by Bob Kane for bands drawn Batman.
Although they were created more machines for supererou, the most famous creation is built for the U.S. television series which ran between 1966 and 1968. The copy was based on a concept created by Ford, a Lincoln Futura in the same year. Caroseria Futura concept has been thought and developed by Ghia, a design house based in Italy.
All Batmobil sites were equipped created along the years with a series of elements that have unique individual copies. Among them, remember: a seat that is catapulteaza, a nuclear reactor under capota, a computer connected to the board seat supereroului, windows and pipes antiglont of filtering emitting a dense smoke able to lose the trail of police.

DeLorean

 

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Another car sensation who made the U.S. platourile filming superbul DeLorean was a doctor Brown, the character of the film “Back in the future.” The machine who played in the film could work with beer or coji banana and its passengers could carry up to the year 2015 and back.
DeLorean model as the mechanical engineers on the plateau of filming was equipped with vertical opening doors, a floor of fiberglass panels and stainless steel nefinisat.
Only 9000 copies of DeLorean model has been produced, at this moment only 6500 of which are operating in the state. Unfortunately the car was destroyed during the series.

Aston Martin DB5

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Forever James Bond’s image has been associated with Aston Martin models. A copy furori who did the filming of platourile is modelulul DB5 which served some famous actors as Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan.
The machine was initially used in Goldfinger, because it was the newest issue of that period, setting a then-fashionable appearance on the latest models in peliculele Aston Martin James Bond.
In January 2006, an original DB5 was sold at an auction in Arizona for 2090000 million U.S. dollars.
List endowment strange that have regasit on your original DB5 include: mitraliere of 30 mm in the front, blades retractabile in jante, luneta and windscreen antiglont, mobile phone, radar and tracking system, with the possibility of seat catapultare transportation, pompita oil in the posterioara, pipes of filtering with dense smoke, pleasant registration of interchangeable pistol under the driver’s seat and a tun water.

Eleanor and Nicholas Cage

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Nicholas Cage was honored to lead another “stars self” in Hollywood. This is about Eleanor, vedeta film “Gone in 60 seconds”, which he made an appearance among lot of other exotic supercars.
In the famous film action had “played” two copies of the 1973 Ford Mustang, one of the scenes and on the road for a cascadoriile necessary. Inside the specimens were mounted roll-cage borrowed from Nascar cascadorilor for safety.
The machine which scapat teafara film has been exposed along time in several museums and exhibitions with specific automobilistic. During filmarilor, in the car were injured but the two cascadori and returned quickly, and they could resume work.

Herbie Volkswagen Beetle

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Another famous Hollywood car is Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle with the number 53 printed on capota. It debuteaza in the film “Love bug” whose action takes place only around or a car to compete with the attitude in racing performance.
The machine has been in his book Gordon Buford “Car, Boy, Girl,” published in 1961. Herbie and has received the name of the driver or uncle Steinmetz, whose broken nose after an adventure in boxing, small nose inspire Beetle.
Herbie was propelled by an engine borrowed from a Porsche 356 which does not yet know too many details. Among gadget sites that co small vedeta are opening doors with automatic.

Ford Mustang Bullit

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Steve McQueen can also brag that he led a legendary car. It Bullit Ford Mustang GT 390, a muscle-car power of 325 horses from storsi a V8 engine of 6.4 litres connected to a manual transmission with four steps.
The car remained in the history of Hollywood films for tracking the famous seven minutes, the streets of Los Angeles’s, filmata without special effects at speeds exceeding 177 km / h.
For filming scenes of Bullit, Warner Bross has used two copies Ford Mustang Fastback amended Balchowski Hi, an old pilot and mechanic. He replaced amortizoarele and increased engine power of the two “vedete” who filmed nonstop for two weeks.
Unfortunately one of the copies was casat and the other was sold by Warner Bros. workers, presently there is information according to which car would have already abandoned.

  Mini and “The Italian Job”

 

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In more recent “The italian job,” vedetele on four wheels were three models Mini color white, red and blue. For filming scenes through crowded traffic of Los Angeles’s were needed but 32 copies of the British model.
One of the film the stars, Mini with a 1.6 liter engine, supraalimentat, 163 horses of power can be proud with 200 kilograms less, compared with the version of the model series Cooper S.
One of the copies used for filming scenes in the film action was equipped with two volane, for one actor and one for professional pilot, who actually control the car. The copy may be admired as the Mini factory in Oxford, England.
When the Production announced it will launch a trailer of the film, fans of 500 and 250 Mini models British were present at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles.

Raikkonen bought Sharon Stone`s Corvette

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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World champion Kimi Raikkonen has a passion for family and models of classic sports. This was confirmed this weekend, when Raikkonen has bought a Chevrolet Corvette in 1974 in the auction organized by the Foundation for the fight against Sida of the famous singer Elton John.
The machine was bought for 200,000 euros, including its former owners numarandu the famous actress from Hollywood, Sharon Stone. Surprinzator but copy bought by the world champion Formula 1 was only 6.5 km run, none of the owners being very passionate to the idea of conducting superb car collection.
The amount paid for but Kimi was quite small in comparison with other objects auctioned the night before the race at Monaco. Thus, Vijay Mallya, who owns miliardarul Indian Formula 1 team Force India, paid 226,000 euros for playing the piano at which Elton John has composed the album “Songs from the West”, in 2001.
Mallya and donated a cruise for a week on one of its luxury boats, which was licitata up to 375,000 euros for a miliardar anonymously. The entire auction totalizat funds of one million euros.