Cars and planes

[Vzlet]

This is probably my favorite, showing my '89 Civic Si:

MiG-29 Fulcrum 3810

and

Civic & MiG (May 1994)

[Firebird]

BMW 328?

Yes it is.

Arguably the best pre-war 2-seater sports car made......not they made many in the 2 or so years of production before it ended once WW2 got going.

[JohnB]

BMW 328?

Yes it is.

Arguably the best pre-war 2-seater sports car made......not they made many in the 2 or so years of production before it ended once WW2 got going.

Thanks for the confirmation.
Good to know my pre-war German sports car recognition skills are still good.

[Vzlet]

1972 LTD and C-133:

Douglas C-133 Cargomaster 59-0536

[75rat]

RB-51 Red Baron

We all know the fate of the Mustang….what about the cool custom car?

Btw; Pulled this off the internet many years ago, unfortunately no idea who to credit the photo.

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[DB2]

BMW 328?

Yes it is.

Arguably the best pre-war 2-seater sports car made......not they made many in the 2 or so years of production before it ended once WW2 got going.

Thanks for the confirmation.
Good to know my pre-war German sports car recognition skills are still good.

I believe that's actually a BMW 319/1, the rarer, but less iconic, predecessor to the 328. Giveaways would be the one-piece windshield, radiator grill trim, lack of hood straps and higher doors. Cool photo. I wonder if the car survives to this day?

[airnutz]

BMW 328?

Yes it is.

Arguably the best pre-war 2-seater sports car made......not they made many in the 2 or so years of production before it ended once WW2 got going.

Thanks for the confirmation.
Good to know my pre-war German sports car recognition skills are still good.

I believe that's actually a BMW 319/1, the rarer, but less iconic, predecessor to the 328. Giveaways would be the one-piece windshield, radiator grill trim, lack of hood straps and higher doors. Cool photo. I wonder if the car survives to this day?[/quote]

I was having trouble with that one, too. High un-faired headlamps and one piece windscreen. Thanks DB2!

[Thomas_Mac]

Vzlet, love the LTD and Honda. Polar opposites but both super cool!

[airnutz]

RB-51 Red Baron

We all know the fate of the Mustang….what about the cool custom car?

Btw; Pulled this off the internet many years ago, unfortunately no idea who to credit the photo.

Looks like a slammed and stretched Bill Thomas Cheetah from the 60's. There's some links to the Cheetah folks on the Wiki page. You might see if any of them have a clue to what it is.

Is the Red Baron Race Teams Robert "Smitty" Smith still with us? If so, he may remember something. If not, the RBRT members may know something. Good luck! Cooool pic!
http://www.red-baron-racing.com

[sledge39]

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The plane: Paul Mantz' Standard J-1, 1598, A-190, N2826D modified to resemble a Curtiss N-9

The car: 1914 Stutz Bearcat

screen grab from the movie: "Wings of Eagles" (1957)

JD

[JohnB]

About the Stutz Bearcat...
That very car was owned by a late acquaintance, I believe it is still owned by the family.
I wrote a history of that Bearcat for the Stutz Club magazine a few years back.

It was owned from the 50s to the mid-late '70s by Pacific Auto Rental, a leading supplier for Hollywood films.
As such, if you saw a Bearcat in film or TV it was more than likely that car.
In addition to Wings of Eagles (where it gets a lot of screen time with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara), it was seen in Lafayette Escadrille , Disney's Summer Magic, and a host of '60s TV shows including Green Acres and the not so fondly remembered, My Mother the Car.

Later, it received a new paint job and appeared with James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope.
Finally, it was a key element in the TV film Powderkeg, the pilot film for the short lived Bearcats! TV series.
After that filming, it was loaned to film car builder (of Batmobile fame) George Barris who used it as a pattern to make two replicas for the TV series. In the series, they appeared alongside a Standard J-1 in one episode and a dH Moth in another (the aircraft in that episode was a bit out of time for the series but the episode was filmed at a high altitude location so the producers needed a higher performance aircraft).
I own the #1 car built by Barris. You can see it with a Curtiss Jenny on page 6 of this thread.

[Duggy009]

Speed match between Dewoitine D.530 (Marcel Doret) and Bugatti 51 (Albert Divo), Montlhéry, 1932.

[mike furline]

Slightly off topic.

69 Chrysler 300, 505ci, A727, 3.23 Sure Grip

[Clifford Bossie]

Slightly off topic.

69 Chrysler 300, 505ci, A727, 3.23 Sure Grip

American heavy metal!

[JohnB]

I'm a big fan of the 69-71 Chryslers with the "fuselage" styling.
That's their term for it.
Not many around nowadays.