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And the award for the jazziest car chase scene goes to…
…the 1973 film “Fear is the Key,” with an epic 13-minute car chase scored by Roy Budd. Of course, it also nabs the award for worst car chase dialog ever.
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“New Oldsmobiles are in early this year!”
Rather than sit through the two-hour-long Lego commercial that hit theaters recently, let’s take a couple of minutes to watch this re-creation of the Blues Brothers mall scene that Lego enthusiast...
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Four-Links – Henry Ford’s mistress house, Teague truck, Simeone website...
* In the comments to the excerpt posted earlier this week from The Last Days of Henry Ford, Fred pointed out nailhed’s article from a few years back exploring the reasons for and ruins of the Rover...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – selling the Wagoneer, Joe Isuzu, The Seven-Ups
* Jeep Wagoneers of the Seventies might be self-evidently the coolest wagons on the planet, but they apparently didn’t sell themselves when new, as we can infer from this six-and-a-half-minute dealer...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Holden story, Datsuns for ’74, “Short Time” car chase
* Even those of us who might think we already know quite a bit of the story of Holden’s early years will have plenty to learn in this two-piece (part 1, part 2) documentary charting the Australian...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Decision at Daytona, 1968 British Grand Prix, Mad...
* Who needs magazines to compare all the passenger cars on the market in 1963? No, that way you can’t make it so your product comes out on top in every test, which is what GM did in Decision at...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Goodwood on Petty, Italian flying car, Kyodan
* For his third trip to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Richard Petty’s taking his 1970 Plymouth Superbird, a car that he hasn’t driven in 45 years. Goodwood put together a brief preview and chat with...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – touring Kar Kraft, Jeep implements, McQ
* It’s a bit out of focus, but the 1969 Kar Kraft video that former employee Larry Lawrence filmed and that Mac’s Motor City Garage highlighted this week includes more than its fair share of...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Le Mans in 1961, Mustang in 1969, The Man With the...
This Le Mans weekend, let’s take a look at the 1961 running of the endurance race thanks to JustBritish raiding the Standard-Triumph video archives. * We’ve always believed that the best car ads –...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – parade Chrysler, Goodwood livestream, Brannigan
Given the importance of the one-of-three Chrysler parade phaeton to Los Angeles history and Leno’s proximity to it, we’re surprised he’s taken this long to feature it on Jay Leno’s Garage. We’re glad...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Dodge Colt comparo, final assembly in Kenosha, To...
While researching our recent article on the 40th anniversary of the Chevette, we came across plenty of crash videos featuring said subcompact on YouTube, but we also came across this Dodge-created...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Elgin Park, Los Boulevardos, Goodbye Pork Pie
Fans of Michael Paul Smith’s work, particularly those who enjoyed the excerpt we ran from Smith’s latest book the other day, won’t want to miss this well-done short film profiling Smith and revealing...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Wishes on Wheels, Amphicars in Lake Erie, Art of the...
Some of the acting’s a little gee-whiz, and the dubbing is way off, but Wishes on Wheels, a 26-minute journey through the mid-Fifties Plymouth assembly line process, includes plenty of excellent color...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – racing at Bonneville in 1989, ride along with...
Ever wonder what it’s like to pilot a fuel streamliner at 256.9 MPH on the salt at Bonneville? Catch fire at 350 MPH? This ESPN coverage of racing at the salt flats in 1989 will give you some idea. *...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Daytona Beach 1957, Being Evel, Blues Brothers
Daytona, before it became a mecca for stock car racing, hosted a series of speed trials every year, and in 1957 some big names took to the sand to wring out every last bit of performance from showroom...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Electrovair II, One Up on the Devil, Action U.S.A.
The Corvair’s air-cooled flat-six engine kind of defined the compact car, but at least a couple times Chevrolet looked into the possibility of replacing it with a battery-electric drive system. The...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – sounds of M, Buehrig’s clays, The Mechanic
We hear the complaint all the time – what’s with the music in car videos? why can’t we just hear the sounds of the engines? For those folks, this 16-minute video featuring a bunch of different...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Bondurant in ’65, Leno 501, Marseille Contract
With all the attention focused on the recent reunion of all six Shelby Cobra Daytonas, this chapter on the 1965 FIA season from Bob Bondurant has gotten increased attention as of late, and while it...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – There Auto Be A Law, swap meet build, Scavenger Hunt
Much like Tex Avery’s “Car of Tomorrow” cartoon, the Warner Brothers cartoon “There Auto Be A Law” deconstructs many aspects of auto culture as seen from the early 1950s: automobile history, hot...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – designing the Sting Ray, Dean Jeffries, Fletch
Chevrolet sure wanted to reinforce the Corvette’s image as a sports car with its 20-minute film introducing the Corvette Sting Ray, what with the opening montage of Euro sports cars (and the...
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