Steve McQueen’s Mustang in “Bullit” had a magical quality to it that few people noticed - the hubcaps would spontaneously regenerate. One minute they’re there, the next they’re gone. The next scene they’re back.
Also worth noting is Gene Hackman’s car from “The French Connection.” I don’t recall the make or model, but the chase scene has never been equalled.
I was always partial to Remington Steele’s Auburn, which I think was like the one here, except his was white with gold accents.
I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Detective Columbo’s battered Renault (late 50s/early 60s model?). Talk about your bitch magnets.
In response to rocketeer, The TV batmobile has class. Memory is going back 25 years now, the Batmobile was made off a 1950’s “future car” called the “Firebird III”. I thought it was a Pontiac not a Lincoln, could be wrong. But I do know that there is a resemblence between the “Firebird III” and the first model Firebird produced by Pontiac in 1967. The original name for the Firebird is a cute little story by itself. It was supposed to be called the “Banshee”
zen101 wrote:
The prototype (at http://www.mymach5.com/Prototype_Specs/prototype_specs.html) is shown with its circular saw blades extended, but I reeeeally have to wonder if those “pneumatic jacks for jumping” in the specs actually work.
My vote goes to the stretch Pinto from Wayne’s World. That is on su-weeeeeeeeeet ride.
The blues brothers! Both Elwoods car, and Cab’s pimp ride.
I’d almost forgot that. 
[singing]Thanks for the memories[/singing]
How about the car from Ghostbusters. Some jammy bastard won it in a MTV contest.
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Rex Racer. Turn it around, Racer X.
And he even wears the damn Mach logo (actually, the M stands for Mifune Motors) in his uniform!
That must be one of the lamest “secret identities” in history, yesireebob…
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At least he had a full mask unlike Clark Kent. heh
Of course you didn’t mention the whole “Go Team” translation debacle actually meaning “5 Team” or “Team 5”. Thus leaving you with only a possible 8 points in Spped Racer trivia. ;Q
Actually, the lighting in the photo is misleading. There’re yellow lights on the metallic paintwork, making it look brown, but actually, it was either a dark (almost black) gray, or green. (Watch the movie).
And was the photo taken before or after the movie? According to sources, the car used in the movie WAS actually blown up.
(Then again, they had to have a few models, didn’t they?)
Wasn’t that a wingless Lamborghini Countach with neon-green stripes?
I don’t think that anyone has mentioned the littlest cool car yet. So I will. It has to be Steve Erkels’ Iseta. Not real fast, but hey, you could open up the whole front of the car. 
Who made those, anyway? Wasn’t it BMW?
A Renault?? The heresy!
Actually, it is a 1959 Peugeot 403 Decapotable. I take my Pugs seriously, what can I say 
Darqangelle: Hmmm. The way I see the Vantage, on film or paper, it appears brown to me. I do have a slight problem with judging colours, so it’s probably me. I just can’t see any green in it. Still, what a car eh?
cheezit: The Iseta was indeed made by BMW.
It’s been a few years since I saw the movie, but it should be dark green for historical reasons. Before corporate sponsorship, cars in international racing were painted different colors depending on what country they were from. British cars were dark green. In fact, if you see a car ad with the abbreviation BRG, it stands for British Racing Green. Not many people pay attention to it anymore (there was a BRG Miata, for crying out loud), but the folks at Aston Martin would certainly remember.
And I’m telling you people Rendezvous.
Don’t insult my intelligence, I know about BRG
It’s just that I don’t see how that would apply here. I mean, the Vantage didn’t compete at Le Mans or something. It was just Bonds car. I’ll see what else I can dig up.
Interesting link, that “Rendezvous” thing. I gotta see that thing!
Jaqcues Lafitte eh? Well, it would be one kick-ass way to lose your superlicense
Eh, as Columbo would say, “That there’s a French car.”
zen101 wrote, re Speed Racer:
What is it with Japanese Animation and the number 5?!!
G Force had 5 team members.
Voltron III was made from 5 robot lions.
Voltron I was made of 3 teams (air, land, and sea) consisting of 5 vehicles each.
And now, you’re tellin’ me that Speed Racer’s racing team was the “5 Team”.
Does 5 have some kind of mystical significance in Japanese culture or something, the way 7 is lucky and 13 is unlucky for us Westerners?
Didn’t mean to be insulting. Not everybody knows about the old national racing colors, in fact you may be the first person I’ve run into who did. Do you know what color German cars were before they were silver, and why they changed?
I remember an article about Aston Martins racing at Le Mans in the fifties. The cars were all BRG, but they had eyebrow shaped flares over the front fenders that were in different colors. And within the last year or so I read that they debuted a new model at an auto show and it was British Racing Green. I think Aston Martin would know the tradition and want to keep it alive.
I don’t know why the DB5 in Goldfinger was silver.
I bought it on Amazon about a year ago (rather pricey for a nine-minute movie). It’s almost disappointing to actually see it, since the story of how it was made is so good. The film is grainy and the light’s bad. But still, anytime people start debating cars and car movies, there’s nothing else like it.
A pop quiz, eh?
I don’t know, actually. All I know is that they used to be silver. The change may have had something to do with WWII, as a WAG. Then again, I think those pre-war AVUS cars were silver as well.
Other ones I can think of: blue for French cars, red for Italian. White for American?
As you said, the DB5 was silver, so I don’t think the BRG holds here. I found some pictures of Aston Martin V8’s. Admittedly, these are Series II models, and Bonds car was a Series V. But the colour schemes appear the same.
The brownish colour which I think is the same as 007’s car
The typical British Racing Green version
Would you agree that the first one is the same colour as the one used in The Living Daylights? If so, that’s not a BRG one.
