Movie Cars: Ford v Ferrari

In 2019, we were given the movie Ford v Ferrari, a fantastic film starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend it. The movie is about Carroll Shelby and racer Ken Miles trying to build a car for Ford to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France 1966. 

The cars used in the film were all built by the Shelby Legendary Cars in California. 30 were made for the film but not all of them were functioning vehicles. Some were just rollers used for a set piece and some were full on race cars. The car that won the race was the GT40, a replica built for the purpose of the movie. Bale actually took lessons at a racing school to be better equipped to play Miles. 

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Movie Cars: Mad Max Fury Road

If you like movies about post apocalyptic wastelands, then Mad Max Fury Road is a movie for you. This movie was honestly a super cool one and I enjoyed watching it. What definitely stands out in this movie are the super crazy cars and vehicles that are used. The production designer and art director of the film, Colin Gibson, was in charge of all the super cool vehicles. He wanted cars that had style and something he would think that would have been salvaged in this wasteland, unlike a simple Honda Civic, etc. Gibson and a bunch of teams of mechanics created 150 crazy apocalyptic vehicles, that is an insane amount of heavily armored cars. What is even cooler is all the stunts in the movie were real so unfortunately a lot of the beasts were destroyed.

Let’s get into some detail on some of the cars.

1. Mad Max’s Interceptor

Played by Tom Hardy, Max drove a 1974 XB Ford Falcon Coupe which was also used in the first films with Mel Gibson. 

2.Furosia and her War Rig

Played by Charlize Theron, Furosia drove a huge truck. A Czechoslovakian Tatra and a Chevy Fleetmaster combined together to be a 6 wheel drive 18 wheeler. The rig also carried a huge fuel tank. 

3.Doof Warrior’s Doof WagonThis is my favorite vehicle from the movie. It’s a huge vehicle which housed a massive amount of subwoofers and featured a stage with lighting for the Doof Warrior. There was a cord suspended in the front for him to hang on and play his electric guitar that flames would come out of. The Doof Wagon is pictured above. 

Thank you again for reading another segment of movie cars. We here at Jerry Noonan’s Auto Center hope you have a great weekend!! 

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Movie Cars: Corvette Summer

 

Corvette Summer is a movie definitely known for its car. This corvette was driven by Kenny Dantley, played by Mark Hamill, a high school kid in love with all things cars. Kenny’s shop class in school has a project where he needs to build a car, and the one above is what he comes up with. A unique right hand drive Corvette Stingray. The car gets stolen and Dantley wants to get it back so he hitchhikes his way to Las Vegas where he heard it would be. 

Now let’s get into the car. This odd Corvette started as a 1973 Corvette C3. With a lot of body work and fiberglass, the car was transformed. About the right hand drive mentioned above, the car was altered to be driven from the passenger seat so Hamill’s character was able to schmooze the girls on the sidewalk.

I hope you enjoyed another installment of Movie Cars. Stay tuned for some more blogs coming. Also if you like learning some new stuff, check out our Youtube Channel, Jerry Noonan’s Auto Center! We have one video up there now and will be posting a lot more on some daily activities we do here at the shop.

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Movie Cars: Coupe De Ville

During the snow day this past Monday, we watched Coupe De Ville. This movie came out in 1990 and starred a very young Patrick Dempsey. You might think that the vehicle in this movie is a Coupe de Ville, well it actually is a Cadillac Series 62 Convertible. The Coupe de Ville did not come in a convertible model actually. I found this fact really interesting being the fact that the movie is named after the wrong car. 

The movie is about three brothers who have to deliver a car to their mom for her birthday, a surprise set up by their dying father. The three brothers do not get along unfortunately and fight the whole way. Throughout the movie, the brothers experience some road blocks, but they get through it. In the end they end up making up and liking each other, which was their dad’s real goal. It was a good movie, I do recommend it! 

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