So I watched the new iron man movie last night (BAD ASS). And several times in the flic, they show tony stark's (iron man's) deuce roadster.... theres got to be a rodder workin for that movie..... theres a seen of him pullin the head on the flattie, he gets the red and gold color combo for his armor from the deuce, and its his screen saver at the office.... I effin love sh*t like that! PLUS a couple of bobbers in there too! Anybody else notice trad. rods in films or tv??
John Favreau (director of Iron Man, Swingers) is a hot rod fan. Think he was lurking around here when he was working on a script idea about post-WWII lakes racers. He also hangs out at Bob's in Toluca Lake. I have wanted to talk to him for a long time about my movie script.
that explains it! the deuce in the movie was satin black with gold flames, finned aluminum fire wall, blacked out rims wit chrome lugs..... is that his?
If you're interested in seeing cars from movies, check out http://www.imcdb.org/ Lots of fun info there.
IMCDB will DESTROY an otherwise productive day at work! Adam and Jim, are you guys talking to each other across the shop? (haha!)
My Studebaker was in a movie but you can be assured you've never heard of it . In fact I've never even seen it . Was a fluke thing , kinda fun for a day .
Here's a good movie with some cool cars, bikes and references in it! I.Q. with Walter Matthau, Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan. Einstein gets his '54 Chevy turned into a shaved, decked, chopped convertable! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110099/
any pics of the 55 chevy in sometimes they come back or the 57 black with flames in the 80's movie catch me if you can???
Got back from Iron Man a little bit ago. I had never seen that '32 Roadster before but it is something else. Man I've got to find some more pictures of it. Great film by the way.
I got to be in a music video that has several different cars in it. Does that count? It's a remake of a 1961 Del Shannon hit. I'm at the diner counter in a blue dress. http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2345234
Ahhhh....lol. That was Favreau's car. I thought it would be his. It was too period correct looking (flathead, dual strombergs, flamed, and driven) to be something a set designer came up with.
I sold my 35 chevy sedan to a movie production company that is making a movie called "Public enemy" starring Johnny Depp. Its supposedly a movie about John Dillinger - funny thing is I think Dillinger was shot in '34......
my eyes lit up when i saw the roadster in the movie nice to see a vehicle with that much class in a movie wish iron man would of drove around in it instead of flying the vehicles in the new indiana jones preview look cool to
In 1989 someone was advertising one of the two lane blacktop 55 chevys in the witchita,kansas (it was suppose to be anyway) how could you tell if cars are what theyclaim?
Just got back from Iron Man myself. I was thinking that a HAMBer had to be involved with that movie, to have that awesome roadster in it .... I certainly didn't expect to see any flatheads & bias plies in that flick. Awesome flick it was, too. A guy who comes to my local cruise night got his old Chevy in that movie ... I think it's a 51. Cool old fastback, dual-carb six.
It's a TOTAL long shot, but if ANYONE knows how I can get John Favreau to take a peek at the rest of this I would be eternally grateful. Thanks Jim I know the spacing below is off from correct script form- but that's the way it cut and pasted from my saved document. FADE IN: EXT. COASTAL ROAD - DAY Looking into the carb, the butterflies open, close, open. The engine cranks over in time with the music. A roar erupts as the engine fires and revs in time with the music. Louder, softer, loud again. Pulling back a bit we follow the fuel line rearward. From above we see the entire engine. We drop down to follow the throttle linkage, music dancing to the movement of the linkage and the rumble of the pipes. FX Into the firewall and down to the accelerator pedal. A heavy well-worn engineers boot taps out revs, matching the music. A trickle of green electricity crackles here and there as the engine bangs out something that sounds like a scream along with its mechanical noises, blended with wails of a surf guitar. Back inside, we follow the shaft of the painted shifter to the skull shift knob. A gloved hand drops onto the skull and pulls it into first gear. From above we track the Black '32 Ford coupe as it rolls through the low coastal hills. Close in on details of the coupe as it rumbles along with the music. Each part exudes menace or a hidden threat. See the wheel as it brakes slides forward with a chirp and stops. From overhead see the entire dark coupe. Coupe stops at a mom and pop store for information. Hear no conversation, but the old store keeper seems reluctant? No. He looks frightened by the man in the coupe. The old man points in the direction the coupe is heading. The coupe leaves. The old man seems sick or shaken. An old woman comes to him from the store, seeking to help him or to understand. The coupe moves on down the road, stopping at a roadside stand. Through the chopped window we see the dark back of the driver as he talks to a frightened woman who shakes her head. More details of the coupe are explored as we hear footsteps of the driver open then close the door. Revs come up and the coupe screams up the road. The voice that sounds like a scream is heard. And now heard faintly, mixed with road noise... menacing sounds that may be curses, but are too indistinct. EXT. AT THE BEACH - DAY The coupe drives up on the beach where some other cars are parked. Surfers and a few others hanging out, at first they point and laugh. The coupe comes to a forceful stop. Exiting the coupe, the dark form moves toward a group. We cant hear what they say, but two or three in the group sidle away from the group a little afraid. DENNIS Thats his brother out there. Thats Skip. DRAGICH I dont want his brother. I want to know where Buck is. ROSE Hes at Steves shop. DRAGICH Steve who? DENNIS Baily. Steve Baily. He's Buck and Skip's uncle. DRAGICH Where? Sensing the other's fear, Rose steps up to confront the dark thug. Something of a challenge to see how her friends would react. ROSE His shop is in town. Take a left on Sundown, up half a block. Trying to show Rose that he has no fear Rod leans in as if to confront the driver. ROD Why do you want Buck? DRAGICH Fuck you.
What- want more? EXT. FROM THE SHORE - DAY In the distance we see SKIP, a week away from his 16th birthday, waiting to catch the perfect wave heading to the shore. From his board he can see some of the cars leaving following the dark coupe. He swears softly when he sees his friends truck following the others. Looking over his shoulder he moves to catch the next wave in to shore. The boy rides in. Anger crosses his face as he sees Jeff's truck leaving the beach. He is disgusted at the meager wave that takes him toward shore. From the board we see that only two cars remain on the beach. Dons Model T Roadster and a 50 Ford sedan. The young surfer nimbly slips off the board, grabs it and runs up to the cars with five of his pals, Dennis, Rod, Rose, Jim and Don. SKIP Where did Jeff go? DON With all the rest of them headed across town. That bad dude in the dark coupe is looking for Buck. SKIP Why? Who is this "bad dude?" What does he want with Buck? Doesn't that stupid Jeff know I need the truck to get my board back? ROD He didn't seem too tough to me. SKIP Who gives a shit? How am I gonna get my board back? Jeffs gone in the truck. DON Youll have to hang it off the back and hang on tight. Jim will have to ride with Dennis and them. SKIP Shit. EXT. CITY STREETS - DAY We see the COUPE from above followed by a 54 Chevy mild custom (ROBIN JENKS and BARBARA CRAIG, CLAYTON FILIAN and ELAINE KERR), 46 Mercury coupe (CHET CAVALIER and KATHY FLOOD), 49 Chevy (CLARENCE BEAVERS, ROZ IMMER, KEITH HARRIS and JOHN BISCHOFF), 48 F-1 (JEFF TEDESCO) and a 55 Mercury Wagon (PHIL FILIAN, NANCY HENDERSON, NICK BARBER, JON EITELBACH). INT. COUPE - DAY The COUPE DRIVERS eyes are reflected in the rearview mirror, glimmering with contempt and malice at the cars that follow him. He sees the street sign -- EXT. COUPE FROM THE REAR - DAY --and whips the coupe into the quick left turn on Sundown. The coupe accelerates away with a rumble of the flatheads pipes. The undertones of the coupe's voice, mutters "closer" with a hiss. Leaning into the turn at Sundown, BARBARA turns to ROBIN BARBARA ROBIN! Slow down! What are you doing anyhow? ROBIN We gotta see what this guys up to. He may be looking to fight Buck. That's something I gotta see. BARBARA But why? You are going to get us killed driving like this. You know where he's going so slow down, please! CLAYTON Awww... he can handle it. Cut down on that mighty six you're herding there, Robin. INT. FROM THE FRONT SEAT LOOKING BACK. ELAINE I want to go home, please. BARBARA I still don't see why we care about some greaser hood. Cant be anything but trouble. And who cares anyhow? CLAYTON We do! If he's gonna fight Buck we don't want to miss it. If he just wants to race... hell... ahh heck, I mean... we know Buck will blow his doors off. EXT. COUPE AT AXLE LEVEL - DAY Coupe stops at stop sign. The driver guns it across the street. Braking noisily in front of Bailys Garage. Revs it up to get the attention of those inside. INT. GARAGE LOOKING OVER SHOULDERS OF BUCK AND TERRY Coupe rumbles noisily as the following cars pull up across the street in the b.g. Buck starts out. EXT. LOOKING INTO THE SHOP STEVE WALKS UP BEHIND TERRY. STEVE Whats all the noise? Whats Buck up to? TERRY Don't know. EXT. GARAGE BUCK squats next to the passenger side of the coupe. We dont hear an exchange, but see the anger. Driver steps out, menacing, pointing at Buck. Shouting. Slams back into the coupe and as Buck walks away a dark hand with an extended finger pops from the passenger window. DRAGICH Coward! Or was it the chirp of the tires calling out "coward?" Sounds from the pipes as the coupe goes up the hill are evil mutterings... another chirp. Distinctly heard, COWARD! EXT. ACROSS THE STREET Drivers emerge from their rides, girls and passengers follow crossing the street. ROBIN Buck, Buck! Wait up! Buck turns. The gang gathers round. BUCK Hey. CLAYTON Buck, who is that guy? What did he say? He challenge you? Fight or race? STEVE comes out of the garage followed by TERRY. They just listen. ROBIN I THINK hes got another thing coming if he thinks his old junker can beat you. What a piece of crap. (beat) I mean junk. BARBARA Can we get out of here? Youre acting like a bunch of kids. CLAYTON So you gonna race him, Buck? STEVE When BUCK races anyone its gonna be on the strip or the track. Street racing is no good. Just causes a lot of trouble. We got work to do around here, so how about taking a break? BUCK Where's Skip, Jeff? JEFF Oh. I guess hes still at the beach. BUCK You left him there? JEFF Hes with Jim and Don and some others. BUCK Great. Ive got to get back to work. See you guys later. CLAYTON So will you race him, BUCK? Elaine and Barbara start across the street to the parked cars. BARBARA Come, children! EXT. LOOKING INTO THE GARAGE Buck ignores Chet and squats down next to TERRY, taking the bolts from the spring shackles on a truck frame. EXT. GARAGE FROM OVERHEAD The gang breaks up and go to their cars. Engines start and they take off. INT. GARAGE STEVE stands over Buck and watches for a while. BUCK and TERRY work the u-bolts off the springs. They clamp the axle to an old wooden workbench. They start removing the tie rod and draglink. STEVE I meant it about the street racing, Buck. BUCK I know Uncle STEVE. Its just that guys are always after you to race when you get a rep. Shoot, dad was a street racer wasnt he? STEVE Dont let it get you in trouble. I need you here in the shop. Lets hurry up and get that frame out of here. Weve got paying customers to deal with.
Man, that website has me addicted, old cars and tractors, found Case steam engines, even a DB roadster like mine looked like 90 years ago!
Mrs. Slide and I went to see Iron Man last night... I 'bout came out of my seat when I saw the roadster. I was really surprised how "real" it was with the 2x Strombergs, Pete & Jakes style ladder bars, bias plys, etc. I like movies that have cool cars in them, but I don't understand cars that have cool movies in them.
Just an awesome flick. Saw it last night, and I have to say, I really feel that I got my 11 bucks' worth. I can't say that about many movies, but Iron Man is one flick that you don't have to make any excuses for, like "Just check your brain in at the door and enjoy the special effects" or "It's a superhero action movie, not a masterpiece" It was thoroughly engaging from beginning to end, easily Downey Jr's best film by far, and just as easily the best film starring any of the '80s Hollywood Brat Pack. -KK
We built that motor here at H&H Flatheads about 3 years ago. I have some pictures of the car before it had flames on it. Laronies in Tujunga,Ca built the car original for Brian Setzer then John Favreau ended up with it. I had no idea it was going to be in there and my wife thought someone was dieing when I was pointing at the screen and had to keep quite in the theater.
That was a great movie. all jersey cars and filmed in jersey. oh that was a desoto not a chevy and they used three of them in the film. my friend's lawyer owns that car.
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