A couple odd ball pics from the El Cajon Cruise.... more car pics to come tomorrow

New look of Optimus Prime, vs original look

I bet you've no idea what this car is. . . the answer is in the next posting

You can see the similarity to the 69 Mustang, in the grill and headlights, and the chrome bumpers place it in the 68-72 era, but that's all I could get from the looks of it. It's not right hand drive, so it might be American, side marker lights and under the bumper turn signals also indicate late 60's early 70's.

I found it in the movie Lies and Alibies, with Rebecca Romjin... and nothing seems to be written on it to denote the maker, or the model. Enjoy.

Someone put together a youtube video of the 50 cars they'd steal in a "Gone in 60 seconds" tribute

Movie cars, from the great blog about the newest cars, The Hollywood Extra

http://thehollywoodextra.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-movie-cars.html

Vince has a terrrific, thourough knowledge of all the new cars, prototypes, and in development cars that are, or will be at the various US and European car shows.

Good racing movies, thanks Laura

I was emailing Laura and realized I could only recommend 2 racing movies, the rest were mediocre or I need to watch them again to make sure I would recommend them to someone whom I wanted to regard my advice as solid and trustworthy.

"The Worlds Fastest Indian" with Sir Anthony Hopkins, terrific story of struggle and triumph of the most stubborn and cool motorbike speed record guy I've ever heard of. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412080/

"Madison" with Jim Caviezel and Bruce Dern. Story of a Wisconsin town that owned a hydroplane, and once was a significant part of Hydroplane racing history. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206113/

From the newer movie "The Punisher" damage happened before the collision.

and look carefully at the GTO's rear tire, sitting in a four wheel dolly to let it slide instead of absorbing the force of the hit.

From the Stallone movie Cobra, my love for the 50 Merc grew

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/12/02/where-the-law-starts/ about it's being stolen from Stallone's garage, being found at auction, and the current lawsuit for it's recovery.