LEGENDARY STARS & CLASSIC CARS
February 6, 2009
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Danish-born film star Carl Brisson & ’34 Isotta Franscini
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Hollywood leading-man Clark Gable & ’55 Duesenberg
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Cary Grant & Constance Bennett in the ’37 Movie “Topper” with Cord Special
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Hollywood western movie star and stuntman Buck Jones & ’33 Packard Special
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Hollywood’s most dapper raconteur Errol Flynn & ’35 Auburn Speedster
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The Beautiful British Jazz singer Marion Davis & ’26 Cadillac
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Screen siren Rita Hayworth & ’41 Lincoln Continental
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The fashion & film icon Gary Cooper & ’50 Mercury
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German-born Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich & ’35 Cadillac
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Clark Gable & ’33 Ford V8 Speedster
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The notorious & fabulous Joan Crawford & ’38 Lincoln Model K
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Matinee idol Johnny Weissmüller & ’32 Chevrolet
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via Hotrodders
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Today it’s all SUVs, represented at their worst by thug rappers in hummers with massive chrome wheels. Oh how fall we have fallen.
Great post. Here is a book, related to your article:
Stars and Cars of the '50s
What ever happened to Errol Flynn’s Auburn Automobile? Did it survive or has it vanished forever? Pete
Topper car isn’t a cord but a 1936 Buick made to look like a cord. Later re-bodied to a 54 Imperial. The Cord was too small for what the studio was looking for. This car isn’t even supercharged as those pipes are fake.
Flynn’s famed Mulholland Drive mansion is still-standing, very rare for whats left of an empire called HOLLYWOOD!
He had it built in 1942 & *Dreyfuss, Rick Nelson-(of whom lived there when he died in the l980 plane crash)
when I visited-(2005) the “Tree People” were in charge & you couldn’t get very close, unfortunately
Superb stuff on “The King of Movie Cool: Steve McQueen”
& all the rest
(TRIVIA: When McQueen used to run in the crooss country biking he used the alias of (Harvey Mushmun)
Almost forgot. & on that note of McQueen,etc
there’s a book titled: “McQueen’s Machine’s”
Unfortunately Errol Flynn’s house on Mulholland was demolished in 1988. What you probably saw was the new place which is built on the same plot. Justin Timberlake lives there now. Would still like to know if any of Flynn’s cars survived. Can some one put their feelers out. I live in Sydney Australia and a bit too far away for me to investigate. Cheers Pete.