Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Brad Brownell)
Le Mans Museum Porsche’s ludicrously beautiful 904 Carrera GTS is amongst the good race cars of all time. With a light-weight fiberglass body and a rev-happy gear-driven twin-cam flat-four engine, it was an actual zinger on the race track and on hillclimbs within the mid-Nineteen Sixties. I’m an absolute dork for 904s, so once I saw this automobile — chassis number 904-034 — on the Le Mans Museum back in 2014 and snapped the terrible iPhone 6 photo you see below, I was immediately intrigued by its story. This automobile has lived in my brain rent-free for over a decade, and…
Cars And Cameras Should you began with a pile of junk you picked up at any average flea market in America, including a chainsaw, a hand truck, a toolbox, a circular saw blade, and slightly Razor Powerwing push scooter, could you switch it right into a running and driving go kart over the course of a weekend? That is the challenge that the small-bore maniacs at Cars And Cameras set out for themselves, and by golly they made it occur, too. Given a welder and enough bad ideas, you may absolutely drive yourself around with a small 1.8-horsepower two-stroke motor. …
Neon Here at Jalopnik we’ve loads of opinions concerning the use of cars in cinema, most of them unimpeachable. As automobile enthusiasts our eyes are at all times a little bit bit more vigilant than the common moviegoer when a two- or four-wheeled vehicle hits the screen. We sit up and concentrate, because we care about how a automobile matches a personality and the way the automobile is utilized in the movie. We’re more more likely to notice that the Weyland Yutani Corporation uses Sherp UTVs in “Alien: Romulus,” for instance. Today’s Jalop-to-Jalop film-used automobile criticism got here in the shape…
Lionsgate Movies For the reason that first film within the successful franchise was released over a decade ago, John Wick has develop into an icon of the motion movie genre. With a fifth film set to release this summer, this one a spin-off with a deal with Ana de Armas’ titular Ballerina, it’s an ideal time to speak concerning the automobile that began a one-man revolution. In the primary John Wick film, some very dumb Russian gangsters break in to the Wick residence, kill his dog, and steal his vintage Ford Mustang. Within the universe of the film the automobile…
