James Coburn, a Lamborghini Miura, and a bad movie

 below translated into Belgian

and why would the Italian version have a Ferrari Dino featured? Isn't the Lambo Italian enough? photo from http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/archiveitem/13060325.html

A movie mediocre it isn't on Amazon.com. You can buy a copy at http://scootermoviesshop.com/cubecart/western/the-honkers-1972-dvd/prod_7372.html but don't buy the hype in their description of the movie, instead, go with the guy that has watched them all, and isn't selling you anything http://every70smovie.blogspot.com/2011/01/honkers-1972.html

Both sites point out that 1972 was the year that 4 rodeo movies came out, Jr Bonner (Steve McQueen) probably the best, and this one is probably the worst

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The Love Bug scenes in San Francisco 1968

the last of the Victorian are buildings in San Fran I suppose, but as a horse drawn fire pumper station building it's amazing. Not a very good job at keeping the building look the same consistancy in the day and night image (it's a painting not a real building)

Buddy Hackett's car parts art from pieces of his Edsel

the first image of Herbie. Ever.

the cars in the background. Cool.

A challenge to a drag race from a hippie kid in a T bucket

Bitchin Rolls Royce

This is interesting as an example of the mid to late 60's hippe art, and the two characters below, they're in the model A, I bet there is a reason they look so damn goofy, and I believe the guy on the left side is Benny Hill

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The Thorndyke Special, a 64 Apollo 3500 GT prepped for the Disney movie "The Love Bug" by Max Balchowsky

info about it at http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_4609-Apollo-3500-GT-1963.html

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the Tijuana to Tecate race

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racing in the Love Bug movie, 1968

 might be the same Shelby AC Cobra, most people may not realize they had tops. Different races and race tracks, but I wasn't trying to post them consecutively

 above the gold Vette is the same as the below gold Vette and you can see what a strange rear body section it has

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the beautiful Rolls Royce in the movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"

why the radiator cap/hood ornament is a rooster I can't figure out

according to IMCDB it is a 1935 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Fixed Head Coupe by Hooper. They had a commentor mention that Cinema Vehicles made one from a 2003 Chevy truck. Makes sense, to have one "hero" car that is original for close up glamour shots, and a couple look alike modern ones that can drive around and not cause the insurance company a heart attack. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_364814-Rolls-Royce-Phantom-II-1935.html

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Acura supercar from the Avengers movie, Tony Stark / Iron Man's super car

above 2 images from http://www.caughtonset.com/robert-downey-jr-mark-ruffalo-avengers/ which has incredible coverage of movie stars during the movie making process

below 2 photos I took at SEMA 2012

below infographic is from http://collider.com/avengers-movie-tony-stark-car-images/140630/ because the Sundance Film Festival was a location for marketing of the Avengers movie, and the car and the info were found by Collider.com who lists the info in text on the previous link, instead of you trying to read all the super spy/ high tech gadgets of the below photo. Some of the gizmos are a palm-scan ID steering wheel, enviro-clone projected hologram of surroundings, self-detonating recon drone, night-vision HUD windshield etc etc . Good closeups of the car at the Collider link as well

Similar thoughts about the Iron Man cars had me look to see if they are online somewhere, and I found that About.com has a full listing and some information about the cars in Tony Starks garage. Like the 32 roadster is actually Jon Favreau's. http://exoticcars.about.com/od/famousfilmcars/tp/IronMan2.htm who compared the cars in the garage in Iron Man one to Iron Man 2 and let us know that the Saleen and the Tesla didn't make it to the second movie. 

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the vehicles in the movie "I Robot"

isn't that a beautiful design?!

best for last, Will Smith riding a motorcycle. The bike he's riding, an SPR, I've never heard of before... it's an MV Agusta SPR. One of the fastest street bikes. In the F4 class, 750cc.  300 produced (like most MV Agusta bikes, no more than 300 of any model since 1999)

but the movie prop cars have a bit of a tire problem when you can press pause at the right time

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