Showing posts with label Facel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facel. Show all posts

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Stars and their cars, post 1940's

No doubt you recognize James Garner
Here are Jack Benny, Rochester, and the Maxwell http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/jack-benny-and-pres-harry-truman.html

Why is Elvis messing with a Messerschmitt?

Yikes, those aren't good looking glasses

Sean Connery and a Sunbeam Alpine that was his to use during a movie he was making

I hope you recognize Roy Rodgers, I doubt anyone has an unkind word to say about Roy... and he went 107 in a Chrysler station wagon on Bonnevile! http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/roy-rodgers-was-bonneville-racer-107.html

North by Northwest, Cary Grant and below Eva Marie Saint


Mick Jagger

Ringo Starr and a Facel Vega

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Dean Martin and a Facel Vega

Facel Vega was a French builder of luxury cars. Their advertising slogan was "For the Few Who Own the Finest". French design with American drivetrains that peaked at 392 cu in hemi engines and a 727 Torqueflite in the Facel Vega II of 1961.

Owners include Pablo Picasso, Ava Gardner, Ringo Starr, Joan Fontaine, Stirling Moss, Tony Curtis, and several Saudi princes. Race-car driver Stirling Moss would drive his HK500 from event to event rather than fly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facel_Vega

"In the annals of all that is car, certain vehicles stand out. Others tend to leap. A very select group however, reaches right into your chest, squeezes you around the heart and won't ever let go." Jalopnik