* What looks like a Ferrari on an Alpine highway is neither a Ferrari nor anywhere near the Alps. Instead, it’s a much cooler story: that of panelbeater Rod Tempero, who turns out highly crafted replica bodies – including the one of the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO above – without blueprints out of a chicken shed in Oamaru, New Zealand.
* It’s a stretch to call the vehicle in Laurel and Hardy’s “Great Guns” a jeep, but Hollywood – keen to depict World War II as the country entered it – didn’t have access to real jeeps, and besides, how many in the public had seen one to tell the difference?
* Speaking of props, the DeLorean DMC-12 is much more than a time-travel flick’s plot vehicle, as reiterated in this week’s Petrolicious video, which looks at how one DMC-12 owner decided to head in another life direction thanks in part to his DeLorean.
* What happens when you throw George Barris, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello at the same flick, but try to steer them away from the beach-party formula? You get the 1966 movie “Fireball 500,” featuring a heavily customized Barracuda in, essentially, a barely disguised Frankie and Annette beach party flick.
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