Movie Mechanics Rebuild 13-year-old Car Into Ultra-Modern Limousine (Aug, 1933)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1933
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1933
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Movie Mechanics Rebuild 13 -year-old Car Into Ultra-Modern Limousine
HOLLYWOOD was set agog recently when an automobile of startling, ultra-modernistic design appeared on the streets. The creation, shown below, was the work of Hollywood carriage-makers, who built it from an old bus that had been prowling the streets since 1920. The “chariot on wheels,” as the bus is called, is to be used in a movie telling a fantastic story of events in a mythical kingdom. Though the car seems to represent a fabulous cost, in reality it cost less than the price of two small cars.
Duck Soup?
“Hail, Hail Freedonia!”
Comment by jayessell — March 11, 2008 @ 8:51 am
Oh yeah! that’s nice!, (no, not really)
Comment by albear — March 11, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Didn’t Bruce Wayne’s parents have a car like that?
Comment by Stannous — March 11, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Why the big platform on front? To stand as if riding a chariot?
Comment by Rick Auricchio — March 11, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Anyone know what movie it might appear in? I don’t think it’s in Duck Soup, although it would have been appropriate.
Comment by Max — March 11, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
I agree Max.
I watched Duck Soup on YouTube and Rufus T Firefly’s
official vehicle was a white motorcycle with sidecar.
It might be from “The Merry Widow”. Same timeframe.
W.C. Field’s “Million Dollar Legs” was years later.
It might be from a movie that was cancelled before completion.
Come to think of it, it’s suspicious the name of the film wasn’t mentioned in the article!
Comment by jayessell — March 12, 2008 @ 3:11 am
I would think that the platform on the front was to have a place to mount a camera so they could do some action shots.
Comment by Githyanki — March 12, 2008 @ 3:56 am