Movie Mechanics Rebuild 13-year-old Car Into Ultra-Modern Limousine (Aug, 1933)
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!”
Oh yeah! that’s nice!, (no, not really)
Didn’t Bruce Wayne’s parents have a car like that?
Why the big platform on front? To stand as if riding a chariot?
Anyone know what movie it might appear in? I don’t think it’s in Duck Soup, although it would have been appropriate.
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!
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.