Cars in Old Movies

[KarlS]

I was watching Turner Classic Movies channel today and "Young at Heart" (1938) had the "Phaetom" (I think that is what was called), enclosed wheels, black, slits for headlights.  I cannot remember who made it, it was a custom, one off.  A later movie, "It Started With A Kiss" (Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford) stared the "Furtura" but it was painted red.

[Atmobil]

It was the Phantom Corsair that was used in Young at Heart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Corsair

[Atmobil]

For any movie cars stuff, I recommend this site: http://imcdb.org/

[Skip]

Turner Classic Movies is great for old car spotting, from old beaters to brand new (then) cars of all kinds!

[Dave Van]

It started with a kiss was the stop Futura made between being a Ford show car and becoming the Barris Batmobile.

[Junkman]

The Phantom Corsair was designed and commissioned by Rusty Heinz of ketchup fame.

[Richard Bartrop]

Turner Classic Movies is great for old car spotting, from old beaters to brand new (then) cars of all kinds!

Amen to that.  It also shows the down side of being a car nut, in that you can almost always tell when a car is about to explode, crash, or go off a cliff, because it's twenty years older than anything else on the screen.  The exception is historical pieces, when it's the one that looks suspiciously modern.

Another great place for car spotting is PBS.  All those British period dramas mean lots of British period vehicles.