Cars who are the stars in film

[Murdoch]

Just had read a thread about a project to build a car from film. BTTF or KITT, now this got me thinking. There has to be more. Christine, batmobile, herbie. Anyone like to chime in...GM

 

[Apollo]

The Car!

Horrible B movie in the 70's


You have been warned

 

[Mola Rob]

The Car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Black Moon Rising, Death Race 2000...

Apollo beat me to The Car.

 

[NormanF]

My Mother the Car. But that was a tv show and I never saw it.
More of a co-star was Professor Fate's car in "The Great Race".

 

[Murdoch]

Does the Cannonball run count?

 

[Murdoch]

The Wraith, General-lee, Vanishing point...GM
Gotta get some pics of these.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

Are we talking movies where one car is the star? If not ll of American Graffiti counts. Corvette Summer had a pretty cool custom Vette.

 

[Murdoch]

The car

The Wraith

Madmax intercepter

Corvette-summer...GM

 

[dascoyne]

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[Krel]

Pre-Batmobile Lincoln Futura, painted red, in "It Started With A Kiss".

David.

 

[dascoyne]

 

[CessnaDriver]

A custom I made.

"The Durango-95 purred away real horrorshow - a nice, warm, vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. Soon, it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark.
We fillied around for a while with other travellers of the night, playing hogs of the road. Then we headed west, what we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultra-violence."

Before....

 

[dascoyne]

 

[dascoyne]

 

[wolfwalker]

Elenor from both versions of Gone in 60 Seconds( Original/ 71 Mustang Mach 1 and the 67 GT-500 from the renake). Couldn't have the movie with out her.

And who could forget the Black Beauty from the Green hornet. Or a certain 67 Chevy Impala even though they're on tv.....

 

[dbuck]

 

[Zombie_61]

I'd say the 1977 Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit (1977) qualifies in the same way as the 1968 Mustang Fastback from Bullitt (1968); they weren't "characters" and didn't "act", but they were tremendously popular. And technically I suppose the Torino from Starsky and Hutch qualifies as well since they made a movie based on the television series. And I know it isn't a car, but I'd also throw in the 1955 Peterbilt from the TV movie Duel (1971).

Edit: What about the 1959 Cadillac Ambulance from Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989)?

 

[JediG60racer]

A-Team van.
Eleanor.
The Big Bus.

I'll extend the genre to include vehicles in general...

Airwolf
Blue Thunder
Firefox

 

[Monkey67]

Death proof

anyone say bullitt?

 

[funboy1013xx]

anyone remember HARDCASTLE AND McCORMICK? :ninja