The house which was home to Ferris Bueller’s friend, Cameron, the one with the glass pavilion which housed that fine red Ferrrari, is for sale. $2.3 million. Not too shabby.
If you want to see a clip of the movie or learn more about the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California, check out the Ferris related Jalopnik post as well.
I saw this in Brentwood, CA by a Peet’s Coffee Shop (which is actually where Mezzaluna, where Nicole Brown Simpson dined before OJ, I mean someone, killed her, used to reside) this past weekend:
If you’ve got over $100K for a Lamborghini, one would think you also have enough money to get another car on which to affix your bike rack. Ridiculous.
After watching a car careening around Paris, I thought of another unauthorized car ride around a metropolis: the famous car chase from “The French Connection” which is considered the best movie car chase of all time.
The scene was filmed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn roughly running down the B (now the D) subway line which runs on an L above 86th Street in Brooklyn. Many of the shots in the scene were “real”, in that Hackman actually drove the car at high speeds through uncontrolled traffic and red lights with Friedkin running a camera from the backseat while wrapped in a carpet for protection. The production team received no prior permission from the city for such a dangerous stunt and the only precaution taken was to place a “gumdrop” police siren on the car’s roof and blare the horn which has only added to this scene’s mystique. Enjoy the ride!
The video below is from 1976, it was shot at 4 or 5 in the morning (which makes sense considering how little traffic is on the road – thankfully) and it is flat out ridiculous. If you have ever been to Paris, enjoy the ride!
Note to self: when driving around with tons of illegal drugs in the car – drive carefully! Check out the news article below from the good people at the AP (the reporters group, not the supermarket chain which utilizes an ampersand). In one word, it’s ridiculous!
Car with pot in trunk hits state trooper: 54-year-old caught with 43 pounds of marijuana after South Carolina crash
The Associated Press (Updated: 12:21 p.m. ET March 6, 2007)
ORANGEBURG, S.C. – It might have been one of the easiest drug busts in the history of the South Carolina Highway Patrol: A car with 43 pounds of marijuana crashed into a trooper’s cruiser, authorities said.
The easy bust happened after two patrolmen parked their cars in each lane of northbound Interstate 95 near Santee early Sunday morning following a series of wrecks that had tied up traffic, Highway Patrol Capt. Chris Williamson said. A Chevrolet Malibu going about 70 mph hit one of the cruisers, causing minor injuries to the trooper behind the wheel, Williamson said.
Officers found two large duffel bags in the trunk with 43 pounds of marijuana in plastic bags, worth more than $150,000, Orangeburg County deputy Warren Pendry said. They also found a few marijuana cigarettes and cocaine, Pendry said. The 54-year-old driver from Daytona Beach Shores, Fla., was charged with driving under the influence, possession of cocaine and trafficking marijuana, authorities said.
Chevy recently ran a promotion with “The Apprentice” where people got to make their “own” Tahoe commercial by piecing together video clips of the Tahoe provided by GM and adding their own copy to that new montage. While there were a lot of the expected anti-SUV pro-environment entries, the one titled “Die Hippies Die” is obviously the very funny exception. Enjoy.
Via John “Mr. DEE-troit” Thornton
“Ladies and gentlemen, please wait for another train which should be coming behind us. I know it’s crowded. But there is only so much room in my Cadillac. Stand clear of the closing doors.”
There is a definite slow down going on in the NYC Transit system. Do believe the hype. I for one am with the transit workers. The MTA should have taken half of its billion dollar surplus and used it for capital improvements and the other half should have gone to its workers. Then again, maybe they won’t strike. It’s so french.
Via the MTA (which may not be going my way very soon)
This week inventor Woody Norris will receive America’s top prize for invention. It’s called the Lemelson-MIT award — a half-million dollar cash prize to honor his life’s work, which includes a brand new personal flying machine called the AirScooter (it goes on sale later this year at $50K per scooter).
The AirScooter can fly for 2 hours at 55 mph, and go up to 10,000 feet above sea level. This is not a joke – go and read the CBS News story and how NASA’s “The Highway in the Sky,” a computer system designed to let millions of people fly in their very own vehicles, will help make this a reality sooner than you think.
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need any roads…”
Via Slashdot
I wish every ad campaign featured a monkey like the Suburban Auto Group’s commercials do. Enjoy.