Monday, November 10, 2025

the new Fantastic Four movie has a cool variety of vehicles in the scenery, and a great recreation of the comic book Thing lifting a VW Bug




Notice the little green round thing in the far left above


A bus called Swordfish? Is this an easter egg for the Jackman/Berry/Travolta?Cheadle movie where the helicopter picks up the bus and flies it across the city? 

This bus is a '62 Leyland Royal Tiger https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/17261/lot/228/blue-bird-the-ex-blue-bird-garages-hull-ltd1952-leyland-royal-tiger-psv11s-41-seater-coach-chassis-no-515490


What the heck is this little blue car? Gotta be Eastern European or a Hollywood creation







and here's that little green round thing again, which was featured at Comic Con!  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/07/great-little-hollywood-prop-car-in.html

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4 comments:

  1. M. Currie11:54 AM

    So far I think that little blue car is a one off Hollywood creation. I've been through every old make I can think of and a few old books, and so far all I have come up with is what it's not. The closest (and not that close) is a Panhard Junior from the mid 1950's. The apparent little fins on the roof and front fenders look pretty anachronistic.

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  2. Bluehill4:18 AM

    I think that the little blue car is based on Panhard PL17 and it has some creative "Hollywood options", but the headlights and original grille trim behind the front bumper is the giveaway. The grille and chrome bullet between the headlights are added later.

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