weird neighborhood... a LOT of cars sitting neglected in driveways so long the tires go flat, like this Pontiac Grand Prix GT (which I think had an overdrive trans)

 

odd choice for a movie car... '69 Grand Prix in the new Josh Duhamel movie London Calling, about an assassin training the next generation of hopeless causes, In theaters September 19

mediocre hit man Tommy Ward (Duhamel) go on the run and get stuck in L.A. after mistakenly killing a relative of London’s biggest crime boss (Gillen). 

To get back to his son on the other side of the pond, Tommy makes a deal with his new employer (Hoffman): teach his socially awkward teenage son Julian (Taylor) to be a man, in exchange for safe passage. 

Tommy is now forced to drag Julian, afraid of his own shadow, along on his latest contract killing of a renowned assassin. 

What starts off as a simple ride-along descends into utter chaos as this down-on-his-luck contract killer and his insecure protégé become each other’s lifelines.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/josh-duhamel-london-calling-1235914988/

seen in traffic at 3pm gridlock on the 805 yesterday... so weird to see a cool car in rush hour traffic jams

New York, 1966., promotion parade float for John Frankenheimer’s film Grand Prix. Huge photo, click on it for very large version, as Jack Brabham & Francoise Hardy are riding the float

 https://brakedrum.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Werkosta+bongattuja+kuvia/Newer++Hollywood/New++York+August+1966.jpg  via  https://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1411

https://macysthanksgiving.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Prix

From the 1926 Grand Prix season

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1678195912316526&set=gm.2310702908985052
https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/447190752528519/

Stirling Moss in the BRM P25 at the 1959 British Grand Prix

https://primotipo.com/2019/04/18/1959-british-gp-aintree/

Never a daily driver, this '69 Grand Prix SJ only had 13k miles on it when the original owners put it into storage, and 47 years after buying it, they decided to sell it. The interior is impeccable

Pontiac enthusiast Dave Duffney was interested in starting a registry for 1969 Grand Prix models equipped like his, with an H.O. 428 engine and automatic transmission but without air conditioning.

To locate similar cars, he placed an ad in Smoke Signals, the Pontiac-Oakland Club International’s magazine. After seeing the ad in several consecutive issues, Tony Raffaele called Dave. Raffaele didn’t have a car exactly like his, but did have a 1969 Grand Prix that he loved very much, and he just wanted to chat with a like-minded owner.

He ended up selling this 428, 4 speed, air conditioned time capsule.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/original-owners-find-new-home-for-1969-pontiac-grand-prix-sj/

the X-400 Pontiac Grand Prix

https://back-in-the-daycarstuff.tumblr.com/

Thanks Keith V!

Savannah, first city in the USA to have a grand prix, in 1908

Savannah had earlier fame in national bicycle racing competitions and it had ties to the powerful dynasties who controlled the racing world, so it was chosen for the 1st Grand Prix

The construction of the course resulted in a course considered "America's greatest" by international racing experts of the period. It was 27 miles long of Augusta gravel and faster than the Vanderbilt Cup course, however, convict labor was used to build it

Six giant scoreboards with ladders had been erected with special thought given to their positioning to make them visible to the occupants of the 16,000-person, 2,000-foot long grandstand.

The international flavor was a direct derivative of the devestating battle between William K. Vanderbilt Jr. supported by the American Automobile Association (AAA) versus the Automobile Club of America (ACA). The ACA was the club in good standing with the Automobile Club of France - the dominate club of international rules - and stole the thunder of the Vanderbilt Cup by organing the American Grand Prize to earn the honor of hosting the European manufacturers formerly attracted to the Long Island race.

In that race Ralph de Palma set fastest lap in his Fiat, with an average speed of 69.80 mph, for context, to that date Felice Nazarro's drive in the 1907 French Grand Prix at an average above 70 MPH was the gold standard. Chadwick driver Willie Haupt creatd excitement when he recorded a lap of 71 MPH

http://www.firstsuperspeedway.com/articles/1908-american-grand-prize

Julian Quattlebaum, a doctor by profession but also a car enthusiast and historian. He was the author of the definitive book about the early and important motorcar races held in Savannah.


Quattlebaum as a child was among those who had attended those races, including the International Grand Prize Race in 1908 and the Vanderbilt Cup that ensued as Savannah emerged as the early home for international auto racing in the United States.

This 1911 EMF finished third in the Tiedeman Cup race

The EMF team swept the 1911 podium

Coachbuilder and Wayne manufacturer Barney Everitt, star Cadillac salesman William Metzger, and Walter Flanders, production manager at Ford, launched their own automotive brand in 1908.

They decided to further promote the brand by going racing in “light car” class for production-based vehicles. The biggest of those events would be the 1911 Tiedeman Trophy race at Savannah, and they sent three specially built 30-horsepower machines to Georgia, where the cars finished first, second and third.

the car that came in 3rd was found in pieces in a barn in 1983, and restored, and now looks like

https://journal.classiccars.com/2017/09/11/the-road-leads-back-to-savannah-for-barn-found-racer/

For a gallery of this car: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/02/1911-emf.html

For images from this race series https://www.chuckstoyland.com/category/automotive/other-auto-racing/early-racing/early-racing-postcards/1908-1910-1911-savannah-auto-races 

unrestored 1908 Chalmers-Detroit that raced in Savannah in '08 and '09:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/451023215030222?multi_permalinks=2610287162437139&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen