Keeping your dog safe and secure in your car is important whether you’re just going for a quick trip around town or on a cross country summer adventure. An unrestrained dog can become a potential hazard and a serious distraction.
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Robots in disguise…  You got it right! This weeks iconic movie car is Bumblebee from the movie Transformers! We will be talking about the 2006 Chevy Camaro. I know that Bumblebee has had a few adaptations from the comics to the animated movies, however the ones I grew up loving was the Volkswagen Beetle Bumblebee!
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Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? No? I didn’t think so; neither did Mike Starr who played Joe Mentalino in the movie Dumb and Dumber. Harry and Lloyd had one hell of an adventure cross-country in the customized 1984 Ford Econoline van known with a sign on the side called Mutt Cutts.
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“I live my life a quarter mile at a time” and if I was driving the 1994 Toyota Supra from The Fast and the Furious it would be one hell of a quarter mile. The Fast and the Furious was released in 2001 and was loosely based on a magazine article titled “Racer X”. Street racer Dominic Toretto and his crew are under suspicion  for hijacking tractor trailers and stealing expensive electronic equipment.
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Who are you going to call? Ghostbusters! Yeah that is right, this week’s iconic movie car is the 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Hearse that was featured in the movie and the Ghostbusters main mode of transportation it was also known as Ecto-1. The car would hold their proton packs, Ecto Goggles, P.K.E. Meters and a bunch of traps to capture ghosts.
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Welcome back to another week of Iconic movie cars! This week we are going back to 1982 and talking about the 1982 Pontiac Trans Am know as Kitt from Knight Rider. The premise of the TV show is that self-made billionaire Wilton Knight rescues police Detective Lieutenant Michael Arthur Long after a near fatal shooting to the face, giving him a new identity via plastic surgery and of course a new name know as Michael Knight.
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If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire The A-Team. That’s right, this week’s movie car is 1983 G-Series van from The A-Team. I grew up watching this show and what a great show it was! As the opening narration starts:
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The Chicago auto show won’t only be debuting cars this year; there is a new Pinball machine by Stern that will be debuted. Stern Pinball has made a Ford Mustang themed pinball table. Stern got together with Ford to make this table to celebrate the 50 years of the Ford Mustang. It will debut today February 6th and will go on sale in March.
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