Ten In a Half: Top Ten Movie Cars

Podcast episode #27 had a Ten In A Half, and the Giggaheim Podcast crew decided to try to assemble the Top Ten Movie Cars. The list was sprung on the crew last minute, and they scrambled to figure out which cars had the best looks, the longest lasting impression, which ones were an icon, and which cars would last in our minds longer than the movies they were in.

10) Milner’s Douce Coup – This canary yellow coup was the drag racing king in George Lucas’ American Graphitti. The car’s throaty engine and funny car design is an icon of the early 1960’s and the Hot Rod age.

9) The Hannible Twin 8 – The cartoony yet effective car that crossed the globe in the Great Race. It has a heated cone in front to brave the snow, rising carriage to ride through floods, and a cannon to defeat the Great Leslie. This car embodies the impressive engineering of the early 1900’s, and the loony comedy of the movie it is in.

Bullitt Mustang – This is the American cool car. There are Trans Ams, Challengers, and Corvettes, but the Bullitt Mustang with Steve McQueen behind the wheel is the same as apple pie. When this Shelby Fastback tears through the streets of San Francisco it makes secret cells of Muslims sign up for the Marines. (Why do you think it is on AMC so often?)

7) Bandit’s Trans Am – The 1977 black Trans Am inspire many of us to don a cowboy hat, and tear ass on the backroads of Georgia. Once you drive south, you want a t-topped V-8 to challenge the po-lice thanks to this 1977 comedy’s exciting chase scenes.

6) Blues Mobile – It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas.

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5) Ecto-1 – Speaking of icons of film, one of the movies we all grew up with was Ghostbusters, and the ambulance that would scream into the night to fight ghosts. Whenever this crazy ambulance with the vast array of machinery mounted on top passes by, or is on TV, we all smile

4) Herbie – This love bug starred in the movie of the same name: Herbie by Disney. The famous story of the Disney crew that needed to select the car that would embody the lovable smart car was brutal to the menagerie of cars that were put before them. They slammed doors and kicked tires but when the VW bug rolled into the studio, they pet it and called it “cute”. Nuff said.

3) Batmobile (1990) – To make it to the top, your car has to be iconic, and people should associate what that car is with what movie it came from. And in 1990, when this batmobile rolled onto the screen, the world was captivated. No flashy icons, or neon was needed. A sleek black car with as many gadgets as its owner.  The Batmobile.

2) Delorean – Anoother 1980’s movie with an iconic car was Back to the Future. The car was the time machine, and why not? It was Stainless Steel! But stand back, once it hit 88 miles pr hour, you’d see some serious shit.

1) DB5 – 007 wouldn’t be the idolized spy without this sweet ride. The Aston Martin DB5 is iconic and associated with vodka martinis that are shaken not stirred, and dudes with a british accent that is licensed to kill.­

Got a special car that didn’t make the list? Comment below!