The coolest chopper we'll probably see all year, R Lee Ermey's chopper "Gung Ho"

Everyone's favorite Gunney Sgt, R Lee Ermey, possibly best known for his character Gunnery Sgt Hartman, in the movie "Full Metal Jacket" or you may have seen his recent tv shows on the history channel... Mail Call, and Lock and Load.

On his show Mail Call, a guy wrote in to ask the origin of the term Gung Ho, and this video http://www.history.com/videos/origins-of-gung-ho#origins-of-gung-ho has the response... it boils down to a uncertain origin, but the best known origin is from the movie of the same title "Gung Ho!" with Randolph Scott in 1943Read more: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-06-19T20%3A53%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=14#ixzz0rN2Pb1Va

Elvis and his BMW 507

2 of them, the above red, and below the white

Elvis had two BMW 507s during his 18 months of service in Germany. The first registered A-1499 (the white) was a second hand that had belonged to the famous racer Hans Stuck, he took possession of December 21, 1958. It's a red registered August 1959 (G-1620)

from http://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com/2010/05/le-repos-du-guerrier.html

Roy Rogers was a Bonneville racer! 107 mph

Not sure why Roy is with the trophy given to the Shadoff Special but here's the history of it http://www.ugofadini.com/shadoffstory.html , and the Maremont trophy ( comes with a 1000 dollars ) given to the racecar with the best design and construction (engineering excellence). It was designed by Dean Batchelor

For a really cool 1952 Bonneville magazine coverage article http://books.google.com/books?id=jdwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=%22maremont+trophy%22&source=bl&ots=KTT7gRf8EM&sig=E11vz0C8ceUn52H_E6AZiDnMEGk&hl=en&ei=ErwRTLXoHNL-nAfH5sWRAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22maremont%20trophy%22&f=false

Photos via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4917940

Paul Revere and the Raiders, and a Nash Metropolitan

from http://www.paulrevereraiders.com/images2007/paulrevereandtheraiders2006/paul_revere2006.html

The front license plate says "Mad Man" as in Mad Man Muntz... however it looks far too large to be a Nash Metro, but like IXSwede commented, it does look like a Metro

Cool images from pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com (For 15 Minutes of Love)

Carole Lombard

Paul Revere's Raider Coach by George Barris ( http://books.google.com/books?id=bw7ZEepsaLkC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=paul+revere+coach+custom&source=bl&ots=eDIi28FgQp&sig=7HZOlmkHtPeOwspTrXwtQ_WK2S8&hl=en&ei=SLgRTNCKK5Cgnwfp1e2RAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paul%20revere%20coach%20custom&f=false )
Source: http://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com/

Dean Martin's cars, quite a variety

For a gallery of photos of this 67 Ferrari 412 P http://flaviendachet.blogspot.com/2010/10/67-ferrari-412-p.html

According to http://www.dexigner.com/product/news-g12107.html Dean owned one of these 1967 Ferrari 412P on exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum. This is collborated by a commercial on the HDtht channel, which gives the following info: raced by the Belgium team Ecurie Francorchamps, owned by Harry Yeaggy, and was featured in the Cincinnati Art Museum from Nov 2007 to Jan 2008 http://www.designtaxi.com/news.php?id=13507
Also, just found a collaboration http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/oh/story/entertainment/events/2007/12/26/fe122707calendar.html
Exhibit of the 1967 412P Ferrari. On loan from Harry Yeaggy, car has been owned by Hollywood movie mogul, John Calley and actor James Coburn, as well as Dean Martin Jr. and Cincinnati's own Carl Lindner. Through Jan. 6. Cincinnati Art Museum.
http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/Absolutenm/templates/ArtTempExhibitions.aspx?articleid=590&zoneid=78

the Facel Vega I posted about last year http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/dean-martin-and-facel-vega.html

a 1976 Stutz Blackhawk

from what I could learn in searching the internet, Dean owned this Ghis L 6.4, a 1967 De Tomaso Mangusta Fantuzzi Targa, a 1966 Ferrari 330 GTC, and a 1972 Cadillac station wagon: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/1972-cadillac-station-wagon-1-of-2-made.html

If you loved Dean Martin, and want to check out a really cool laid back blog about him, his movies, some stills, and some video clips, ya gotta go see http://ilovedinomartin.blogspot.com/

A varierty of cool photos from Endlessme.tumbler

via: http://endlessme.tumblr.com/

the Beatles in 1963

via: http://farbror-sid.se/home/

Unusual stuff from early daredevils to John Wayne on a dirt bike

found in different threads on : http://forum.fatclub.fr/viewforum.php?f=14&sid=d75454fa91f7fed8ff86ce322eb3f21a

Black and white and cool all over

Sophia Loren on the hood of a 300sl

Nixon in Paris 1957

Bumper cars at a British carnival

The concept car Ford Seattle

Dizzy Dean trying to start a 2nd career

Daytona Beach racing 1953

Train wreck Palatine Illinois 1950

Cincinatti 1950

Looks like James Dean's Porsche

Brooklyn 1955, maybe a Packard taxi

From "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" a blog about all pre-1970 American culture via photography http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/