My Top 10 Movie Cars - Star Car
November 30th, 2006
Following on with my top 10 television cars I thought I might do the film cars too. This time though I’m going to break up the entries in separate posts otherwise I won’t be adding anything new for another week!!!
The first car that I’m going to include is one that always fascinated me as a child and now when I look back it’s not THAT impressive but it still sticks in my mind.
Number 10 is the Star Car from The Last Starfighter.
The Star Car was driven by Centauri an intergalactic talent scout who visits Earth after a young man named Alex beats the high score on the Starfighter arcade game. It turns out that the arcade game is actually a training / recruitment device intended to spot skill full Starfighter pilots.
The Star Car looks like a bulky version of the Delorean from the Back to the Future movies and like that car has the gull wing doors. The really cool thing about the Star Car though is that it doubles as a space ship. The wheels fold in and the back opens up to reveal rockets.
It was built by the legendary Gene Winfield who also did custom builds for Blade Runner, Star Trek and Robocop amongst others!I couldn’t find out too much more information about the Star Car - they don’t have it on DVD in Australia So I can’t even check to see if there was anything on the commentary. At any rate I like the car and it comes in at number 10!
Happy to hear suggestions or guesses for the next nine - I’ve already locked them in but I’d like to hear if I’m along the right lines!!!
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Now I KNOW you are cool. Great pull with The Last Starfighter. Very underrated film!
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This car looks really familiar, is it from Total Recall?
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