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the boat made from a B 29 and P51, and Zero, in the movie Kong Skull Island... the Gray Fox

the limo in the Wiz, it's a disco glam oversized stage prop... but wow.



On the back lot of Sony


Why in the world didn't they bring these to Comic Con?

the Ben Hur chariot race scene, reminds me that cars have another benefit that all our horse riding ancestors never got, freedom from horse farts



the video below, a making of with a couple short interviews with the lead actors, does work, just press play on the arrow symbol

Phil Neilson, the second unit director, in charge of pulling off Bekmambetov's vision for the scene, tells USA TODAY that planning took six months before the lengthy shooting process. "135 hours of race footage. My original cut was 20 minutes of non-stop insanity whittled down to eight minutes,"

Unexpectedly, the actors on the chariots had to deal with lots of horse spit, froth, and farts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/11/29/ben-hur-chariot-riding-stars-dealt-real-dangers-horse-gas/94603278/

even Peter Parker has to take a driving test, and Audi took advantage of that to get a commercial made - and it's pretty funny