Classic Car Exposition 2010 @ Secon Square Mall, Bangkok (28 Nov)

An array of historic-to-modern cars, each one a motoring icon and each with an indelible association with the glamour and glitz of the big screen movies, were assembled for the "Bangkok Classic Car Exposition 2010" which was this year was themed "Cars & Stars". The exhibits ranged from historic to modern, tiny to huge, discreet to outrageous, camp to butch, cool to vain: from Daihatsu's ultra-basic three-wheel Midget MP5 and the little green Austin Mini - complete with home-made padlocked doors - that Mr Bean used as he brought his own brand of personal disaster to the Cote d'Azur in "Bean's Holiday" (2007) the display all the way through elegant German tourers, stylish Italian sports cars and brash American "muscle" all the way to the lavish "Batmobile" from the original "Batman" movie (1966), based on Chevrolet's Impala and featuring the usual Batman-accessories such as rocket power and a bright red telephone.
Timeline-wise the collection kicked with the elegant sweeping mudguards, stately running boards, stitched canvas roof, mirror-polished hubcaps and precision-hewn chrome trimmings of Mercedes-Benz's WWII-era V170 Cabriolet that Tom Cruise used in his ultimately-unsuccessful mission to assassinate Adolf Hitler in "Valkyrie" before chasing in a zig-zag manner round the exhibition space through half a century of evocative and much-loved cinema history to the muscular, pumped-up form of a "Bumblebee Yellow" current-generation Chevrolet Camaro from "Transformers" (2007). On the way the unfolding story took in cars such as the Ferrari 308 GTS of Tom Selleck in "Magnum P.I." and the Lotus Esprit that always smooth-talking, urbane Roger Moore so famously rolled out of the water with in "The Spy Who Loved Me".

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