your coffee and donuts movie... skip to the 2:40 minute mark to begin

it even has the obligatory steam locomotive crashing into a car stuck on the tracks scene

then skip to 23:20 for a terrific gag of how he got his girlfriends audience to show up, it's a seriously brilliant bit of comedy

Or just for that bit, see this video instead:



at the very end is an out of control double decker Fageol bus scene that starts around the 48:25 minute

Harold Lloyd, silent film era slapstick star

I never knew Hispano Suiza made buses, but there is a bus rental company in Spain that has restored one to join it's fleet of cool old buses for wedding rentals

https://plus.google.com/118385011224706019106

http://autocarescuina.com/v/Autocares-y-Autobuses/Autocares-Cui%C3%B1a/Alquiler-de-Autobuses-Santiago-Pontevedra-Vigo/Alquiler-Autocares-Autobuses-Pontevedra/Veh%C3%ADculos-Hist%C3%B3ricos/70.aspx

http://www.elportaldelautobus.es/fotos/details.php?image_id=104147

I just love discovering a new artist, and new type of art, and then realizing it's vehicle related and I can share it with all of you. Particularly when it's a combo of things I dig, photography, Victorian retro Greco-Roman paintings, and this trains/busses/garages/scooters admiration I have

Alexey Kondakov imagined figures from classical paintings as part of contemporary life, in his ongoing series ‘The Daily Life of Gods’ where he sees classical paintings brought to everyday life, seamlessly integrated into the existing urban fabric.

Carefully photoshopped onto buses, down alleyways, and in stores, Caravaggio’s ‘David and Goliath’, William-Aadolphe Bouguereau’s ‘Nymphs and Satyr’, and Cesar Van Everdingen’s ‘bacchus’ — to name a few — seemingly become part of daily life in Kiev.

Perfectly-executed shadows and light between the two otherwise desperate images give the resulting pictures a painterly quality, forming the impression of a new era where mythological creatures and religious figures meet contemporary urban existence.

The idea came to Kondakov when a picture of people drinking wine on Tumblr caught his eye, and he had the urge to replace the group with his own entourage. "Then I thought, 'What if I invite these gods into our reality and imagine they are on streets of modern Kiev?'"

"Then I wanted to transform a noisy company of cheerful kids who gathered to spend time together in the city or go to the movies. And in these heroes I saw the work of other artists." Kondatov wants to be clear, though, Daily Life of Gods isn't a commentary on society or religion or art.

the above is one of my favorites of John Godward, Idleness (girl with a kitten) 1900

Yes, I'm a nut for Victorian paintings in the classical genre. Godward was good at marble, but absolutely amazing at fur. Alma Tadema was incredible with marble.

"Song Of The Angels" William Bouguereau 1881

They somehow look like they belong there, their forlorn expressions and sad demeanours matching the tatty seats of the bus or the floors of the subway. It’s very amazing, even if Alexey would have us believe it’s got a more serious undertone.

Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov takes scenes and figures lifted from classical paintings and drops them into modern-day life. Bouguereau’s Song of the Angels appears to take place on an empty subway car for example.

http://kondakovnapoli.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/alexey.kondakov.48
http://showdeskpublishing.tictail.com/product/alexey-kondakov
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/01/alexey-kondakov-classical-painting-photos/
http://www.boredpanda.com/classical-modern-city-painting-daily-life-gods-alexey-kondakov/

Cherriot

the cutesy name for the busses in the "Cherry City" - Salem Oregon, the capital city of the state

Salem was nicknamed the "Cherry City", because of the past importance of the local cherry-growing industry. The first cherry festival in Salem was held in 1903 and was an annual event, with parades and the election of a cherry queen, until sometime after World War I.

The event was briefly revived as the Salem Cherryland Festival for several years in the late 1940s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_Oregon