Dwight Howard Planking Between Two Rolls Royce’s

When you are professional NBA player who gets tons of attention I wouldn't think you really want any more attention. Or maybe you really just want to show that you're a regular Joe just like the thousands of hipsters out planking. Bu then again if you decide to plank between a Rolls Royce Ghost and a Rolls Drophead I don't think you're an average Joe!

Meadow Brook car show is classic

Rochester Hills -- Ken Kress, 72, didn't take home a prize from this year's Meadow Brook Concours d'Elegance, but being invited to participate in the prestigious car show was good enough for him. The Commerce Township resident had wanted to exhibit a vehicle for years.

"Just the idea of participating is a reward, and to get that little license plate they give all the exhibitors," said Kress, who showed off a white 1959 Oldsmobile convertible with a black top he's owned for 22 years.

Kress' vehicle was one of more than 250 classic foreign and domestic cars on display Sunday on the grounds of Meadow Brook Hall on the campus of Oakland University. The event celebrated its 30th anniversary this year.

About 10,000 people attended, said Mary Anne Parks, director of marketing for the show. The main feature was "The Best of Detroit" exhibit, showcasing 80 Detroit-designed cars from the 1920s to the '60s.

"It's good for people to know this is the heritage of Metro Detroit," Parks said. "People lived here and still live here that designed the cars here."

Troy resident Matthew Scott, 50, who has been to the show since its beginning, brought his daughter, Amanda, 17, to get her interested in classic cars. One of her favorites was the Rolls Royce, which she described as "intense."

Rolls Royce Ghost

Rolls Royce has introduced its Ghost model at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show which made the media wow for the car’s evoking images of adventure and technical innovation. Aside from the impressive exterior and interior parts, the Ghost sports a turbocharged V12 engine which displaces 6.6-liter and cranks out 563 horsepower with a torque of 575 lb-ft. According to Rolls Royce Motor Cars CEO, the Ghost car “will be the first in a new generation of models to carry this evocative name…”. Once consumer units are produced, you will then see the full details of this amazing big car.

Michael Jackson's Toy Car

Michael Jackson's toy car is seen on display in Beverly Hills, California, April 13, 2009. Thousands of items owned by Jackson will be auctioned off starting April 22, 2009 by Julien's Auction and could raise between 10 and 20 million dollars.The jewel-encrusted glove is the most iconic piece, it's estimate is between 10 and 15,000 dollars, but it could easily sell for something in the region of 100 to 200,000 dollars. The Beverly Hills exhibition of Jackson items going under the hammer give a rare insight into the pop star's former life at Neverland. Extraordinarily elaborate costumes, a customised Rolls Royce limousine, antique furniture, lifesize statues of superheroes and Star Wars villains, from Batman to Darth Vader, and a fully equipped computer game arcade are among the lots.

Michael Jackson’s Curious Car Collection

The interior of Michael Jackson's 1999 Rolls Royce Silver Seraph.

As those of you who’ve seen "The best car songs... ever!" know, we are music fans as well as car fans. And while Michael Jackson got awfully strange and maybe a little criminal toward the end of his life, I love some of his music, and I think it’s a shame he so clearly never learned how to truly grow up despite - or perhaps because of - his absolutely massive success.

Maybe Jackson’s desire to live his whole life as a child explains why his car collection consisted mostly of vehicles that allowed him to bask in over-the-top luxury in the rear while someone else drove. Auto Trader UK assembled a slide show featuring some of Jackson’s cars in an article on a planned-but-canceled auction of Jackson items in February, including a 1999 Rolls Royce Silver Seraph limousine for which Jackson designed the interior himself, using lots of 24-karat gold.

Sadly, that limousine and a 1997 Neoplan Touring Coach (which doesn’t appear until near the end of the slide show) are the only really interesting vehicles in the bunch, and they are interesting mostly because they’re so over-the-top gaudy and gold (including the fixtures on the bidet in the tour-bus’s bathroom). No Ferraris or rare muscle cars, no hot rods, not even a well-preserved classic from the year of his birth - Jackson had the money, at least in the ’80s, to assemble a fleet of cool cars that would rival Jay Leno's. But no, he built a 2,700-acre amusement park instead.

Based on the segment from Jackson’s film “Moonwalker” called “Smooth Criminal,” though, he did at least appreciate the futuristic looks of the Lancia Stratos - he morphs into a 1970 prototype version to escape Mr. Big and his cronies in the video. Of course, Michael probably didn’t handle the driving for that scene, and maybe one of his collaborators selected that car to feature. According to Wikipedia, that car now sits in a private showroom for Bertone, who did the exterior styling, in Italy. But surely Michael could have found - and afforded - one of the other 500 or so versions of the Stratus. Why didn’t he?

I guess the King of Pop and I don’t have too much in common. I wear two gloves at a time, I’ve never had and don’t want a pet monkey, I wouldn’t hang my child out a hotel window, and I don’t moonwalk at all well. But if I had enough money to start assembling a collection of cars, you can bet I’d have some beautiful Italian cars, some American muscle, and I’d drive those babies myself.

Thanks for sharing your enormous talent with the world, Michael, and may you find more peace in the afterlife than you did in this world