Film Noir: snap brim fedoras, white gloves, and 3-on-the-Trees

You have to love the period stylings of classic film noir of the '40's and '50's. Cheerfully cacking adversaries with a .45 while wearing a sharp suit and jauntily angled fedora, buxom spider women in heels, hats and white gloves, and when the mugs peel out, you get to hear them dump the clutch and run through the gears of the manual transmission with the shifter up on the column. Even the police Harleys had side-tank hand shifters and rocker clutches.

Also, the background traffic noise: mostly manual transmissions and low lugging rumbles of flathead V8, straight 8 and straight 6 engines with long piston strokes. Those are almost extinct sounds these days.