The cars that stole the screen. From Bullit to the DeLorean, the automotive stars you’ll never forget.
The Cobra Mercury Is the Last Real 1950s Kustom That Walked Into an Eighties Action Movie and Walked Back Out as a Cult Icon. Nobody Outside the Trade Knows Who Built It. Eddie Paul cranked out four chopped 1950 Mercurys for Sylvester Stallone in 1985, dropped a blown small-block Chevy into each, stamped them AWSOM … Read more
The Phantasm ‘Cuda Wore 440+6 Badges and Hid a 340 Underneath. Nobody Called It for 46 Years. Five films, three different displacements, a cloned Hemi and a vanished original. Don Coscarelli couldn’t afford the car his screen promised. So he lied. And the lie worked. Pause the VHS, the DVD or the 2016 J.J. Abrams-produced … Read more
Chrysler Built a 194 MPH Pace Car With a K-Car Engine, Then Lent It to a Charlie Sheen Movie The Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor was a real Le Mans-spec prototype. Hollywood borrowed it. And an assistant cameraman never came home. Clarkson built half his Top Gear career on a simple premise: most cars that look … Read more
The Car Nobody Wanted. The Car Nobody Forgets. Before Christine, the 1958 Plymouth Fury was going nowhere. Not because it was a bad car. Because nobody cared. Dealers couldn’t move them. Collectors didn’t chase them. And when the decade turned, the Fury quietly faded behind the Chevrolet Impala and the Ford Thunderbird — the cars … Read more
Hoonicorn: a 1965 Mustang doing donuts on 1,400 horsepower of methanol Take a 1965 Ford Mustang Notchback. Steel body. The kind your dad watched go past the diner with fenders so wide they looked hand-drawn. Strip everything inside. Drop in a NASCAR-spec tubular chassis fabricated in Charlotte. Bolt up a 410 cubic-inch Roush Yates V8. … Read more
The Mad Max Interceptor was already dead before they shot it The Ford Falcon XB GT 351 that Australia had killed off became the most recognizable car in apocalyptic cinema An industrially extinct car, picked up second-hand for less than seven thousand Australian dollars at an auction in Frankston, modified by four guys in a … Read more
