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
LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH: WHY THE MOST FAMOUS SUPERCAR IN HISTORY WAS ALSO THE WORST Let’s start with what the Countach actually was. Not what it looked like — what it was. It was a car with no rear visibility. Literally none. The V12 and its intake scoops occupied the space where a rear window should have … Read more
