I caught just a few minutes of Hollywood Knights last night on T V. Does anyone have any info on the custom 40 Ford coupe shown in the garage? It was yellow, chopped and channeled with a perfectly pancaked hood. Who's car is / was it? who built it ? Where is it today ?
Do a HAMB search. There was a thread where the daughter or granddaughter of the original owner came on the HAMB looking for the car. Great reading.
I've always liked '40 Ford coupes and that is one of the best examples that I've seen in a while. I would'nt trade my '32 for very many cars but I might be tempted to trade for that "piss yellow coupe!!!"
I always wondered where all those cars are that were in the movie. That GTO was sweet! I did find a web site of the Camaro that was in "Better Off Dead" . The gut found that car slowly dying in someones backyard and he restored it.
What happened to the yellow 57? Last I saw it a car magazine that used it for a long term project had become some wannabe tuner magazine and I haven't seen anything on it since then.
The cars were neat, but the movie truly ****ed. The mix of music (and hair styles) from the 50's, 60's, and 70's just didn't fit together, not to mention the stolen and twisted American Grafitti plot.....ugh....
its in the new hot rod magazine.....but has sorta lost its look....didn't even relize what it was till i read the article.....brandon
Project X should be blown and have radiused wheelwells as it had from the sixties til the late nineties early 2000's. After watching the movie I had to go out and start the 34 just to hear real blower whine and smell Turbo blue. I will have to root through my new magazine stack, since I have been in the shop so much I don't read the magazines much now. I know I will get in some reading in Januzry and February.
I kinda liked it when it had the injected bigblock in it. I'm talking about the 60's version, not the new one. I just now read that it has a tuned port 502 in it now.
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