$20,000 USD doesn’t seem like that much money for this extremely rare specialty movie car, especially if it works. Custom Death Race 2000 Corvette | T236 | Indy 2015
This car was formerly on display in a museum, and has been in the MY Garage Museum collection since 2002. This show-stopping head turner also features a reptilian-like “spiked spine,” intimidating “teeth” up front, Green diamond-pleated interior with wrapped steering wheel, unique wind screen and custom tail lights.
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It follows the movie’s storyline of being built from a hodge-podge of vehicles, featuring an unusual combination of a Volkswagen chassis, Corvair air-cooled, dual carburetor power plant with a 3-speed manual transmission and Corvette-style body riding on custom wheels and BF Goodrich Radial T/A tires. This car was designed by James Powers and constructed by Dean Jefferies, with additional work performed by George Barris prior to completion. The cars were all designed with themes, including an alligator-look for Frankenstein’s mean green killing machine.Ĭurious whatever happened to the car, we Googled and learned it went from a display in a museum to a private collection in 2002 and ultimately auctioned off to another collector. The movie starred Sylvester Stallone as Machine Gun Joe and David Carradine as Frankenstein. The background of Frankenstein varies depending on who wears the. He was portrayed by the late legendary actor David Carradine in the original, Jason Statham in the remake, who also played Lee Christmas, and Luke Goss in the reboot. THE STORY: In the dystopian future year of 2000, nationally-celebrated racers in wildly insane-looking customized cars throttle across country in the annual Trans-Continental Road Race America's favorite sport.
Probably my most favorite car movie of the 70s was Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000. Frankenstein is the main protagonist from the movie series, Death Race 2000 as well as the 2008 remake called Death Race and the 2017 reboot, Death Race 2050. Blu-ray offers a very nice video & audio upgrade from all previous format versions of this, the blackest of cult classic comedies.
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