The Phantom Menace A while back, I spent the day posting images of famous film cars of the past which you can see here, but none of them are obscure as this. Of the multiple Star Wars edition cars out there which include the 2005 Vader Viper, the 2012 Star Wars Volkswagen Passat, and a 1997 Special Edition Hummer, this Star Wars 1977 Toyota Celica GT Liftback has to be the coolest. While some may think this is a bit cheesy, you have to know the details… The car was designed by John Sladek at Delphi Auto Design in Costa Mesa, California. It was a one off with customized body features such as a front air damn, fender flares, a spoiler, a moonroof and tinted windows. But the true prize piece was the airbrushed paint job. Star Wars characters are hand-painted and stenciled along the black stripes on the side of the car, which were done by painting a special Aero-lac paint onto some tin foil and in part were transfered the masked off areas on the body panels. There’s also a huge Darth Vader head on the hood which makes it a bit more badass. The car was a promotion and was given away in a sweepstakes which was called the “Space Fantasy Sweepstakes.” So obscure this car is (dumb Yoda reference), nobody knows where it’s located. Could be in the hands of some crazy Star Wars fanatic or it could be in a junkyard somewhere rotting away. Really, the possibilities are endless. Multiple efforts have been made to track the car down, including efforts by George Lucas himself, but none have been successful. Fingers crossed that this car will eventually turn up.
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The Phantom Menace A while back, I spent the day posting images of famous film cars of the past which you can see here, but none of them are obscure as this. Of the multiple Star Wars edition cars out there which include the 2005 Vader Viper, the 2012 Star Wars Volkswagen Passat, and a 1997 Special Edition Hummer, this Star Wars 1977 Toyota Celica GT Liftback has to be the coolest. While some may think this is a bit cheesy, you have to know the details… The car was designed by John Sladek at Delphi Auto Design in Costa Mesa, California. It was a one off with customized body features such as a front air damn, fender flares, a spoiler, a moonroof and tinted windows. But the true prize piece was the airbrushed paint job. Star Wars characters are hand-painted and stenciled along the black stripes on the side of the car, which were done by painting a special Aero-lac paint onto some tin foil and in part were transfered the masked off areas on the body panels. There’s also a huge Darth Vader head on the hood which makes it a bit more badass. The car was a promotion and was given away in a sweepstakes which was called the “Space Fantasy Sweepstakes.” So obscure this car is (dumb Yoda reference), nobody knows where it’s located. Could be in the hands of some crazy Star Wars fanatic or it could be in a junkyard somewhere rotting away. Really, the possibilities are endless. Multiple efforts have been made to track the car down, including efforts by George Lucas himself, but none have been successful. Fingers crossed that this car will eventually turn up.
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The Phantom Menace A while back, I spent the day posting images of famous film cars of the past which you can see here, but none of them are obscure as this. Of the multiple Star Wars edition cars out there which include the 2005 Vader Viper, the 2012 Star Wars Volkswagen Passat, and a 1997 Special Edition Hummer, this Star Wars 1977 Toyota Celica GT Liftback has to be the coolest. While some may think this is a bit cheesy, you have to know the details… The car was designed by John Sladek at Delphi Auto Design in Costa Mesa, California. It was a one off with customized body features such as a front air damn, fender flares, a spoiler, a moonroof and tinted windows. But the true prize piece was the airbrushed paint job. Star Wars characters are hand-painted and stenciled along the black stripes on the side of the car, which were done by painting a special Aero-lac paint onto some tin foil and in part were transfered the masked off areas on the body panels. There’s also a huge Darth Vader head on the hood which makes it a bit more badass. The car was a promotion and was given away in a sweepstakes which was called the “Space Fantasy Sweepstakes.” So obscure this car is (dumb Yoda reference), nobody knows where it’s located. Could be in the hands of some crazy Star Wars fanatic or it could be in a junkyard somewhere rotting away. Really, the possibilities are endless. Multiple efforts have been made to track the car down, including efforts by George Lucas himself, but none have been successful. Fingers crossed that this car will eventually turn up.
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The Phantom Menace A while back, I spent the day posting images of famous film cars of the past which you can see here, but none of them are obscure as this. Of the multiple Star Wars edition cars out there which include the 2005 Vader Viper, the 2012 Star Wars Volkswagen Passat, and a 1997 Special Edition Hummer, this Star Wars 1977 Toyota Celica GT Liftback has to be the coolest. While some may think this is a bit cheesy, you have to know the details… The car was designed by John Sladek at Delphi Auto Design in Costa Mesa, California. It was a one off with customized body features such as a front air damn, fender flares, a spoiler, a moonroof and tinted windows. But the true prize piece was the airbrushed paint job. Star Wars characters are hand-painted and stenciled along the black stripes on the side of the car, which were done by painting a special Aero-lac paint onto some tin foil and in part were transfered the masked off areas on the body panels. There’s also a huge Darth Vader head on the hood which makes it a bit more badass. The car was a promotion and was given away in a sweepstakes which was called the “Space Fantasy Sweepstakes.” So obscure this car is (dumb Yoda reference), nobody knows where it’s located. Could be in the hands of some crazy Star Wars fanatic or it could be in a junkyard somewhere rotting away. Really, the possibilities are endless. Multiple efforts have been made to track the car down, including efforts by George Lucas himself, but none have been successful. Fingers crossed that this car will eventually turn up.
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A while back, I spent the day posting images of famous film cars of the past which you can see here, but none of them are obscure as this.

Of the multiple Star Wars edition cars out there which include the 2005 Vader Viper, the 2012 Star Wars Volkswagen Passat, and a 1997 Special Edition Hummer, this Star Wars 1977 Toyota Celica GT Liftback has to be the coolest.

While some may think this is a bit cheesy, you have to know the details…

The car was designed by John Sladek at Delphi Auto Design in Costa Mesa, California. It was a one off with customized body features such as a front air damn, fender flares, a spoiler, a moonroof and tinted windows.

But the true prize piece was the airbrushed paint job. Star Wars characters are hand-painted and stenciled along the black stripes on the side of the car, which were done by painting a special Aero-lac paint onto some tin foil and in part were transfered the masked off areas on the body panels. There’s also a huge Darth Vader head on the hood which makes it a bit more badass.

The car was a promotion and was given away in a sweepstakes which was called the “Space Fantasy Sweepstakes.”

So obscure this car is (dumb Yoda reference), nobody knows where it’s located. Could be in the hands of some crazy Star Wars fanatic or it could be in a junkyard somewhere rotting away. Really, the possibilities are endless. Multiple efforts have been made to track the car down, including efforts by George Lucas himself, but none have been successful. Fingers crossed that this car will eventually turn up.

Source: motoriginal

“On the condition that you don’t chop-top the roof like one of those beaners, don’t paint any idiotic flames on it like some white trash hillbilly, and don’t put a big, gay spoiler on the rear end like you see on all other zipperheads’ cars. It just looks like hell. If you can refrain from doing any of that… it’s yours.”
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“On the condition that you don’t chop-top the roof like one of those beaners, don’t paint any idiotic flames on it like some white trash hillbilly, and don’t put a big, gay spoiler on the rear end like you see on all other zipperheads’ cars. It just looks like hell. If you can refrain from doing any of that… it’s yours.”

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Above are two General Lee Dodge Chargers from the TV show Dukes of Hazard.  The first is a restored survivor from the show that sold for $27.5k by RM Auctions. The second? Not so much. It’s one of hundreds of perfectly fine Chargers destroyed on the set. Poor cars.
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Above are two General Lee Dodge Chargers from the TV show Dukes of Hazard.  The first is a restored survivor from the show that sold for $27.5k by RM Auctions. The second? Not so much. It’s one of hundreds of perfectly fine Chargers destroyed on the set. Poor cars.
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Above are two General Lee Dodge Chargers from the TV show Dukes of Hazard. 

The first is a restored survivor from the show that sold for $27.5k by RM Auctions. The second? Not so much. It’s one of hundreds of perfectly fine Chargers destroyed on the set. Poor cars.

Source: rmauctions.com

Used for hauling victim staff and tourists, the Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler & Ford Explorer ended up being escape vehicles from beastly T-Rex. The Wrangler was an off-road, free driving staff transporter while the Explorer was an automated tracked tour guide. The Jeep seen above is an almost perfect recreation by an enthusiast on CarDomain. The build story is pretty amazing. This has become such a trend for owners of early-90s Jeep YJs there are popular sites dedicated to the builds.
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Used for hauling victim staff and tourists, the Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler & Ford Explorer ended up being escape vehicles from beastly T-Rex. The Wrangler was an off-road, free driving staff transporter while the Explorer was an automated tracked tour guide. The Jeep seen above is an almost perfect recreation by an enthusiast on CarDomain. The build story is pretty amazing. This has become such a trend for owners of early-90s Jeep YJs there are popular sites dedicated to the builds.
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Used for hauling victim staff and tourists, the Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler & Ford Explorer ended up being escape vehicles from beastly T-Rex. The Wrangler was an off-road, free driving staff transporter while the Explorer was an automated tracked tour guide.

The Jeep seen above is an almost perfect recreation by an enthusiast on CarDomain. The build story is pretty amazing. This has become such a trend for owners of early-90s Jeep YJs there are popular sites dedicated to the builds.

Source: cardomain.com