COBRA, C10s, Mopar Pop Art, Woodie Shuttle & ART TALK LIVE!
Hump-Diddy Hump starts NOW with cool AUTOMOTIVE POP CULTURE!! And we celebrate (Like every day here in the Fireball Tim Garage) with Stallone as COBRA!! His badass Merc is now a MUGSHOT and so much more!
DID YOU KNOW?? Sylvester Stallone had asked his Propmaster to create a knife that audiences would never forget. The knife was so sharp that Night Slasher actor Brian Thompson would often cut himself by accident! WUPS. One of these moments was caught on film, in which he tests the blade on his hand while saying, “She’s mine.” And the movie has a rare workprint also… which contained 30-40 minutes of footage not found in other versions, including all the X-rated material removed from the final release! PACHOW!!!
And meanwhile, ON PLANET FIREBALL… Team Fireball (L2R is Mark Stehrenberger, Tommy Scalera, Peter Kappen and the Ball) meets with VISUALIZE VENTURA‘s Peter Kappen to formulate plans for a Hot August Night ARTPALOOZA! And it’s gonna be EPIC. Also, spotted in Westlake is this group of badass C10’s. Take your pick and drive, baby!
FEATURED ART!! Fireball’s CHRYSLER CORDOBA and COLUMBO MASTERPRINTS get matching MUGSHOTS! Now you can slurp ’til the Cows (or cars) come home!
CONCEPT ART!! Another version of Lovebird1 from LOONEY TUNES BACK IN ACTION as well as Fireball’s Classic SURFER WOODIE SHUTTLE. Anyone up for some epic Alien Waves? LET’S GO!!
COLORING BOOKS! Brand New Coloring Book LAUNCHING shorty and it’s EUROPEAN CARS! But what’s the COVER ART?? Make a guess below and you’ll WIN A FREE COPY!!
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Fireball finally SKETCHES World’s Toughest Movie Car…
Sure, there are a lot of tough MOVIE CARS out there. But if you have a passion for CUSTOM CAR CULTURE and movies or television, then pretty sure you’d agree that Sly Stallone’s COBRA MERC is the toughest.
I’ve been meaning to get to this car as it’s got a cool story that I posted earlier, but since they only built a few, there isn’t much left. But when COBRA came out in 1986, it was an instant hit with car people (not so much with critics) and launched Sly further into the stratosphere as being a Top Action Hero. The ACTION GIANTS were at hand and all others today stand on their shoulders.
**Today we celebrate COBRA with an all-new Fireball SKETCH in the Garage with several Movie Car Art CANVAS PRINTS, Mugs and Shirts. Which one you gonna snag?? Add this one to your COLLECTION of Diecast, Posters or on the wall of your GARAGE! Or sport the Mug to your local CAR SHOW and let others drool over your coolness!
DID YOU KNOW?? Cobra was nominated for six Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Sylvester Stallone), Worst Actress (Brigitte Nielsen), Worst Supporting Actor and Worst New Star (both for Brian Thompson) and Worst Screenplay. Director Nicolas Winding Refn is a huge fan of Cobra and it still made $160M in 1986!
This is why Stallone’s COBRA was lost for 19 years…
There’s a lot of STORIES about this car… but this is what actually happened as far as I can recall. There was a lot going on at that time.
Approximately 2005, I was working with a shop in Burbank designing and building MOVIE CARS. I did Gone in 60, Austin Powers and many more with them. We were working on multiple projects at the time, but I came up with the idea to take some of these cars to AUTO SHOWS to help promote the business. I wasn’t working for them, but actually contracted them to build a truck for AUTOTRADER and part of the Street Tuner Challenge MINI.
The owner of the shop said to take any car I wanted to the show. ANY… CAR. The 2005 LA AUTO SHOW. So… I walked the shop for a while with percolating ideas as to what I’d take. It was a big place (100,000sqft) and lots of cars. But I came across a car that was up on a RACK… and covered. I asked the foreman… “What’s that?” And his reply STUNNED ME.
“That, my friend… is THE COBRA.”
Now, I had heard that after they finished filming COBRA with Sylvester Stallone, he purchased the remaining car… but once principal photography was done, the car quietly disappeared. Never to be seen again from 1986.
But there it was. Hidden away in the shop, sleeping. So, I said to him… “I want it.” His reply? “Well, SO AND SO did say that you could take ANY car, right?”
A few days later, I was at the AUTO SHOW with a display of 5 cars including my STC MINI, the MINI M600 DRAG CAR, Eleanor, a GemCar… AND THE COBRA. The display looked awesome.
It was the first day in Kentia Hall (early) when the Celebs walked through before the crowds. Ahnuld walked by and several others until… as I was wiping the cars down, I turned to see Sly standing behind me. He had a look of utter SHOCK on his face as he stared at the COBRA.
“That’s my car,” he muttered. I replied amusingly, “What yes it is!” His response?? “No, that car BELONGS TO ME.”
We spoke for about 10 minutes and I explained what I knew… only to find out the truth that he indeed had the Pink. So, I called the owner of the shop and you can imagine his head exploding.
He got on the phone with Sly and withing a few minutes, a DEAL WAS DONE. After 12 days of the show, Sly came back personally and drove his COBRA home. Super cool guy and very generous. Only… he lived in Malibu at the time right in front of me. He, he… And that’s where the car stayed… until he MOVED again.
That’s it. Pretty incredible, huh? I’m grateful that I had it at the show and saw many people taking photos of it with their kids. Super cool. But Snakes belong with their owners and I’m glad it went with him. Oh… and I will be SKETCHING that car soon FOR THE GARAGE. fireballtimgarage.art
SYLVESTER STALLONE shows us why Trucks were invented
Sure, you can haul shit around like everyone else, or you can just Rat-A-Tat your way to work like SYLVESTER STALLONE did in COBRA… and send a clear message to unsavory tailgaters. Your choice.
But if the Cops roll up on you… put on a smile you’ll get the best line in the business… “Cuff ’em, Dano!” For more AUTOMOTIVE HOLLYWOOD… www.fireballtim.com
Badass COVER of the Official MIKE ZARNOCK Coloring Book REVEALED!!!
This is the Black and White version going into the book… but the COLOR VERSION for the Official MIKE ZARNOCK Coloring Book will be seen by NO ONE until the Book launches!! Woo Hoo! It’s COBRA TIME, PPL!!!
Today’s MAD MOVIE CAR… COBRA!!
Today’s Episode… Fireball spins it in a COBRA thanks to Hollywood Stuntman Allen Robinson #stunts #stuntman #movies #cobra
Ah, today’s episode is so cool, featuring Hollywood Stuntman, Allen Robinson and his 500hp Cobra. If I’m lucky, he’ll let me drive… but not without a GIVE first. Check it out…
WATCH: Ride Along Episode 5 THE COBRA
Cool cars on RODEO…
What a ridiculously cool day! All days should be like this, not just Father’s Day. The main highlight was the 2009 Rodeo Drive Concours d’ Elegance. Seriously expensive machines… in the sun.
My son Sean, Kathie and I strolled among multi-millions of dollars worth of machines including Delahaye, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls Royce, Bentley, BMW, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Packard, an Electric Cobra, Smarts, Green Vehicles, Tesal and even a Bentley Chopper. Yea, all cheapies, of course. Let me just take them all, thank you. Even Sean sat in the Lincoln from the TV show “Entourage.”
But on Rodeo, it’s no holds barred. The streets were packed with onlookers… even in the trees. The major highlight of the show was this DDR (Dumb Diamond Ring) on display. At the sheer cheap stupid price of $744,000.00 I mean, come on… Let’s get real. Put something in the window that’s REALLY expensive you bunch a’ lame o’ cheap basterds.What moron got cold feet and stuck the small stone in the window??? Sheesh!
Imagine. Strolling down Rodeo and you “pop” into a wee lil’ store to pick up something for your honey squeeze. A tiny lil’ rock for just under a mil. I’m sorry, but that’s just plain stupid in a really stupid sort of way. What could YOU do with $744,300.00??? Let us begin with making a list of 744,000 things, yo!
But the cars were smokin’ hot. SO, here we go folks….
