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Quentin Tarantino made a matte-black 1970 Chevrolet Nova the villain of Death Proof, and a builder in Finland loved it enough to recreate the car in painstaking detail. Jamboolio catches the replica at a Helsinki-area cruising night, where it drops into a smoky burnout and lets its V8 howl exactly as Stuntman Mike’s machine did on screen. It is proof that great movie cars escape the theater and take on lives of their own. Watch the tribute come to life.

This battle-scarred 1971 Dodge Challenger spent its screen time disguised as a 1970 R/T 440 Magnum in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, right down to a window frame welded on so stuntwoman Zoe Bell could strap herself to the hood. Six Challengers were built for the film’s stunt work; only two survive as complete cars today. This is one of the survivors, rediscovered in an Australian garage years after filming wrapped.

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