It never looked better than it did with the hood off 671 blower combo. That old school look is awesome..I'm a guy that is crazy about muscle cars, and electric cars. I have room room to love everything, I actually think i have this car in a Hot Wheels model.
Project X just participated in Power Tour 2023. Loved the movie and the car is iconic to gearheads of my generation. One of the latest episodes of "D.D. Speedshop" showcases Lucky giving the guys a ride in the car.. Very cool!
Growing up with project X really screwed me up. I have never recovered from constantly redoing my 57 thanks to all the changes X went through. Next year will be my 50th anniversary of owning her. I named her "Miss Crazy."
Thinking I have the same problem sorta. I want to paint my 210 that pretty sea green color they came in but bought 2 gallons of C5 yellow lol. Darn project X. I'm still doing it green😂
So I had the opportunity to be up and close and personal with project X in 1981. That’s right after it was used for the movie Hollywood nights. I met Doug Marion who is the editor of Super Chevy/Poplar Hotroding magazine at the time and he is the person who brought project X to the movie set and drove it during the race scenes. At the time it had a 350 in.³ motor in it not a 283. And the scene on the street were you see A cloud of smoke come over the top of the car is not in fact smoke, it is antifreeze. When the crankshaft broke because the blower pulley broke off and went into the radiator.
A blown 283 with a 4 speed today is slow by comparison to modern muscle. But Man! That is the sexiest setup that car ever had. Not to mention the movie credit in that garb.
That was very interesting and fun to watch. Project X was, for me, an obscure piece of automotive lore. You've brought to light a very important part Americana motion picture Automotive History. Thanks Man! 😎
A great car to feature would be the Pontiac Ventura which Roy Scheider drove in 'The Seven Ups' (the French Connection spinoff). The car chase was right up there with The French Connection and Bullitt.
The one 1957 Chevy I would like to know more about is the one used used in an episode of Tales from the Crypt called "King of the Road." It starred Raymond Barry and Brad Pitt. Not sure what motor it had in it, but when it left the junkyard, it pulled hard in that scene. To this day, I still want to know that setup. 👍❤
This movie had some amazing cars as well as newcomers like Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Wuhl, T.K. Carter. I wonder what happened to the rest of the cars like “The Pie Wagon” and the Rail job.
Another great video,this is my 2nd favorite movie of all time next to AG and is my top 3 all time favorite cars. I saw Project X at SIR in Seattle in the early nineties when it was on tour with Super Chevy Sunday and still have what is left of the T shirt that featured the '57. I think the Hollywood Knights movie version of the car is my favorite. 😁Still have the VHS copies of this movie and AG.
I saw Project X at the Power Tour stop in Columbia SC last week. Amazing looking car. Lucky Costa was a little late to the Columbia SC Power Tour stop. He had to take a quick detour to pick up a new starter for Project X and install it in before leaving Columbia.
I only remembered this car from PHR in the 80s. I didn't even know it was in a movie since the internet wasn't a thing at the time and don't remember them mentioning it (unless I missed it).
Ah, you must of missed the August 1979 issue then 😉... www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/071-jpg.4280100/ www.motortrend.com/uploads/2021/11/011-project-x-hollyood-knights-danza-1957-chevy-210-hot-rod-movie-car-yellow-tubbys-van-nuys.jpg
Yeah, it earned the title of project x back. I called it project rdf in it's golf cart days. Rdf standing for "roaring dumpster fire" I will say that the wheels it had as the golf cart version were actually not that bad. 1,000 horsepower under the hood currently? Yeah, that's gonna be fun.
Another awesome video!! I’d love to see you do one on the 57 Chevy from “Catch Me If You Can” from 1989 or the 57 Chevy and 69 Chevelle from Tales From The Crypt’s “King Of The Road” episode. Ooh and the 68 Camaro from Aloha Bobby And Rose!
man, i just re-watched this film two days ago! glad you included the part about the lunched engines while filming the movie. not everyone knows about that. my first intro to project-x was in around 1973/74 feature in my new copy of popular hotrodding. back then the car was more about mods the average guy could afford which is what made the car relevant. these days (horrid ev and 5 figure crate engine swaps) the car is utterly unrelatable to the average reader. can you dig up info on the cobra and the custom yeallow '40 ford?
The car is cool, but it was not the only car in the movie. Hollywood Knights is a total Gearhead movie. There are quite a few magazine car stars in the movie. Also, early appearances by Robert Whul, Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer (her first movie), Wolfgang Jack, Fran Drescher etc make this movie a gem. Pretty good story too, a sort of Animal House meets America Graffiti. Even the punch bag character was treated with more with respect and not with derision. The commentary on Vietnam's effect the youth of the 60's was poignant without the message being smashed over your head. If you can find this movie, it is a must watch.
I hadn’t seen that magazine article since I was a kid. Boy did that bring back the memories. My first car was a clapped out 57 Sport coupe I bought in ‘74 for 140 dollars and an 8 track tape player. I copied X’s pinstriping. I have yet to see any pictures of Project X with its pinstriping so it must not have stayed on too long.
I remember seeing this project covered in Hot Rod Magazine, always purchased the issue that the ‘57 was featured in. Thanks for the history, interesting!
You guys need to do videos on KITT (Knight Rider), B.A.’s van (A-Team), Daisy’s Road Runner(s) (Dukes Of Hazzard), and the Creeper’s box truck/van from “Jeepers Creepers” for starters. 😎😁
Yep, all those are already on my very long list and I'm just a one man show here; so it'll be at this for years most likely, but I love doing it, so it's all cool 😎👍
I find it hard to believe anyone that is today in their 60s or 70s didn't know how to use a standard shifter? I think I learned in 57 and was doing speed and power shifting by 1960. Danza needed a double!!
Love Hollywood Knights and I know much about Project X with the BIG come back. That because my brother Mike had little something to do with the come back ( 2023) of that very cool piece of history. Pays to know the HOT ROD’s network director LOL. Love all your content very well done on all your video's thank you for bring cool channel to UA-cam.
Thanks for doing this!! I wanted to know more about the car, very cool! My favorite version was the movie version tho, maybe someday the will put it back👍
Oh, how fun it was to do some good old-fashioned hot roding when we're young to show off our rides, talk shop about modification we did to engine, transmission etc etc just like this sweet 57 chevy bel air in the movie hollywood knights is exactly how we see our older generations were doing everything to make cars go much faster then stock just like today's young men and women are still keeps the love of cars going anyway my friend as usual thanks for the video and have a nice week bye now. P.S. Hey CarStarz did you notice my challenge for a movie where some young man was determined to do a stunt because he lost his dad while attempting it and now wants to do in his memory so you are intrigued by my comment 🤔.
Gotta love the good Hot rodding age indeed 😉👍 I must of missed the part of the comment you are referring to; that kind of plot sounds familiar, but it's not ringing a bell in my head at the moment🤔
@CarStarz42 thanks buddy for enjoying my comment as for the last part i saw mostly the movie but i don't know the title at all so it anybody guess ok then see you later bye now.
Yet another fascinating episode, I love this channel! My 9 year old son (and me as well I guess!) would love to know some facts about the car Michael Jackson morphs into in Moonwalker (other than it being a reproduction of the Lancia Stratos coupe) 👍🏿
@@ashboo22 Thanks much and glad you guys are enjoying it😊 I'll add that one to my list to look into as I certainly haven't thought about that one😁 Thanks again
Only problem I had with E-power is that it did not seem what the majority of the magazine's readers wanted to see. It seemed political and therefore very forced and predictable and let's face it, it wasn't very exciting. At 1:08 however, I literally just installed those valve covers on my small block Chevy last month. Classic aftermarket item!
I'm old enough to remember when they purchased Project X and it first appeared in the magazine. Installing the Oldsmobile rear axle, modifying the rear wheel openings and using electrical conduit to get the rounded edge on the wheel opening of the rear quarterpanels. If I remember correctly GM went through the car. Complete suspension update was one part of it. First time I ever heard of a car being digitized with a computer. I could be incorrect in the terminology.
Remember, Loud pipes saves lives... glad to hear the electric disappeared... I hope that info was correct.. I'd rather see it with a turbine engine than electric...
Just ran across your channel. Love the video's so far. Good Job. But, your "Fact #8" is incorrect. Tony Danza did not blow 2 engines during filming. He did damage the car though. Tony had trouble learning to shift the car. Van Nuys Blvd back in those days had drainage dips at every intersection. The scenes they shot during the "Cruising" parts were shot on VNB. Race scenes were shot on a another block a few blocks over that didn't have the dips at the intersections. During one cruise they were filming, as Tony was coming up to an intersection going through the dip, he slowed down to down shift, accidentally dropped the clutch, which popped the front end of the car up and slamming it back down on the roadway causing a pulley to the blower to shatter. It took them a week to find the right pulley for that set up to get the belt back on to get car running again. Remember, this was 1979-80, they couldn't just get on the internet and order one. 😁 What you see in the movie with the puff of smoke coming from the engine was not the engine blowing. That was not Tony Danza driving it either. It was one those Guys that built it who was doing the race scenes for the movie. All that was was the upper radiator hose blowing off and radiator fluid flying across the top of the car. Pay close attention to the scene. It's a mist coming off the top of the motor only. Blown engines usually have heavy smoke coming out from all over the front end. Top, under it, wheel wells, smoke everywhere from oil being flung all over the hot motor. They did blow the engine on the Cobra though. That's why you rarely see the Cobra. It was blown on the second take of the race with Project X. They filmed the race with the Rail Job first to not push the car hard for the Rail Job to win. Pushed it hard to race Project X and that's when the engine blew. There's an article written back in the 90's that covers all this. It came from the 2 Guys that built Project X originally for Peterson Publishing. They were there managing Project X during the whole filming of The Hollywood Knights. It's in an old Popular Hot Rodding issue I think. It's online here somewhere. I'll try and find it again.
@@CarStarz42 Cool. I'm a huge, HUGE Hollywood Knights fan. Probably know the movie word for word. 😅 I had that article in my Favorites years back. Don't know why it's gone now. 4-5 page write up about all the fun those Guys had supplying Project X, and 1/2 the other cars, for the filming of Project X. There's 20 different stories all over the internet about Tony Danza blowing 22 engines while driving Project X. (LOL) That article was the real deal coming from the Guys who were actually there. I must find it again. I will find it again. 🤗
@@LittleEarp Lol, yeah the toughest part of researching for videos like this is sorting through all the vast about of BS to find correct info and it's not just misinformation on the web, but also even in magazines of the day as well. People are people unfortunately and no one seems to tell a story the same way. Too bad everyone's memories aren't as clear as a video recording, lol.
Project X is likely one of the top three best-known '57s ever and not just because the movie. One of the reasons is that the car toured for Argus (long time publisher of PHR) at many of their events in the 80s and 90s which included Super Chevy Shows. While it had many transformations over the decades....the work done at the hands of Chevrolet Shop have been the most controversial and, quite frankly, hated by fans of the car. Project X was never about going around corners or testing alternative forms of propulsion. Electric....isn't in a gearhead's vocabulary except as a toy. Dave Freiburger (gearhead chieftan) actually left HotRod because the publishing company allowed the electrification of Project X. In the past 40-ish years most magazine project cars are owned by magazine staff or contributors....so they have the final say on what does and does not happen to the car. The 'Running on Empty' black '57 is also well known, but not near the notoriety of Project X. I find it kind of odd that the '57 Chevy is such an iconic car that is still in the motoring minds yet has not enjoyed the spotlight as much as some other models.
Always wondered if there maybe wasn’t more than one Project X over the years… that ‘57 has gone through so much it would make sense to have substituted a better one over the years… 🙂
Yeah, I think the only thing left unchanged and original on Project X at this point is the license plate; so it pretty much is a different car in that respect.
I read on a website one time the Guy Driving the Cobra that was his Car.They wanted to use it and he told them no.As you see him Driving the Cobra know that was his Car.I can't say as I blame him for not letting them use it either
That one has actually been on my list for awhile, but I haven't been able to find a single informative article on it yet, but I'll try again at some point as that crazy Bronco scene was awesome stuff!😁👍
@@CarStarz42 There is at least one article in PHR, CC, or HR. Can't specifically remember. Built at Bill Stroppe's shop. The article talks about the world record jump it made and how the bounce was also in the top car jumps.
I drove jet cars in the super Chevy show tour starting in 2000 that car was on tour with Chevy magazine Tony Kelly and had at many races I got to actually make a pass in the car at Maple Grove Dragway, it was beyond an honor and I did a burnout past the Christmas tree much to his dismay
Hey CarStarz! How bout a video on STROKER ACE’S chicken pit special from the movie STROKER ACE with burt reynolds. I’ll give ya your first fact! The director of the movie hal needham owned a nascar team in real life. The #33 skoal bandit car driven by harry gant!
Paraphrasing the movie (and if you haven't seen the movie "Hollywood Knights", do yourself a favor and watch it), 'Is that piss yellow; no, it's Tony Danza yellow. 😄
Flying cars. Ya had to say it didn't ya? I've been getting promised flying cars since the 70's, I don't expect it'll happen while I'm still above ground.
LOL, can't help it as I'm a big BTTF fan. True though, most people can barely handle driving on a 2D space. If we added a third dimension to it, it would be total chaos all the time unfortunately 😬
@@CarStarz42 I'm nervous enough on my motorcycle's when I'm out there on the roads in this day and age of people texting while driving their cars, last thing I need is them coming at me from yet another direction while they're not paying attention to what they're doing.
@@buckster2575 True; I mean if they put that much effort into converting it to EV; they should have gone with high power setup, but they of course wouldn't do that unless GM specifically put out one as PX is just strictly a GM advertisement vessel at this point in time apparently.
Yeah, that is intentional; it had way too many inconsiderate spam messages on that one that I wasn't about to deal with all that one by one; so I had to turn off comments on that one.
The video mentions two ruined engines in the movie. I did not know about this one or that there were two. The one I am thinking about is when the cop tells him to move this POS and he launches it hard. Was this the second ruined engine?
Don't think the second instance made it into the final movie, but not sure on that; George Elliot only mentioned they managed to blow two engines in the car throughout filming.
The redo of the hood, body and interior to me was the worst changes. It looks more like a idiots idea of a show car than a hot and hairy musclecar. Engines and trannys are easy to swap back and forth but my biggest wish would be for then to swap back all the trim and chrome pieces particularly the hood and front bumper. GM engineers have bad taste when it comes to redoing this car. Put a gas V-8 preferably a Rat in it and leave it for a while. A Jerico 4 speed wouldn’t hurt.
I get the basis of Project X, however taking a movie icon like this and going electric well it just un American. What's next converting the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am to bio diesel. I'm a gear head and always will be .Electric has its place just not in cars that have earned a place in automotive history.
It never looked better than it did with the hood off 671 blower combo. That old school look is awesome..I'm a guy that is crazy about muscle cars, and electric cars. I have room room to love everything, I actually think i have this car in a Hot Wheels model.
I had that April ‘79 PHR with it lifting the front end in the cover. As a 13 yo… it was bad ass! 😎👍
You don't because they never made one. There was a 1/18 version made a few years ago. It is now upwards of $400.00.
Project X just participated in Power Tour 2023. Loved the movie and the car is iconic to gearheads of my generation. One of the latest episodes of "D.D. Speedshop" showcases Lucky giving the guys a ride in the car.. Very cool!
Loved the cobra I have a superformance same color
Growing up with project X really screwed me up. I have never recovered from constantly redoing my 57 thanks to all the changes X went through. Next year will be my 50th anniversary of owning her. I named her "Miss Crazy."
Thinking I have the same problem sorta. I want to paint my 210 that pretty sea green color they came in but bought 2 gallons of C5 yellow lol. Darn project X. I'm still doing it green😂
So I had the opportunity to be up and close and personal with project X in 1981. That’s right after it was used for the movie Hollywood nights. I met Doug Marion who is the editor of Super Chevy/Poplar Hotroding magazine at the time and he is the person who brought project X to the movie set and drove it during the race scenes. At the time it had a 350 in.³ motor in it not a 283. And the scene on the street were you see A cloud of smoke come over the top of the car is not in fact smoke, it is antifreeze. When the crankshaft broke because the blower pulley broke off and went into the radiator.
A blown 283 with a 4 speed today is slow by comparison to modern muscle. But Man! That is the sexiest setup that car ever had. Not to mention the movie credit in that garb.
That was very interesting and fun to watch. Project X was, for me, an obscure piece of automotive lore. You've brought to light a very important part Americana motion picture Automotive History. Thanks Man! 😎
Indeed and glad you enjoyed it 😎👍
Great movie. A bunch of cool cars in that film too. That 60 or 61 Ford Galaxie and the 65 GTO to name a few. Newbaums pie wagon and that Elcamino.
Ahem.
_He caught it meet his deek_
I believe the Pie Wagon ‘56 still exists in the same livery.
A great car to feature would be the Pontiac Ventura which Roy Scheider drove in 'The Seven Ups' (the French Connection spinoff). The car chase was right up there with The French Connection and Bullitt.
I'll add that to my list to look into. Thanks 😎👍
The one 1957 Chevy I would like to know more about is the one used used in an episode of Tales from the Crypt called "King of the Road." It starred Raymond Barry and Brad Pitt. Not sure what motor it had in it, but when it left the junkyard, it pulled hard in that scene. To this day, I still want to know that setup. 👍❤
I actually do have the one on my list to look into as you're the second to ask about it. Thanks 👍
@@CarStarz42 Google searches don't bring hardly any info. Just some chat room conversations. Good luck and I hope you find out where it's at. 👍
This movie had some amazing cars as well as newcomers like Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Wuhl, T.K. Carter. I wonder what happened to the rest of the cars like “The Pie Wagon” and the Rail job.
Project X: My favorite car of all time, and still lives on in a modified form.
I had the luxury of seeing the new build in progress. Such an awesome car!!! Big Block!!
Nice 😉👍
So Happy To See That 632 Go In X
Another great video,this is my 2nd favorite movie of all time next to AG and is my top 3 all time favorite cars. I saw Project X at SIR in Seattle in the early nineties when it was on tour with Super Chevy Sunday and still have what is left of the T shirt that featured the '57.
I think the Hollywood Knights movie version of the car is my favorite.
😁Still have the VHS copies of this movie and AG.
Great coverage of Project X. I miss Popular Hot Rodding magazine
Thanks, indeed; the good old days😉
I saw Project X at the Power Tour stop in Columbia SC last week. Amazing looking car. Lucky Costa was a little late to the Columbia SC Power Tour stop. He had to take a quick detour to pick up a new starter for Project X and install it in before leaving Columbia.
I only remembered this car from PHR in the 80s. I didn't even know it was in a movie since the internet wasn't a thing at the time and don't remember them mentioning it (unless I missed it).
Ah, you must of missed the August 1979 issue then 😉...
www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/071-jpg.4280100/
www.motortrend.com/uploads/2021/11/011-project-x-hollyood-knights-danza-1957-chevy-210-hot-rod-movie-car-yellow-tubbys-van-nuys.jpg
Best news of all is that EV power is no more under the hood!
Yeah, it earned the title of project x back. I called it project rdf in it's golf cart days. Rdf standing for "roaring dumpster fire" I will say that the wheels it had as the golf cart version were actually not that bad. 1,000 horsepower under the hood currently? Yeah, that's gonna be fun.
That car is legend. They should leave it how it was in the the movie 👍👍
Another awesome video!!
I’d love to see you do one on the 57 Chevy from “Catch Me If You Can” from 1989 or the 57 Chevy and 69 Chevelle from Tales From The Crypt’s “King Of The Road” episode. Ooh and the 68 Camaro from Aloha Bobby And Rose!
Thanks much and I'll add those to my list of ones to look into 👍
man, i just re-watched this film two days ago! glad you included the part about the lunched engines while filming the movie. not everyone knows about that. my first intro to project-x was in around 1973/74 feature in my new copy of popular hotrodding. back then the car was more about mods the average guy could afford which is what made the car relevant. these days (horrid ev and 5 figure crate engine swaps) the car is utterly unrelatable to the average reader. can you dig up info on the cobra and the custom yeallow '40 ford?
Cool, yeah; I'll probably look into some other cars in this film when I eventually do a second sweep through my very long movie list 😉👍
Well Done .. ( glad you got the latest update )... A truly iconic car..
Thanks and indeed. They sure had to change a lot to get that massive engine stuffed in there too!
Love this channel! Just sub'd because the episodes have real facts with pics and information that's hard to dig up, and this guy digs it up! 😃
The car is cool, but it was not the only car in the movie. Hollywood Knights is a total Gearhead movie. There are quite a few magazine car stars in the movie. Also, early appearances by Robert Whul, Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer (her first movie), Wolfgang Jack, Fran Drescher etc make this movie a gem. Pretty good story too, a sort of Animal House meets America Graffiti. Even the punch bag character was treated with more with respect and not with derision. The commentary on Vietnam's effect the youth of the 60's was poignant without the message being smashed over your head. If you can find this movie, it is a must watch.
Very informative video.
Thanks 👊
Good to hear and glad you enjoyed it 👍
I hadn’t seen that magazine article since I was a kid. Boy did that bring back the memories. My first car was a clapped out 57 Sport coupe I bought in ‘74 for 140 dollars and an 8 track tape player. I copied X’s pinstriping. I have yet to see any pictures of Project X with its pinstriping so it must not have stayed on too long.
Nice 🙂👍
I remember seeing this project covered in Hot Rod Magazine, always purchased the issue that the ‘57 was featured in. Thanks for the history, interesting!
Cool, glad you enjoyed it 😎👍
@@CarStarz42 I did, going to watch it again!👍
@@davekana8388 Cool 😊
You guys need to do videos on KITT (Knight Rider), B.A.’s van (A-Team), Daisy’s Road Runner(s) (Dukes Of Hazzard), and the Creeper’s box truck/van from “Jeepers Creepers” for starters. 😎😁
Yep, all those are already on my very long list and I'm just a one man show here; so it'll be at this for years most likely, but I love doing it, so it's all cool 😎👍
Absolutely love your channel man! Can't wait for more :)
Glad to hear that! Next video will be added soon 👍
I find it hard to believe anyone that is today in their 60s or 70s didn't know how to use a standard shifter? I think I learned in 57 and was doing speed and power shifting by 1960. Danza needed a double!!
He obviously wasn't a car guy.
Been digging on the videos but I can't believe Christine ain't in this list and the X lives on 8 miles per gallon hellyeah
Christine is on my list as it is one of my favorite car movies; I'm just saving it for closer to Halloween time to do that one 👍
@CarStarz42 makes since appreciate the reply....should be a good one...
Love Hollywood Knights and I know much about Project X with the BIG come back. That because my brother Mike had little something to do with the come back ( 2023) of that very cool piece of history. Pays to know the HOT ROD’s network director LOL. Love all your content very well done on all your video's thank you for bring cool channel to UA-cam.
Very cool and thanks much friend; glad to hear you're enjoying the channel 🙂👍
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE PROJECT X!!!!!
You're very welcome; yeah been a great car to follow over the years for us 😉👍
3:57 ~ And miraculously, according to the photograph, it not only changed color, it changed from a 2 door sedan into a 2 door hardtop!
Amazing!
😉
Love these!!!
Thanks for doing this!! I wanted to know more about the car, very cool! My favorite version was the movie version tho, maybe someday the will put it back👍
You're very welcome; glad you enjoyed it. Yep, it's always anyone's guess what will be done to this car next 😉
Unreal that Tony got to drive and Michelle got to ride in Project X!!!
Indeed 😉👍
Oh, how fun it was to do some good old-fashioned hot roding when we're young to show off our rides, talk shop about modification we did to engine, transmission etc etc just like this sweet 57 chevy bel air in the movie hollywood knights is exactly how we see our older generations were doing everything to make cars go much faster then stock just like today's young men and women are still keeps the love of cars going anyway my friend as usual thanks for the video and have a nice week bye now. P.S. Hey CarStarz did you notice my challenge for a movie where some young man was determined to do a stunt because he lost his dad while attempting it and now wants to do in his memory so you are intrigued by my comment 🤔.
Gotta love the good Hot rodding age indeed 😉👍
I must of missed the part of the comment you are referring to; that kind of plot sounds familiar, but it's not ringing a bell in my head at the moment🤔
@CarStarz42 thanks buddy for enjoying my comment as for the last part i saw mostly the movie but i don't know the title at all so it anybody guess ok then see you later bye now.
@@milfordh.mercado2787 Ah, ok; so it's not just me then, lol 😉
@@CarStarz42 good to know 😉.
In 1969 I bought my own 57 Chevy and built my own version of Project X which I drove (while in Hi School and 2 years after) for 5 years
Awesome 🙂👍
Another great episode. I always wondered what happened to that car
Thanks much; yeah that car has had one crazy life for sure!
Yet another fascinating episode, I love this channel!
My 9 year old son (and me as well I guess!) would love to know some facts about the car Michael Jackson morphs into in Moonwalker (other than it being a reproduction of the Lancia Stratos coupe) 👍🏿
@@ashboo22 Thanks much and glad you guys are enjoying it😊 I'll add that one to my list to look into as I certainly haven't thought about that one😁 Thanks again
What a disgrace making it electric. Sickening
That black 57 on blocks was a hardtop. Project X is a post.
As labeled onscreen; that was just pics to exemplify; not Project X 😉
Only problem I had with E-power is that it did not seem what the majority of the magazine's readers wanted to see. It seemed political and therefore very forced and predictable and let's face it, it wasn't very exciting.
At 1:08 however, I literally just installed those valve covers on my small block Chevy last month. Classic aftermarket item!
They lost a lot of subscribers over that.
The blown 283 was the coolest. 😎
I'm old enough to remember when they purchased Project X and it first appeared in the magazine. Installing the Oldsmobile rear axle, modifying the rear wheel openings and using electrical conduit to get the rounded edge on the wheel opening of the rear quarterpanels. If I remember correctly GM went through the car. Complete suspension update was one part of it. First time I ever heard of a car being digitized with a computer. I could be incorrect in the terminology.
Nice 😉👍
The HK set-up is my favorite .
Thank you
You are very welcome , thank you for watching😎👍
🏆Cool car🏆very famous 👀✌️
😉👍
Thank God they put a REAL engine back in.
That's funny! Tony Nancy, in an enterview, said the car belonged to him & he drove it in the movie when racing. Where it went from there, no idea.
So cool.
You should do a where are the cars from the Hollywood Knights movie, Pie Wagon, GTO, ElCamino, the customized club car, T-bucket aka "railjob"
Yep, eventually I'll cover more cars from that movie 😉👍
3:56 obviously that sport coupe is not X.
I like it very sweet 👍👍👍👍👍😁
Glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
Remember, Loud pipes saves lives... glad to hear the electric disappeared... I hope that info was correct.. I'd rather see it with a turbine engine than electric...
Lucky shows up with a big block and saves the day.
Just ran across your channel. Love the video's so far. Good Job.
But, your "Fact #8" is incorrect. Tony Danza did not blow 2 engines during filming. He did damage the car though. Tony had trouble learning to shift the car. Van Nuys Blvd back in those days had drainage dips at every intersection. The scenes they shot during the "Cruising" parts were shot on VNB. Race scenes were shot on a another block a few blocks over that didn't have the dips at the intersections. During one cruise they were filming, as Tony was coming up to an intersection going through the dip, he slowed down to down shift, accidentally dropped the clutch, which popped the front end of the car up and slamming it back down on the roadway causing a pulley to the blower to shatter. It took them a week to find the right pulley for that set up to get the belt back on to get car running again. Remember, this was 1979-80, they couldn't just get on the internet and order one. 😁
What you see in the movie with the puff of smoke coming from the engine was not the engine blowing. That was not Tony Danza driving it either. It was one those Guys that built it who was doing the race scenes for the movie. All that was was the upper radiator hose blowing off and radiator fluid flying across the top of the car. Pay close attention to the scene. It's a mist coming off the top of the motor only. Blown engines usually have heavy smoke coming out from all over the front end. Top, under it, wheel wells, smoke everywhere from oil being flung all over the hot motor.
They did blow the engine on the Cobra though. That's why you rarely see the Cobra. It was blown on the second take of the race with Project X. They filmed the race with the Rail Job first to not push the car hard for the Rail Job to win. Pushed it hard to race Project X and that's when the engine blew.
There's an article written back in the 90's that covers all this. It came from the 2 Guys that built Project X originally for Peterson Publishing. They were there managing Project X during the whole filming of The Hollywood Knights. It's in an old Popular Hot Rodding issue I think. It's online here somewhere. I'll try and find it again.
Glad to hear you are enjoying the channel and also thanks for the extra info too 😉👍
@@CarStarz42 Cool. I'm a huge, HUGE Hollywood Knights fan. Probably know the movie word for word. 😅
I had that article in my Favorites years back. Don't know why it's gone now. 4-5 page write up about all the fun those Guys had supplying Project X, and 1/2 the other cars, for the filming of Project X. There's 20 different stories all over the internet about Tony Danza blowing 22 engines while driving Project X. (LOL) That article was the real deal coming from the Guys who were actually there. I must find it again. I will find it again. 🤗
@@LittleEarp Lol, yeah the toughest part of researching for videos like this is sorting through all the vast about of BS to find correct info and it's not just misinformation on the web, but also even in magazines of the day as well. People are people unfortunately and no one seems to tell a story the same way. Too bad everyone's memories aren't as clear as a video recording, lol.
I had no clue Project X was the the car from Hollywood Knights. NO CLUE!
Damn good movie, always wondered what that smoke was about.
Indeed 😉👍
I thought he missed a shift, common to see a white puff out the exhaust and dont always lose an engine.
Project X is likely one of the top three best-known '57s ever and not just because the movie. One of the reasons is that the car toured for Argus (long time publisher of PHR) at many of their events in the 80s and 90s which included Super Chevy Shows. While it had many transformations over the decades....the work done at the hands of Chevrolet Shop have been the most controversial and, quite frankly, hated by fans of the car. Project X was never about going around corners or testing alternative forms of propulsion. Electric....isn't in a gearhead's vocabulary except as a toy. Dave Freiburger (gearhead chieftan) actually left HotRod because the publishing company allowed the electrification of Project X. In the past 40-ish years most magazine project cars are owned by magazine staff or contributors....so they have the final say on what does and does not happen to the car. The 'Running on Empty' black '57 is also well known, but not near the notoriety of Project X.
I find it kind of odd that the '57 Chevy is such an iconic car that is still in the motoring minds yet has not enjoyed the spotlight as much as some other models.
would anyone have a complete collection of magazines that featured articals on the project x for sale ,,thanks
That would be cool, but unlikely since there were so many. Maybe do some searching on eBay?
Anyone out there know what happened to the 40 ford coupe from the scene where jimmy shine was getting a going away gift.
I have that one on my to do list, but haven't got to it yet, so I'm not sure myself.
Lucky Costa!!!
Indeed; a legend in his own right😎👍
Always wondered if there maybe wasn’t more than one Project X over the years… that ‘57 has gone through so much it would make sense to have substituted a better one over the years… 🙂
Yeah, I think the only thing left unchanged and original on Project X at this point is the license plate; so it pretty much is a different car in that respect.
@@CarStarz42 that’s my impression too, same VIN though presumably…?
@@CycolacFan Hopefully, unless they accidently chopped that off at some point during one of the many rebuilds, lol.
When was it converted from a hardtop coupe to a 150 post
I read on a website one time the Guy Driving the Cobra that was his Car.They wanted to use it and he told them no.As you see him Driving the Cobra know that was his Car.I can't say as I blame him for not letting them use it either
Yeah, saw that info somewhere too and also don't blame him as studios typically aren't very nice to cars they use 😉
Any chance of a video of “Pepe”, My Little Mule” from Romancing the Stone?
That one has actually been on my list for awhile, but I haven't been able to find a single informative article on it yet, but I'll try again at some point as that crazy Bronco scene was awesome stuff!😁👍
@@CarStarz42 There is at least one article in PHR, CC, or HR. Can't specifically remember. Built at Bill Stroppe's shop. The article talks about the world record jump it made and how the bounce was also in the top car jumps.
I drove jet cars in the super Chevy show tour starting in 2000 that car was on tour with Chevy magazine Tony Kelly and had at many races I got to actually make a pass in the car at Maple Grove Dragway, it was beyond an honor and I did a burnout past the Christmas tree much to his dismay
Cool 😉👍
Anybody remembers the other Pop Rod mag cars, project 32 and project Mopar?
Yeah, others got kind of overshadowed for sure.
SHOULD PUT A BLOWER BACK ON IT. ITS ICONIC LOOK BACK THEN MADE THE CAR
Yeah, that would be insane with the engine that's in it now, lol 😉
That car was my favorite thing about the movie. Aside from the dork guy calling his mother to tell her he was going to get laid. lol
Indeed, LOL 😁
Rear fender wells went from being cut out to not cut out
Yeah, that poor car has had more back and forth modifications than any car should ever have to endure.
I didn't see the "Christine" red Plymouth fury in your line up? Or the GTO in My science project 🤔
Those are indeed already on my list, just been saving Christine for closer to Halloween 😉👍
@@CarStarz42 What about 007 James Bond cars?
@@DarrinR.-pq8md Yeah, I'll get to a couple of those eventually too, probably the early ones 😉
Hey CarStarz! How bout a video on STROKER ACE’S chicken pit special from the movie STROKER ACE with burt reynolds. I’ll give ya your first fact! The director of the movie hal needham owned a nascar team in real life. The #33 skoal bandit car driven by harry gant!
I'll put it on the list to look into; Thanks 👍
@@CarStarz42 awesome! Please do
4:14 Lucky!!!
Paraphrasing the movie (and if you haven't seen the movie "Hollywood Knights", do yourself a favor and watch it), 'Is that piss yellow; no, it's Tony Danza yellow. 😄
Hmm, sounds interesting.
Have anything on Smokey and bandit cars.
Yes sir!... ua-cam.com/video/ihBB-GtfEu4/v-deo.html
Flying cars.
Ya had to say it didn't ya?
I've been getting promised flying cars since the 70's, I don't expect it'll happen while I'm still above ground.
LOL, can't help it as I'm a big BTTF fan. True though, most people can barely handle driving on a 2D space. If we added a third dimension to it, it would be total chaos all the time unfortunately 😬
@@CarStarz42
I'm nervous enough on my motorcycle's when I'm out there on the roads in this day and age of people texting while driving their cars, last thing I need is them coming at me from yet another direction while they're not paying attention to what they're doing.
@@dukecraig2402 Indeed, it's scary enough out there already for sure!
I loved how they put the EV in and pissed off all the "Fiddy Seven" sooks
I hope you do Christine and the Cody Coyote.
Yep, those are already on the long to do list. Thanks
Did GM buy out Bill Mitchell for the 632?
It was painted “Tony Danza Yellow”
2023, if Tony Danza even owns a car at all I'm willing to bet its not a manual transmission.
Lol, indeed.
I can't believe that they bought this for $700. when they where working on this car
Indeed.
If its had a 427 and a 502 in it before, why would the firewall need to be modified for the 632???
Because the ZZ632 is huger than huge man!...
www.motortrend.com/how-to/zz632-big-block-engine-install-1957-chevy-project-x?slide=17
At least they put a BBC back in it👍
Indeed, and a massive one at that; that thing is LOUD now, lol! 😁
@@CarStarz42 It is that. Just idling it will rattle your bones.
@@CarStarz42 that electric motor wasn't cutting it.
@@buckster2575 True; I mean if they put that much effort into converting it to EV; they should have gone with high power setup, but they of course wouldn't do that unless GM specifically put out one as PX is just strictly a GM advertisement vessel at this point in time apparently.
Hay mate,the comments are off on the next one😢
Yeah, that is intentional; it had way too many inconsiderate spam messages on that one that I wasn't about to deal with all that one by one; so I had to turn off comments on that one.
When it was killer till they destroyed it by making it into a EV
It's not an EV anymore; make sure to watch the video all the way to the end friend 😉
put a 8 71 blower on the 632.
That would be pretty wild indeed 😉
They did, but it was just converted back to gas with Chevys new 632 big block
The video mentions two ruined engines in the movie. I did not know about this one or that there were two. The one I am thinking about is when the cop tells him to move this POS and he launches it hard. Was this the second ruined engine?
Don't think the second instance made it into the final movie, but not sure on that; George Elliot only mentioned they managed to blow two engines in the car throughout filming.
The redo of the hood, body and interior to me was the worst changes. It looks more like a idiots idea of a show car than a hot and hairy musclecar. Engines and trannys are easy to swap back and forth but my biggest wish would be for then to swap back all the trim and chrome pieces particularly the hood and front bumper. GM engineers have bad taste when it comes to redoing this car. Put a gas V-8 preferably a Rat in it and leave it for a while. A Jerico 4 speed wouldn’t hurt.
electric --- what a money scam
Very Good!... #167 ✝ {8-19-2023}
Thanks much and glad you enjoyed it.👍
I'm glad you took out that e motor it just doesn't belong.in that car !
Yep, was just one of the many experimental setups tried in the car over the years 😉
$700.00 I could buy 10 of them right now.😪
Yeah, different times, different values for sure.
I loved that movie and the cars but I still gotta give the hottest award to Michelle Pheifer…boy was she cute 😍😍😂😂
Indeed! 😉👍
the motor blew in the movie, can see the white smoke in the film
Pretty much; I talk about the cause of that in the video 😉👍
I get the basis of Project X, however taking a movie icon like this and going electric well it just un American. What's next converting the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am to bio diesel. I'm a gear head and always will be .Electric has its place just not in cars that have earned a place in automotive history.
It's called freedom to do what you want and that's pretty American even if you don't like it lol😊