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Hemmings Motor News Blog

Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Frankenstein's Car

Posted September 23, 2010 9:00 AM by dstrohl

"The Monster as recognized from 1975 cult classic movie Death Race 2000 as character Frankenstein's car. This monster exhibition car does have a VIN and title and can be registered (titled as a '68 VW). It drives out excellent with working lights and signals. The spiked spine even removes for better vision. The body is a modified Corvette bosy with vicious teeth for a grille, snake eyes for head lights and a reptile scaled paint job."

What the ad on Hemmings.com for Frankenstein's car from the epic Death Race 2000 doesn't state is that it was built by the legendary Dean Jeffries, which would normally make "the fastest car ever designed" a prime collector car. I think it's high time I watch that film again.

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