The 'Fallout' TV series on Amazon, based on the hit video game series, features cool mid-century cars, including a unique concept car.
Update: Reporter for Hagerty confirms the actual car was used. The text has been updated to reflect this.
It doesn't take long to spot it, as it appears in the first few minutes of the show. These scenes start at a birthday party just before the bombs drop, and it's most visible in the shot at top when Howard takes off on horseback with his daughter in search of safety. They race past a big bright red roadster of some sort, with gleaming side-exit exhaust and a rear fin reminiscent of some period race cars. That vehicle isn't made specifically for the show.
The styling is seriously wild. As we mentioned, it has asymmetric cues from race cars of the time, but amplified with the hood scoop that leads into a long rising cowl. The exhaust only comes out on the driver side, and then the rear has a sort of chrome star tying the rear fin in with the pseudo bumper. The radical looking fenders also appeared on the original 1960 Valiant, which was quickly placed under the Plymouth brand, with Dodge getting its own version called Lancer.
When Chrysler was done with the car, it began a wild journey, first going to Italy and Carrozzeria Ghia, the company that built the body. It eventually went to multiple other owners, including at one point the Shah of Iran. It was eventually found by Karim Edde, who discovered it in Lebanon in the '80s and had to move it about to keep it safe as civil war broke out. It was then restored by RM Restorations, part of what's now the RM Sotheby's auction house, in the late 2000s.
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