The Oscar winner asked Chris Mazzilli, a vintage-car restorer, to turn his gas-guzzlers green, with vegan-leather interiors and e-bike chargers, Michael Schulman writes.
It turned out that Mazzilli already knew Downey. The actor, he learned, had decided that his environmental work was incompatible with his collection of gas-guzzlers, and he asked Mazzilli to turn them green; then he’d sell them to fund his charity. “You’re probably better off doing a sweepstakes,” Mazzilli advised him. “I just did one for thirty-six Corvettes.
Mazzilli’s team swapped the gas engine for a HyPer 9 electric motor and painted the car camel brown. As a surprise for Downey, they added a rollout electric grill in the back, powered by solar panels on the roof, which also held two sustainably made surfboards. Nearby was Downey’s ’65 Corvette convertible. “This car had a three-twenty-seven-cubic-inch motor, with three hundred horsepower,” Mazzilli said.
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