Best news of all is that EV power is no more under the hood!

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!

So Happy To See That 632 Go In X

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.

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."

Project X: My favorite car of all time, and still lives on in a modified form.

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.

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.

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.

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! 😎

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 had the luxury of seeing the new build in progress. Such an awesome car!!! Big Block!!

That car is legend. They should leave it how it was in the the movie 👍👍

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. 👍❤

Unreal that Tony got to drive and Michelle got to ride in Project X!!!

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.

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! 😃

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!

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

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).

Absolutely love your channel man! Can't wait for more :)

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?

Well Done .. ( glad you got the latest update )... A truly iconic car..

Great coverage of Project X. I miss Popular Hot Rodding magazine

Love these!!!

Very informative video. Thanks 👊

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!

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.

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👍

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!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE PROJECT X!!!!!

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 KZfaq.

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. 😎😁

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.

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.

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!

So cool.

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

The blown 283 was the coolest. 😎

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...

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!

Lucky Costa!!!

Another great episode. I always wondered what happened to that car

Damn good movie, always wondered what that smoke was about.

I like it very sweet 👍👍👍👍👍😁

Thank you

The HK set-up is my favorite .

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 🤔.

Thank God they put a REAL engine back in.

3:56 obviously that sport coupe is not X.

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"

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.

That black 57 on blocks was a hardtop. Project X is a post.

Lucky shows up with a big block and saves the day.

SHOULD PUT A BLOWER BACK ON IT. ITS ICONIC LOOK BACK THEN MADE THE CAR

I thought the body and interior mods performed in 07 were a little gaudy, but the EV conversion was just plain insulting…

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

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.

I had no clue Project X was the the car from Hollywood Knights. NO CLUE!

4:14 Lucky!!!

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.

Anybody remembers the other Pop Rod mag cars, project 32 and project Mopar?

What a disgrace making it electric. Sickening

Rear fender wells went from being cut out to not cut out

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… 🙂

Anyone out there know what happened to the 40 ford coupe from the scene where jimmy shine was getting a going away gift.

would anyone have a complete collection of magazines that featured articals on the project x for sale ,,thanks

I hope you do Christine and the Cody Coyote.

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

2023, if Tony Danza even owns a car at all I'm willing to bet its not a manual transmission.

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. 😄

Any chance of a video of “Pepe”, My Little Mule” from Romancing the Stone?

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!

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.

When was it converted from a hardtop coupe to a 150 post

I'm glad you took out that e motor it just doesn't belong.in that car !

Hmm, sounds interesting.

put a 8 71 blower on the 632.

I loved that movie and the cars but I still gotta give the hottest award to Michelle Pheifer…boy was she cute 😍😍😂😂

I didn't see the "Christine" red Plymouth fury in your line up? Or the GTO in My science project 🤔

Have anything on Smokey and bandit cars.

Did GM buy out Bill Mitchell for the 632?

At least they put a BBC back in it👍

It was painted “Tony Danza Yellow”

Hay mate,the comments are off on the next one😢

If its had a 427 and a 502 in it before, why would the firewall need to be modified for the 632???

Very Good!... #167 ✝ {8-19-2023}

$700.00 I could buy 10 of them right now.😪

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?

the motor blew in the movie, can see the white smoke in the film

They did, but it was just converted back to gas with Chevys new 632 big block

I loved how they put the EV in and pissed off all the "Fiddy Seven" sooks

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.

Needs to take a few steps back. Something that’s affordable the average mechanic can do in his 2 car garage.

When it was killer till they destroyed it by making it into a EV

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.

1:00 why i chuckle when someone finds an old 50s or 60s something barn find with "low miles shes only got 54k" ....folks ,its fairly played out and its probably had a valve job at least alteady 🤦

Project X's manager saw what happened to Budweiser so he threw the most bad ass Chevy engine he could find in it so now he thinks he's totally redeemed himself.