The Vehicle Meets a State Trooper

The beast of a car comes down the highway.

Modified all to hell and clearly hauling ass from one place to another: big giant engine coming out and a front grill which looks like it is about to participate in a demolition derby.

The State Trooper looking at the car doesn’t know whether to laugh or piss his pants in fear since he knows there is no way in hell he is going to be able to stop this vehicle.

Then the vehicle shifts and the State Trooper realizes there is going to be a collision between the two of them. He scrambles to find and figure out how to get out of the way, but the seconds go by way to fast and the vehicle clips his car.

The speed and the construction of the vehicle creates an impact which sends the State Trooper’s car careening up the slope on the side of the road crushing it into trees.

He can’t call out on the radio. It just won’t work for him. As the shock takes further hold of him, the State Trooper tries to figure out how and why this just happened.

The vehicle continues on its run.

Copyright 2010 by Casey Moore

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Bootlegging Inspiration - Some Screen Cars

Bootlegging - More Inspiration

Gallery of muscle cars:

Paul Pope Hot Rod

More inspiration from Paul Pope:

The car is based on an experimental model designed by Chip Foose, which is about the closest thing I could find in the real world to the kind of cars Kirby would invent for his stories. I've seen some crazier customized cars based on the Hot Wheels toys, and those are downright bizarre-- a little too far out for this story. The Foose car you could probably drive on the highway and not scare the locals.

In the real world, you never see cars like this in Manhattan since the winter weather is so rough, but when did the real world ever get in the way of Jack Kirby's imagination?

And some more from an earlier post on the same piece:

A pannel from my teenage Human Torch vs. teenage Spider-Man story, appearing in the anniversary issue of The Fantastic Four. Here Johnny and his pal Wyatt Wingfoot tool-up Johnny's race car. I always loved those crazy machines Kirby would invent for his stories-- the Forever People had their Super-Cycle, Orion had that...whatever that thing was... and The Fantastic Four had their Fantasti-Car. Kirby's idea of a car was like someone taking one of those saucer-cupped seats from the sit-and-spin Mad Hatter ride at Disney World, re-casting it in shining steel, painting lightning bolts on the sides, and sticking giant tires, chrome pipes, and a massive jet-engine beneath the frame.

A couple of years ago, some friends and I had the good fortune to visit the M.I.T. Media Lab, which is where geniuses build the kinds of machines geniuses build when they are left alone and have proper budgets to finance their ideas. We saw experimental robots and lazers and musical instruments and computers for the blind and some other things too weird to explain without diagrams. The nanotech wing was financed by the military, and it was the only area which was off-limits, but the rest was open to us. The Media Lab is the real Baxter Building, that celebrated skyscraper where Mister Fantastic dreams up his fantastic machines in the mythical Marvel Comics universe.

In the Media Lab's automotive wing, we saw incredible designs for cars-of-the-future which were heart-breakingly far-out, strange and beautiful. They were like the kinds of things Kirby would've designed if he were born as an industrial engineer instead of a cartoonist. These were all crazy, incredible vehicles, ergonomically designed machines built around the shape of a person's reclining body in repose-- cars like sleek metal cocoons on wheels. There were other designs for cars which could fold up like lawn chairs. Still other had rounded "bubble" forms, electric engines, and a variety of three, four, or five wheeled designs built on frames which could spin freely in three-sixty rotations, making parallel parking and taking corners a breeze. There were even some which could fly. The variations went on and on, each one different and new, each one a thrill to see, each one a kind of marvellous Fantasti-Car all its own.

Citroen SM - Car & Girl Pic

Found through Jalopnik:



Inspiration for the script I am writing. Which involves cars moving very fast.