This weekend in Arizona, at a celebrity Barrett-Jackson car auction, the custom built '55 F100 that Sly drives in the film sold for a whopping $132,000, well worth it if you ask me.
This wasn't the only celebrity vehicle to be sold at the auction, Evel Knievel's famous truck was sold, a few cars once owned by Bret Michaels, Elvis Presley, and Alice Cooper's custom Camaro, were all up for auction as well.
Here's some background on the truck for those who don't know.
It's a 1956 Ford F-100 fully customized into a 1955 by the very talented crew over at West Coast Customs, it has a brand new 347 Edelbrock engine, B&M transmission.
Brand new Lexani 20" rims with low profile tires.
Full Gibson exhaust system.
Some of the more interesting additions would be the two secret compartments housing movie weapon props, one under the the center of the dash, which holds a .45 prop pistol, and one at the back of the center console that hides an MP9 submachine gun prop.
The CEO of West Coast Customs said this this about the truck.
"Stallone needed three '55 F-100's, but they're so rare that we couldn't find them in time," added Friedlinghaus. "So we started with three pretty sad 1956 models and worked 24-7 to make them look like a custom '55. "
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