It is 1980s goodness day here at Celebrity Car Death Match world HQ because we’re putting the effin’ Coyote X from Hardcastle and McCormick into the death match ring with the weirdo car from the movie The Wraith. Two cars that helped put the bad guys away and central parts of the show/movie that they appeared in. One is a kit car the other is a genuine manufacturer concept car, turned movie star. Before we delve too deeply into those mysteries, here’s Friday’s results:
[box_dark]The evil Car from “The Car” takes on the Goblin big rig from Maximum Overdrive
The Car DEFEATS The Goblin Big Rig
Something tells us that a round two match with Christine is imminent…stay tuned for that![/box_dark]
Let’s kick this fight off with the mysterious machine from the 1980s cult classic flick, “The Wraith”. Long story short, there’s a bad guy who is in charge of a gang that is getting people into street races and then stealing their cars. Along the way, they kill a guy and everyone knows it, but the chief evil doer in charge has such a tight grip on the powers that be in town, no one car do anything. No one, that is outside of the mysterious weirdo that drives a slick black car and starts killing bad guy gang members one by one. Turns out, Charlie Sheen plays the guy in the mystery car and no, he does not use cocaine as a weapon in this film. The car he drives, which can be seen below, is a 1984 Dodge concept car called the M4S turbo interceptor. He takes no mercy on anyone in this thing, with regard to the bad guys in the gang. While there are no “special powers” shown, the thing appears to be other worldly and despite the fact that Sheen is essentially a mass murderer by the end of the film, the local law enforcement looks the other way. Justice, bitches.
Speaking of justice, in this corner we have the famed Coyote X, driven by former convict and race car driver Mark “Skid McCormick. Skid had run afoul of the law again, but was hooked up with unorthodox retired judge Milton Hardcastle. Long story short, Hardcastle had a couple hundred bad guys skate in his court over the years for technicalities and he wants these guys brought to justice. McCormick agrees to help him if he gets the Coyote X and stays out of the klink. The dudes agree and three seasons of awesome TV followed, highlighted by chases involving the Coyote X. This car was actually built off of molds pulled from a McLaren. Lots of the car is dead nuts McLaren and other parts are not. The rear deck lid is an example of the “not” part. Also not like the McLaren, this thing was based on a VW chassis and used a Porsche 914 engine. Ruh ro…those two facts may have a negative effect on this battle for the Coyote!
WE NEED YOUR VOTES IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW! TELL US WHO WOULD WIN THE DDEATH MATCH BETWEEN THE CAR FROM THE WRAITH AND THE COYOTE X FROM HARDCASTLE AND MCCORMICK! COMMENT BELOW!
Most of the death mach cars have been pretty fair….. but this one.
It is like wrestling where “The Ultimate Manly Warrior” romps up ring side with the cannons going off, the DJ screaming, and some theme song written by Sousa preformed by Slash. To face Bob.
Bob the Coyote doesn’t stand a chance.
Steve
I think the coyote is cooler by far, but i think the turbo interceptor would be better in a death match.
Turbo interceptor wins
Poor Coyote… the Coyote never wins.
The Wraith will make the Coyote roadkill.
Rather than voting…can we see these 2 cars smashed head-on at about 100mph ?? That would be far cooler.
Gotta go with the Coyote… if for no other reason than the engine shot in the Wraith that showed some sort of nuclear reactor like powerplant ruins it for me. That was almost as bad as the engine scene in Transfromers… Then again, I would rather see Megan Fox leaning over a fender uttering mechanical-like nonsense rather than Clint Howard
I’m sorry.. but i love the coyote… maybe because i grew up watching hardcastle and mccormick.. so i’m all for the coyote…
What??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? A VW kit car against another VW kit car? Give me a break. Neither win. But the Wraith does look meaner.
I’ll go with the Wraith.
sorry, the turbo interceptor runs on tiger blood. its by-winning.
Coyote X
McLaren looks for the win.
Since the wraith was indestructible and a Chrysler concept car it gets the win over the Vw kit. MOPAR OR NO CAR!!
“Jake, Jake…….JAMIEEEEEEEEEEEE”
me, Skank and Gutterboy pick
The Wraith
the wraith…winning.
on looks alone Coyote
the wraith … its a worlock… winning duhh
I don’t care for the Coyote’s German accent. The Wraith on the other hand in addition to being a Dodge concept was a PPG demonstrator with a $40K paint job, while the movie it was in got the endorsement of the car mags of the day.
The vote is the Wraith.
In my boyhood dreams it was Coyote and still is.
I know its just a prop but it has the look.
Coyote.
Those old Manta kit cars(what the Coyote was built from) were/are pretty cool…check the fan sites, some of’em are V-8 screamers. Coyote gets my vote in that form(even if the cars used in production sucked eggs performance-wise).
this is like politics . do you vote for the least moronic of the two dorks ? or spoil your ballot in protest. hmmmmm, can I assassinate them both? hey look two asses ,ahh the dangerous ramblings of drunken posting, what the hell coyote it is.
The Wraith, because its a badass car with Mopar heritage.
I like “Davey’s” head-on idea – but only if Charlie Sheen was driving both cars!!
Coyote X