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Hannibal Twin-8 (Professor Fate's car)

posted 19 years ago by vhm_14u2c
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Does anyone know where it is today?

Also, the same question about the "Leslie Special".

Thanks,

vhm_14u2c

"Never under estimate the powers of a dark clown" - Tripping the Rift (Pilot)

[–] [email protected] 19 years ago

And does anyone know who designed them? I thought I'd heard mechanical genius Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth built the Twin-8 (a lot of those California car guys made special movie cars)

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[–] Zipper69 19 years ago

It was custom builder Dean Jeffries that designed both cars.

[–] shureman61 19 years ago

My search finds the Hannibal 8 in the Petersen Automotive Museum.

Here's the link

www.petersen.org/default.cfm?DocId=1813&CarID=257

[–] vhm_14u2c 19 years ago

Thanks for the link. That is the best info/pic I seen so far about the HT-8 on the net.

vhm_14u2c

"Never under estimate the powers of a dark clown" - Tripping the Rift (Pilot)

[–] artimation 18 years ago

Some friends of mine recently made a trip to the Peterson and took a ton of pictures for me. That H28 is so heavily 'restored' it bears only a superficial resemblance the original. :(

Apparently it was obtained from Val Kilmer's father in such terrible shape they basically built a new one. As far as I could tell, the only original part on it might be the frame and scissors lift. For instance, the fenders, which are attached to and go up with the body on the original, are part of the frame and stay down on this rebuild.

It is however diplayed next to the sound activated torpedo, and IT looks to be in original condition.

Both are on loan from here:

http://old-cars.net/picturecars/misc.htm

If you look closely at the pictures on that site, you can see the FULL SIZE Professor Fate submarine behind the car!

[–] apple314 18 years ago

I heard somewhere that, along with the HT-8 (which I like to call Fate's Franken-car), Dean Jeffries also designed to original (TV) Batmobile & the Monkeemobile.

[–] SinemaGirl 16 years ago

Dean Jeffries' name is in the credits of the TV show for doing the Monkeemobile. George Barris turned the Lincoln Futura concept car into the Batmobile.

I remember seeing the Hannibal Twin 8 in a movie called "Charge of the Model Ts" so it (or one of them) got a fair bit of use after "The Great Race."

[–] sleepymiller 19 years ago

The "Trivia" bit says there were 6 of them made for the film, so there should be others out there

[–] midnightanimal 19 years ago

I saw it in denmark back in the 80's. I think it's still there @ petersen's museum.
I have seen this movie maybe 50 times. When I was kid and came back from school I spent my evenings watching 'Raiders of the lost Ark', 'Jaws' or 'The Great Race' on video.
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[–] piratejoe-1 19 years ago

The Leslie Special, at least one version of the car, appeared with Tony Curtis at the end of the Great Race, the modern Great Race, in Monterey, Ca, last year. I got a great pic of it, but I don't know where it is now. But there is at least one running version around.

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[–] tmac396 18 years ago

I saw both the Hannibal 8 and The Leslie Special at the Hollywood Casino in Tunica MS a cuople of years ago. They were in a fountain display on an iceberg, so I couldn't get as close as i would have liked.

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[–] shandy8 16 years ago

I saw the Hannibal 8 at "Cars of the Stars" museum in Buena Park many years ago; it was adjecent to the Movieland Wax Museum. Unfortunately, both museums are now gone, but I was thrilled to see it, but I remember being disappointed that the ice-melting protrusion in front was not functional (I love the sound it makes when Fate gingerly touched it).

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[–] Haverchuck_Is_King 14 years ago

I saw it at Cars of the Stars too. That place was pretty cool.