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Thanksgiving blog
Hello, dear readers! I’m thinking about what I’m thankful for this year, and the older I get, the more freedom is to me. We honored those who served on Veteran’s Day when we looked at Patton’s Command Car, but I’ve still been thinking about all of the men and women who have worked and sacrificed [...]
Ode to Opulence, with a side of Bimmer
We have possibly ventured into Christopher Nolan’s film Inception; over the weekend, car-Twitter lit up with photos of a BMW M4 towing a trailer in Taiwan. This wasn’t just any trailer, however, but the chopped rear-end of another M4, painted to match. People have been trying to find the owner to ask them how and why they chose to [...]
The Munsters Kreapy Koach!
In early 1964, famed Hollywood car customizer George Barris was given only 21 days to create one of the most famous “haunted” cars in television history. While many hot rods and custom cars would appear in TV’sThe Munsters,the famous Munster Koach was the most memorable ride to ever transport one of America’s freakiest families. Therefore, [...]
The Addams Family Packard
supernatural real-world sense as our other entries, this one holds a special place in the hearts of many Americans. While it might not be the most famous monster machine of them all, the Addam’s Family’s 1933 Packard V-12 limo is a piece for the haunted history books.The Packard 12 was one of America’s first and [...]
The Ghost Car of Lanikai
It’s Monday, dear readers, and time for our tenth Cursed Car of Halloween. Today, we go to sunny Hawaii for a little bit of local superstition. I dug way back into my internet archives for a site calledCastle of Spiritsfor this tale of terror because I have a friend who swears that it happened to [...]
The Wraith Revisited
One of my favorite films of all time is a spooky supernatural revenge thriller centered around a cursed car. We discussed this film a few years back in one of our first blog posts, but I felt that it was high time we gave this excellent piece of ‘80s cinema a second look. In 1986, [...]
Kennedy’s Lincoln
Welcome back, Cocomats family! Today we have our Saturday edition of our 13 Cursed Cars of Halloween. We are back stateside for this car with an event that shocked and disturbed the entire nation: the assassination of John F. Kennedy.Most of us either witnessed Kennedy’s assassination at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald either on [...]
A Ghost in Surrey and a Phantom Double-Decker
Following the spirit of yesterday’s feature on the Black Volga of Poland, we bring you two true vehicular ghost stories from just across the pond in England. The first is the Ghost Crash of Surrey, and the second is the Phantom Bus of London.Surrey is the 12th largest county of England and is home to [...]
Curse of Cape Town and the Black Volga
Welcome back, CocoMats family, to our 13 Cursed Cars of Halloween special! Today, we’re looking at two international urban legends whose truth might be even stranger than fiction.First, we travel to Cape Town, a land that is no stranger to urban legends and superstition. Though the Pinky Pinky and the Mermaids of Kaloo might belong [...]
The 330 Limited Golden “Evil”
We’ve decided to continue the CocoMats blog every day leading up to October 31 with our 13 Cursed Cars for Halloween! Creepy side note - 31 backwards is 13. How delightfully eeeevil!Today brings us back stateside for the killer car that was the inspiration for Stephen King’s Christine,a 1964 Dodge 330 Limited nicknamed them Golden [...]
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