Hot Rods Look what i found at walmart...LIL RED COFFIN

great parking lot. hope u did not go in the store. do not support wal-mart. the junk they sell is killing the job markret here in the USA.

BUY AMERICAN AND KEEP AMERICA WORKING

 

are you sure that's the original restored? as I recall it was redone in the 70's to some purpleish monky wards delivery and totally screwed up.

that car is extra cool... one of the top show rods of all time in my book.

anybody got the car craft with the very first pre Lil' Coffin version on the cover?

 

sweet............

 

Thank God it's been restored to its former glory, It looked like shit when they redid it a few years ago.

 

Hey,

Didn't "The Lil Coffin" have two iterations, the one as a "different" lookin' '32 sedan and than the show/model version? I'm not even going to count what happened to it in the seventies/eighties!

Swankey Devils C.C.
"Meanwhile, back aboard The Tainted Pork"

 

I must have missed the second incarnation of that. Sounds like I should be happy that I didn't see it. Are there pictures of that one somewhere?

 

The Demon was the Hot Wheels car.

 

sweet!!! I had that model car! dont know what happened to that, i may have to go look threw my old stuff at moms. When i was a kid that car got me intrested in customs. thats just too cool!!!

 

Crap! That's the WalMart in Derby, ain't it?
I drove by this morning and I didn't see them out there!

The Lil Coffin looks sweet!!!!!!!!!!
Darryl Starbird finally redeems himself for butching up Dave Stuckey's incredible creation.

It's the coolest kustomized rod ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It is the original one ,it was done up twice and starbird got it back and wanted to put it back to the way it was when he first did it. There was a story in Rod and Custom a couple years ago about this but guess no one read it as there were no pics.Also was a story about it on Starbirds website about the same time.

 

Looks great to me, actually it looks even more radical because I think it is lower in the front.




Just to confuse matters more, I believe someone had built a clone of this now latest version. I've seen pics of the clone and it appeared to have a roof that was too short.

 

I pulled this page from Rikster's site to show some of the "CAR-nage". Not pictured are the topless version, or the two piece windshield.
(Be sure to check out the "Monkey Ward"!)



By the way, if that is the original "El Matador" in the original post (there is a very nice clone), then its restoration from fire damage is equally remarkable.

 

It was called the Prowler for a while (c. 1978) in orange, green and chrome.

I had the lil Coffin model way back and LOVED that car. Great to see it out again for real. Thanks for the post!

 

bttt cuz it's so fuckin cool.......................

 

My own personal favorite was the 1980 version. 13 years old, walking into the annual Starbird show at the Municipal in Topeka, and that car being the first thing I saw. Grabbed me in a place that only women have done since...

I could have done without the Monkey Ward Delivery, but it's a shame that he kept redoing the same car rather than building new versions of the Fabulous Phaeton and the 1993 Coffin. Both of those were cool enough that they should still exist.

 

Absolutely bichin,is it street legal?

 

I'm wondering the same thing. There is a windshield on it, I don't recall that piece of glass before.

 

God I LOVE that car....

 

It was there. Look really closely at the pic in the top right of the R&C article above, and you can see the windshield. I have the Starbird book (got it for Christmas - thanks wife), and it's clear that the car always had a windshield.

 

Racewriter,
Yes, I stand corrected. I see it now, good observation.

 

Here's a more complete story of the Lil Coffin's many lives.
Doesn't show the Monkey Ward version, though - but who cares about that?

Only the original is the best!
http://www.customclinic.com/fullcust/Stuckey/stuckey.html

 

I love the original as much as the coffin style so I had to find this mag:

 

How about a better pic of the purple bubbletop? I like it! Thanks for posting the pics.

 

I agree

 

Isnt the show in oklahoma in febuary at this museum? El matdor also rocks

 

The Show in February is in Tulsa and the one at his Museum is in the middle of May.

 

This is the one that some one needs to clone. Wouldn't that be KOOL!!!!

 

Thanks for posting. I had that model when I was a kid.

 

There was a model kit of this version too, kind of a crude kit, but cool.