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May 1, 2012 By 13 Comments

Marion Cobretti’s 1950 Mercury is one sweet ride!

cobra 1950 Mercury

This week, the League asked what is the sweetest ride cruising the streets of pop culture. For me, this was a no-brainer. The sweetest ride in any movie is Marion Cobretti’s custom 1950 Mercury Monterey from the 1986 movie, Cobra.

“You’re the disease, and I’m the cure.”

When I stayed home from school with  the sniffles, the Cobra videotape would invariably end up in the VCR–it always cured me. The movie really isn’t very good, but to my adolescent self it was AWESOME! Cobra is filled with laughably bad lines and violence, but the real star of the movie is the car. This car just shouts “Badass!” and the license plate says it all, “AWSOM 50.”

Another reason to love this car is the story behind it. The Mercury was custom built for Sylvester Stallone’s character in the film and Sly ended up as the owner. In 1994 the car was stolen, only to reappear on the auction block of a company that provided prop cars for movies. After some legal threats last year, Stallone was finally reunited with his baby.

Sadly, in the movie, the Mercury gets destroyed in true Hollywood fashion by crashing through a boat while doing a corkscrew maneuver. Here’s a link to a video of the big chase scene.

If I could have any car in Hollywood history, I can’t think of a sweeter ride to cruise around town in than this bad boy.

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  1. jboypacman says

    May 1, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    Excellent choice and one i bet most won’t think of. : )

    Reply
    • Brian says

      May 3, 2012 at 8:53 am

      Thanks, John. Can you believe Lefty beat me to it by this much…

      Reply
  2. leftylimbo says

    May 1, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    heehee…au contraire 😉

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    • Brian says

      May 3, 2012 at 8:53 am

      yeah, yeah, yeah…

      Reply
  3. Memoriesoftoymorrow says

    May 1, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    YES!!! That was an AWESOME CAR!! LOVE IT!!

    Reply
  4. Russell says

    May 3, 2012 at 8:07 am

    I’ve got a couple very special cars. They are newer but just as classic and collectible if not more so than anything produced in the 40s and 50s. I’d like to a rat rod 57 Chevy to my collection someday but I lack the space to store any more vehicles.

    Here’s a link (make sure to scroll to see all the pics!)
    There’s some real eye candy in here 😛

    http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showthread.php?t=158766

    Reply
    • Brian says

      May 3, 2012 at 8:52 am

      Russ, I appreciate how your collecting passion has grown to cover cars. 😉

      I haven’t been able to convince my wife in that pursuit. yet.

      I always thought it would be fun to have an old paddy wagon fully restored, or a 70’s van with an airbrushed pop culture mural on the side.

      Reply
  5. Jason says

    May 3, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    Great choice Brian! This is another movie that I really like(you can’t go wrong with an 80s action flick). This is one that didn’t come to mind when you came up with the assignment. Now you have me wanting to watch Cobra this weekend.

    Reply

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  1. The League: Sweet Ride. « Lefty Limbo says:
    May 1, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    […] Turns out I’m not the only one who digs Cobra’s ’50 Merc…lookit Brian over at Cool and Collected! […]

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  2. The League: Sweet Ride! « haxbee says:
    May 1, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    […] Brian, the League’s host, also champions the Cobra Mercury, while Rob Skellington at Action Figure Chat seconds the Mad Max Interceptor. Share this:EmailLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. Tagged Black Beauty, Bruce Lee, Green Hornet, The League of Extraordinary Bloggers […]

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  3. 5 Awesome pop culture vehicles I’d love to drive in real life « Cavalcade of Awesome says:
    May 2, 2012 at 9:01 am

    […] Damnation Alley 5. Brian at Cool and Collected recovers from Lefty Limbo jacking his ride and picks the 1950 Mercury from Stallone’s awesomely retarded Cobra Share this post:TwitterFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmailLike this:LikeBe the first to like this […]

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  4. The League has Spoken: Sweet Rides! — Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia says:
    May 7, 2012 at 10:18 am

    […] Brian at Cool & Collected likes his classic cars to have a bit of attitude. […]

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    October 8, 2013 at 5:11 pm

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