‘The Green Hornet’ Isn’t Just About The Car

Currently a surprise hit at the movies is ‘The Green Hornet’ starring Seth Rogen and Jay Chou.   Playboy Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) becomes the new publisher of Los Angeles’ “The Daily Sentinel” after the sudden death of his father. Britt’s party life is about to change when he and his driver and kung fu expert, Kato (Jay Chou), stop a robbery. With the help of Kato, Britt starts a new career of fighting crime as the unconventional masked superhero “The Green Hornet”.

Kato is the real hero of the partnership with martial arts and extreme engineering skills which produce the film’s awesome and virtually indestructible car ‘The Black Beauty’   However when not saving innocent lives or his partners ass from either the villains or his own ineptitude, Kato is a biker.

The hero’s preferred ride is a customized V-Rod Muscle which features a chopped rear fender, V-Rod Destroyer wheels, rear-set foot controls, and a bespoke LED headlamp.  The V-Rod is a nice looking bike and these mods add to the bikes presence and the lamp gives it a bit of a futuristic edge.  Perhaps HD should release a special edition!

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But since I’ve mentioned the car, and folks can be car and bike enthusiastists it’s only fair to give you a few specs on The Black Beauty which puts any Bond car, or the Batmobile to shame.

Black Beauty” is a 1964-1966 Chrysler Imperial that features, take a deep breath; gm performance zz454 500hp crate motor, race trans turbo 400 manual valve body transmission, moser ford 9 inch rear differential w/4.56 gears & detroit locker, 4 wheel 12 inch disc brakes, twin calipers in rear for stunts, speedway engineering front & rear sway bars, art carr shifter, hooker headers, flowmaster mufflers, coyes 20×10 rear wheels 20×9 front, goodyear tires, off road unlimited rear drop springs, tubular panhard bar and traction bars, rebuilt factory front suspension dropped 3 inches, 12-gallon jaz fuel cell, demon 750cfm carbuerator, k&n air cleaner, msd distributer and 6al box, be-cool aluminum radiator, twin optima batteries, autometer gauges, grant steering wheel, tommy lee steering box, march engine accessary drive system, earls transmission cooler, paint and body work by jack’s auto body, clear glass from allen auto glass, and interior by reubens auto upholstery.

…and should you be a gun nut as well a car fan, the Beauty is packing…

• 2 hood mounted, retractable .30 Caliber M1919 Browning Machine Guns – cartridge-fed
• 8 FIM-92A Stinger Missiles – front bumper loaded
• 1 M2 Grill mounted Flamethrower – modified
• 2 Benelli M2 20 Gauge Shotguns loaded with non-lethal, kinetic impact munitions rifles (rubber bullets / beanbags) – mounted in the light bezels
• 4 FIM-92A Stinger Missiles – rear bumper loaded
• 1 .30 Caliber M1919A6 Browning Machine Gun on tripod mount – trunk
• 2 Retractible front wheel anti-riot spikes
• 6 AR-15, 12 Gauge modified door guns – inset 3 per front suicide door