{"id":335669,"date":"2010-02-18T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/18\/behold-the-firebreather-camaro-based-movie-car-is-more-than-mee\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:01:00","slug":"behold-the-firebreather-camaro-based-movie-car-is-more-than-meets-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335669","title":{"rendered":"Behold the FireBreather: Camaro-based movie car is more than meets the eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Aftermarket<\/a>, Concept Cars<\/a>, Coupe<\/a>, Chevrolet<\/a><\/p>\n

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FireBreather Hero Car – Click above for image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nWhen pictures of a camo-clad coupe<\/a> surfaced earlier this week, the rumormill went into overdrive, with speculation that the Camaro<\/a>-based prototype was the second coming of the Z\/28<\/a> or one of the rebodied<\/a> Firebird<\/a> replicas<\/a> we’ve seen making the auto show rounds in the last year. The truth, as always, is far more interesting.<\/p>\n

Exodus Pictures<\/a>, a Michigan-based production company currently working on a new feature film, created the custom body kit for the 2010 Camaro for its lead role in an upcoming movie Jinn<\/em>. The FireBreather<\/a> was designed by the film’s director, Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad – an Art Center College of Design graduate – and created by Classic Design Concepts, which helped create the Mustang-based Knight Rider GT500 for the recently canned TV show.<\/p>\n

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Although the photos we published earlier this week were taken without the vehicle producer’s knowledge, Faisal Ahmad’s decision to cloak the Camaro in camouflage was part of a marketing campaign that was set to begin next week. That plan is out the window now, and the FireBreather will be unveiled at the Detroit Autorama next weekend.<\/p>\n

Although a single bespoke movie car isn’t that compelling, Ahmad disclosed to us that Exodus plans to create 50 limited edition models of the rebodied Camaro. Originally, there were discussions with a few aftermarket companies to create the body kit, but the size, scope and capacity of the endeavor was apparently too much for the small outfits to handle.<\/p>\n

We’re hoping to have live shots of the FireBreather from its unveiling next weekend, and look for another update on this newest hero car in the coming days.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong><\/em>: According to our man on the inside, the FireBreather will be packing a supercharged V8 churning out around 630 horsepower. <\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATE 2:<\/em><\/strong> Full release on the movie and the car after the jump.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gallery: Reader Spy: FireBreather Camaro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Concept Cars, Coupe, Chevrolet FireBreather Hero Car – Click above for image gallery When pictures of a camo-clad coupe surfaced earlier this week, the rumormill went into overdrive, with speculation that the Camaro-based prototype was the second coming of the Z\/28 or one of the rebodied Firebird replicas we’ve seen making the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}