Happily, Elvira and her car were reunited years later. She said, "Yeah, I was offered to buy the car when the film wrapped, but 1) I didn't have a garage where I could store a 'permanent' convertible, and 2) it didn't run! I just didn't want to deal with it at the time." and the rest is history." After the Movie Elvira, Mistress of the DarkĪfter the film wrapped, Elvira and the 1959 Ford Thunderbird aka Macabre Mobile parted ways. ![]() in Hollywood one day and spotted a '59 T-Bird convertible and immediately knew, that's Elvira's car!"Įlvira explains, "Unfortunately, buying one was way out of our production budget, but luckily for me, the prop department found an old hard top clunker we could afford. She continues, "Yes, I was walking down Melrose Ave. So, once we started filming Mistress of the Dark, we had to think about what the Macabre Mobile would actually look like since we had written scenes in the movie where I would have to drive it." A Car Was BornĪfter a run-in with a saw-wielding prop department for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the classic car was transformed into a Ford Thunderbird "permanent convertible" that matched her gorgeous goth character tit for tat. "I'd talked about 'jumping into my ole macabre mobile' at the end of my TV show, Movie Macabre, for years. "It's actually a 1959 T-Bird." explains Elvira. So, to get to the bottom of things, we went straight to the source and had a chat with Elvira herself so the Queen of Halloween could dish out the devilish details and the origin story of her Macabre Mobile. ![]() ![]() Elvira Tells the Story of the Macabre Mobile
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