Motorcycle Cop: “Whatcha got in the trunk?” Parnell: “Oh… You don’t wanna look in there.”

The 1984 classic, Repo Man, features a green glowing 1964 Chevy Malibu with perhaps radiated alien bodies in the trunk. Though it’s not fully revealed in the movie what’s in the trunk, alien bodies fit perfect with my Roswell ’98 setting.

Greenlight’s 1:64 line is my default for all vehicles on this long running project, but I couldn’t find a ’64 Chevy Malibu. What they do offer though is a ’73 Chevy Malibu from the movie Drive. Drive is also a classic flick and another, along with Repo Man, that I rank very highly. Both have banging soundtracks as well. So, I thought it’d be cool to have a not-Repo Man car using the car from Drive. It’s close enough.

I plan on using the Malibu as an objective piece in my R98 games. If the trunk opened, I’d probably have dropped a Rebel alien body in it, but here we’ve got aliens and smugglers in a standoff over whatever’s in the trunk of the Malibu.

Life in Roswell ’98 is always intense!