Found: WWE Vince McMahon’s Rage Cement-filled Corvette
It’s been more than 20 years since the famous WWE feud between Vince McMahon and Stone Cold Steve Austin finale.
Professional wrestling was huge in the late 1990s. It was the so-called “attitude” era, and no wrestler exemplified that attitude better than Stone Cold Steve Austin. And that’s the bottom line, ’cause Stone Cold said so.
One of the major storylines of that time had Stone Cold feuding with WWE president Vince McMahon. The most memorable moment of the feud happened on the October 12, 1998 episode of Monday Night Raw, and it didn’t even happen inside of a wrestling ring.
Stone Cold hijacked a cement truck and drove it to a parking garage where Mr. McMahon’s “$50,000 Corvette” was parked. Showing unusual proficiency with heavy equipment, he parked the truck near the Corvette and lowered the chute into the Corvette’s interior. We wonder if Stone Cold is forklift certified, too?
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Mr. McMahon watched in horror as Stone Cold filled his Corvette up with cement through the open targa top. He filled it up so much that all of the glass besides the windshield burst. The announcer states that it’s a $50,000 car, but Corvette aficionados know better. This is a 1986 or a 1987 model – certainly a nice car, but not too expensive for WWE to buy it just to destroy it for a stunt, even back in 1998.
So what happened to the cement-filled Corvette, anyways? According to Auto Evolution, a man by the name of Jim Cooper stumbled upon the car by accident while walking around Norwalk, Connecticut, just a few miles away from WWE headquarters in Stamford.
Even overlooking the cement-filled interior, this Corvette has seen better days. Nearly 22 years of exposure to the elements has resulted in the once shiny paint going flat and dull, while the vibrant red interior – at least, the parts that weren’t covered with cement – have been bleached an ugly orange color by the sun.
The most interesting part to us, though, is the garden that has grown inside of the car’s cockpit. This Corvette may never see the road again, but it still serves a purpose.
Photos: Auto Evolution/Jim Cooper
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