I can't buy this right now, but someone really should: the Dalta Tau Chi deathmobile from Animal House. 
It's apparently here in Jacksonville. The turret and side cladding must be removable. Quite the piece of movie history. Not mine, etc.:
http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/cto/1348316227.html
Tom
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Sept. 1, 2009 3:05 p.m. conesare2seconds New Reader
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Sept. 1, 2009 3:17 p.m. JFX001 Dork
Hmmm...I always thought that it was made from an early 60's Lincoln Continental....based on the car trashed in the movie.
*EDIT...while I can't dispute the validity of the car being sold as a "movie car",it doesn't appear to be the same as the one from the movie stills here:
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Sept. 1, 2009 3:28 p.m. bludroptop Dork
It is likely that multiple cars were used in the movie, but I seem to remember that Flounder's brother's Lincoln was a suicide-4-door.
Anyway, hit up Google and there are multiple hits for the movie car at $20k.
This ad looks like it starts with an "S" and ends with a "cam".
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Sept. 1, 2009 4:19 p.m. carzan Reader
JFX001 wrote:
Hmmm...I always thought that it was made from an early 60's Lincoln Continental....based on the car trashed in the movie.
*EDIT...while I can't dispute the validity of the car being sold as a "movie car",it doesn't appear to be the same as the one from the movie stills here:
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Still cool, though. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/12/animal-house-ca.html This one is clearly a suicide 4 door.
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Sept. 1, 2009 5:39 p.m. Woody SuperDork
Also, I think the movie was set in 1962. I doubt they would have featured a '69 so prominently.
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Sept. 1, 2009 7:01 p.m. Jensenman MegaDork
That definitely is NOT the Animal House car. It was the inspiration for our first LeMons car meaning I checked out plenty of pictures to try to get reasonably close. I've also watched that movie enough times to know.
The movie car was not a 2 door of any type. You can see the body gaps for the 2 rear doors in the pictures if you look closely. Also, you can see the door handle depressions which indicate it was really was a suicide door Lincoln.
It had a round instead of square 'turret'.
It had the head of the Faber College founder (the statue's head, not the real thing!) on the hood.
The ad's a scam. 'Nuff said.
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Sept. 1, 2009 7:20 p.m. shuttlepilot Reader
I could have swore I saw the Animal house car on the Universal Studios California tour.
