Rick van Stippent from Vught has recreated the Chevrolet Caprice classic convertible from the Flodder films in every detail: bright pink on the outside and bright green leather upholstery on the inside. He hit the road for the first time on Tuesday. Rick is making a dream come true with this iconic car.
“When I used to go get a videotape of one of the Flodder films for a few guilders, I always said: I want a car just like Johnnie Flodder, but new. Well there it is!”, says the 29- birthday Rick proud. The car is not new, but looks like new. Rick has a company where usually exclusive cars are taken care of down to the last detail.
The copy that Johnnie Flodder used to make the neighborhood unsafe in the movies, Rick found in the south of Germany. The 1973 car search video is on the Youtube Channel by Rick nearly 200,000 views.
“It has 95,000 miles on it, that’s about 160,000 miles, but we made it like new again,” says Rick. “When you drive it, it’s really an experience and people are on the street watching with their mouths open.”
Rick is a perfectionist and doesn’t think anyone else can get behind the wheel anytime soon. “I enjoy driving it with my children and when they are a bit older I will show them all of Flodder’s films. For me, those films are part of Dutch history and so is this car.”