Kevin Hart injured in crash that destroyed his Hellcat-powered Barracuda

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
2 Sep 2019
1 min read

Kevin Hart has suffered serious back injuries when his 522kW (700hp) Hellcat-powered 1970 Plymouth Barracuda left a road in Malibu and rolled over.

The famed comedian and car fan was a passenger in the hand-built machine, which he had only purchased in July this year.

Built by renowned shop SpeedKore, who have built high-end muscle cars for Marvel Avengers co-stars Robert Downey Jnr and Chris Evans, the super-desirable Chrysler E-body was being driven by a friend of Hart's. 

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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