Many people may recall the original three films that formed the Mad Max franchise: Mad Max, Mad Max 2, and Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome. Well if you have missed the barrage of television and online previews for it, this past weekend marked the release of George Miller’s fourth Mad Max film Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. Yours truly happened to catch the flick on Sunday night, and I can tell you firsthand that it was worth the price of admission… if nothing else for the cars.

Those in charge must have been well aware that they had their work cutout for them when it came to surpassing the sinister automotive creations that debuted in the original series, and they didn’t disappoint. Supposedly, around 130 cars were used in the making of Fury Road and they are all impressive in their own right.

That being said, we happened to notice a C3 careening through the arid wastelands complete with a large machine gun mounted aft complete with a gunner’s chair. In actuality, this vehicle is a C3 body bolted atop a Holden one-ton truck chassis that was constructed by the Sydney, Australia-based company, Custom Performance Modification in the 1970s. Offscreen the car is known as the Perentti.

According to Road & Track, the truck chassis was a full 22 inches longer than the C3 body would allow with its 120-inch wheelbase. So, all in all the Corvette ended up a little disproportioned when compared to a factory third gen body. However, it has served well for Tinsel Town and we were happy to see one of America’s sports cars, however unlikely and misshapen, to be tearing through the post-apocalyptic landscape on the silver screen.

You can see her sitting here: last row, second from the left.