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When Damian Muzzi sets up his car collection in front of his house in preparation for a trip to his next car show, it usually causes some traffic congestion in his quiet neighborhood.



That’s because he has perhaps the most unique car collection in the state.


And if you’re a fan of classic movies and television shows from the ’80s and ’90s, you’d probably add to the bottleneck yourself if you were there.



That’s because all five of his rebuilt replicas are instantly recognizable to pop culture enthusiasts: Bluesmobile from ‘The Blues Brothers’, KITT from ‘Knight Rider’, ‘The A-Team’ van, the DeLorean from ‘Back to the Future’ and the Mirthmobile from “Wayne’s World.”


It can be a thrill to see just one of the cars, but seeing all five together at a car show takes many back to their childhood.



And if you happen to see the caravan of all five rolling down the road, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a hallucination.



“The first car that comes by may not stand out, but as soon as they see the second one, they do a double take and say, ‘What’s going on?’” says Damian’s father, August, who owns Wilmington’s Angelo’s Luncheonette and usually helps drive the cars with his wife Terry.



Attention to detail


Muzzi, 45, always had project cars in his garage, working on everything from a 1968 Pontiac GTO to a 1935 Ford Tudor humpback.



But it was about a decade ago when he bought a 1982 Pontiac Trans Am and started converting it into KITT, one of the most popular cars in his collection.



Now with five Hollywood Cars in business, his hobby has turned into a company called Delaware Star Cars (facebook.com/DEStarCars). In addition to making appearances everywhere from Wilmington Blue Rocks games to car shows, including at the Hagley Museum and Library, he now allows rentals so you can have one or more of the cars at your private event.


He has done everything he can to make his versions of the famous cars as accurate on screen as possible – within his budget, of course.


Muzzi hasn’t kept track of how much money he’s pumped into his hobby business, perhaps on purpose. “I don’t want to cry at the end of the day,” he jokes.


He watches the TV shows and movies over and over again to pick up every detail, down to the three correct antennas on top of the A-Team van or the color of the fog lights.



Sometimes he can buy the parts for these projects. Sometimes he has to build them from scratch. Whatever the method, he does everything he can to get the job done right.


“He’s super talented. I don’t know where he got that from,” cracks Muzzi’s father August, who normally drives the A-Team van while his wife Terry gets behind the wheel of KITT. “He really shocks me sometimes. I look at what he’s done to these cars sometimes and all I can say is, ‘Are you kidding me?’ “


The cars are so precise that it can cause flashbacks in an unsuspecting passerby.


“The older guys get young when they walk by and realize what they’re looking at,” says Muzzi, whose co-pilot in the DeLorean is always Stella, his German shepherd. “Their past comes to life. I’m an ’80s kid, so I understand.”


The garage of his house only fits two cars and that’s where he keeps the most expensive ones: the DeLorean and KITT. The other three are in a private parking lot behind his house.



He wants to find a new place to live with his Delaware Star Cars and has a unique wish.



“I need a small house with a really big garage,” says Muzzi, whose day job is running his computer repair business. DJM Computer Repair.


He’ll need a huge garage if he ever buys his dream addition to the collection: a Freightliner FL86 cab to create his own Optimus Prime from ‘Transformers’.


The idea is not only for it to be a focal point, but if he adds a car transporter trailer, he can load up his entire collection and not have to rely on friends and family to help him transport the cars individually to each event. to ride.


KITT from ‘Knight Rider’


KITT may have been his first ‘star car’, but even after ten years it is still a work in progress.



It’s extremely detailed, especially the colorful, futuristic dashboard. And the parts are quite expensive.



But it was black when he bought it for about $8,000, so he could start working on the details, including the iconic red light on the front.


Over the years, he has used various tricks to get KITT to talk in the same voice as the car in the show, originally voiced by actor William Daniels.


He originally used MP3s with Bluetooth via a smartphone. And now he has an artificial intelligence app on his phone that allows him to tell KITT what he wants the car to say, while the car repeats it almost instantly.



Muzzi’s friend, Mark Burton, who also often helps him transport the cars, says he and Damian are having fun with the new technology, usually laughing while making someone’s day.



“We just sit on lawn chairs and let the car say, ‘Hey you in the striped shirt. Yes, it’s me, I’m talking to you,'” Burton says. “It’s hilarious.”



Muzzi even has a replica of the classic blue and gold California license plate from the show – ‘KNIGHT’ – and it also has a legit Delaware ‘KNIGHT’ vanity plate on the back, making it street legal.


‘A-Team’ van


His next project was the A-Team van, which started its makeover as a simple white van – a 1983 GMC Vandura to be exact, just like the one from the NBC action/adventure show that premiered in 1983.



In addition to the detailed antennas and fog lights, he also custom-made and painted the push bar at the front of the van to mimic the original.



“It’s all little things that a normal person wouldn’t even notice, but a nerd who’s interested in it would say, ‘Oh my God. You know what? That’s actually just right,'” Muzzi says.


The DeLorean from ‘Back to the Future’


Next came the 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, the only car in the collection that isn’t screen accurate. And that’s on purpose.


Since it is a rare, low serial number DeLorean, he decided not to make the major changes necessary to make it match the look of ‘Back to the Future’.



After going to a DeLorean car rally and hearing pleas from DeLorean devotees not to change the limited edition car, he agreed. However, he can sell it for another one so he can turn it into a real DeLorean time machine.



Although the silver DeLorean is the only car that doesn’t look like the movies – sorry, no flux capacitor here – it took two years to complete.



“It sat in a barn for about 20 years before I got it,” says Muzzi, who believes there are only three DeLoreans registered in Delaware. “When I bought it, it had to be drivable and when I showed up the engine was in pieces.”


A nice touch is that a classic JVC camcorder, just like the one Marty McFly totes around in the movie, is tucked away in the passenger seat.



Bluesmobile from the Blues Brothers


More recently he completed his Bluesmobile, originally purchased as a yellow 1974 Dodge Monaco sedan.


The new coat of paint on the police car purposefully gives it a bit of a worn look, in keeping with the film.



And thanks to his repeated viewings, the car’s dashboard looks just like it does in the movie. There is a pack of Chesterfield Kings, an old can of Budweiser, sunglasses and cigarette butts on it. He placed magnets under each item so they stayed in place.


Burton usually drives the Bluesmobile, complete with the unmissable comically oversized speaker tied to the roof with rope, while wearing a black fedora and black sunglasses, just like John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd on “Saturday Night Live” from 1980 – spawned film.



When he stops at a traffic light, there’s a good chance someone will shout a quote from the movie.


“I hear, ‘We’re on a mission from God!’ a lot,” he says. “And then I tell my whole story: ‘We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark outside and we’re wearing sunglasses.’ It’s quite fun. People love it.”



The dash was signed by Belushi’s brother Jim at a private summer party in Centerville earlier this year after he took the stage in the car before performing a set with a band billed as The Blues Brothers.





It was a nice scene, but it could have been neater. Aykroyd was also supposed to be there, but had to cancel because he was ill.


The Mirthmobile from ‘Wayne’s World’


The newest addition to Delaware Star Cars is a baby blue 1976 AMC Pacer with painted flames shooting from the front wheels.



The Pacer, not to be confused with AMC’s Gremlin from the same era, is what Wayne and Garth drive around in the 1992 film “Wayne’s World,” starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey.


The Mirthmobile, as it is called in the film, is also the setting for the film’s most iconic scene: the sing-along of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.


Inside, Muzzi has outfitted its Mirthmobile replica with everything you see in the movie: a cup dispenser with a classic Pepsi cup, a cup crusher, a portable CD player on the dashboard, and even the licorice dispenser on the ceiling of the car.


However, it is filled with red yarn instead of the sweet stuff because it would melt in the heat.



Do you have a story idea? Contact Ryan Cormier at Delaware Online/The News Journal at rcormier@delawareonline.com or (302) 324-2863. Follow him on Facebook (@ryancormier) and X (@ryancormier).




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