Steve Tansy’s rolling trick shot: a pool table for a hood, cue storage in the flanks, and an 11-ball at the helm over a rumbling (well, not currently) Hemi.
Dubbed The Pool Hustler, this one-off hot rod looks like it escaped a pool hall and headed straight for the drag strip. Instead of sheet metal and subtlety, you get billiards bravado. A real table forms the prow, green felt where most cars have paint.
The vehicle’s creator also worked on the early Batmobile and the Ecto-1 from “Ghostbusters”, giving him true Hollywood chops. And it’s coming up for auction, if you simply must own it.
The cues slide into side compartments like they’re holstered for break time, and the steering trades a traditional wheel for a V-handle capped with that cheeky 11-ball, more for a grin than a true gauge.
Underneath, a Hemi anchors the joke with genuine muscle, the kind of lump that suggests this gag has teeth when it’s buttoned up and running. But speed is almost beside the point.
The Pool Hustler is rolling theater: a sight gag turned sculpture, the rare custom that makes strangers wander over and ask for the story before they ask for the specs.
Is it practical? Of course not. It’s a conversation starter on casters, a love letter to loud ideas and late nights.
Photos via Historics Auctioneers. Learn more on Robb Report.
