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Somewhere out beyond the small town of Ashcroft, B.C., a winding, lonely canyon road runs through hilly ranchland like a mountain creek made of sun-baked tarmac.

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Stand here on the scrubby grass and gravel of the shoulder, and listen carefully. Something is coming: an approaching roar. It sounds like thunder. It sounds like the battle-cry of an archangel.

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It sounds like Armageddon.

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This Impala from the ‘Supernatural’ TV series isn’t just a prop.

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Suddenly, there it is, with a glint of chrome and the dusty black paint of an old road warrior. It’s 18 feet of badass – a 1967 Chevy Impala hardtop powered by a 502-cubic-inch big-block, slammed down on a built Hotchkiss performance suspension. The V8 rumbles like a bowling ball stuck in an industrial dryer and there’s a guy at the wheel with a grin so big the top of his head might come off. He stomps the throttle, the big-block howls and the Impala lunges forward. It’s the best job in the world.

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“They strapped on a camera and told me to just go drive around,” says Jeff Budnick, picture car co-ordinator for the filmed-in-B.C. television show Supernatural, “Most fun two weeks of my life.”

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We’re standing next to the Impala in question, hunkered down on its tuned suspension and oozing charisma despite slightly shabby paint. Budnick found it in Colorado, with just 12,000 original miles on the clock, and built it into a monster. It’s what the film industry calls a “hero car,” used for closeups, and it and its siblings are tucked away on an industrial lot in Burnaby, B.C.

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Brendan Mcaleer
Brendan McAleer is a full-time professional writer, editor, and photographer based in North Vancouver, BC. He covers new vehicle reviews, market trends, classic car history, and local interest stories.
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Brendan began writing a column for the award-winning community newspaper The North Shore News approximately fifteen years ago. His writing was noticed by other editors, and began appearing in the Vancouver Sun and Province shortly thereafter. He is a longtime contributor to Driving.ca. At the around same time, he began writing for Road & Track, which he has continued to contribute to for the past decade. He also contributes to US publications Car and Driver and Hagerty. He previously wrote for the BBC, and also currently contributes to Autocar in the UK. Other Canadian outlets include Autotrader.ca, and SHARP magazine.
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