Every now and then we come across a fringe vehicle that’s just too ridiculous a design statement to ignore. Latvian tuner Dartz provided one such diversion this month when they proudly revealed their Prombron Black Stallion, as outlandish a four-wheeled male adolescent fantasy as has every taken to intimidating the roads or assaulting the countryside.
But, then, the Black Stallion, like other Dartz tuning projects, is self-conscious in its delirium, a cinematic fever dream of a real-world conveyance. Fitting, then, that a previous Prombron entry was featured in a cinematic satire called ‘The Dictator’. And that the Black Stallion, too, will have its 15 minutes of celluloid-fueled fame when it appears in a movie of its own.
The flick is as yet unnamed, but it, too, is unlikely to take itself too seriously. The Black Stallion’s visual emblem is a winged skull wearing an open-cockpit flight helmet and riding a cross of machine guns.
The Black Stallion uses a Hummer as a build foundation. It features a great deal of carbon fiber, and cockpit is decked out in flashy wood trim, as well as a couple of grim material overtones: stingray skin and alligator skin put an unusual spin on the vehicle’s interior style, and darken the mood by stripping it of humor.