Beta 1989-1993 Gavril Phantasm "High Roller" 1.0

I spent a lot of time making this car and the custom dashboard. This is a car that I made specifically for my Oscarverse head canon and it is one of the iterations of the High Roller. It's whole purpose is to be one of the versions of the famous vehicle that Lincoln Loud's favourite superhero drives around in. I'm amongst one of the few BeamNG.drive guys to integrate Loud House fan storylines into a BeamNG.drive mod. Let me know what you guys think of this one.

Here’s the lore behind this vehicle and this vehicle is part of my Oscarverse head canon that I’m making hence the references to The Loud House. The 1989 Ace Savvy movie is also a parody of Batman (1989) and it even mentions a sequel which itself is a reference to Batman: Returns.

Bill Buck got in contact with Gavril in making a new version of The High Roller for the new Ace Savvy movie that is coming out in 1989. Gavril initially turned him down. But after seeing that he has done work for Burnside in the past making a 1960’s version of The High Roller, Gavril accepted his offer and they agreed to make a sports car that uses the venerable D-Series platform. The D-Series platform however is slightly modified to be better suited for sports cars. And so in 1989 (1990 model year), the new Gavril Phantasm was introduced and people were lining up to get one thanks to all of the hype surrounding it. And on top of that, it also came available with push-button start, three drive modes and, three drive modes. All of which were new to the market at the time. Although, the early Gavril drive mode system could not me mass-produced due to high costs. Not counting the the version made for the Ace Savvy movie, only 50 Phantasms were ever made and were only sold in select Gavril dealerships. At the time, the Phantasm became the fastest road-going car reaching speeds of 231 miles per hour. Even though it has a massive 9.7 litre V16 engine that produces well over 1500 horsepower, the car can only reach speeds in to the 230 territory due to it weighing 4310 pounds (The cars made for the the 1989 Ace Savvy movie and its sequel cars are made of composite armour and are said to be even heavier), it having a specially tuned 4-Speed Automatic transmission since the Gavril 5-Speed manual couldn’t handle the powerful engine itself and, the fact that the engine itself is heavy. But regardless, it still became the fastest street-legal car sold. But, it wasn’t allowed to be sold with weapons installed to the general public. 50 more would be made the following year in 1990 and again in 1991. But in 1992 when a sequel to the 1989 Ace Savvy movie was released, 128 Phantasms were made due to the increasing demand. Like in 1989, another version of the Phantasm was made for the sequel itself. Production of the Phantasm ended in 1993 and only 25 1993 models were produced. The 1993 version is the rarest of them all as they were mainly backorders from people who ordered one when they were sold out in 1992. Gavril would continue their partnership with Bill Buck until 1999. When the Phantasm II was introduced, people complained about it being underpowered compared to its predecessor and used a naturally-aspirated Gavril 5.4 litre Gavril V8 instead of the Gavril “Thunder Dragon” V16 that powered the original Phantasm. 450 of the Phantasm IIs were planned to be made and they did end up making 450 of them (Not counting the one that is made for the movie itself and a non-functioning replica which was destroyed by The Card Shark). 100 pre-orders were made and were shipped. But, only 130 of the 1996 models were made (Including the pre-orders for the 1996 models made in 1995) and 20 of the 1997 models were sold. The other 1997 models which there are 300 of them were still sitting in Gavril Dealerships and many of them remained unsold until year after another Ace Savvy movie came out in 2005 and had the venerable amroured High Roller nicknamed “Rollergator” and was powered by the same Gavril “Ultra Thrust” engine and would also be supercharged. Although, Spade Nifty (Ace Savvy’s real name) used a Civetta Mondello in the movie itself as part of the newly formed partnership with Bill Buck and Civetta which would end up lasting for a long time. The High Roller saw a return to form in the simple sports car form factor in the 2020’s when another version of the High Roller was based on the Civetta Scintilla Dark Owl car after Bill Buck was sick and tired of seeing the High Roller made into tank-like vehicles. The Gavril Phantasm has its place in history as the fastest road-going vehicle that Gavril has ever made. Even in modern times, Gavril has never come close to making a car that is as fast as the Phantasm. Just don’t expect to turn it in sharp corners.

Even though the Gavril Phantasm has long been discontinued, the “Thunder Dragon” V16 eventually became popular as a crate engine used by drag racing teams and in tractor pulling competitions due it being both powerful and high in torque. Lela’s Tuning Lounge located in Royal Woods, Michigan, United States is the only shop that still sells the “Thunder Dragon” V16 as they have reverse-engineered parts for the engines themselves since Gavril themselves stopped manufacturing them in 2002. The name is also a reference to Lela the dragon in The Loud House Movie.

Also in 1997, Gavril decided to make a limited off-road trim package to the Gavril Roamer called the High Roller Edition which is based on the Gavril Roamer monster truck that became the High Roller in fourth Ace Savvy movie released in 1997 after the previous iteration of the High Roller was destroyed by The Card Shark in the previous movie. This version of the High Roller is also nicknamed the “Monster Roller” and according to the head canon that I’ve made, is the one that appeared in the episode, Kings of the Con. Only about 250 of the Gavril Roamer High Roller Edition models were produced. This was done in order to cut production costs as making a new model did cost a lot of money and there were still Gavril Phantasm IIs that remained unsold in Gavril dealerships by the time this limited-edition model was released.

Well, what happened to the other 300 1997 models you might ask? Since Gavril didn’t want to send them to the crusher as they felt that they were just too expensive for them to waste, the majority of them went over to used car dealerships when some of them couldn’t be sold in 1997. People did eventually start buying them with heavy discounts in place. But, they still remained unsold until 2006. By then, they were being sold for $9,000. A huge price decrease from when they were being sold for $112,000 back in 1995 and had a price reduction to just $85,955 in 1996 and had the price reduced to $63,995 in 1997. Although it was less expensive than the original phantasm being sold for a whopping $500,000 (Which is about $1,226,318.55 in today’s money), it still sold poorly and was underpowered compared to its predecessor. The remaining Phantasm IIs were eventually sold and some are even in the hands of collectors. The Gavril Phantasm II would be remembered as one of Gavril’s worst blunders.