In the suit, according to the report, Stallone describes how he found his vehicle "by sheer fortuity" when he came across an online car auction that featured the same Mercury "Cobra" car.

But Stallone did not leave empty-handed: the rewritten script became one of his biggest box office hits: ‘Cobra’ (1986). ‘Cobra’ was born out of a scrapped version of ‘Beverly Hills Cop ...