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.

Sylvester Stallone was on a roll when he took on the part of Lt. Marion Cobretti in Cobra, which snaked its ... through the streets of L.A. in his 1950 Mercury – the license plate reads ...