When Waits, the mechanic, rebuilds the car, the "donor car" he gets parts from is the car from the original movie.
The "Lazarus" is a modified Chrysler 300 SRT8.
Cameo: Ronny Cox appears as Waits, the junkyard mechanic. He played Officer Luke in the original The Car (1977).
At 1:07 Ronnie Cox' character refers to the wrecked Lazarus 1 car "Of all the junk yards in all the world she rolled into mine". He is paraphrasing Rick's line in "Casablanca":