Gone in 60 Seconds - Eleanor Mustang

[Russ257]

for only 140 grand you can have your own licensed prop from gone in 60 seconds. or bump up to 190 grand for the supercharged 750hp version

http://www.eleanormustang.com/index.php

 

[GrenadeKing]

I assume (and sincerely hope) that those are brand new cars made from reproduction parts correct?

If so, thats totaly awesome. If not then... boo.

 

[allosaur176]

nice, though I think I would spend the 190 grand on a house rather than a car, but I'm just crazy like that :lol

 

[Russ257]

I assume (and sincerely hope) that those are brand new cars made from reproduction parts correct?

If so, thats totaly awesome. If not then... boo.

from the site

customers can purchase a brand-new "Eleanor" Mustang fabricated from the ground up with all new body and parts. Customers may also choose to modify one of Classic Recreations' 1967 original mustang bodies with all new parts. In either case, the Classic Recreations team will work tirelessly at each step of the process to provide absolute customer satisfaction and complete reliability.

 

[Ramiel]

I want one!

 

[cheech9898]

It's cool to see these cars getting made again. Although after everything I wonder if Halicki is spinning in his grave after how wife/family has wrung the cash out of his films (multiple recuts or combining the movies to get new cuts).

Unique Performance was the shop originally offering them after teaming up with Shelby and the cars they built were official Shelby cars (think the designation was Shelby GT500-E), also they were signed by Shelby and Nicolas Cage. They weren't however officially licenced by Halicki Film Co.

U.P. was raided by the feds and shut down after scamming alot of money from people/never delivering cars as well as getting busted for VIN altering/forgery/title washing... much less also started a ton of headaches for Carol Shelby & Chip Foose (Chip had a deal in the works to build new 69 camero's using the new repop'ed shells).

 

[Deric]

This new company has nothing to do with UP and so far it looks like they're doing a good job. The bad thing is that there were so many upstart Eleanor builders that took people's money and did not give them a car that Eleanor or atleast turnkey shops selling Eleanor has a bad name.

 

[GrenadeKing]

Customers may also choose to modify one of Classic Recreations' 1967 original mustang bodies with all new parts.

I don't like the idea of them messing up classic cars for movie repros. However, I guess its better altering them a tad bit than letting them rot in a field somewhere, assuming they use restored junkers that is.

 

[zorg]

terrible movie (nicolas cage), nice car

z

 

[darthgoat]

Interested depending on the price...oh wait...

 

[cheech9898]

I don't like the idea of them messing up classic cars for movie repros. However, I guess its better altering them a tad bit than letting them rot in a field somewhere, assuming they use restored junkers that is.

Depending on the ease of 'kit car' registration in your state you could just start with this from Dynacorp 67 mustang repo shell

Personally, I'd be more inclined to build more of a Bullit Mustang or an Eleanor from the original Gone in 60 if Mustangs were my thing. I'm a Mopar guy and find a 71 Phantasm 'Cuda to be more my style

http://www.dynacornclassicbodies.com/ford_models.html

 

[JediG60racer]

Pretty sure you can build your own Eleanor from the ground up for less than $20k. I mean, if you can build a replica Cobra 427 for $15 it just stands to make sense.

If I were going to do an Eleanor, I'd make it fully race stripped and prepped. Roll cage, bare interior, some nice Recaro seats, functional side pipes with little muffling, ooooh yeah.

 

[Scott D]

I'd rather have the original version. (the 1973 one)