The Bullit charger is back for 700k less

[chargerman69]

Remenber this guy was trying to get a Million dallors for this charger before

http://www.cars-on-line.com/64517.html

[Ghoste]

He isn't going to like this appraisal any more than his last one.

[tan top]

 I remember !  the story , he found a few holes had been drilled & was originally yellow then painted black , then all of a sudden its the Bullit charger  
 few coincidences & stuff  & would be awesome if it was the missing car ,
not asking a million     now only 300 thousand  
still only needs one guy with more money than brains  
having said all this ,  Has there been any concrete proof documented evidence this is that car    if so ignore  what I've just said  

[Ghoste]

No new evidence and too late for the 2007 manic price bubble.  But time will tell.

[Baldwinvette77]

 I read that article before, what puzzled me was the lack of body damage when they found the car, didn't look like it was ever repaired before  

[xs29bb1]

Wow just think - with the money you're saving, you can buy this one, the other one, and still have $400k left over!!  This has to be the bargain of the century!!!!!   

[Mike DC]

I read that article before, what puzzled me was the lack of body damage when they found the car, didn't look like it was ever repaired before

They had a pair of Chargers for the movie.  The stunt car is unquestionably dead.  This would be the other one. 


The story is interesting.  With the options on the car, the dealership it was sold from, the time it was sold, the holes matching some very obscure pics, etc.  If this isn't the real car then the guy must have done a whole lot of searching and effort to find a car suitable to fake it.  This was more than just drilling some holes in a '68. 

[Ghoste]

But still circumstantial since the studio claimed both cars destroyed.

[AKcharger]

OH YEAH! now I remember. seems like It would have been more original if they left the holes

[remta1]

 

[Mytur Binsdirti]

The stunt car is unquestionably dead.   

Based on what I see here for other's restoration projects, the Bullit Charger would have been a piece of cake. 

[Challenger340]

I read the articles posted with the link, pretty interesting stuff.
A little off topic maybe here....
but,
interesting to me anyways in the one article, was the descriptions of the amount of "work" they had to perform the Mustangs, so they could "keep up" with the Charger ?
Being an old guy, I remember those days, and this rang so true.... and historically correct for me ?
And it wasn't just the 390 Engines in the much lighter Mustangs, I can remember absolutely TROUNCING even 428 CJ's with 440 GTX's etc., not even a contest !
Apologies if I have offended any closet Ford affectionado's , that's just the way it was.
I actually used to feel sorry for the guys running FE Engine powered Mustangs, they were just "Field Cars" for warm up races prior to the real stuff ?

[Ghoste]

Not a closet Ford guy but a lot of FE's here in my hometwon.  Small town but home base for Barrie Poole and John Elliot and there were and are some very strong 428 and 390 cars around here.  Mind you they've all been well tuned but you won't be getting a "warm up" with a lot of them, you'll need to earn the win.

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

So, is that car legit, or?

[Mike DC]

Based on what I see here for other's restoration projects, the Bullit Charger would have been a piece of cake. 

If it was found today in the condition at the end of filming, perhaps.  But I think it's known to have been scrapped right after filming. 

In those days when musclecars were new, in a large city area, the car had been repainted, driven to death, smashed up all over the body, rolled, and then burned . . . I see virtually no chance of that thing staying out of the crusher for another 3 months after filming ended. 

[bull]

Only $300k now? Well, in that case I'll take two please. Seriously though, if he were to dtop it another $250k he'd still be on the high end. You can't legitimately ask icon car prices without solid proof that it's real based on extra holes. Evidently he's expecting a rich dummy to get suckered in, and there aren't too many rich dummies out there who like Chargers/Bullitt. All the rich dummies in this country drive Priuses.

[jaak]

If there was concrete proof that was it was the actual Bullet car... 300k doesn't seem too much considering Lee 1's dash, VIN, firewall and windshield (put on another car) brought 110k.

On a serious note, no charger is worth that much...movie car or not.

Jason

[Ghoste]

If an Aston Martin is worth millions because it was used in Goldfinger then the Bullitt Charger is worth stupid money too.  The difference is that the Aston could prove its screen use.
If there was irrefutable evidence this was the car he claims (and its funny because until he decided to take it to show and sell he also stated "could be") then I think it would easily top 300k.

[Baldwinvette77]

If somebody can show that vin of that charger is one the 2 bought for the movie, thats really it... wouldn't there have been any records? can they trace back the original buyer? to see if someone from the production was the first owner? 

[Ghoste]

They haven't been able to do that.

[Ghoste]

The studio or production crew were the original buyers and they say they have no records and only that both cars were destroyed after filming.

[Mike DC]

  
At this point Warner Bros knows less about those Bullitt cars than we do.  There's probably no way to ever really verify it.  It wouldn't be implausible for the studio to repaint & use a car, only to have it be resold on the dealership later when they are done.  That kind of thing was more common back then.   

It's confirmed that the nicer Mustang from Bullitt does in fact survive.  It got some collision damage in front during the 1970s and it's been stored away for decades.

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I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of the five original Vanishing Point Challys is still out there somewhere.  4 of them were desirable 440/4spd cars, which all got run until they broke down but none had any big collision damage.
     

[1974dodgecharger]

Ill restore my own car my way with that much money....

[Tilar]

The way I see it is if he wanted to sell it or even just display it as one of the originals, Why did he cover the holes up?

[bull]

The way I see it is if he wanted to sell it or even just display it as one of the originals, Why did he cover the holes up?

And why drill them in the first place? Since his only proof is pics showing the locations of the camera mounting holes can he also prove it wasn't he who drilled the holes, took some pics of them and then restored the car?