Pic of the fast and the furious charger in Herbie Fully Loaded

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

finally found of pic of her

[Drache]

That still confuses me to this day... the volo museum was selling that car for $50,000 U.S. and yet then it ends up looking like that in this movie and from there disappears entirely. Did the Herbie crew purchase the car?! I can't believe they would spend that much for a background car when they could easily find a smashed Charger anywhere!

[Bandit72]

That still confuses me to this day... the volo museum was selling that car for $50,000 U.S. and yet then it ends up looking like that in this movie and from there disappears entirely. Did the Herbie crew purchase the car?! I can't believe they would spend that much for a background car when they could easily find a smashed Charger anywhere!

was herby produced by the same people as fast and the furious? if so they probably couldn't sell the car for the 50k they wanted so they just ended up keeping it to use as props in other movies

[Drache]

The Volo Museum had purchased the car outright from the movie company. It used to be all over their website and then one day up and disappeared without a word on what happened to it.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Whats the proof that its the same car?

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

the rol bar thes same 1 as i nthe stunt car in movie

[69bronzeT5]

Whats the proof that its the same car?

It looks like the same car because it has a rollbar, rear racing slicks and it has the same visable damage the F&F car had but theres no ACTUAL proof.

[TruckDriver]

Looks like it to me. If you look at the hood real close in the center, it looks like it had a hood scoop/fake blower mounted to it at one time.

[Chris G.]

the rol bar thes same 1 as i nthe stunt car in movie

Ummm, what? 

[Drache]

When the car was in the museum even though they had polished it, the car was rusty! There was no interior and the hood had the hole cut out to fit a blower so it's not the same hood.

[1BAD68]

thats not the f&f Charger, I'm pretty sure there was significant roof damage at the drivers front pillar. Need to see some pics to be 100%

[69bronzeT5]

I couldnt find any pics of it but I did find this picture which I like very much

[venom04]

Doesn't look like the same car.

[1BAD68]

I was wrong, there wasn't alot of damage to the front pilar see video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz1t0Ns-ZfI

[Chris G.]

It's the same car. The one at Volo was in the movie as well.

[Drache]

The only thing I can think of is that the one at Volo was the actual jump car, and that the one in Herbie was the one that had Vin climb out of....

[69bronzeT5]

I was wrong, there wasn't alot of damage to the front pilar see video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz1t0Ns-ZfI

God I love that Nickelback song

[1BAD68]

The only thing I can think of is that the one at Volo was the actual jump car, and that the one in Herbie was the one that had Vin climb out of....

Vin Diesel climbed out of the actual jump car, and I am 99% sure that car was at Volo, so right now it looks like that herbie car is the real thing

[Mike DC]

       
The "Herbie F/L" car is probably legit.   

The actual F&F Charger stunt car was definitely still sitting untouched in a movie-car storage lot in Los Angeles as of April of 2004. 
I knew a guy who was trying to work out a deal to buy the car.  He saw it in person at the lot at this time.  I saw a few photos from the trip, and the F&F car looked basically unchanged from the end of the movie. The windshield glass was smashed worse and there was surface-rust on the rollcage bars but nothing major.

"Herbie F/L" was shooting in 2004.
Volo didn't show up with the car until at least late 2004, maybe 2005.  They definitely only rolled one 1970 Charger for F&F and the timeline works.

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And by the way, Vinnie did climb outta the real stunt car in the movie. 

The '70 Chargers in F&F all had rollcages, but there were additional bars on the stunt car.  The easiest ones to see are the double main hoops.  You can also see a pair of extra little vertical bars tucked behind the doors' chrome vent-window posts.  (But the stunt car later had the vent-window verticals cut away at some point.  They were gone by the time Volo put it on display.)

 

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

what happend to the fatf car at the redlight? he revs the motor and the car has like a chrome roll bar and nice lookin alluminum interior??? out of all the pics that close up car never surafced

[charger_mike75]

here's a pic of the f and f charger. doesn't look to be the same car unless someone did a lil body work.

[Drache]

here's a pic of the f and f charger. doesn't look to be the same car unless someone did a lil body work.

Yeah the door, fender, and roof all look different... 

I DO know that if it was the Volo car they had to replace to hood because the Charger in the Volo had the hole cut into the hood for the blower. I dont think it is the same car, why replace body panels on a destroyed car with body panels that are less destroyed but still damaged?

[charger_mike75]

kinda makes ya wonder where the charger in herbie came from

[Drache]

kinda makes ya wonder where the charger in herbie came from

Maybe it's a real dirt track racer?

[RD]

i say its the same car... dirt hides stuff is all.

[Drache]

I'll place both pics right above each other but it really makes me wonder if it is. The fender on the herbie car doesn't show the same about of damage as the F&F car... same with the door, that F&F car has a pretty good sized dent.

[Mean 318]

I duno boys, but I think it is the same car. That Herbie pic could hide a lot just from the dirt, light and angle. Look at ebay.

[LargerCharger383]

if you look at the damage to the body it looks pretty similar to what the F&F charger looked like after the big flip...rollbar too... as far as the dents being a little different goes, I figure when you have a totally crumpled car, a half hour with a sledge hammer can render miracles...

[Drache]

I still say that the door on the herbie car looks too straight and same with the roofline where the top of the windshield would go, looks too straight whereas the F&F car has a nasty dent on the passenger side.....

[Charger1973]

Someone could have put a different door on it, when they changed the hood.  Look at the cage in both pics.  Its the same car.  The fenders identical, it just doesnt look as bad with the dirt on it.

[Lee01]

I think it could be the same, Hollywood to know bondo and quick repair! Remenber the Chop Shop from the Duke of Hazzard! The where not all  that strait, some where use for closer shot, but the rest where beater  ''HLPGA style''

So to me it would make sense that is the same car. Hollywood do take past movie from there ''inventory'' and reuse them in background scene.

The car as similar damage, roll cage look the same, easy to quick fix the Charger and reuse again.

That my 2 cents

[Drache]

Ok I'll go along with it being the same car... now what happened to it from the Volo Museum. It had a $50,000 price tag on the damn thing....

[Mike DC]

   
I don't know if anybody has a firm number on the total number of F&F Chargers existing. 
There were reportedly four in the movie's filming.

But Universal also has a habit of displaying those F&F Chargers sometimes.  Sometimes the displayed props are real (screen-used) and other times it's a later copy that they built.  Same situation for BTTF DeLoreans, Bluesmobiles, General Lees, etc.  By a few years after a film's release, the diehard fans often have a better idea about which car is which than the studio itself does.

 

[JimShine]

The rolled car that was at Volo is now in Indiana.

[Brock Samson]

   i dunno,.. look at the top of the windshield stainless...   

[CNH 320]

The rolled car that was at Volo is now in Indiana.

As in Mr Bell's position? If so, damn, he must be one of the luckiest guys in the world with all the GL's, Cop Cars, and the Fast and the Furious Charger

[Dodge Don]

I'll never get this time back 

[StuntMan]

This is when I saw it at CVS:







This was before VOLO got it. This was pretty much right after the movie.

[kikgas01]

Hey Richard, was that the ram on the hood that they used to do the wheelie?

[StuntMan]

Yeah - this is the car - but it was a fake intake. This is the charger that did the rollover. This is how it sat after filming.

Cheers

[SirNik73]

I'll never get this time back 

Agreed! :

[JimShine]

The rolled car that was at Volo is now in Indiana.

As in Mr Bell's position? If so, damn, he must be one of the luckiest guys in the world with all the GL's, Cop Cars, and the Fast and the Furious Charger

No. It belongs to a car collector.

[CNH 320]

The rolled car that was at Volo is now in Indiana.

As in Mr Bell's position? If so, damn, he must be one of the luckiest guys in the world with all the GL's, Cop Cars, and the Fast and the Furious Charger

No. It belongs to a car collector.

Thanks for the info. Jim, if memory serves me right, you moved to Indiana, right? If so, is it possible to search the car and make/post some pic's of the car in it's current state?

[kikgas01]

Great. Thanks for sharing the photos.

[Lostsheep]

Id like to see some of it in current state, that'd be cool.

[Dave22443]

Funny this should come up.  We were just talking about this car in another thread.
According to this article, the Charger in question is currently slated for a full restoration.
http://www.volocars.com/news15.html

[Lostsheep]

I think it would lose a little of its history at that point.

[charger_mike75]

i think it has plenty of documentation to back up its history i'd rather see it restored than sit as an invalid   

[JimShine]

Volo owned it once and sold it. It IS possible they bought it back, but if so, it was really recent.

Here is the last I knew about it. A local collector bought the thing from Volo for alot of money, I mean ALOT of money. He has been around asking us to find him a real General Lee for his collection. I believe 4 weeks ago he called and said he was thinking about reselling this Charger, but wanted to make a profit on top of what Volo charged him. That was the last I had heard about it. I assumed it wouldn't have gone anywhere for what he wanted for it.

[Drache]

Volo owned it once and sold it. It IS possible they bought it back, but if so, it was really recent.

Here is the last I knew about it. A local collector bought the thing from Volo for alot of money, I mean ALOT of money. He has been around asking us to find him a real General Lee for his collection. I believe 4 weeks ago he called and said he was thinking about reselling this Charger, but wanted to make a profit on top of what Volo charged him. That was the last I had heard about it. I assumed it wouldn't have gone anywhere for what he wanted for it.

I know Volo had it listed a year or two ago at $50,000 USD....

[Lostsheep]

He has been around asking us to find him a real General Lee for his collection.

Did u point him to #33 WBGL on Ebay? Too rich for my blood, but there was one for sale.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GENERAL-LEE-1969-DODGE-CHARGER-AUTHENTIC_W0QQitemZ220108220754QQihZ012QQcategoryZ6199QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[BMOTOXSTAR]

My pal has a Herbie clone!