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

[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....