In late 1968, when shooting was complete, the hero car went into private ownership and has stayed in circulation ever since. But the stunt car unfortunately didn't. After filming ended, Balchowsky had the badly damaged car towed off to a scrapyard for crushing. Deemed lost forever.
In 2017, a man named Hugo Sanchez took a dusty old cream white Mustang into his local custom shop in Mexico for a makeover. He wanted to have the old car transformed into a clone of the famous ‘Eleanor’ mustang which features in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds.
The shop owner, a friend of his named Ralph Garcia, had his suspicions about the car and decided to do a background check on it. What happened next changed their lives.
When Garcia ran the car's build plate number through the MartiReport database (a highly regarded source for validating the authenticity of a classic car) it set their pulses running. The trusted database, containing history records for very Ford built between 1967 and 2012 revealed that the car had a consecutive build number to the hero car.
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In 2017, a man named Hugo Sanchez took a dusty old cream white Mustang into his local custom shop in Mexico for a makeover. He wanted to have the old car transformed into a clone of the famous ‘Eleanor’ mustang which features in the movie Gone in 60 Seconds.
The shop owner, a friend of his named Ralph Garcia, had his suspicions about the car and decided to do a background check on it. What happened next changed their lives.
When Garcia ran the car's build plate number through the MartiReport database (a highly regarded source for validating the authenticity of a classic car) it set their pulses running. The trusted database, containing history records for very Ford built between 1967 and 2012 revealed that the car had a consecutive build number to the hero car.
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