So during the first five months of 2016, Sean carefully put it back together in his father’s small garage. I’m an enthusiastic car nut who geeks out over muscle cars, supercars, obscure classic race cars, automotive memorabilia and just about anything else car related. Just after the movie debuted the famous Mustang was sold to a Warner Bros. employee. Perhaps all these twists and turns of the path to revealing Sean’s car are more of a movie than the one he and his buddies are working on. Your email address will not be published. He bought a 2008 Mustang GT with a stick.”. He and a longtime movie-business friend, Ken Horstmann, had written a screenplay about two young guys buying a barn-find car with plans to earn a fortune in the flip. His impatience over being rebuked in his quest emerged in the last sentence: “I would be happy to try to find you another Mustang similar to the one you have,” he wrote, “if there is not too much monies involved in it. It is the car Steve McQueen (and his stunt man) drove in one of the best chase scenes of all time. This is really the most interesting part.
What if I screwed it up? That’s what you’re looking at today. But, he adds, “life happened. They took it apart, but then, Sean said, “Life happened.” Bob was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “My dad didn’t care about other people’s opinions. I’m pretty sure it was my dad smacking me in the back of the head, lining up all the stars.”. Sean was now in the movie business. We walk to the rear of the car, and Ken Horstmann joins us. “The car was not at all beat up like you might imagine,” Norton recalls, “it was very nice because it had not been abused like the Mustang that did all of the jumping.” “It was a fun car to drive,” he told us, “very powerful but also very squirrely, especially one rainy night on the Ventura Freeway when Bob and I were going home from a party. Like that was even a thing," he quipped. He’s genuinely polite and looks you in the eye while speaking.
There is no music, only tires squealing and engines roaring. On top of that, he’s a mechanical engineer with a nearly infectious enthusiasm for minutia.
But the car’s owner, it turns out, had sold the car twice, setting up the tension of the movie’s arc. The other car, a stunt car, was discovered in Mexico in 2017.
“That's the goal. Again, things got in the way. Steve McQueen’s letter attempting to buy back the Mustang is dated Dec. 14, 1977, one month after McQueen and his second wife Ali MacGraw divorced. About a week later, Chad McQueen, Steve’s son, announced his own search for the Bullitt. Bowling detailed the bona fides of the real thing, included a redacted copy of McQueen’s letter (the owner wished to remain anonymous), and wrote that it lived “somewhere on the East Coast.” Once again the Bullitt car slipped into obscurity, except for the occasional internet rumor. Mostly, though, we asked questions. Warner Bros. had the car repaired after filming and sold it to an executive at the studio, who passed it to a detective on the east coast. Several pieces were removed from the cars, including the driving lights, running pony grille emblem, Mustang lettering and even the GT badges. For the past year, I had been trying to figure out what I was supposed to be doing.”. Los Angeles panel beater Lee Brown pulled the badges, ran steel wool on the factory-fresh paint, and even put dents in the door to make the car fit with McQueen’s character, hard-bitten detective Frank Bullitt. Sean and his father had the engine rebuilt using as many original parts as they could. “It closes perfectly, better than the other side. This is the real deal. They simply thought it deserved to be a part of the official Mustang legacy. I see new screws holding the fenders to the frame and ask about them. The two worked as automotive paint salesmen for LKQ, Kiernan as a local manager and his boss, Wallace, as the regional manager. “I’m an excitable guy,” he said, “and I thought Sean was just pranking to watch me freak out.”, “Casey was the first person I told about the Bullitt,” Sean said, “For some reason I felt comfortable telling him.
Kiernan has already purchased his next car, and is now looking to use some of the proceeds from the sale to build a new garage that can house more than two cars.
Sean shrugs but points out the sloppily welded patches that covered the holes left when the under-bumper backup lights were removed. See the new Grand Wagoneer, See Ram's 702hp pickup that's taking on the Ford Raptor, Check out Lyriq, the first fully-electric Cadillac, You can't drive this new Lamborghini supercar down your street, Bugatti made a car for kids that costs more than yours, The 2020 Stingray marks a new era of Corvettes, See the Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat with 6 seats and 710 horsepower, Ford unveils first full hybrid pickup truck. The first product of that collaboration was “Bullitt,” based on the novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Pike. A man from Madison, New Jersey, saw the ad. Bullitt is een Amerikaanse film van regisseur Peter Yates uit 1968.De film won een Oscar en werd genomineerd voor vijf BAFTA-Awards.. De film werd gebaseerd op de roman Mute Witness van schrijver Robert L. Fish en omgevormd tot een screenplay door Alan Trustman en Harry Kleiner. The grille was also blacked out and the stock wheels were swapped for grey American Racing Torq Thrust wheels.
After filming the Bullitt car (‘559) was repaired and painted (Highland Green) for resale.
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