nick8086 Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 (edited) Another Eleanor is for salehttps://autos.yahoo.com/news/iconic-gone-60-seconds-eleanor-mustang-heading-auction-200030248.html Edited October 19, 2014 by nick8086 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlCapone Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Chris Is this car yours ? Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 Chris Is this car yours ? WayneOnly if my lottery ticket wins tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted October 18, 2014 Author Share Posted October 18, 2014 (edited) This is more my speed...One antique car, One Muscle car, and One 4x4.. Edited October 19, 2014 by nick8086 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhambulldog Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Nice Kaisers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander160 Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Eleanor? Why does P.T. Barnum keep entering my thoughts on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 That's hardly news. The company Unique Performance was cranking out Eleanor replicas for years following that movie. EVERYONE thought THEIRS was the movie car, but they were all just a bunch of fakes. Somehow that company, plus two others, even got Carroll Shelby to sign off on the cars as "continuation" Shelbys or some such ridiculous thing (http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1025827_unique-performance-customers-offered-hope-with-signing-of-new-deal-by-shelby) just to keep the scam afloat. There's one of these cars at virtually every single auction now, although Unique Performance is out of business due to fraud issues (they were cutting the VINs out of boneyard cars and welding them onto different shells). Some of the employees of that company apparently started a new company called Classic Recreations and are now cranking out even more ersatz 1967 Shelbys. In fact, doing a quick Google search, there are at least a half-dozen companies making fake Eleanors today. Do a Google search on "Unique Performance" "Eleanor Mustang" or "Doug Hasty" and you'll find wonderful nuggets about how prisoners were used to build the cars, how they were sculpted almost entirely from Bondo, how the guy who made the original 1974 version of "Gone in 60 Seconds" movie sued Shelby and Unique Performance for ripping him off, etc. There's even a website www.uniqueperformancescam.com, started by a guy who gave them $140,000 and got a rusty shell in return.It's one of the more sordid stories in the automotive world and more evidence (in my opinion) that the legendary Carroll Shelby never received a check he wouldn't cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uh6077 Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 5 years ago this would have brought HUGE numbers but the muscle car market is way down and that movie is 14 years old. So many replicas around would you really want to own a car that everyone thought was a fake? This is a car that would have been $2.3 million a few years ago and now will bring $900-1.1 because a museum needs something to draw in some youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Reminds me of the company not to far from me that made a living recreating "General Lees" from the old Dukes of Hazzard show. They had a lot full of Dodge Chargers and General Lees in various stages of completion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Shouldn't the title of this thread be "Another Eleanor is for sale.."? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlCapone Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Shouldn't the title of this thread be "Another Eleanor is for sale.."?Maybe not a total rip off but a bit of a rip off ! Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander160 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I would think cars owned by the studio that did the flick would have some paper to back em up. Ownership history today is as easy as a keyboard. But let's assume for just a moment that it WAS once owned by them as a back up. BIG F--KIN DEAL! Right? Does it matter? Does the real collector car community hold such BS so dear? Someone got swept up in it last year and dropped a 7 figure bid on THE ONE. A well built and "styled" fastback, 67-8, with a real good FE motor and tasteful metallic finish without too much sculpting takes about $150-175K to build. Give a show pedigree with a couple wins and you can expect to break even on an open sale or at the right auction. But the ruse that it's THE movie car? Dammit, there's that PT Barnum thing again! I'm going to predict the car dies at under $500K, more realistically like about $225-250K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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