1973 Ford Mustang Mach From Original Gone In 60 Seconds On The Auction Block

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1973 Ford Mustang Mach From Original Gone In 60 Seconds On The Auction Block
from AutoGuide.com News by Amy Tokic

The 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 that starred in the original 1974 “Gone in 60 Seconds” movie will be hitting the auction block, and there’s buzz that it could sell for as much as £100,000 (that’s about US$154,000).

This famous movie car will be sold by COYS at the Autosport International show in Birmingham on Saturday, January 14th. Eleanor – as the 1973 Mustang was dubbed in the film – is only one of the few surviving cars from the movie that’s still around. Twelve cars were built in total for the movie and five made it though the stunts intact. Eleanor is one of the three “hero” cars used, which means it was used in scenes with actors, as well as for driving shots, dialogue and interior action shots.

And time has been good to Eleanor – she still looks as good today as she did in the movie. Sporting a metallic grey exterior that’s accented with black stripes, the 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1’s interior carpets and seats are spotless and don’t exhibit significant wear or damage. She still runs too – Eleanor’s side exit exhausts still rumble and the switch to arm the Nitrous Oxide system and “go baby go” switch on the gear lever are still there. Other highlights include a 351 cubic inch Ford Racing crate motor, a 700cfm Holley 4-barrel carburetor, Schmidt 17×8-inch wheels, a bonnet with a prominent bulge and a cool billet grille.

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/wp-content/uploads//2012/01/1973-ford-mustang-mach-1-gone-in-60-seconds.jpg

This was deleted from the site pretty quickly. Good thing I saved it.

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That pic is of a '67.

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Read the article. Amy don’t know shit. Neither do the editors of autoguide

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This is the original one from the original movie:
http://www.themustangsource.com/timeline/71-73/73/eleanor/eleanor2.jpg

The article repeatedly says '73 Mustang and says its from the '74 movie.

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Good catch!

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Oh wow, PJB #FTW.

Caught autoguide on their mistake.

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Can ya see why it got deleted !!!

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pjb all over mustangs ITT

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the eleanor from the original is also in awful condition, pretty much every body panel is destroyed from the wrecks through the movie. still is around though.

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Post is back, corrected

Eleanor, the customized 1967 Ford Mustang GT500 that starred alongside Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie in the 2000 remake of “Gone in 60 Seconds,” will be hitting the auction block, and there’s buzz that it could sell for as much as £100,000 (that’s about US$154,000). We guess that with all of Cage’s recent and public financial issues, he won’t be bidding on this famous movie car.

Out of the 12 Eleanors that were made for the film, five didn’t make it through to see the final cut. The one that’s being auctioned is car seven, which was used for driving shots, as well as for dialogue and interior action shots with the actors. Making it even more special, this Eleanor is one of only two original cars in private hands.

Modifications that were made to this movie star Mustang included a 351-cubic inch Ford Racing crate motor that was fitted with a “big” camshaft and 700cfm Holley 4-barrel carburetor. Other upgrades that make this movie car special are a coilover suspension system, Willwood disk brakes, Schmidt 17×8-inch wheels and side exhaust outlets.

And time has been good to Eleanor – she still looks as good today as she did in the movie. Sporting a metallic grey exterior that’s accented with black stripes, the 1967 Mustang interior carpets and seats are spotless and it still has the “go baby go” switch on the gear lever.

This famous movie car will be sold by COYS at the Autosport International show in Birmingham on Saturday, January 14th.

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the car going up for sale is the same one that I got to see/sit in back in 2003. THis is the car that really started my obsession with the movie car. I have a picture of me sitting in it if I can dig it up.

However they also have some false info, there are 4 in private hands. This car, which is the only standard one, 2 automatic cars here in the states , and one in germany that’s also auto.

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ford’s first real mustang fuckup was the 1971. then they got worse and worse until the fox.

all IMO