The 1974 film was made on a far smaller budget and it’s well worth a watch if you have the time. Halicki film of the same name, which featured a similar plot, plenty of chase scenes, and of course, Eleanor. The 2000 film Gone in 60 Seconds was a big-budget remake of a 1974 H.B.
#CHIP FOOSE ELEANOR FULL#
The team at CVS recently gave this car a full rotisserie restoration back to original cinema specification, it’s done just 90 miles since.
#CHIP FOOSE ELEANOR MANUAL#
When developing the look of the car, Chip Foose later said he wanted to build what he thought Carroll Shelby would have built if he was creating the GT500 in the year 2000.Įleanor uses more modern alloy wheels with lower profile tires, high-performance Wilwood disc brakes, a blueprinted HiPo 351 CI V8, a 5-strut system over the engine bay to improve shell rigidity, headers and stainless side-exit exhausts with Magnaflow mufflers, a Tremec TKO 5-speed manual transmission, a hydraulic clutch, PIAA lights, Total Control Products suspension, a roller camshaft, an Edelbrock Performer intake, and a fully-functioning NOS system with that memorable “Go Baby Go” red button on the shifter.Īll of the cars used in the film were built by Cinema Vehicle Services, though it should be noted that a few were built somewhat minimally as they were intended to be destroyed during filming.
It was used for many of the interior and exterior sequences including the iconic chase scenes through the shipyard, through the city, and along the Los Angeles River – it’s also the car that that outran a helicopter in the film. The car you see here was labelled by the studio as “The Dream Car” during filming.
Interestingly the cars had bodykits built by Chip Foose with initial design work by Steve Stanford, and a special additional car was built with a 428 Ford V8 for the film’s producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Eleanor, Chip Foose, and The Dream Carġ1 examples of Eleanor were either fully or partially built for filming and 5 were destroyed during stunt sequences, all of the cars were Dupont Pepper Grey 1967 Ford Mustang Fastbacks, which were depicted as a Shelby GT500s. This is one of the original cars built for the 2000 film Gone in 60 Seconds, a car famously nicknamed “Eleanor” by Nicholas Cage’s character Randall “Memphis” Raines.
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