The $2 Million Mustang Eleanor!

Hi guys, Supercar Bondi here and I am in a super special car. It's just got the engine. You may have already recognized it if you've seen the movie Gone in 60 Seconds. This is one of the cars that Nicolas Cage drove in the movie. So for the movie they built 11 of these cars for all of the shots but only three were used for the driving scenes. These are so-called hero cars. So they're fully functioning cars and that's one of those three. All of the other ones were not fully built cars. Some of them like were just built for interior shots for example. And I'm here in East Germany. Who would have thought chrome cars has this car? Some of you are watching this and going no way I'm going to pick it to pieces. This is a copy because this is one of the most copied movie cars in the world. But I'm going to get the expert in in just a second to point out some of the features that shows that this is actually one of the three originals. This is kind of one of the only things that shows you that it was a car from the movies. Look at these air vents here. They're closed off. They're fake. So they just tacked on body kits to make the car look really cool. The exhaust tips in the movie were for show only. They did not work. The exhaust actually came from out the back. After the movie finished they wanted to sell these cars. So they had to make them actually function properly. It went back to cinema vehicle services. They're the guys that actually make cars for movies. And they retrofitted a whole new exhaust system that functions so that they could sell this these cars onto the public. So on all three original movie cars you'll now see these new exhaust tips. There's also nitrous which we're going to have a look at now. Some of the movie cars you could see the nitrous right behind where they were sitting. In this car it's actually in the boot. So just pull on this little latch here. Boot opens and there it is the tank. That's cool. Let's get in because I know you guys want to see the interior of the car. I've got to slam that. This is actually functioning here. That works to fill up. You never know what's real and what's fake on movie cars. This wheel is special guys. Take a look at this. This is an original wheel built for Shelby. I think it's time to bring in the expert who is standing by. Chris. What's happening man? Hi. Nice to meet you. This is Chris everyone from Chromecars. They're the guys that own this car and you're pretty much an Eleanor expert right? Let's say. Like on geek level. Let's say nerd. That's good enough. Nerd is quite appropriate. He's like and then this feature over here and then that feature. I'm like okay calm down. Calm down. We'll go through all the features. Come on over. Okay where do you want to start? Because I know that it's super important to you to show certain features that make this like 100% fully undoubtable that this is an original from the movie. Let's start with the hood. Most of the replicas have like a copy of the of that very custom front end. Yeah. But the very main point to point that it's an original car is the hood actually. The hood. The shape of the hood and the shape of the scoop. Whenever you see a replica they're like very edgy. Very straight like that and it looks actually cheap. And the reason for this is that they used an original Shelby hood and they reshaped it a little bit. That's very unique and trademarked actually. Because the original Shelby hood was actually open here right? Right. So in order to close it off to look like this movie car they actually just had to create this piece and it ended up looking just really square. So it just came down here and then boom. Looks more smooth now. So there are lots of different bits and pieces on this car to tell whether it's an original. But if you want to get super super nerdy let's go have a look at what's under the hood. Got it. Now in the movie guys you don't actually get to see under the hood. So for those of you who have seen the movie you're like well this doesn't tell me anything. No not really. But for the freaks and geeks over here they look under the hood and this is like the stamp that you need. Yeah you really need to know what kind of like suspension parts they used for the Hero cars. What engines, what transmission and stuff like that. So you have to have the total control product suspension parts. The VIN number we need to just point that. Yeah that's that's right here for the super nerds. For the super super nerds. What's not nerdy though is driving this car. That is just pure awesome. Do you hear that? Now you need to keep your foot on the gas a little bit otherwise it'll just conk out. There's a bit of an issue with the seatbelt. Why I'm not wearing one. I'm not as skinny as Nicolas Cage. So we're just gonna try and reverse. Good okay off we go. Never did I think I would be driving before I'd nearly done driving and I'm in East Germany. That was fake but you couldn't tell right? You can actually arm the nitrous in this car. You can hook it up they just haven't hooked it up yet. So next time I come back the nitrous will be hooked up right? Chrome cars you got me right? That's what we want to see. This one actually I wanted to ask you because we know that one of these cars was sold for a million dollars in 2013. We're now 2019. How much do you think you could get for this? I mean it's six years ago and the value just keeps rising. So we're not afraid to say it's double the price. So two million probably. And that's actually an unrestored car. So the others are some touch-ups here some new paint job here and change parts so that's as it was in the movie. So you've done nothing to this car? No no no just keeping it alive right? Yeah yeah yeah driving it. Some oil here and blah spark plugs. What do you have to do to make it work? She's an old girl. She's an old girl she's temperamental. She says yes when she wants to be driven you can drive her. When she wants her days off just leave her. Don't touch her. Totally agree. I hope you enjoyed the video. Give us a quick thumbs up. Subscribe to my account. Be part of the Supercar Blondie family if you're not yet. Massive thank you to Chromecars for inviting me to East Germany. Here to look at their incredible collection. You can see their link in the description below if you'd like to get in contact with them. It's been awesome. Here driving the Eleanor from the movie on an airstrip here in Germany. How crazy is that? Right love you I'm out.