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If you own one of these you might want to dream like this guy!
http://bringatrailer.com/2013/01/14/mil ... e-charger/

Very cool find but I only see 4 hubcaps. The car used in the movie had more than that.

This confirms what I have been thinking about that site. They will print any old crap someone claims about a car.

There were 6 Chargers and 3 Mustangs in the movie. Only one of the Mustangs was the real thing, the rest being 6 cyl cars used in long shots, which is why the sound of that engine is the same from one shot to another, no matter how far away it is. They faked the long shots, and they finally crashed one of the 6 cyl Mustangs on the guardrail (remember the broken suspension?). Neither of the two extra Mustangs survived. Steve McQueen famously snagged the real car.

The Chargers kept getting crashed. That's one of the reasons for the 6 hubcaps that fly off during the chase. They just kept crashing the cars. In the final scene for the Charger, they destroyed the last three cars without ever getting it right, so they spliced together all 3 near misses and blew up the gas station and electrical substation by remote, then spliced in the car that came closest to the place it was aimed (still a couple of hundred feet from the target), producing that very disappointing end of the big chase. No Chargers survived the film. Not one. This guy is just another creep with a wrench and a dishonest disrepect for movies and cars. The only place he'll get anyone to buy that thing is that Barrett-Jackson crapola show. They will lie about anything.

Here's the thing...it's a downright gorgeous car. But the funny thing is, when I bought my BNIB 1:1 Challenger and followed the related forums, forum people were LIVID if the car had more than 10 miles on it when it was "new" - my car had 120 miles on it since it was driven from San Jose to Davis (from one dealer to me, since I bought it sight unseen by VIN alone). So, in the forum world, people would demand a discount for those miles. Me, I was thrilled. Now, getting back to that movie car, me, I would actually pay MORE for it if it was NOT in the movie...did you see how they trashed them up and down those hills? OMG! hahaha...nope, I would rather have a that nice one in the picture!...but I would not pay extra for its supposed movie provenance.

They couldn't do that one back in the day...

Back in the Challenger, Charger, Barracuda and Roadrunner days, it was illegal to call a car with more than 100 miles on it "new", hence the "99.9" demo cars that were all over the place at discounts. The truth is, dealers used to disconnect the speedos and let their kids and pals drive the cars for fun, even for a vacation, then reconnect the speedo and the only miles that showed were from test drives by customers. A friend's father was the fleet buyer for Hertz in the 60s, and any Ford dealer anywhere would just hand over a new car to him whenever he said "boo". The family took me on vacation with them one summer, and the local dealer had the most luxury equipped maroon and white 1969 F-150 I ever saw waiting for us when we got there. We drove the living hell out of it for 10 days on the beach.

Waytoomuchintothis, you are correct. One day a buddy of mine who worked for the local Dodge dealer, showed up


at my house in a brand new Super Bee, and said "you have got to drive this". We did.