My dream car has been sold - Eleanor

[jimnyc]

I've always loved Mustangs, but this one, and the current Super Snakes are my favorite. This one was in the movie "Gone in 60 seconds" and just sole for $1 million at auction!!

http://imageshack.us/a/img526/162/eleanor2e.jpg

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/gone-60-seconds-star-eleanor-fetches-1-million-152556158.html

[jimnyc]

And my current favorite:

http://imageshack.us/a/img703/1723/dsc1316625jpg677x1000q1.jpg

[Thunderknuckles]

That was a cool car, no doubt.
Fear not however, there are probably a number of car builders out there that will make Eleanor replicas using the same parts Chip Foose used to build it for the movie

[jimnyc]

That was a cool car, no doubt.
Fear not however, there are probably a number of car builders out there that will make Eleanor replicas using the same parts Chip Foose used to build it for the movie

Unless I can get either of my favorites for under $20k, I fear I may never see either up close. I had a 2000 Mustang, but it was a piece of crap 6 cylinder, but still looked cool. I want the current SS more than anything!

[Robert A Whit]

I had a custom painter paint a Lincoln MK IV I then owned that color on the Mustang in the parking lot with the cop car behind it. The type of paint was very hard and the painter did not explain to me that the paint could chip easier. And too soon, my paint would chip.Mustangs are nice cars. Shelby GT are of course the bees knees. I bought several Cougars but no Mustangs. The Mustang convertible I rented on the big island was too small in many respects.

[Marcus Aurelius]

I've always loved Mustangs, but this one, and the current Super Snakes are my favorite. This one was in the movie "Gone in 60 seconds" and just sole for $1 million at auction!!

http://imageshack.us/a/img526/162/eleanor2e.jpg

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/gone-60-seconds-star-eleanor-fetches-1-million-152556158.html

you'll like my sons 2005 then...

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[BillyBob]

I watched the Mecum auction where Eleanor was sold. Another Shelby GT 500 went for 1.3 million. The bidding went on for awhile and a bidder walked up to the podium, said he wanted the car, asked Dana Mecum what it's gonna take and Dana said 'one point three million'. The buyer said 'OK'. SOLD!

http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/p480x480/946947_586541794703512_230871805_n.jpg

[Thunderknuckles]

Unless I can get either of my favorites for under $20k, I fear I may never see either up close. I had a 2000 Mustang, but it was a piece of crap 6 cylinder, but still looked cool. I want the current SS more than anything!
I hear you. I had a 1999 Mustang convertible. It too was only a 6 cylinder because I couldn't afford the GT at the time, but it was a great looking vehicle, a real chick magnet :p
I gave it too my stepdaughter who recently sold it to buy a new car. By that time, we had put over 200K miles on her and she still hummed along well. I loved that car and miss her :(
I have a real soft spot for Mustangs, especially the ones created by Shelby.

[Robert A Whit]

I hear you. I had a 1999 Mustang convertible. It too was only a 6 cylinder because I couldn't afford the GT at the time, but it was a great looking vehicle, a real chick magnet :p
I gave it too my stepdaughter who recently sold it to buy a new car. By that time, we had put over 200K miles on her and she still hummed along well. I loved that car and miss her :(
I have a real soft spot for Mustangs, especially the ones created by Shelby.

Phil, a former pal of mine (poor guy hung himself in the mid 80s) picked up a fabulous Mustang of maybe 1973 vintage. I wish I recalled the year. Pill was a master at fixing up bodies and was pretty good painting cars. He set up his garage as a paint booth and did body work in it. Hie wife wanted a Mustang so he picked this up and really created a fine car. It was a muscle car and had those scoops on the side rear panels as well as a raised part of the hood i believe it had. Anyway, just before his wife divorced him, he took quite a lot of cash and put the money into maybe 15 cars. He picked up a couple of corvettes and I think a very cool pickup and a bunch of other cars. I don't know why but he put the owners papers where his wife found them and she collected them up. He got the bug to go gamble at Reno and some kid that worked for him at his home shop drove Phil to Reno. There when Phil went into a casino this punk kid stole one of Phil's Corvettes and it ended up in Denver I believe. Phil had to catch a bus back to the SF Bay area. One thing about Phil, he loved those cars but hated to drive. Phil gets back home and his wife is angry. Phil finally got a phone call from the law and caught an airplane to pick up the Corvette in CO. When Phil drove back to CA and got home, his wife had some movers come over and cleaned out the house. That is when Phil discovered she was divorcing him.

It was months later that he was told the divorce was final and I believe that is the day he hung himself.

You won't believe how he did that.

Tying a rope to the door knob,he puts a nose over his neck, walks over to a sofa and lays down. Apparently it was tight enough to cut off blood flow to his brain so he must have gone to sleep and dies from that. The rope was horizontal to the floor sort of so he hung himself on the sofa.

Art who painted my Lincoln and one other car for me was in trouble over drugs. He got into a hell of a mess and realized prison was in his future. (Art sold Phil some of his pot)

Art and his adult son got into the back of Art's Lincoln Mark IV and using the exhaust, gassed both of them to death one sunday.

What is funny is it was Phil who called me about a year before he hung himself that Art had died in his car.

[Thunderknuckles]

Phil, a former pal of mine (poor guy hung himself in the mid 80s) picked up a fabulous Mustang of maybe 1973 vintage. I wish I recalled the year. Pill was a master at fixing up bodies and was pretty good painting cars. He set up his garage as a paint booth and did body work in it. Hie wife wanted a Mustang so he picked this up and really created a fine car. It was a muscle car and had those scoops on the side rear panels as well as a raised part of the hood i believe it had. Anyway, just before his wife divorced him, he took quite a lot of cash and put the money into maybe 15 cars. He picked up a couple of corvettes and I think a very cool pickup and a bunch of other cars. I don't know why but he put the owners papers where his wife found them and she collected them up. He got the bug to go gamble at Reno and some kid that worked for him at his home shop drove Phil to Reno. There when Phil went into a casino this punk kid stole one of Phil's Corvettes and it ended up in Denver I believe. Phil had to catch a bus back to the SF Bay area. One thing about Phil, he loved those cars but hated to drive. Phil gets back home and his wife is angry. Phil finally got a phone call from the law and caught an airplane to pick up the Corvette in CO. When Phil drove back to CA and got home, his wife had some movers come over and cleaned out the house. That is when Phil discovered she was divorcing him.

It was months later that he was told the divorce was final and I believe that is the day he hung himself.

You won't believe how he did that.

Tying a rope to the door knob,he puts a nose over his neck, walks over to a sofa and lays down. Apparently it was tight enough to cut off blood flow to his brain so he must have gone to sleep and dies from that. The rope was horizontal to the floor sort of so he hung himself on the sofa.

Art who painted my Lincoln and one other car for me was in trouble over drugs. He got into a hell of a mess and realized prison was in his future. (Art sold Phil some of his pot)

Art and his adult son got into the back of Art's Lincoln Mark IV and using the exhaust, gassed both of them to death one sunday.

What is funny is it was Phil who called me about a year before he hung himself that Art had died in his car.

We're talking about cars we love and your telling us stories about how your buddies killed themselves.
If I was catching a buzz right now, that would have definitely killed it :laugh:

[Robert A Whit]

We're talking about cars we love and your telling us stories about how your buddies killed themselves.
If I was catching a buzz right now, that would have definitely killed it :laugh:

Sorry but did you forget to read where Phil bought cars we would kill to own today? His muscle Mustang and his high power corvettes?

Arts Lincoln was not very fast but he did race dirt track cars. I met him as a drag racer.