Has anyone ever seen any of the real Eleanors?

[Frank N. O.]

Either the one from the original movie by J. B. "Toby" Hallicki or the 2000 movie roughly based on the original.

I know some of the surviving originals have been on display different places but has anyone here seen them?

Frank

[Justin Martin]

I've seen one of the Shelby GT500E's, but none of the original Eleanors.

[Commander]

Justin has spoken my exact words.

[VQ]

I saw a nice replica of the one from the 2000 movie, it's alright actually, but still a ford :p

[Frank N. O.]

Hehe VQ, very funny :)

I don't really like the GT500E especially since the hood-bump is a lot larger on the production-model than the movie-cars. Then there's the little matter of the Super Snake version with 700 hp :rolleyes:
I do love an original 67 GT500 in the shape, especially white with blue stripes and the multi-spoke original wheels.

The movie-cars all differed a little, for instance one had the arming-switch and such, but automatic transmission, another had 700lb springs for the real landing for the animated jump and as you can see the car's front and suspension were almost ripped apart, actually in the DVD-ROM extra material you see in one of the trailers/features with the music, the car rammed the cement after the landing and spun around revealing a smashed front, and the landing in frame by frame shows a very bad wheel-angle upon landing :(

There are however many ways you watch a movie on, and enjoy a car, but I think the modern Eleanor concept is nice and can fuel enthusiasm for cars with the passion that the crew, especially Memphis, Sway and Otto shows in several of the scenes. That's the driving force, to drive, not to steal (but that's just my oppinion I'm probably wrong).

A shame that they used a Chrysler/Dodge starter and not the original now they had a real GT500 for the soundworks. There's a mp3 clip of a starting GT500 somewhere on the net if you want to hear the real thing, or download Ryan T's GT500 for Racer, it has that starter sound from that very clip when I found it :cool:

Frank

[blackice111288]

I saw a nice replica of the one from the 2000 movie, it's alright actually, but still a ford :p


my thoghts exactly, i saw a GT500 a while back, but no elanor replica.

[FeZ]

I did read some interview/article about Caroll Shelby some days ago.

Some things made me wonder.
It was mentioned that he build ~13.000 GT350 & GT500 for Ford between 1965 and 1970. Later there was some article on the GT350 and it mentioned about 7000 cars build, so that would mean that ~ 6000 GT500 were build.

I always thought that those GTs were much rarer cars ?

Also he mentioned that the only color available was white with blue stripes, does that mean that the GI30S cars were (original & remake) were repainted ?

Anyway, cool car

[Frank N. O.]

The original Eleanor in Toby Halicki's classic movie from the early 70s was a stock Mustang Mach-1 from around 73 I think. The "new" Eleanor was based on a normal 67-68 Ford Mustang fastback and then modified with costum-bodykits that can be purchased as a kit now also. The front was based on a GT500 with a different grill, but with costum insert small blue lights, the bumpers were shaped after the 65 Shelby Mustang GT350R, the hood-bump was like a 67 GT500 but without intakes, the production GT500E has a much larger and ugly bump like a rhino. The rear-scoops were also like a real GT500 as was the Mercury taillights and duck-rump spoiler. The sidescirts with Corvette sidepipes was costum. Btw the 17 inch rims are not Halibrands but a clone of another brand, can't remember which but I have it in my big GI60S folder in the Eleanor sub-folder ;)

Most of the Shelby Mustang GT's could come in different colour-combos allthough the 65 GT350R might be the exception. There was a special rental-version called GT350H, H for Hertz and that was black with yellow stripes.

What could fool is that many normal Mustangs have been fitted with parts making it look like a Shelby. Btw the original name for the 67 Shelby Mustang GT500 is actually Shelby Cobra GT500 but generally it's known as just Shelby GT500 or Shelby Mustang. The 500 had a 428 cid V8 unlike the Shelby Cobra 427 that had a guess-what, but that 427 with much more power was an option for the 67 GT500 but only 1 was ever made, distinguished by special tripple blue stripes on Wimbledon White. It could do 167 mph.

Frank

[Smokey!]

Yes I´ve seen several...on Discovery Channel ;) . NO really. There was a program about a shop somewhere in the states that restores mustangs into eleanor copies. And you can specify if there is something you want to be done differently.

[Frank N. O.]

Ok that's interesting, I haven't seen that show, mostly what I see on the regular Discovery at least, are reruns and reruns.

Frank

[VQ]

I've seen a Eleanor replica at the last Hot rod show I went too, it was a nice car, not done at the time, but looked awsome nontheless.