Amazing it survived.  Typically those cars were destroyed by the studios to prevent lawsuits.  There was always conjecture that they somehow survived.

The question is, is this the car that did the stunts or the hero car that was in a lot of the other shots?  As I recall there were two cars used, and only one was a 390 car; the other was a small block car.  Part of the reason for the debadging, removal of the fog lights from the GT car, etc. was to make both cars look alike for continuity purposes. 

It would be interesting to go over the car and see what all have been done to it.  I know they played hell keeping the stunt car together.

Still IMO the best car chase scene ever, and I don't think it will ever be surpassed, especially in this world of Fast and Furious with ridiculous CGI.  The absolute best of a bygone era of moviemaking. 

wow that was beautiful!!

Rufus68 wrote:

This car is the hero car. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hu4vKWBMCo

That's awesome Rufus! Thanks for posting!
 

I always thought he was double clutching when shifting.  It doesn't sound like a regular shift, nor a powershift on the gear changes.

Ah, a couple extra forward gears, no big deal.  There are other movies where the car seems to shift into a second reverse gear.  Now THAT's funny!

66 coupe wrote:

Maybe I missed something, but I thought they recently found the original in Mexico?

There were two of them used in making the movie. The one south of the border was the car used in the jump scenes and when found in a salvage yard  was pretty much  junk except for the provenance.