1973 Mustang Mach 1 - Eleanor, Take Two

What Happens When You Meld The Cars From The Original And Remade Gone In 60 Seconds? You End Up With Something Like Fernando Gomez's One-Of-A-Kind Custom.Fernando Gomez's '73 Mustang Mach 1 "Eleanor Beast"
I can tell you firsthand that one single movie sealed my love affair with cars. It was Gone in 60 Seconds, the original, first released in 1974. I remember watching it on the very first video cassette recorder my parents bought, an Akai with four heads and two speeds. As movies go, the plot is almost non-existent, the dialog hardly memorable, but the cars are something else. Then there's the chase scene. Lasting for approximately 40 minutes, it's realistic in the extreme, hardly surprising since the film was shot on a shoestring budget. The chase itself revolves around the lead character, Maindrian Pace, stealing the last of a lot of cars destined for shipment to South America, and it's the one he's been having the most trouble with-a '73 Mustang SportsRoof. After having to return two examples back to their owners for insurance reasons, he thinks he's gotten away, stealing the third from an underground parking lot. But as he disables the car's alarm system, he's spotted by the cops, who are parked across the street in their '70 Mercury Montego. A massive chase ensues, with the Mustang becoming increasingly worse for wear, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The movie was remade in 2000, but somehow the flashy Hollywood edition, although better scripted and more slickly directed, just didn't have the same "it" factor as the original, though it did send interest and prices of '67 Shelbys and clones through the roof.


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