The Missing Bullitt Charger

I think the charger was more awesome than the mustang.there’s nothing more cooler than seeing a black charger ripping ass and just plain being fast as hell.

Thats fantastic that it survived. I had heard there were 2 mustangs, 2 dodge & they were all wrecked for parts because of chassis damage & that they did not want to repair & re sell them because of warranty issues. They also had a modified corvette for the camera car.

Need more to show me that it’s the real bullitt charger bill Hickman was the driver and there’s on doc on the car any one can drill holes from the movie the first car was a r/t it had only 600 miles on it when crashed is there any one from the movie who will say it was used is there any one at time of the film making to say its real the plate on the car comes back to a Chevy truck it’s not adding up being I work for a dodge dealer ship thay would have fix the holes in the floor befor rescaling it

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Like all of you, I, too, am a die-hard “Bullitt” fan. I’m always amused at these stories of people stumbling across purportedly “original” items that were believed long-gone, but suddenly surfacing after having achieved some measure of cult-like popularity. Funny how the prior owners never revealed their discovery, even though the motion pictures in which they were featured were popular then, too. I, for one, would be extremely skeptical of anyone who claims to possess the “original” Mustang or Charger used in the film. These vehicles were mercilessly abused, and after filming would have been worth little more than salvage value. Moreover, anyone who knows anything about the movie knows that the chassis and suspensions of both vehicles were substantially altered to strengthen them so they would hold together until filming was concluded (especially the Mustang. The Charger was far more durable and easily outperformed the Mustang). I am therefore somewhat surprised to hear that one of the Chargers was allegedly returned to the dealer. If it had in fact been purchased by the film producers, then it would have been theirs to dispose of however they saw fit — why return it to the dealer if the dealer no longer owned it? No reputable dealer would have wanted it back, for they would never be able to re-sell it. It would have had to be extensively re-built, and aside from being structurally questionable the dealership would undoubtledly have lost money on it. No, I believe that it is far more likely that these cars have long since vanished into the mists of time and the dust of salvage yards. But it is fun to speculate that perhaps it could surface unexpectedly somewhere and not be immediately recognized for what it is. Much like those stories we hear about where someone buys a painting at a garage sale for ten bucks and the thing turns out to be a long-lost Van Gogh worth millions. Those incidents occur just often enough to power the fantasy that out there . . . somewhere . . . waiting to be discovered under a pile of debris . . . is an automotive icon of a generation.