Posts Tagged: Steve McQueen
A 1968 Ford Mustang GT and a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T tear through the hills of San Francisco in one of the most argued-about car chases ever filmed — and viewers still can’t agree on how many hubcaps the Charger actually lost along the way. No score, no CGI, just two big-block V8s and two drivers who knew exactly how much grip they had left. Watch to see why a scene filmed over fifty years ago still beats the chases Hollywood makes today.
Lou Costabile tracks down Jeff Battaglia and his 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback GT 390 at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals in Rosemont, Illinois, where the car — restored over seven years at Platinum Custom Cars — makes its very first show debut. It’s not the Bullitt car, and nobody involved is pretending otherwise. This is a family restoration with its own story to tell. Watch to see how it all came together.
Steve McQueen did much of his own driving in the Bullitt chase scene — a 1968 Ford Mustang GT pursuing a Dodge Charger through San Francisco with no CGI and famously little music. Decades later, fans are still finding new details: a recurring green VW Bug, impossible geography between shots, and a scene that Mopar owners and Mustang fans both claim as their own. Watch the chase that’s still the benchmark everyone else gets measured against.