The
most "official" Replica for over 25 years (1992-2017)
Sky One flew over to the US to do a movie cars report. With
our help they could gather a number of them and rewarded the support with
some exclusive pics and insight about the current owners. (Waddell
Productions)
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This is Dave Kunz's famous replica
displayed quite often at the Petersen museum and used in Ford's own
promotion events until recently. This may of course change with the
appearance of both original movie cars in 2017 and early 2018.
But
David's Mustang GT 390cui has already won its share of glory in the past 25 years.
The first appearance was in a famous Mustang book by Randy Leffingwell.
Then Daves replica was used in the FORD PUMA commercial aired in Europe in 1999, it was featured in several Mustang and
other excellent car magazines and it was used on several official FORD promotion events during the concept car phase of the new BULLITT 2001 GT Feature car.
Even in the press kit and in the
2001 dealer brochures there is a lot of coverage on Davids Mustang.
It appeared as well in TV reports with
the 2008 on the west coast. Many more publications followed showing Davids
car.
Thus it can be considered a sort of an "Official BULLITT Mustang Replica" if you like. 
Randy Lleffingwells pics were used for a long
time and catch the spirit of the coolness factor
Davids changed the steering wheel pictured here
later to an original wheel covered in leather. The repro wheel is available
today through Branda or the David Mathews/SAAC.
Davids car appeared also in some European magazines in the year 2000/2001. It had been
shipped up to Northern California in 2000 for a photo shoot with the Ford Puma
again (after the very successful advertising campaign in 1999).
Ford had the top automotive journalists flying in from Europe to drive the Puma in the States (where the car
wasn't even sold).
 Don't miss: - More about the PUMA/Mustang photoshooting
from Anthony Bologna 8.Dec.99
Special
Bonus:
Location photo from the garage, where the PUMA/BULLITT MUSTANG were photographed last year.
from David Kunz
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Davids replica in
"Thoroughbred and Classic Cars"
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"On the 30th. of April 2000 a journalist from the famous "Thoroughbred and Classic Car" Magazine came over and we met in San Francisco for another photoshooting. Here are some of his shots."
Some might think, Steve is back, but in fact it is Dave sitting on the driver's seat wearing a similar jacket like Steve did in the movie.
The article was published in the February 2001 issue with 12 pictures and 9 pages. A perfect tribute to the BULLITT mania from Gus Gregory.
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Davids replica at the Petersen Museum
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In May 2000 I got a phone call from the Petersen Automotive Museum here in Los Angeles. They had been trying to get the original Bullitt Mustang for a summer exhibit featuring cars from the movies. To nobody's surprise, the owner again flatly refused. With the exhibit approaching, they
asked to borrow my replica for use in the display. Of course, I accepted!
My car was exhibited with other famous movie cars, including various Batmobiles (including the Barris original), some 007 movie cars including
- the red 429 Mach 1 (owned by Mike Allameda, the stunt car was at
that time still in the UK based James Bond cars collection),
- the '49 Mercury from James Dean's 'Rebel Without a Cause',
- and the Mustang from the original 'Gone in 60 Seconds' and the silver Shelby clone from the actual movie remake.
The exhibit had been quite popular.
From 2001 up to 2004 Daves car has been used extensively for various events. One
of the outstanding ones being the music video of Sheryl Crow. (see separate page
from the menu or news)
In 2005 the car was part of a special Movie car section at the Knotts
Berry Farm. It was also filmed for a special TV series "Best movie cars"
on Sky one TV, which is aired on 27th. July 2005. (Picture on top of this
page thanks to Nicola Waddell of Waddell Productions/UK.
The car has appeared as well in a 2009 longterm exhibit and at variouos
Friends of McQueen and Chino events where David also moderated or was active
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Other replicas and look-alikes
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This section had become very popular
in the past 25 years, as there are more die-hard BULLITT maniacs out there in Cyberspace, than we ever thought. From East to West, owners of Highland green BULLITT clones, replicas, look-alikes and whatever you may call them, were kind enough to send a picture and some lines about their cars. Rather than keeping those hidden, we took the pledge and set up this showroom for you.
Don't miss:
The biggest collection of
BULLITT Mustang replicas and look-alikes.
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The chase scenes locations as of today
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David
Kunz made a tour in the late 8oies or early 90ies through San Francisco spotting
the locations of the chase scenes. He updates us about the appearing of the sets.
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Magazine articles on BULLITT
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There
have been a number of BULLITT articles published since the early 60ies up to
today, which are in our collection.
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The August 1969 CAR LIFE article by Joe
Scalzo, Feature Editor Car Life
- Motortrend article by Mike Magda - Dec. 98 Report on "The making of
Bullitt"
(unfortunately we had to remove it on request
by Motortrend, although we had permission by Mike Magda)
- Motortrend - Nov. 69 Interview with Steve McQueen"
- Cinema Retro Article 2005
- and many more from 2000-2010
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BULLITT - Video, DVD and collectibles
 
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A lot of collectibles are available these days. Here is a list of only some.
- Video (english as well as in many other languages)
- Video - Special Anniversary edition containing extra bonus sequences about racing at Willow Springs with Steve McQueen and Hickmann
- DVD (US and UK version - english/arabic/english subtitles)
- Special DVD kit (only 7500 produced - contains original movie script, movie cards and other material)
- Screenplay script
- Book "Mute witness" by Robert Pike. The BULLITT movie was based on this novel.
- All sorts of Movie posters (if you are interested check out the link section)
- PC game. If you want to get the experience of "bullitting" through SFO on your "desktop engine", then get out your X-mas or Birthday wishlist and note the "Midtown madness" PC game, latest SFO edition. Although it will never copy the real ride, it might be a kind of placebo drug and ... it doesn't hurt that much.
- REVELL 1/25 scale model (since Jan.
2001, revised in 2008 with a new box)
- ERTL 1/18 scale model (out since Jan. 2002)
- Auto Art scale model (out since April 2002)
- Pioneer slot car (since 2009)
- JJZ 109 and Charger aluminium plates redone by Carl
Genatassio (www.imboc.com)
The Revell 1:25 kit
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One-of-a-kind Collectibles
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This is a one of a kind miniature model of a BULLITT Mustang, created and "artifacted" by Everett Westphal.
He was already featured in several scale model magazines and was in Car magazine in 2000.
Surprisingly there has never been an official scale model of this famous car in the 60ies to 90ies, as movie enterprises were not that much into merchandising collectibles at that time.
This is an ideal gift for the die-hard BULLITT fan. If you want one to be reproduced, try to convince Everett
, that he can make a business out of it. Consider this idea as copyrighted for
him.
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Where was the real car
before it was revealed January 14th, 2018 by the owners son Sean Kiernan?
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Most of the BULLITT enthusiasts
wanted to know in the past 26 years, since we are on the web, where the real BULLIT car
was?
Well, we knew it since 1997- but we could not tell about it, since
it was promised to the one who took the barn shots and the owner. The fast
we could put out, was that it had 66.000 miles on the odometer and the weld-on camera supports
were still in
place.
Dave Kunz kept
me updated about the
whereabouts of this icon of the movie industry.As
of 2008 there were rumours around that it might appear soon with a few
cosmetic changes done.
In late 2009 Brad Bowling was contacted by the second owner Frank Maranca
(Detective) and wrote an report for the April 2010 Mustang Enthusiast.
At the same time we got some more hints about the current owner and his
background. We kept our promise. At some time pictures were offered to several
publishers. Fortunately all deinied the publication due to the known
background story of where these pictures were taken.
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