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Photoshow: Steve
McQueen Tribute Show August 14th. with Barbara McQueen |
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August 26th, 2010
Only together they can go back in history and tell about the true myth of the movie... ... and that is what Paul Martin and Glen Kalmack do at car shows. This is a pic from last Sunday |
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August 15th, 2010 News about Bullitt stuff flooding my mailbox Sometimes I wish I had way more time to do all this. This is Hot August and the 30th. Anniversary of Steve McQueens death. Frank Panacci was there during the filming as one of the cops and never lost the thrill and special atmosphere from his mind nor his friendship developped with Steve himself. Now he has finally succeeded to have his own 2 main movie actors to play with - a 68 Charger and a Bullitt replica. The ultimate scenario and pride of ownership, a Bullitt maniac can think of, Frank has realized his dreams. Together with his friend - our Bullitt website co-founder - Anthony Bologna they are now ready to take any serious offers for photoshootings in San Francisco. |
![]() THE ULTIMATE BULLITT Pair to own - Frank Panacci Bullitt replicas Pictures sent in from Anthony Bologna from a last Saturdays car show More on their outstanding Bullitt display in the next days... Boy I need really more time...:)
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| News about Arnold Welch Charger | Coming soon from Arnold himself |
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August 1st, 2010 A new Bullitt replica in our brotherhood Jim Bateman presents his outsstanding replica after a thorough 2 years research and detailing process. |
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July 30th, 2010 You may wonder what the Planet of the Apes and Bullitt have in common, right? I wondered myself..until I checked the web and
found out that the first movie actually came out in mid 1968 ...just like the
movie Bullitt. That's it? |
![]() ![]() Left or right....Cool enough for some 2011 Bullitt mystery? |
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July While 1968 Fastbacks are becoming rare these days, people start to look for hardtops and "bullittize" them. Eugenio Giambona lives in San Francisco and could not stand it any longer, so he built his own Bullitt Hardtop. From my point of view, it has the right stance and coolness factor to play in a movie, probably even more it has the McQueen desired understatement factor built in as a cop car. We will add it to our "What, if.." section later this year, when Eugenio has done his photo tour through the movie locations. Watch out for his car jumping the roads. He may get overwhelmed by the memories. |
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June 14th Glen Kalmack had his day at a photo shoot with Michael Bublé. "He's a very popular singer. Nordstroms USA had hired him to do a photo shoot for their line of Hugo Boss clothing. He wanted a Bullitt car real bad, so when it all came together he was real happy. We chatted for a few minutes and he seems to be a real cool guy and really loved my car, so I made him an offer to loan him my car to take his Fiancee' out for a cruise someday. It was an excellent experience and everybody really liked my car." Don't know who Michael Bublé is? |
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June 6th 46 B-stangs at the Bullitt Nationals 2010 in CA David Kunz joined the Bullitt Mustang car show on Saturday at the Chino Hills/ Boys of Republic ground. Chad McQueen made an appearance as well and was interviewed by a local video team. ![]() ![]() |
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MAY 2010 - ECHO
PARK, CALIFORNIA
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April 25th, 2010
This ain't no ordinary Bullitt replica Glen Kalmack had very early decided that he wants to separate his Bullitt replica from the rest of the ones that are around these days. He spent extra time and money to be able to create a better idea about a car show scenario and met with Paul Martin, whose Charger we feature on this Bullitt site as well. They both share the extra passion for the movie to work on their cars and take them even closer to the "real deal". Showgoers may this year already spot their cars in the canadian western corner. Now look close at this pic and you see the camera fixtures that are close to those on the surviving Bullitt car. Glen had them recently done and fixed to his subframe. He also seeked advice from David Kunz for the camera used in the movie and might have a replica available this summer. See further updated pics in the Replica section. |
![]() The camera framework- recreated by Glen Kalmack on his Bullitt replica. He just works on a McQueen poster stand-up, a photo-shooting and an appearance in a movie. |
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March 28th, 2010 and April 14th. We are still following the Charger resto project of Arnold Welch, who claims to have one of the surviving Chargers, while most still have doubt in it. But anybody as well as Arnold should get a chance to proove his claims one day with the evidence he may have. We'll see it coming at least.
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![]() ... and last status April 2010 - finally paint makes it different. |
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March 20th. 2010 Takafumi Ikeda kept us updated about his Tokyo based Bullit replica. His car got recently featured in a japanese car magazine. More pics
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March 6th. 2010 Back from 4 weeks down under on the road I brought a few snippets of real performance cars with me such as this blown (1967) Bullitt replica by Nick Batz. More about it in the next weeks. |
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22.1.2010 TOP NEWS First pics of the BULLITT movie car from Brad Bowling/Frank Marranca in Mustang Enthusiast April 2010 Brad interviewed the second owner Frank Marranca and reviewed his archive. |
Check
out page 62/63/64 in this online issue!
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18th. January 2010
An interesting car show took place last weekend, put on by the Motion Picture and Television Car Club http://www.tmpcc.org/ . You may also check out Dave Kunz on Hot Rod TV Fast forward to time frame starting around 5.00 min.
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The group from Star Car Central had more than two dozen cars there,
including a Batmobile replica and my Bullitt (
http://www.starcarcentral.com/
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The show took place on the Studio City CBS lot, famous for many television
shows including Gilligan’s Island and more recently, Seinfeld. http://www.adamcarolla.com/CarCastBlog/2010/01/16/tmpcc-car-show/
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10th. January
Mike Farrell sold his low milage 2008 Bullitt Mustang to a car collector... and keeps his 1968 running. Well, who is the better car collector? |
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8th. January 2010 What happened to Arnold Welch and his claimed BULLIT CHARGER survivor? Arnold updated us about the restoration process of his car of which he thinks is a true movie survivor. ![]() "I replaced the roof meanwhile and pulled out the dash to repaint. I installed a new windshield gasket and am steadily working on the body work." Arnold We hope to see it soon on the show circuits. |
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Chino Hills/CA will be the place
to be on June 3rd.
- 6th. 2010
for street action and meeting friends and
relatives of Steve McQueen.
With combined efforts the Friends of Steve McQueen Car show and the Bullitt
Nationals organized from members of the imboc.com team celebrate a
national come together-party for all Bullitt owners.
Visit www.thebullittnationals.net for registering, hotel info etc..
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THE GUNSHOT DECAL now available from Glen Kalmack. For 30 bucks you can get this white on clear self-adhesive sticker foil printed gunshot decal for your BULLITT Replica detailing. It is intended to be used at shows and can be removed without residues after a long show day. Glen tried and and has done a few more that he wants to share with other Bullitt replica owners. Contact us for putting you in contact with Glen. Limited supply of 2 stickers at this moment available. Next ... who is going to reproduce those dented fenders and the camera fixtures....? Happy New Year to you all. Have fun. |
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Nov.3rd, 2009 and Dec. 15th.
THE UNEXPECTED PONYSITE BULLITT MANIAC CONTEST Jules Birley from Pioneer slot car provided us some extra give-aways to make our own BULLITT Maniac contest. Win a very special silver Bullitt plus more in answering some tough questions chosen by Dave Kunz and Jules Birley. Follow this link |
AND THE WINNERS ARE:
1st
prize Daniel
Weber/Florida U.S.A
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THE LATEST
ADDITION TO
THE
BULLITT REPLICA GANG |
...comes from Canada and proofs that we don't know
each of them yet. ![]() "I've owned this '68 J Code Mustang Fastback since 1988. When I first purchased it, it was a bucket of bolts in about 8 boxes. It took me from 1988 until 1995 to complete. Just about every piece of sheet metal other than the roof has been replaced. Also, the engine, automatic transmission and 9" rear were replaced by myself along the way. Most of the interior has been replaced. It was painted in 1995, and could use another restoration now, as there are some dents and paint scratches, but it adds personality and I think Steve McQueen would approve" Dave Duivesteyn |
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Nov.1st, 2009
BULLITT REPLICA SECTION RESTRUCTURED After having registered 56 Bullitt replicas (1968) and look-alikes (1967) worldwide, we felt it was time to restructure the BULLITT replica section: Have a look and let us have your feed-back, additions or corrections. It is not yet finished, but I am working on it. Also check out Don DeHarts latest video and note the funny first comment underneath the youtube posting |
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21st October 2009 Mustang Plus 428 powered BULLITT Tribute Mustang for sale on ebay We had Michael
Gullerys report on this car some time ago on this site. Mustang Monthly
features it in its current November 2009 issue and now it is for sale on ebay. |
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8th October
As we mentioned before, here is Scott Allnutts treasure, which he bought from Don DeHart recently.
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"It was thanks to your web site, that I discovered this car. I follow the BULLITT page very closely, & when I realized Don was selling his 67 Bullitt, I drove down to see it. Being an avid Steve McQueen fan, it didn’t take much convincing to make him a serious offer. Within a month later, I flew down & drove it home. Scott |
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2nd October Another Bullitt from Germany Michael Theune is the proud owner. We present his car first in our club mag, and will put it up here soon. |
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25th. Sept.2009
The Pioneer Slot car is ready to ship First pics of the finished serial production thanks to Jules Birley.
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Sept.2009
Archiving in Process Making room for new BULLITT News - Bassam Abdallahs 1968 replica |
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Sept.2009
The Race to Witch Mountain movie is out meanwhile. We reported about David Kunz car appearing in this movie long ago in the News pages. Here is an actual movie "screenshot" |
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Huge Archive - Don't miss There is too much to list from the News archive, that is maintained since the mid 90ies. 8 Pages full of interesting BULLITT-Mania are stored for the interested readers including a "How-to-BULLITT" your Mustang story link, interesting leads on eye-witnesses and so on. So just click here to page through them to have a complete picture of our dedication to the BULLITT theme. |
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