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People surround the 1968 Bullitt Mustang GT car, Friday, Jan 10, 2020 in Kissimmee, Fla. The iconic Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT that once made history for its appearance in the film Bullitt is now making history again. It fetched $3.74 million Friday at Mecums Kissimmee auction, making it the most expensive Mustang ever sold. (Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
Posted: Jan 10, 2020 / 10:18 PM EST / Updated: Jan 10, 2020 / 10:18 PM EST
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) The Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang GT featured in the film Bullitt was sold Friday at a Florida auction house for $3.74 million.
The sale at Mecum Kissimmee marks the most expensive Mustang ever sold, surpassing a 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake that sold last year for $2.2 million, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Owner Sean Kiernan, with his sister Kelly Cotton riding shotgun, drove the car across the auction block at Silver Spurs Arena and then addressed a crowd of about 25,000 before the bidding started.
This car had sold twice in its life, its been in my family for 45 years. Each time it has sold, it was $3,500, Kiernan said. So were going to start it off at that price and go from there.
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One of the greatest chase scenes ever!
Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)Sold for roughly 100x more than purchase price. Not too shabby.
Ptah
(33,044 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)Caffeine hasnt kicked in yet.
hunter
(38,337 posts)... my dad might be a multi-millionaire.
When my great-great grandfather and great grandfather bought their houses the house weren't all that special. San Francisco was a hard working class city like Chicago.
Both houses survived the great earthquake, and my great-great grandfather's house now looks better than it ever did, a "painted lady" in a very desirable neighborhood.
The house my grandma grew up in has been subdivided into apartments. I once talked to some of the people living there and they didn't quite believe one family had lived in the entire house. It's one of those houses that has two front doors. The door in the center was the formal entry leading to the good rooms. The door to the side was for everyone else; children, housekeepers, laundry men, etc.
My grandma remembered the laundry man fondly. When he came to pick up the dirty laundry and deliver the clean he would give the children exotic sweets from Chinatown.
My grandma didn't consider herself racist but it was painful to visit Chinese and other ethnic restaurants with her. She expected to be treated like royalty. Her demeanor was completely ordinary at white people restaurants. Her sister, who lived more than a century, was the same way, but it wasn't so cringe-worthy when she was into her nineties and everyone was especially respectful of her simply because she was elderly.
When my grandma and her sister were young, wild, and free they considered San Francisco a boring place and they had zero interest in the family dairy business. Hollywood was the center of their universe.
Like them, I got into quite a bit of trouble in San Francisco and Hollywood when I was young and wild, never thinking about ROI in any aspect of my life.
rickford66
(5,530 posts)The article doesn't say which one. The more valuable one would have been the 390 cu in my opinion. The second car was probably the one I believe was pretty much destroyed on those hills. I'm a Mustang guy. The movie script was stupid but I've watched the chase scene a thousand times. The clip would have been better if it started where Steve gets in the car. On another note, SF must have been filled with little green VW's back then !!!
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)I read somewhere that George Barris was the production's first "body man" but was fired after his first repair: