Before Brian O’Conner drove the legendary orange A80 Toyota Supra in The Fast and the Furious, his old flame was a inexperienced Mitsubishi Eclipse that he full of NOS to strive and beat Dominic Toretto’s Mazda RX-7, a Honda Civic and an Acura Integra (Nooo! Monica!) in a drag race.
The Eclipse didn’t keep round for very lengthy in the 2001 film, it’s nonetheless one in every of the extra recognisable vehicles in the sequence, and one in every of the film vehicles used throughout the movie’s manufacturing is now being put up for sale by Mecum Auctions.
This 1996 Eclipse is buck automobile #35 and is one in every of six commissioned, full with documentation from Cinema Vehicle Services verifying that it was certainly utilized in the filming of the film. According to Mecum Auctions’ itemizing, the automobile is estimated to fetch between USD75,000 and USD125,000 (round RM313,388 and RM522,313) at auction, which is fairly a bit of cash however nonetheless nowhere close to what Barrett-Jackson sold a Supra for final June.
The record of modifications features a Robocar physique package, a big APR Performance rear wing, a non-functional roof scoop, a carbon fibre-look bonnet and inside appointments, varied decals and graphics, seven-spoke alloy wheels with Toyo Proxes tyres, customized facet mirrors, Sparco seats, a racing steering wheel and a Jensen CD stereo system.
Sadly, there aren’t any NOS bottles behind the rear seats and the automobile is geared up with an computerized transmission, versus one other film automobile used that had a guide. The 2.0 litre DOHC four-cylinder engine is additionally untouched, as you possibly can inform by the stock-looking engine bay. You’ll nonetheless get the notorious diamond-plate ground pans although, that are central to the well-known (and hilarious) “danger to manifold” scene.
While a few of this automobile’s particulars don’t totally match up to what we see in the film, collectors will probably overlook them in the pursuit of proudly owning an iconic film automobile. We’ll solely discover out if this Eclipse manages to hit (and even exceed) its value estimates when it goes to auction this weekend.
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