{"id":7308,"date":"2020-01-20T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2020-01-20T06:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:30:56","slug":"the-3-4m-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/20\/the-3-4m-mustang\/","title":{"rendered":"The $3.4M Mustang&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s over&#8230;the auction for the Mustang used in the Steve McQueen movie <em>Bullitt<\/em>, the very car used in what is unquestionably the greatest chase scene ever filmed.\u00a0 It set a new record for American muscle car sales.\u00a0 I saw both Mustangs used in <em>Bullitt<\/em> at a Warner Brothers event celebrating the life of Bud Ekins (<a href=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/28\/ekins-mcqueen-leno-weinstein-and-more\/\">that story is here<\/a>), and they were undeniably cool.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7311\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7311\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_7128900x600-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_7128900x600-600wide.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_7128900x600-600wide-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bullitt Mustang. Yeah, it was cool.\u00a0 I shot this photo in 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My good buddy and friend-since-grade-school Ralph predicted the <em>Bullitt<\/em> Mustang would go for over three million dollars, and he was right.\u00a0 Surprisingly, that&#8217;s not the highest price ever paid at auction for an American car.\u00a0 A Duesenberg sold for something around $22 million a while back.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a bit more than what Gresh and I make on the ExNotes blog.\u00a0 Quite a bit more, actually.<\/p>\n<p>I saw <em>Bullitt<\/em> when it first played back in the day (it was released in 1968), and I&#8217;ve probably watched it a dozen times since. \u00a0 My good buddy Richie and I drove into New Brunswick to see it at the RKO State movie theatre and it was electrifying.\u00a0 The closest thing I&#8217;d ever seen to a chase scene that dramatic was the motorcycle chase in <em>The Great Escape<\/em>, and what do you know, Bud Ekins and Steve McQueen did the honors in that one, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s over&#8230;the auction for the Mustang used in the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt, the very car used in what is unquestionably the greatest chase scene ever filmed.\u00a0 It set a new record for American muscle car sales.\u00a0 I saw both Mustangs used in Bullitt at a Warner Brothers event celebrating the life of Bud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/20\/the-3-4m-mustang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The $3.4M Mustang&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,96],"tags":[918,920,147,917],"class_list":["post-7308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-bud-ekins","tag-bullitt","tag-mustang","tag-steve-mcqueen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7308\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}