Lately, there’s been a lot of chatter about the original Bullitt Ford Mustang being discovered. While I realize the Charger from the epic chase scene was destroyed, I’d like to see a replica of the Charger show up to make the sounds with McQueen’s chariot. This 1966 example looks like a compelling candidate for a re-creation project, and it’s an original 383/4-speed car. The seller seems to indicate he’s been chasing this Charger for awhile, and given the equipment, I’d have a hard time letting it go. Find it here on eBay with bidding just over $3K and the reserve unmet.
I’m scratching my head to understand why this isn’t getting more love on eBay. Although it currently has a 440 under the hood, the original engine is included. It sports mostly original “Bright Red” paint, air conditioning, bucket seats, hideaway headlights, factory gauge package, power steering and is said to be a rust-free Southern car. What am I missing? The owner is in his 70s and has held onto the Charger for 30 years, with this offering the first time in 35 years it’s been available for purchase.
The seller says its features and equipment can be documented via the fender tag and Certicard, both of which are still with the Charger. Given its equipment specifications, the seller says it is one of less than 3,000 built. What we can see shows a car that needs cleaning but overall validates the seller’s claim that it’s largely undisturbed and far from hacked up despite the engine swap. Obviously, validating the provenance of the 383 is a must-do, but even as a none-matching example, I’d still find the Charger compelling.
While an appropriate Charger Bullitt clone would necessitate black paint, I’d leave this one red and simply source the correct hubcaps and angry-looking henchmen at the wheel. True, to do it right you’d need to be willing to repaint this one or find a black project car, but just reliving some of the driving scenes hustling a big coupe like the Charger with a four-speed would be enough for me. Do you think bidding will take off soon, or is there some other factor holding this survivor-grade Charger back?
Wrong year for a bullit charger clone
OK – indulge me. Just having a little fun, not looking to enter it into tomorrow’s Mecum auction as the real-deal. Sheesh.
The body styles not even right, sheesh
Have you actually seen the movie?
My choice of the two cars in Bullit would be the black 1968 Charger R/T.
black 1968 Charger R/T cannot be mistaken for a 1966 they are completely different says the proud owner since 1983 Dude! don’t ever do that again! lol
Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.
Is this the BF equivalent of fake news?
Allen, lov’n it baby, lov’n it!
When I see this body all I see is NASCAR aero-warrior.
You’re right in a way. These things were so loose when they hit the tracks, ChrCo had to petition NASCAR to allow a trunk spoiler, which started the whole march away from “stock” cars. Thank Ronnie Householder. Lee Roy Yarbrough was one of their drivers, until Junior Johnson lured him into Fords. What a run they had! RIP, LRY.
I think the editor has a math problem? Um… this is a really cool 66’ Charger. The Bullit Charger was a triple black 68? I do love the car though!
Dude are you blind
The Bullitt Charger was a 68, not even the same generation Charger as this one. Wow…
Although I prefer this to the ’69, there are plenty cheap ones in better shape. For me it has to be light yellow with a black interior.
The black ’68 from the March 25th posting would do well for Bullit.
To fashion this into a Bullitt Charger , you would need an accurate Bullitt Mustang using a 1966 Mustang notchback in Grabber Green to complete the pair…….
This is the least desirable generation of Charger, except maybe for those 1980s Dodge Omni 024 things. But they had those really cool electroluminescent dashboards!
I was 16 when these ’66 Chargers hit the street, and I thought they were super hot. The interior was the big draw for me, and the hide away headlights. Rear seats and console folded flat and there is an access panel to the trunk for big stuff. Dad and I were both MoPar fans, so if there was a pentastar on it, that’s all it needed. Now? Honda Odyssey and CR-Z, and a ’92 Vette. Oh, well.
Might as well get a Marlin over this one as it’s not the cool charger 😜
This ’66 is the same as the one I bought new,with the exception that mine had the maroon interior. to each his own. I thought the ’66 was the coolest thing to hit the streets. It got a lot of attention on the road, particularly when there was not an American car that could catch it. And as noted by Superdesucke, the electro-luminescent dash were out of this world! Nothing anywhere close have come out since. Markand rusty tech have hit it right on the head. It was a great car. As far as Classic Steel’s comment about being as well off with a Marlin, I should run over him with my walker, plummet him about the head and neck with my cane for such blasphemy, such outrageous foolery.
I agree. The Marlin missed the mark by quite a bit. Even if it had been built by GM, it was still a mistake.
This is the car that started the excitement. The rear bucket seats and console say “sit down, shut up, and hold on”! While not as popular now, they can be found at reasonable prices.
These things could be had with all the go-fast goodies of the more popular bodystyle. They may not be everybody’s movie/TV fantasy but they were still plenty potent.
the first gen chargers didn’t rot away like the next gens do. better metal and better built in my opinion but they are heavy.
The first-gen Chargers are underappreciated IMO.
Sure, there’s a little AMC Marlin in there, but they can still be handsome cars and can be well-bought these days.
Always preferred those round taillights on the 1968.
Had a 66 years ago. Some may not like the body style but to each his own. The 66-67 interior cool factor was far superior than the 68’s and up. The full length console, fold down rear seats and dash illumination were awesome.
Always liked these even better than the next gens. Loved the hideaway headlamps, the full length console, etc etc. if I had room for another project I might be looking closer.
It’s nice that the car is a 4spd, but the current bid of $9,100 without the reserve being met is more than all of its money.
The way the ad reads, you will have to pay extra if you want the original engine. That move by the seller is a deal killer. I’d never buy something from anyone who pulled that stunt. It’s just better to factor that into the price from the beginning.
Steve R
Seller therefore qualifies as a dirty filthy rotten scoundrel. Feel free to change adjectives, supposed to keep it nice here.
Are you serious
Bullitt clone or not, it’s a beautiful Mopar
Gee…all these negative opinions are sounding like a wife not on board with the purchase. I’ll take this rare option beast happily – you know they won the top two spots in NASCAR in 1966 and were runner up to the King in 1967 – the year Ford came back in with the 427 Fairlanes. Ford did boycott 1966 because the Hemi was able to come back in after it’s second time at being barred from running in NASCAR. Guess most of you know what those options are.
Get real. The Pink Eldorado (listed elsewhere on this site) is as close to the Bullit Charger as this. There is also a 1991 Ford Ranger that’s a spiting image of a 2018 Raptor. You really need to on your definition of clone.
These 66/67 chargers are my at the top favorite muscle cars. After your done with the rest you can go with the best.
Lots of literal folks here! Humor me. It’s a Charger, paint it black, drive the wheels off of it. Be happy, and save the elevated blood pressure for something more important than commenting on a website. You like cars, I like cars – can we move on?
Can’t please everybody.bunch of dam knit pickers. This should have been the bullit charger anyway. Frankly in the chase seen the charger being the bigger heavier car with more power I might add, would have stomped all over that stang. It would have been able to shove the mustang off the road not the other way round. Truth is with there torsion bar suspension they didn’t handle that bad either.
As an owner of both,a b body mopar & a few stangs, IMO the stang is the car to have in a chase in a urban setting such as in Bullitt. I love both, but the charger is aimed not steered. Didn’t see many b bodies in the old trans-am series, which I miss badly.
This is an enthusiast sir where folks know the difference , even with poetic license.
Bullitt being one of my top favorite movies (along w/vanishing point, gone in sixty seconds, the original & any movie with cars being part of the script) all I was doing was pointing out the facts (another fav Dragnet). Didn’t think I was nitpicking, & was definitely not trying to be negative. Safe space anyone?
The comments just prove that you can’t mess with car movies that are close to the heart.
Imagine what would happen if you said a Barracuda was in Vanishing Point? LOL!
But I remember the Jaguar XK-E, do you??
Ah, just byte the bullet!
Tough looking charger, with the 440 it sure would make for a good street machine. All the reference to NASCAR is interesting, for some reason I always thought Ford started the 427 Fairlane program in ’66, as a last ditch effort to beat the hemi’s with a shorter wheel base car as the 427 SOHC galaxie would’ve had a high weight penalty making it non-competitive. Didn’t work out to well anyways.
Rumors were that Hank the Deuce had ticked off France, that why Fords always got screwed. ChryCo was already running intermediates instead of Dodge Monacos or Plymouth Polaras, so Ford only sought some parity with the SOHC. France said, Sure, just add 427 pounds to make it fair!?!? Lorenzen tested a Galaxie at Atlanta, and with the added weight, the 427 SOHC wasn’t any faster than the wedge. Bud Moore tested a Mercury Comet with a Galaxie front clip (like everyone else used in the Seventies and Eighties, same with the top loader transmission and 9″ rear axle) and the 427 with dual quads. When France begged Ford to come back with the factory cars, they went with the Fairlane, which was not much of a race car. Petty wins 10 in a row. Revenge comes in the shape of the ’68 Torino.
Excellent comment on the goings on in NASCAR back in those days. I wonder how Chevrolet would have done with a real factory effort, Smokey had ’em nervous once I believe, but GM was out of it.
well ,my take. Wrong year for bullet clone. But this charger is a real steel. It appperers to be real,and this does not even show up much anymore. I have never had one but was around many. Just a big car.
I did almost get a good one once. Ad in the paper was 66 or 67 HEMI needs work $500. Called and it was not sold yet and close. Got there and it was just sold to someone. It was a real hemi with the engine out on the ground. The guy had hit something that tore out the suspension so the engine was out to try to fix it and that’s as far as the seller got with it.
Oh yea- it was black with red int.
Stever I her u and agree. Keep that car together. Whats the motor worth without the car. not that much
Now, now, now… Now you have to go to confession. Count the number of times the hubcaps come flying off the Charger in the movie. Make sure that you keep track with which ones get shed…
Seems the Stang lost and regained hubcaps. Been a while since I’ve seen that chase scene, but I thought the Charger had styled wheels like the red ’66 here has on the front. BTW, the chase scene is available on YouTube. Search “Bullit chase scene”.
No, the mustang had the custom rims, the charger had hubcaps. Erik S posted a still of the Charger from the movie. You see the rims on both at the beginning of this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vNvc9n1ikI
Whippeteer…… I stand corrected, thank you. I saw the clip, still fun to watch. I saw the movie in a drive-in, sitting in the driver’s seat. Almost got carsick watching the part on the SF hills.
I loved seeing the same hubcap come off a few times during the chase. Great chase scene!
Hold your hands out for the ruler – you should know your audience better before you roll in here with that kinda logic.
I had a yellow 383/4 spd…..little did I kbow how rare these would be…actually had a couple 383/4spd MOPARS….
Chrysler Corporation built some good looking cars in the sixties but other than aerodynamics for Nascar racing like the Super Birds it is just plan ugly!
Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.
Saw a car like this on Pawn Stars today and it was beautiful. (426 Hemi) asking $118k. This would be a good project but wondering if the 440 cu. came out of a motor home and is low compression. IMO at $13.5 all the money is on the table.
You have aroused the masses by making a mistake on the year of the Bullitt Charger. You will never be forgiven.
I was a young punk when these came out. Got my drivers license in 1967, and was awed by them. Guys were buying these things at Mr. Norms in Chicago and we were impressed with anyone who could buy a new or almost new car. Cool was cool and that was it. High horsepower on Chicago streets never made much sense to me but that’s the way it was. Good times. And oh-yeh off to Superdog again to pick up chicks. More good times. You can’t go back, but you can dream.
Comparing the first Chargers to the Marlin is really not that far off, there’s actually quite a resemblance, and they were both conceived in the same manner. While the Marlin was basically a Rebel fitted with a fastback roof, the Charger was basically a Coronet fitted with a fastback roof, same as the first Barracuda was nothing more than a fastback Valiant, nice cars, but didn’t really become something unique until later.
A friend of mine in high school had one of these except it was a hemi car. He got tired of trying to keep it tuned, so he ended up swapping it for a 68 Charger with the 440. While I prefer the 68 over the 69 & later, the 66 & 67 are the best looking Chargers in my humble opinion. I don’t understand them not getting the love.
And enough of clones already! There has been quite enough Bullet & General Lee clones to go around.
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wrong year, wrong color, wrong engine. Bullett charger was a black ’68 with a magnum 440. There were two modified for the flick. This red ’67 is just like the one my apartment maintenance man had back in 1992. He hauled his tools around the apt complex in it……