See Eleanor before she’s Gone

By Bree Harding

Jun 3, 2025

Photo by Digital Journey Photography [Registered]

Hollywood star Nicolas Cage enjoyed stunt driving the iconic Mustang Eleanor in Gone in 60 Seconds so much that he kept one of the two remaining intact replicas from the seven used in the 2000 remake.

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Five replicas were destroyed during the action movie’s stunt sequences, the other remaining one went to film producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and the only true Eleanor — a rare, customised 1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang worth about $2 million — belongs to the wife of late stunt driver and script writer H.B. Halicki, Denice Halicki.

The heavily-modified Eleanor had a distinctive look with a body kit featuring a bubble hood and dramatic aerodynamic details.

Pepper grey with black racing stripes and GT500 decals, she is stunning to look at, but thanks to the intense San Francisco chase in the movie, Eleanor became a symbol of freedom, adrenaline and the ultimate escape; a car driven, and longed for, by cool guys.

MOVE’s Andrew Church said of all the cars he got to work with, an Eleanor replica owned by a Melbourne collector currently on display at the Kialla museum was quite possibly his favourite to date.

“If I had the choice of owning any car, Eleanor would be it,” Mr Church said.

“You don’t often get to see these out in the general public unless you’re lucky enough to get a glimpse of one on a Melbourne or Sydney street.

“It’s a pretty iconic car to have here (at MOVE).”

The replica features the original autograph of Chip Foose, the Gone in 60 Seconds car’s creator, inlaid in the boot’s upholstery.

The six-speed manual, right-hand drive Fastback was fully engineered and registered in Victoria. It is tuned and serviced by Dale Paterson Motorsports in Tullamarine.

Other features include sound deadening, floor insulation, TCP coil over front and rear suspension, rack and pinion power steering, 13” slotted Wilwood disc brakes and calipers on the front and rear, Wilwood master cylinder and Summit Racing dual diaphragm booster.

Full custom side exiting stainless steel area exhausts are topped off with Eleanor side exhaust tips.

There is a long list of other technical specs to titillate revheads, but you don’t have to understand any of that to be impressed by this beauty’s visual aesthetics.

Aside from the flawless exterior, the immaculate interior has its own desirable selling points with leather ‘movie-correct’ fold-down front seats, sound system, brushed aluminium deluxe door inserts, electric windows (that look like authentic winders), a “must-have” Nitrous switch and the Go Baby Go gear knob.

The ’67 vintage arrived at the museum in mid-May, but its time on the showroom floor is limited.

Just like Eleanor was only one of 50 featured exotic cars in the movie, albeit the most famed, this Australian-owned replica is just one of many new additions to MOVE’s current catalogue, with a few other stunners arriving in the Goulburn Valley after last month’s MotorEx.

They might not be gone quite within 60 seconds, but if you don’t get a MOVE on, you might miss seeing them in vivid real life and have to revert to seeing them on screen.