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Movie Mustangs

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Did you know that Dirty Harry’s car was deliberately chosen to be the "anti-Bullitt"? While Steve McQueen’s 1968 Bullitt made the Ford Mustang a sexy, high-performance icon, Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callahan drove a plain, dented 1968 Ford Custom 500. The production team selected this specific 4-door sedan because it was the actual "plain wrapper" fleet vehicle used by the SFPD at the time. They wanted to emphasize that Harry was a gritty, underpaid working cop, not a superhero. The contrast in legacy is massive: while the original Bullitt Mustang recently sold at auction for $3.74 million, Dirty Harry's Ford was considered so worthless after filming that it was likely sold for scrap or re-sold to the public for a few hundred dollars. To this day, the original screen-used car has never been found.

Captured by Barry Feinstein, rock photographer to the gods (Stones, Zappa, Dylan) and one of McQueen's closest friends. This wasn't just photographer and subject. These two were cut from the same cloth. Both addicted to speed: cars, bikes, life at full throttle.

Bullitt, 1968