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Videos: Steve McQueen's 1968 Ford Mustang Stunt Car - End of the Rainbow


Just imagine the great luck that accompanies stumbling onto/discovering the 1968 Ford Mustang GT390 Bullitt movie stunt car that the King of Cool, actor Steve McQueen drove as San Francisco Police Department Detective Frank Bullitt. There's also a mountain of work that ensues once such a figurative pot of gold is found at the end of the rainbow, in terms of renovating a historically and painstakingly accurate, 100-point ground up restoration. 

The 1968 Ford Mustang: Dissecting Steve McQueen’s Dark Highland Green Legend

When you think of the ultimate cinematic car chase, one sequence immediately dominates the conversation. Ten minutes and fifty-three seconds of screaming V8s, smoking tires, and airborne American muscle tearing through the hills of San Francisco. Frank Bullitt, played by the "King of Cool" Steve McQueen, behind the wheel of a de-badged, sinister 1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt, relentlessly pursuing a black 1968 Dodge Charger R/T.