Bullitt On Wheels
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Well, September just keeps giving. Another sunny morning, and Rascals' Wingnut, Mark, and Kevin join me as we head to a small coffee meet run by the Petrol Heads.
It's a new location — the pub from previous meets has changed hands and is now under new management. A twenty-minute drive and we're pulling up at one of my old haunts, Wexham Park Golf Club.
Plenty of space for the motors, but it's a gravel surface, a classic car's worst nightmare. All are carefully manoeuvred and parked. There's a good selection, old and new, and a fair bit in between.
The car that stood out for me was this 1968 Mustang Fastback in a gorgeous fresh blue (it's a Peugeot colour), with contrasting silver to go with the impeccably clean chrome.
Under the hood, a well-tuned 289 cubic inch small block V8, with a three-speed auto. And as the saying goes, "clean enough to eat your dinner off", this engine bay certainly fell into that category.
The chrome American Racing Torq Thrust wheels add to the look perfectly. Inside, the car was darker than Darth Vader's cape. Black everywhere. Perfect combination, in my eyes.
I'm not the only one to appreciate it; the Mustang Owners Club GB awarded it Best in Show at the 2026 Statfold National Show.
Sandeep, the owner, is extremely proud to have received such a prestigious award and feels very honoured. He told me the journey was full of delays, six hours to get there, but the Mustang behaved itself and was faultless.
Known as pony cars in the USA, this muscle car was built from 1964 to 1973 and came as a Hardtop, Soft top or Fastback. Ford originally forecast sales of 100,000 in the first year. In fact, they sold over 400,000 in twelve months, and a million Mustangs in the first two years.
Now if you haven't seen it, shame on you. Bullitt features a 1968 Mustang GT Fastback, expertly driven by Steve McQueen, and it's the most famous movie car in history.
The production team bought two identical Highland Green Mustangs with consecutive identification numbers, 8R02S125558, the "Stunt" car, and 8R02S125559, the "Hero". After filming, they sold the Hero car for $6,000. McQueen later tried to buy it back and was turned down. It eventually went for $3.7 million at auction.
McQueen did some of the driving himself, though the scenes through the streets of San Francisco were so fast and so dangerous that stuntmen, Bud Ekins and Loren Janes, had to take the wheel.
The link below is a clip from the iconic movie.
It's one of my favourite films, and the baddie is just as good as the goodie. The hitman drove a 1968 Dodge Charger, now that's another blog altogether.
Drive carefully, and I'll blog ya later.
Thanks for reading.
Philip (The Rascal)
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