Movie cars are always in high demand. Cars from the Fast & Furious franchise are especially hot items, for example. But what about something less glamorous? What about the gritty, murderous Dodge Charger stunt car from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof?
Seller Fastadler on eBay is currently selling what they claim to be the same 1969 Dodge Charger that Kurt Russell’s character drove in Death Proof. And while it does indeed seem to be a black ’69 Charger with a roll cage and a similar crash bar down the spine of its interior, there’s no official claim to its movie fame in the listing. It isn’t even the car used in the movie’s iconic chase scene, as this one was supposedly never crashed. The Drive reached out to the seller for any documentation of authenticity but didn’t hear back by the time of publishing.
The description says that the seller bought the Charger in 2007 when the movie debuted, however it doesn’t come with a title and is only sold with a bill of sale. As it stands, that leaves almost no way to verify its legitimacy. There is a photo of the funny duck hood ornament that adorned the villain’s Charger, but that could just be something separate altogether. Without any way to establish provenance here, it just looks like a dusty, black ’69 Charger. It doesn’t even have the same skull and lightning bolt logo on the hood, as it does in part of the movie.
The seller is asking $49,900, which is a hefty price to pay for a stripped-out Charger without an engine, transmission, or even interior. That means the seller is really leaning on the car’s movie star status to justify its price. On one hand, it’s a listing that seems too oddly specific to lie about. This could be the real deal! But on the other, movie-prop collecting is a massive industry, with people and companies that specialize in verifying authenticity for stuff like this. It goes without saying, but if you’re interested, you’d best do your homework.
If it is the real deal, though, you’ll be able to buy the rolling chassis of a car that was used briefly in Tarantino’s arguably weakest flick for the same price as a brand-new Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack. And then you’ll have to give it an engine, transmission, differential, and the same livery as the Charger folks would actually recognize to convince people that it’s the Death Proof car.
