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Gone Again – Big Dirty Fun – Car and Driver
At least two of the Eleanors were destroyed filming an over-the-top jump on L.A.’s Vincent Thomas Bridge; others were speared by a forklift and placed in a shredder for another scene. Seven of the 11 survived to return to CVS’s inventory.
CVS built a 13th Eleanor for Bruckheimer’s personal use from an actual GT500. Unlike the cars used in filming, this car’s very low-hanging side exhaust and C-pillar fuel filler work. However, the suspension wasn’t modified, and, says CVS, the whole car can be easily returned to stock. It’s the nicest of the Eleanors, but it’s not in the movie.
On the screens of the editing bays at Jerry Bruckheimer Films in Santa Monica, an early look at the not-quite-complete Gone promised big dirty fun, with a giddy goofiness, some truly spectacular stunt driving, and the gloss of a Bruckheimer production.
We can guarantee this: If Cage, Jolie, and Duvall earn second Oscars, it won’t be for Gone in Sixty Seconds. But the movie’s probably more than good enough to stoke the fires of automotive passion for another generation of adolescent boys.
In fact, it’s already had that effect on some of the cast.
Going into the movie, 24-year-old Giovanni Ribisi "absolutely knew nothing about anything. Then we talked to this guy who was a car thief. From research it evolved into building this car. Now I’d definitely say I have the bug." Ribisi and a friend wound up shoehorning a 502-cubic-inch Chevy big-block V-8 into a ’69 Camaro before filming was done for his personal transportation, and Ribisi was allowed to pick over the carcasses of some of the used-up Mustangs in CVS’s lot. "They let me ravage two of the Shelbys. We got, like, two nine-inch rear ends and some seats. We were like, whooa-yahh!"
Yes, well. If one of its stars has wound up turning the CVS lot into Celebrity Pick-a-Part, then good has already come from the movie.
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