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Shelby GT500 Super Snake Mustangs, worth a total of $1.23 million, were wrecked in the making of the movie “Getaway“.
Shelby American, which creates the limited-edition special-order $94,195 Super Snake from stock Shelby GT500 Ford Mustangs, built seven complete and identical Super Snakes for the film. What goes into making a Super Snake? It is created by taking a regular Shelby GT 500 Mustang, which has an MSRP of $54,650, and spending another $39,995 on modifications to make it go faster, handle better, and stop quicker. The base car makes an already-potent 662 horsepower. The Super Snake treatment brings that up to 850 horsepower. The added 188 horsepower is principally achieved by replacing the original supercharger with a much larger one.
The cars were then shipped from Shelby’s facility in Las Vegas to Sofia, Bulgaria, where all of the shooting for the movie was done. Stunt coordinators said many of the seven were wrecked multiple times. Re-usable parts were scavenged from the wrecks and bolted together to build new versions. It was calculated that, in all, the seven original cars were eventually re-purposed into 13 different Shelby's over the course of making the whole film.
That’s just a fraction of the total number of cars wrecked for the film. At least 130 vehicles were destroyed, in the estimation of one crew members. So many were wrecked that, after just the first month of filming, a special “Getaway” junkyard had to be built near the set.
At least one of the Super Snakes was rescued from the scrap yard and cleaned up and made whole again for promotional use in connection with the film. No word yet on what might have happened to the leftovers.
Shelby American, which creates the limited-edition special-order $94,195 Super Snake from stock Shelby GT500 Ford Mustangs, built seven complete and identical Super Snakes for the film. What goes into making a Super Snake? It is created by taking a regular Shelby GT 500 Mustang, which has an MSRP of $54,650, and spending another $39,995 on modifications to make it go faster, handle better, and stop quicker. The base car makes an already-potent 662 horsepower. The Super Snake treatment brings that up to 850 horsepower. The added 188 horsepower is principally achieved by replacing the original supercharger with a much larger one.
The cars were then shipped from Shelby’s facility in Las Vegas to Sofia, Bulgaria, where all of the shooting for the movie was done. Stunt coordinators said many of the seven were wrecked multiple times. Re-usable parts were scavenged from the wrecks and bolted together to build new versions. It was calculated that, in all, the seven original cars were eventually re-purposed into 13 different Shelby's over the course of making the whole film.
That’s just a fraction of the total number of cars wrecked for the film. At least 130 vehicles were destroyed, in the estimation of one crew members. So many were wrecked that, after just the first month of filming, a special “Getaway” junkyard had to be built near the set.
At least one of the Super Snakes was rescued from the scrap yard and cleaned up and made whole again for promotional use in connection with the film. No word yet on what might have happened to the leftovers.