massiveCoRbyn
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Depends which car it was. There was one that had a turbo engine in it - it belonged to Craig Lieberman, who was a technical consultant on at least the first film. I think it was one of his own cars, so had most of the bits done, but was repainted and modified further to suit the needs of the film. There would then have been replica cars built for various action sequences, so those ones wouldn't have had all the modifications included to save costs. The Supra action cars were recycled from the first film and turned into the gold car used in some scenes in 2Fast 2Furious.
I believe several of the cars from the first film were privately owned. The "extra" cars in the street racing scene all were. I seem to remember a selection of the character's cars were featured in Max Power magazine and on a video/DVD they did about the US tuning scene around the time the first film came out. The owners were there with the cars. I've still got the DVD somewhere I think. I read somewhere that the Fortune RX-7 in Tokyo Drift was bought from Veilside and repainted into the orange and black for the film.
One of the Eclipses from the original film was for sale in the UK at one time. I remember my friend showing it to me. It was sub-£10k and we debated buying it. This was before Paul Walker died. On reflection we probably should have.
Anyway, I'm going to shut up now, because I'm starting to sound like a loser.
I believe several of the cars from the first film were privately owned. The "extra" cars in the street racing scene all were. I seem to remember a selection of the character's cars were featured in Max Power magazine and on a video/DVD they did about the US tuning scene around the time the first film came out. The owners were there with the cars. I've still got the DVD somewhere I think. I read somewhere that the Fortune RX-7 in Tokyo Drift was bought from Veilside and repainted into the orange and black for the film.
One of the Eclipses from the original film was for sale in the UK at one time. I remember my friend showing it to me. It was sub-£10k and we debated buying it. This was before Paul Walker died. On reflection we probably should have.
Anyway, I'm going to shut up now, because I'm starting to sound like a loser.