---
title: "Missing Bullitt Mustang Possibly Found Decades Later"
description: "The car Steve McQueen couldn't get back after filming Bullitt resurfaces in Mexico."
date: "2017-03-01"
modified: "2017-03-01"
authors:
  - name: "Christian Gilbertsen"
    job_title: "Native Projects Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/christian-gilbertsen"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/7997/missing-bullitt-mustang-possibly-found-decades-later"
categories:
  - "Ford News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "'Bullitt"
  - "Coupe"
  - "Ford"
  - "Mexico"
  - "Mustang"
  - "sports car"
---

# Missing Bullitt Mustang Possibly Found Decades Later

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According to a series of photos and posts in a [vintage Mustang forum](<https://forums.vintage-mustang.com/vintage-mustang-forum/1037026-what-tought-lost-now-found.html>), one of the most memorable cars from modern cinema—the 1968 green Ford Mustang fastback in [*Bullitt*](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7372/ford-might-have-a-new-mustang-bullitt-coming>)—has possibly been found in Mexico.

Forum member [Fede Garza](<https://forums.vintage-mustang.com/members/136073-fede-garza.html>) claims that the fastback has been in Mexico for two or three decades, and apparently was fated to be turned into an Eleanor clone. Garza, who owns a fastener distribution service in Mexico, says the owner of the shop that was set to do the work on the Bullitt car came in with the car's VIN (8R02S125558), [Marti Report](<https://www.martiauto.com/martireports.cfm>), and title—apparently, Garza sells fasteners to him every so often.

When Garza checked the car out for himself, he noticed reinforced shock towers, a hole in the trunk—which was apparently for a generator's exhaust that powered movie lights on the car—and the 9-inch rear end. These distinctive features certainly support the case that this might be the Bullitt car after all.

After filming concluded, the car was reportedly sold off, a poignant decision that apparently tormented Steve McQueen—he reached out several times to the [person to whom he sold the car](<https://forums.vintage-mustang.com/8812922-post12.html>), asking to buy the car back, but to no avail. The newly-discovered fastback will apparently be on display at a Ford dealership in Mexico for a day before making its way to the U.S. for restoration.

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