I'm afraid to even mention this, But,
A friend of mine claims to own one of the actual picture car challengers from Vanishing Point.
I'm in the film business, I'm currently in New Mexico working on some shows being shot down here (Longmire, Manhattan, Independence Day 2), and I'm running around today with my buddy, who's a real connected kinda guy, in the film business. We start talking cars, because I know he owns a ton of "picture cars" and I own some cool cars as well (73 and 78 Trans Am's and a 70 RS/SS 396 Camaro), and he mentions off hand that he owns "one of the Vanishing Point Challengers".
I say "BS" that's an easy $500K car. My buddy is worth A LOT of money, but I don't think he has any $500K cars. He says "naw V.P. was never that big of a movie, it's a cult movie, it's only worth maybe $50,000". He then tells me about his warehouse full of Picture cars down in ABQ, (which I believe because this is a guy who owns like 10 Airstreams that he rents out to shows) and how he has a General Lee too (from the Movie, not the TV show). He tells me about his partner who is a picture car provider from the late 60's, who worked on the movie. My buddy knows all about the movie, and where and how it was filmed ect...
And if you know anything about the film business in the South West, Colorado (where VP was filmed) does not have much infrastructure. When a show is shot in CO, the infrastructure almost all comes out of NM.
My buddy controls a good chunk of the Picture Car business, as well as the Craft Services Business, as well as a bunch of other stuff in the Film Business in this area.
My buddy says he has the invoices and documentation to prove it's a VP Challenger. He also has the guy who worked on the show, working for him, so he has a Legitimate Trail back to VP. BTW, it's been repainted Green.
Is there any way possible that he might have one of THE cars? was it proven that they were all destroyed?
And I told him "not a car from a soundgarden video, not a car from a Quentin Tarentino movie, not a car from some VP reboot tv show that didn't air, but a real honest to god authentic VP Challenger???"
He says "ya!"
What would that car be worth if it were proven real?
And I'm a Trans Am guy, and every knuckle head thinks they have a real "Bandit" car even though those were all crushed/destroyed. So I get it. Is there ANY plausible way that he could have one of the VP Challengers???
BTW no pix yet, but I have a couple days off, so I may run down to ABQ from Santa Fe where I am at, to get some pix of this "car".
