It has been 23 years since The Quick and the Livid blazed throughout film screens. Let that sink in for a second, then pour one out for Letty’s purple Nissan 240SX. A couple of was used throughout filming, however arguably crucial model is gone perpetually.
Craig Lieberman, a technical advisor for the automobiles within the early iterations of the Quick franchise, shared the destiny of the Nissan that Michelle Rodriguez drove within the first movie in a latest video revealed to YouTube. If anybody is an professional on the Quick star automobiles, it is him.
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In keeping with Lieberman, the movie used three automobiles to play Letty’s 240SX. Two of them had been stunt automobiles, designated Stunt One and Stunt Two. Underneath the hood they retained their inventory drivetrains, however had been dressed the half to look for the function. The principle hero automotive was much more attention-grabbing. It was rented by the manufacturing crew from its proprietor, James, who had a constructed SR20DET beneath the hood making 400 horsepower, in line with Lieberman. The movie crew put in a Zeal physique equipment and painted the automotive a shade of purple, although it seems magenta within the film as a result of filters used for the cameras.
The excellent news: The 2 stunt automobiles are alive and effectively. They made encore appearances (albeit with totally different paint jobs) as extras in 2 Quick 2 Livid, and sit within the palms of Livid Storage on YouTube. They’re at the moment being rebuilt to movie-spec as seen within the first movie, with the channel chronicling the progress.
The principle hero automotive, nonetheless, wasn’t so lucky. As Lieberman explains, it went again to the proprietor after the primary film was completed. He returned it to silver, and it lived a glamorous life in his care with quite a few journal options to its credit score. From there the 240SX jumped from proprietor to proprietor till 2009, when the final proprietor purchased it, stripped the powertrain, and bought the chassis to a junkyard.
If this was a plot level in a latest Quick movie, we might say the automotive is not lifeless, as Quick characters have a historical past of miraculously coming again to life. However this is not a film. It is unknown precisely the place or how the automotive met its finish, however as Lieberman says within the video, it was “became a beer can.” Bummer.