Volume 1, Catalog Series #14

Jeff Graham’s 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback

From an early age, Jeff has been a Mustang guy. And for any Mustang person, any car person really, the famed car chase up, down and around San Francisco in the movie Bullitt is the pinnacle of car culture on the big screen. Jeff, President and CMO of Cactus in Denver, not only had to have a Mustang, he wanted to have one that resembled that Mustang.

His car is a 1968 Fastback that he had built about 12 years ago to look like the car Steve McQueen drove in the movie. Before CG car chases like you see in the Fast & Furious, the movie car chase is the real deal featuring stunt drivers and McQueen himself, who did all his own driving. Jeff bought the base car off EBay partly because it already had the stance he wanted, a 390 V8 had already been swapped in for the 302 the car was built with, it had a 4-speed Toploader transmission with a cue ball Hurst shifter, and the bodywork had been cleaned up – all the badging had been removed, radio antenna shaved off, even the rear quarters were from ’67 which didn’t require the safety reflectors the mandated in ’68. It seemed like the perfect base car to shoot dark Highland Green and make his Bullitt car dreams come true. The details even extend to the replica California plate with a fake 1969 registration sticker.

It looks and drives like something you would see in a movie. It’s what dreams are made of.