“The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift” might have launched drifting to the franchise, but it surely nonetheless featured some American muscle, together with a Chevrolet Monte Carlo that seems early within the film. As typical, Craig Lieberman, a technical advisor for the early Quick and Livid films, has the small print on the Bowtie coupe.

Most important character Sean Boswell (performed by Lucas Black) was written as a teenage muscle-car fan with little cash, so the ratty-looking Monte Carlo was a pure match.

The Monte Carlo was largely neglected by collectors (in 2006, at the least), making it extra reasonably priced, Lieberman famous. It nonetheless had loads of tuning potential, although, and producers have been seeking to function a unique muscle automobile after utilizing the Dodge Charger, Dodge Challenger, and Yenko Camaro in earlier films, he mentioned.

The low-income underdog story performs out with Boswell racing a wealthy child in a then-new Dodge Viper. The following destruction will get Boswell in hassle with the police, forcing him to maneuver to Tokyo and setting the plot in movement.

The manufacturing staff constructed 11 copies of the Monte Carlo, which is typical, as further automobiles are wanted to carry out particular stunts, function backups, or be sacrificed for on-screen crashes. A kind of automobiles was listed as having a 632-cubic-inch V-8, though it might have truly been a 572-cubic-inch engine, Lieberman mentioned. Both means, it was rated at 780 hp on pump gasoline, or over 800 hp on racing gas, in keeping with Lieberman.

The engine was related to a 4-speed guide transmission with a drag-race-style shatterproof bell housing, and a Common Motors 12-bolt rear finish. Once more, just one automobile obtained the complete complement of efficiency elements, because it did not pay to improve automobiles that have been destined to be destroyed anyway.

After filming, the surviving automobiles have been scattered. One is now in France, one other was supplied on the market on eBay in 2015 with a $100,000 asking value (it later bought for $61,440), whereas a 3rd automobile was supplied on the market in 2019 with a $39,998 asking value. At the very least one automobile remains to be owned by Common Studios, and at the least a pair extra survive, in keeping with Lieberman.

In “Tokyo Drift,” Boswell in the end finally ends up with a Ford Mustang powered, considerably controversially, by a Nissan Skyline GT-R’s RB26 engine. Lieberman has a deep dive on that automobile as nicely, which is certainly value testing.