Image via Craig Lieberman/YouTube
If you remember watching The Fast and the Furious back in the day, the Toyota Supra driven by Brian was the absolute hero car, other than Dom’s Dodge Charger. Fast enough to smoke a Ferrari on the Pacific Coast Highway, it looked cool enough to drive Supra prices through the roof.
Something similar happened to Days of Thunder movie cars.
What might surprise you to know is the Supra used in the second movie, 2Fast 2Furious, by the character Slap Jack was more heavily modified than Brian’s. Yet it’s a polarizing build people either love or hate.
We expect some will laugh and others will cry to find out the Supra ended up dumped in a field. There’s a story behind it that explains the awful fate of the movie car.
The man who walks us through the history of the first two Fast and Furious movies is Craig Lieberman, who acted as technical advisor for both films. The guy knows Slap Jack’s Supra better than anyone.
As Lieberman explains, all but the Hero 1 car for Slap Jack’s Supra were carryovers from the first Fast and Furious movie. Thanks to parts companies practically shoving products at the studio for 2Fast 2Furious thanks to the success of the first film, Lieberman could go more extreme in the build.
Taking inspiration from the Top Secret Supra, Lieberman got to work making Slap Jack’s car rather extreme looking. But only the Hero 1 car got all kinds of performance mods as well as a huge sound system.
The other cars were rather mundane, some didn’t even have a turbocharged engine and some had automatic transmissions. One of those was the stunt car used for the famous bridge jump in the four way race.
That stunt car was severely damaged from the actual jump. While some of the effect was CGI, it was also partly real. With the front end obliterated, the Supra was sold off. Years later, Lieberman found a photo of it sitting in a field.
Obviously, someone bought the Toyota, then realized fixing it would be incredibly expensive and probably not worth it. This sort of thing happens with movie cars more than most people would assume. After all, especially the stunt cars get abused in extreme ways.
Image via Craig Lieberman/YouTube
