Eleanor Mustang GT500 Diecast Models
Eleanor – the 1967 Shelby GT500 Custom made famous by the 2000 film Gone in 60 Seconds – has become one of the most reproduced diecast subjects of the last two decades, and one of the most collected among UK kit car enthusiasts. The Pepper Grey paintwork with bold black racing stripes, the aggressive fibreglass Fastback body kit, the deep-dish American Racing Torq-Thrust wheels and the nitrous button on the shifter are recognisable to anyone in the scene, and every serious diecast maker has taken a run at capturing them. Greenlight lead the 1:18 and 1:43 market with multiple release variants – the standard road version, the destruction-scene damaged version, the movie tow-truck diorama – while Autoart and Ertl produced earlier collector-grade pieces that now change hands for strong money. Live eBay listings below cover the current market for both new-in-box collector pieces and older releases. If you're building an Eleanor replica yourself, a good scale reference model on the workbench is worth its weight in fibreglass.