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01/02/2026

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After more than 20 years of courtroom battles, the iconic 1967 Shelby GT500 “Eleanor” Mustang from *Gone in 60 Seconds* is officially free from copyright limitations. Courts have ruled that Eleanor is not a protected character, but simply a film prop, overturning claims that long prevented legitimate reproductions.

This historic decision opens the door for the Eleanor Mustang to be legally recreated and sold for the first time. It also puts an end to Denice Halicki’s long-running efforts to maintain exclusive rights over the car’s image, which previously shut down numerous replica builds.

To mark the movie’s 25th anniversary, Cinema Vehicle Services—the team behind the original film cars—will produce 25 authentic replicas. Branded as **“Eleanor: Gone Again,”** each build will use restored 1967 Mustang shells, finished with movie-accurate styling, detailing, and official certification.

For fans, it means owning a true Eleanor Mustang is finally possible after two decades of legal roadblocks.

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In 1941, across 67 acres of Michigan farmland, Henry Ford's engineers broke ground on something nobody believed could work. The B-24 Liberator bomber was a 67-foot beast of aluminum and rivets. Building one took skilled craftsmen weeks. Ford said he could pump them out like Model Ts.

The skeptics were loud. Aircraft weren't automobiles. They required precision, expertise, artistry. You couldn't just throw untrained workers at wings and fuselages and expect them to fly. But Ford had a vision, and he built it into a mile-long assembly line that roared to life inside the largest factory ever constructed under one roof.

By the summer of 1944, that impossible vision became a rhythm. Every 63 minutes, another four-engine bomber rolled into the sunlight, fully assembled and ready for war. Over 8,600 of them in total. The scale was staggering. The speed was unthinkable.

But here's what made it legendary. The workforce wasn't made up of seasoned machinists. It was farmers' daughters, mothers, and wives who had never touched industrial equipment. They wore bandanas and overalls, wielded pneumatic rivet guns, and crawled inside wing sections. They became the flesh-and-blood embodiment of Rosie the Riveter, proving that when a nation's survival hangs in the balance, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Willow Run didn't just build bombers. It shattered assumptions about who could build a war machine.

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