Man takes three abandoned Fast & Furious movie cars he bought for $15,000 to auction to see if he can make a profit
Published on Jul 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM (UTC+4)
by Molly Davidson
Last updated on Jul 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
This guy bought three busted Fast & Furious movie cars off Facebook for $15,000.
They’d sat abandoned in the desert for four years, missing windows and full of sand.
But he finally got them running, shipped them to Florida, and took them to auction.
The Fast & Furious movie cars have only one mission now: to turn a profit.
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They may have been Fast & Furious movie cars, but this wasn’t all Hollywood magic
Sam Hart, the UK-based YouTuber behind Hard Up Garage, spotted the listing on Facebook Marketplace: three screen-used Fast & Furious Range Rovers for $5,000 each.
They’d been part of Hobbs & Shaw, driven by henchmen during the film’s climactic final scenes.
The deal was too good to pass up – even if the cars were in El Paso, Texas, and hadn’t moved in years.
He wired the money from the UK without ever seeing them in person.
Right after he bought them, the world shut down due to COVID. The Range Rovers ended up sitting in the desert for another four years – battered by the sun, filled with sand, and increasingly worse for wear.
They didn’t run, the interiors were wrecked, and the windows were missing. And all the while, Sam – from the other side of the world – was trying, and failing, to sell them.
Eventually, he teamed up with Joe from RPM Motorcars.
Joe hauled the trucks to Florida, got them running, and cleaned them up just enough to show their cinematic charm.
In fact, he did such a good job restoring their appeal, Sam started having second thoughts.
“I don’t wanna sell them now,” he said.
Alas, their fate was sealed, and they were prepped for Barrett-Jackson – one of the biggest auction stages in the world.
On the auction block, they became stars again
At the Barrett-Jackson auction in Florida’s Palm Beach, the three Range Rovers rolled onto the block in full movie mode – as Sam watched on nervously from the sidelines.
Despite their rough condition, the vehicles had something most cars don’t: a paper trail linking them to Universal Studios, confirmation of screen time, and plenty of Fast & Furious lore.
One of the trucks – dubbed the ‘hero car’ – had even toured Japan for the film’s premiere.
Another still had working Willwood stunt brakes.
All three had that unmistakable battle-worn Hollywood look that made them feel authentic, not just like dressed-up props.
The crowd responded.
Bidding climbed past $30,000 – and finally stopped at $33,000 for the set.
After costs, Sam estimates he and his team cleared about $10,000 profit, making the four-year wait worth it.
More importantly, he says, it proved there’s still real value in forgotten movie cars – even ones covered in dust and duct tape.
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Molly Davidson is a Junior Content Writer at Supercar Blondie. Based in Melbourne, she holds a double Bachelor’s degree in Arts/Law from Swinburne University and a Master’s of Writing and Publishing from RMIT. Molly has contributed to a range of magazines and journals, developing a strong interest in lifestyle and car news content. When she’s not writing, she’s spending quality time with her rescue English staffy, Boof.
