Las Vegas man discovers one of the rarest Ford Mustangs in the world after it'd been sitting in a garage for 10 years

This YouTuber traveled to Las Vegas to see one of the rarest Ford Mustangs in the world, the Need for Speed Mustang.

And this is the real deal.

It’s a real screen-used Need for Speed Mustang muscle car.

It’s potentially worth even more than the one that sold a few years ago.

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The story behind one of the rarest Ford Mustangs in the world

In 2014, pretty much by popular demand, the Need for Speed saga finally received its first screen adaptation.

Starring Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad) and Imogen Poots (V for Vendetta, 28 Weeks Later), the film was a standard street racing-themed movie, but the Need for Speed brand is and always has been quite powerful, and that was enough to make it a blockbuster.

The automotive protagonist of the movie was a modified modern-day Ford Mustang – the (then) current model, not an older classic like Eleanor in Gone in 60 Seconds.

This is still one of the rarest Ford Mustangs in the world.

About a decade ago, the 2013 Ford Mustang GT used as a hero car in Need for Speed sold for $300,000 at a Barrett-Jackson auction (in Palm Beach, not Las Vegas, by the way).

However, that was the ‘hero car’, as in the vehicle used for the unveiling in a scene of the movie, not the actual Need for Speed Mustang driven in the film.

By contrast, the one that YouTuber Patton Guillen was invited to Las Vegas to go check out for one of his videos was the real ‘hero’ (pun intended) of the movie, because it was the one that was actually driven by Aaron Paul and also the stuntmen.

It even had drill holes in the headrest where they mounted the camera to film the actors during the driving sequences and the custom handbrake for the stunt driver.

If the hero car sold for $300,000 about a decade ago, this one, especially in today’s crazy market, is potentially worth even more.

This is standard practice

High-production budget movies use multiple clones of the same car for different purposes.

There are usually at least two or three used for stunt scenes, then a couple for other scenes where the car isn’t damaged, and then one or two ‘hero’ cars that are never actually driven and are used for static scenes.

Some of these cars can be empty shells designed to look real, even when they don’t have to move.

That applies to Paul Walker’s Skyline in the Fast & Furious franchise, for example.

Several clones were used, but the original ended up selling for seven figures.

Ordinarily, production companies go the extra mile to ‘respect’ the car and generally use fake cars or incomplete cars for scenes where they know they’re going to wreck the car.

But sometimes – dare we say ‘unfortunately’ – they don’t.

For the 2013 movie The Wolf of Wall Street, the production team decided to destroy a real Lamborghini Countach.