– How did a fake car from a box office bomb become a legend in the vehicle restoration and film prop preservation communities? Learn more about the history of the Herkimer Battle Jitney from 1999’s cult classic “Mystery Men”, the “finest non-lethal military vehicle ever made”.
– TL;DR After passing through the hands of multiple owners in the last 26 years, it finally ended up in the hands of a movie prop restoration expert / custom movie prop creator in North Carolina, who fully restored the vehicle and now takes it to conventions (and that one time I saw it at a car show in a Bojangles parking lot). The studio has also created movie-accurate replicas of famous cars such as the Bluesmobile, the Delorean from Back to the Future, and various Jurassic Park vehicles for museums and collectors.
– Other fans have also attempted to build their own versions from scratch using footage from the film.
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Anyone else remember Mystery Men? It used All Star before Shrek!
