If you’ve been following us on Facebook, you can’t have missed our sweepstakes. We just gave away a beautiful ’57 Chevy, but we’re not done. We’re soon to be giving away a 1965 Ford Mustang GT350 that’s been restomodded to our own very high standards. Check out the video below for a teaser of the car: it really is a beautiful machine, and it could be yours!

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In honor of our next sweepstakes, I wanted to do a piece about some of the great and good Mustangs that have been stars of the screen over the years. As one of the most famous and popular American muscle cars, they’re not lacking in celebrity status, and some have become legendary. These are just a handful of these automotive sensations. Before we begin, I just wanted to say that despite their fame, we’re not going to talk about the Bullitt Mustang or Gone in 60 Seconds‘ Eleanor. While they definitely belong here, we’ve talked about them pretty recently, and wanted to give some other ‘stangs screentime.

Diamonds Are Forever: Mustang Mach 1

James Bond may be more well known for his fondness for Aston Martins, but he’s driven a number of cool cars over the years, as well as a Ford Mondeo for unknowable reasons (read, a large amount of cash) in Casino Royale. Diamonds Are Forever, released in 1971, is a fantastically silly instalment of the franchise, with Bond tasked with stopping Blofeld from creating a space-based laser weapon. While many will remember the scene where a moon buggy is utilized in an unlikely escape, the Mustang Mach 1 is used in the film’s coolest chase sequence. Just ignore the fact that the car begins its two-wheel stunt on its left side and ends it on its right.

The scene was shot over three nights on Las Vegas’ Fremont Street, with the stunt’s first shot filmed at Universal Studios and the second shot in Vegas. The stunt where the Mustang jumps over a number of cars was performed by Bill Hickman, famed for his stunt work in Bullitt, who did it in just one take. That’s a damn good job too, the crew only had one Mach 1 left, the other two already wrecked by another stuntman’s failed attempts.