So, You Bought a Rough $80K Lambo Murcielago…Now What?
Auto vlogger goes all in on a Lamborghini Murcielago from the Fast & The Furious franchise for half its price. Is it a deal or a dud?
Freddy “Tavarish” Hernandez is a popular YouTuber who buys vehicles which have seen better days and many would have given up on. He then fixes them for our enjoyment. Some of his memorable purchases include a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder which was on fire (literally), and Doug DeMuro’s Aston Martin V8 Vantage. But his newest acquisition is, as he puts it, “more money than I have ever spent on a car”.
He recently sat down with Cannonball run transcontinental record holder Ed Bolian for Bolian’s popular VINwiki Car Stories series. Bolian is actually part of the story, Hernandez says. In the video, he says he learned of the car from Bolian from a simple text: “Do you want another Lamborghini?” Bolian sent some pictures and the rest is history.
The Murcielago is a full on movie car. It was used in the eighth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, The Fate of the Furious. In the movie the car is comically driven in an arctic environment by actor Tyrese Gibson. Though a Lamborghini stunt car does go into the ice in the film, this model was spared that fate.
It may not have gone into the ice, but it is in rough shape. The price tag of $80,000 is half the cost of the next cheapest Murcielago, so rough is to be expected. Hernandez mentions that the car has a clean title and showed it was owned by Universal Studios, makers of the Fast and Furious series. The car runs and drives, but has its share of quirky changes being a movie car.
The driver seat is a random race seat, the passenger seat is the driver seat, there is a full roll cage through out the vehicle which Hernandez mentioned is of good quality, an aftermarket body kit is fitted to the vehicle, and the car features a custom front bumper because they kept ruining the bumper during filming on the ice. Hernandez says the bumper looks good 50 feet away or on camera, because it looks like it was sprayed between scenes. Another quirk of the vehicle is it features no keys, the keys are cemented into the key cylinder while a button in the engine bay is used to start the car.
Even with all these quirks of the movie car, Hernandez says he plans to keep the car forever.
The video is a very entertaining watch, and check out Hernandez’s You Tube channel to keep up with his build progress.
