YouTuber Tried To Build Eleanor-Inspired Mustang, Reportedly Lost The Car In Legal Battle - CarScoops

The Eleanor Mustang from Gone In Sixty Seconds is one of the world’s most iconic movie cars and replicas pop up from time to time.

We’ve mentioned them before as, in 2018, we told you the Fusion Motor Company had secured the rights to build “officially licensed Eleanor Mustang Fastbacks.”.

While the build went great and incorporated some modern features into the ‘old’ pony car, things quickly went wrong as they wanted the model to look like the Eleanor Mustang.

The lack of details makes it hard to know how things went down but, five years ago, Deadline reported on the case of a maker of Batmobile replicas.

The case reached the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote “The panel held that DC Comics owned a copyright interest in the Batmobile character, as expressed in the 1966 television series and the 1989 motion picture, because it did not transfer its underlying rights to the character when it licensed rights to produce derivative works.” As a result, Towle’s replicas infringed on DC Comics’ copyrights.