Steve McQueen's lost Mustang from the iconic San Francisco chase scene in 1968 film Bullitt is tracked down to a New Jersey garage - and now it's worth $5MILLION

  • A Ford Mustang driven by Steve McQueen in the streets of San Francisco while filming the 1968 movie Bullitt has been found
  • The Mustang GT was part of one of the most iconic car chases in American cinema
  • It was bought and kept in a garage by a New Jersey insurance executive since 1974
  • Robert Kiernan, the executive, saw an advertisement for the car in the classified section of Road & Track magazine
  • In honor of Bullitt’s 50th anniversary, Kiernan’s son, Sean, refurbished the car, which was unveiled at a Ford auto show in Detroit earlier this month
  • The ‘hero car’ driven by McQueen, which looked brand new throughout the movie, was the car that the Kiernans bought and kept
  • The other car, known as the ‘jumper car,’ was found last year in a junkyard in Mexico and refurbished

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