The Fast And Furious Nissan 240SX You Forgot About Had A Gruesome Ending

Everyone has a favourite car from The Fast and Furious, and we mean the original film, not the whole franchise. Really, you’re either picking Brian’s Toyota Supra and Dom’s Dodge Charger, or you’re a bit strange and prefer The Racer’s Edge shop Ford F-150 Lightning. What you won’t pick is Letty’s Nissan 240SX, a rather forgettable car in the scheme of things, though its ultimate ending makes for a sad tale.

We first see the 240SX pretty early on in The Fast and Furious, the first of the crew pulling up at Toretto’s Market & Cafe amidst the iconic tuna scene. It makes the odd appearance throughout the film, most notably at Race Wars up against a Mazda RX-7, but is then never seen again.

Now though, we have an updated story of its ultimate fate from Craig Lieberman, the man responsible for picking the cars used in the 2001 film as well as 2 Fast 2 Furious.

For a little more context, the S14 started life as a slightly modified silver car owned by James Yen, who rented it to the filmmakers for $6,400 - probably not bad value to lend out your 240SX at that time. It was modified further on-set though, with a Zeal bodykit and a purple respray. At the time of filming, it had an SR20DET in place of the KA24DE you’d find in a standard car, and tuned to around 400bhp.

Two stunt cars were built to replicate the ‘hero’ car too, and would eventually be repurposed for 2 Fast 2 Furious. However, Yen’s 240SX would have a very different fate.

It would be returned to its original silver paint, albeit retaining the Zeal bodykit for a little while. It found itself plastered across several magazines at the time before passing hands several times.

Around 2009, interest in retaining the car in its on-set form was well and truly gone, with the chassis stripped of all of its mechanical bits including the SR20 and the shell sold on for scrap. There’s a slight chance the 240SX lived on as a can, or maybe your dishwasher.