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TMCP #636: Director Pete Segal & Anghel Restorations – Bringing The Screen Used Tommy Boy Car Back To Life!

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.5702 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Some movies don’t just entertain us — they become part of who we are. Tommy Boy is one of those rare films, blending heart, humor, brotherhood, and horsepower into a story that has resonated with car people for nearly three decades. On this week’s episode of The MuscleCar Place, Rob Kibbe has the rare privilege of interviewing Tommy Boy director Peter Segal and master restorer Marc Anghel to tell the unbelievable story of the movie’s most famous co-star: the 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX. Peter understood car culture from the start and intentionally made the GTX a true character in the film — one that suffered every mishap right alongside Tommy and Richard, earning its place in automotive and movie history.

After spending more than 25 years forgotten at a picture car warehouse, the legendary GTX was reunited with Peter at a Barrett-Jackson auction and brought back to life through a concours-level restoration by Marc Anghel. The result is a real-world Tommy Boy car, complete with Callahan Auto decals and subtle nods to its cinematic legacy — and a perfect-score winner at MCACN, the “Pebble Beach of muscle cars.” This episode is a celebration of creativity, craftsmanship, and the way one movie — and one car — can leave a permanent mark on all of us.

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0:00.0

The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 636.

0:05.2

This week, we're going to find out if Eminem's down the dash really do hurt the resale value.

0:10.5

Our guest are film director Peter Siegel and Auto Restorer Marcus Angel,

0:14.4

and they're here to talk about restoring one of the real screen-used Tommy Boy cars.

0:19.7

Now, Peter Siegel isn't just any old Hollywood director. He's the

0:22.7

Hollywood director of Tommy Boy, and Tommy Boy, as you know, is one of my favorite car movies of all

0:28.5

time. This is the whole story of all of the cars used in the movie to be the Tommy Boy car,

0:34.6

and how Pete Siegel ended up getting this car back years later, how we found

0:37.9

a Mustang aficionado to restore it, and how bad the car really was. Because of all the car

0:43.3

is used, this is the one you remember the most, and it ended up being pretty bad. There's the

0:48.9

pristine car in the first act, and then the car that Marcus has restored that I own today which is everything else in the

0:56.1

movie which is all of the baby gate stuff the hood flying off at prehistoric bars everything

1:02.1

else was this car this is the muscle car place online podcast brought you by national parts depot this is the Muscle Car Place online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot.

1:13.7

This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.

1:20.1

If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.

1:26.3

Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed, I am

1:30.7

Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, here we are a special edition

1:35.3

show in just our second episode of the year. Our guests are film director Pete Siegel

1:40.3

and auto restorer Marcus Angel, and the topic du jour is the restoration of the Tommy

1:45.8

Boy car. Well, one of the Tommy Boy cars. So, as you know, in movies, multiple cars typically

1:52.1

portray the role of one. And in this case, numerous cars did. And as you listen to the interview,

1:58.0

you'll hear exactly which one this is.

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