Win a Fast & Furious Eclipse Tribute (ZeroSixty Fantasy Car Giveaway #19)

The build: Brian's Eclipse, with real boost this time

The green Eclipse Paul Walker drove in 2001 was famously a prop — the screen cars were naturally aspirated 420A base models with stickers and a wing. ZeroSixty's tribute fixes that: the build sheet lists a 2.0-liter 4G63T turbo four wearing a 16G TD05 turbocharger, TiAL blow-off valve, and DSMLink V3 management, driving the front wheels through a 5-speed manual. TEIN coilovers and cross-drilled rotors cover the chassis. The costume is complete — Kawasaki Green paint, movie vinyl, custom body kit, APR GT-II wing, 1997-spec headlights, underglow, movie plate — and the cabin gets Sparco seats and wheel, AEM gauges, dual Rockford subs, and the obligatory rear NOS bottles. What ZeroSixty doesn't publish: the donor car's year, trim, mileage, horsepower, or title status. Treat the underlying chassis as an open question until the sponsor confirms it.

Why it matters — and what it's actually worth

This is the car that made an entire generation care about sport compacts, and the market knows it: the one documented screen-used Eclipse brought $170,500 at Mecum Kissimmee. Tributes are a different animal — replica asks have reached ~$60k, but ordinary 2G GS-Ts average around $14k with the best sales in the low $30s. The sponsor's own rules carry a $15,000 ARV (and elsewhere a "$25,000 value"), with a $10,000 cash option. Our working estimate is around $20,000 — strong for a 2G Eclipse, modest by giveaway-headline standards.

The fine print worth knowing

Sweepstakes #19 opened November 20, 2025 and is scheduled to end June 28, 2026 at 11:59:59 p.m. PST — but the page caps participation at 3,000 "spots" and locks when they fill (870 claimed at this writing). Paid routes earn roughly one entry per dollar with promotional multipliers: bundles run $49-$139, merch starts at $40, and VIP memberships run $29.99-$89.99/month with a separate members-only $100K cash drawing. The free route is a 3x5 mail-in card worth 10 entries — but the rules' June 7, 2026 postmark deadline appears to have already passed, so late entrants are effectively pay-to-play. Winner pays all taxes (a 1099 is filed) plus title, license, and registration; the sponsor covers airfare for one and a single hotel night. The $10,000 cash alternative applies "if applicable", per the rules' hedged wording.