Thirty years ago - precisely on October 28, 1994 - “Pulp Fiction”, Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece, was released in theaters. Critics had already been conquered in May of that year, when the Cannes Film Festival jury (chaired by Clint Eastwood) awarded it the Palme d'Or for Best Film, thus going over the heads of much of the international film establishment: from Kieslowksi with his “Red Film” to the Coen brothers with “Mister Hula Hoop”, Nanni Moretti with “Dear Diary” (winner of the Best Director award) and Giuseppe Tornatore with “A Pure Formality”.A real exploit that did not fail to make noise: in fact, Tarantino's reaction with his middle finger directed at a woman sitting in the audience, guilty of shouting “Mais quelle daube” (“What a disgust!”), in reference to the American director's victory over Kieslowski, the big favorite according to the predictions at the time, became famous.
The Chevelle disappeared during filming only to be found mysteriously almost two decades later, in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay area of California. It is not clear what happened during those 20 years of silence. A mystery that also involves the car's former owner, Bill Jimenez, himself a victim of fraud for having purchased the car from a private dealer in 2001. After a series of unsuccessful investigations, the Chevelle was thus able to return to Quentin Tarantino, with no real explanation of how it was stolen in 1994. In short, an inexplicable affair but one that culminated-for once in a while-in an unexpected happy ending.“I just wish Tarantino or whoever would step up and say, 'Hey, thanks for taking care of my car.' Anyway, I'm glad he got it back, at least I can say I drove John Travolta's car (in the movie, ed.). How many can say the same?” said Bill Jimenez. And indeed, how many of us can say that we have driven - unintentionally - such an iconic car?
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