'Fast and Furious' for the curious: Paris collector offers drives in famous movie cars

PARIS — Dreaming of taking a tour in a Volkswagen Beetle like in the "Herbie" films, a "Fast and Furious"-style muscle car, or a replica of a "Back to the Future" DeLorean? A French car collector offers just that in a new car museum south of Paris.

In a big hangar in Etrechy, 50 km south of Paris, former car dealer Franck Galiegue, 39, is displaying a collection of 43 vintage cars that have either featured in famous movies or are replicas of them.

Galiegue, who started to collect cars at age 21, said one of his top pieces is one of two remaining 1970s Chevrolet Chevelle Malibus that Ryan Gosling drove in the 2011 action film "Drive."

"They often have several back-up cars in movies, since they do stunts and break a few. In this case, they used three — one was completely destroyed and only two remain: this one and the other one, which Ryan Gosling owns and drives in Los Angeles," he said.