Special Agent Alexander Mahone:  D.B. Cooper was driving a 1965 Chevy Nova .
Wheeler: There 's no record on file that Cooper even had a car .
Special Agent Alexander Mahone: But Charles Westmoreland did , and the car registered to him at the time was a _ 1965 _ Chevy Nova with a 16 gallon gas tank . Back then , a Chevy that size got approximately 8 miles to the gallon . Now , D.B. stopped at the station in American Fork , gassed up once early that day and came back later that same night and gassed up again . Now , why would a guy headed to Mexico , which is a straight shot south , drive off the main road for an all - day detour ?
Wheeler: The money .
Special Agent Alexander Mahone: Exactly . Cooper , Westmoreland , jumped out of a plane with 5 million dollars , but Westmoreland did n't have the money on him when he was arrested . He ditched it before he got caught .
Special Agent Alexander Mahone: Give me that magic marker .
Special Agent Alexander Mahone: From American Fork , he could n't have gone further than 64 miles in any direction . I want everything you 've got in that perimiter . Those cons are in one of these towns and if there 's so much as a cat missing in one of them , I want to know about it .