| Two famous film cars are going up for sale - the Ferrari from classic 80s movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off and James Bond's submersible Lotus. The Bond car, which appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me, goes under the hammer in London in September, while the Bueller car is being sold off at Pebble Beach in California in August. Auctioneers say the famous Lotus Esprit was the only one made for the film and cost about £65,000 when built, the equivalent of £330,000 today. Known as Wet Nellie on the set of the 1977 film, the propeller-powered vehicle laid "undiscovered" in a Long Island storage unit for 10 years. A local couple unexpectedly found themselves the owners of the iconic motor after they won a blind auction for the contents of the unit. The fully-functioning Lotus was originally built by Perry Oceanographic in Florida and was piloted by a retired US Navy Seal.
The Ferris Bueller car, which gets wrecked at the end of the 1986 film, is depicted as a Ferrari 250 GT California. However, film-makers actually used three replicas built by Californian company Modena Design & Development. But with 500 horsepower, its new owner will certainly get supercar performance. Modena co-founder Neil Glassmoyer said the company built the replicas in four weeks. "Two were interchangeably used as hero and stunt cars, and one was a rolling fibreglass shell that was used in the destruction scene," he said. "This car was actually intended for the stunt work, but both saw action, and both wound up with broken front suspension bolts because the big jump scene took nine takes between the two cars." Glassmoyer said director John Hughes was also considering a Porsche Turbo for the film, but eventually chose the iconic red sportscar. The car goes up for sale on August 17, but will have to go some way to beat the prices achieved by authentic Ferrari classics. In 2010, DJ Chris Evans paid £12m for a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO. |
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