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Never got over the ’80s? Still rocking that Flock of Seagulls doo and download-loving the Wang Chung? Anyone? Bueller?
Your epic car is up for sale. One of the original replica Ferraris used in John Hughes’ zeitgeist-y 1986 comedy “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is being auctioned April 19 by Bonhams auction house at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, UK. The car — apparently the only runner of the three phony 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder Californias built for the film — is a fiberglass-bodied rendition designed by Mark Goyette. According to interviews with Hughes — to whom we bid a fond farewell recently — he used a real Ferrari for close-ups and interiors and the prop car for the stunts (at one point the car catches air over the crest of a hill). The car that is launched backward through the window of Ferris’ friend Cameron’s house was a motor-less shell, you’ll be happy to learn.
Interestingly, the house in that famous scene, located at 370 Beech Street in posh Highland Park, Illinois, is also on the market for an entirely reasonable $1.8 million. Could the car and the house somehow be reunited by an obsessed fan off his meds? Stranger things have happened. Hey, Ben Stein’s got money, and he owes his career to FBDO.
The Ferrari GT Spyder California — with cabriolet styling by Scaglietti — is everything Cameron’s dad thinks it is. Only 100 of the cars were made and, while one of the originals was worth about $350,000 when the movie was made, one sold in 2008 for almost $11 million. The replica is expected to fetch around $80,000.
It’s not clear from the Bonhams announcement what kind of condition the phony Ferrari is in but it seems to have had a hard life. Think about what you want to do with your proverbial day of
