It seems someone is an extremely big fan of the 1986 film, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” because they’ve spent $337,500 on a prop from the movie. Not just any prop, though, this is the actual (fake) Ferrari that was thrown out of a garage window in one of the film’s most memorable scenes.
The New York Post reports that the auction for the non-functioning, prop car closed on Saturday. One of three kit cars used in the filming of the movie, this one was hurled backward through the window of a glass garage and down several feet, into a ravine.
After the filming, the defenestrated faux Ferrari was rebuilt and used as a display piece. Built by Modena Design & Development, the car is a reproduction of the Ferrari 250 GTO California, though it is not quite a perfect replica.
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As it stands, the car has no engine (likely because the production knew they would be throwing it out of a window) and has seen better days. The hood is not hinged, and, therefore, simply sits in place, and, according to Heritage Auctions (which sold the car), the latches must be realigned.
A taillight is also missing, a headlight lens is cracked, the chrome is a bit rusty, there are chips in the paint, and the trunk doesn’t have a latch, though I’m not really sure what you’d put in there anyway. According to the auction site, though, the seats were reupholstered, and the paint resprayed after the crash, in order to make them present a little better.
The interior features tan upholstery on tan carpets, with a black, fiberglass dashboard. A wood-rimmed steering wheel features the Ferrari prancing horse in the middle, and the odometer reads 000.0 miles – does that count as a plot hole or continuity error?
According to the auction house, despite the faults, the car presents “very well.” I’m not sure how much I agree with that, but it does feature reinforced D-rings so that the car can be put on a hanging display, which would make for a pretty impressive diorama.
What is perhaps most impressive, though, is that this immobile prop car sold for just $58,500 less than the “hero” driving car from the movie. In 2020, that sold for $396,000 at Barrett-Jackson, suggesting that inflation has come for even the movie memorabilia industry, too.
