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Attaching a Hollywood provenance to a car promises to increase the cost of the vehicle by several multiples, especially if the deal is with a superstar actor and a blockbuster movie. This vintage Porsche has both, but can it fetch the value it sold for just 3 years ago?
This 1979 Porsche 928, which was screened in Tom Cruise’s film Risky Business, is expected to go online at a Bonhams sale at Tony Monterey Car Week in mid-August. In fact, it was one of the three cars used in this film. , although it is understood that this was the star car that had the maximum prominence. As a bonus, it turns out that this is the car in which Tom Cruise learned to drive a manual transmission.
Given the man’s propensity for performing his own stunts, we can surely see Cruise take it upon himself to be briefed on the stick to make the film even more realistic for moviegoers.
As for the car itself, under that long hood (and between the massive folding headlights) is a water-cooled 4. 5-liter V8 that features Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection and is connected to a five-speed manual transmission. The design and technical decision to combine the axle and differential with the transmission in a single unit meant that this gross would have a 50-50 weight distribution. That’s more than the much-vaunted 911 could claim, especially in the late 1970s.
Remember, the original 928 project to update the 911 as Porsche’s standard-bearer, a perception it abandoned after livid logo enthusiasts protested in earnest. And that was more than 40 years ago. Imagine the amount of backlash Porsche would have faced in the social media era if it had attempted a similar stunt today.
It appears that the car originally came with white paint, but ended up with a platinum metallic tint, although the color technically didn’t appear until 1981, despite being a 1979 car. However, color was available when Risky Business hit theaters in 1983. This device went through many owners and was recently acquired through the dealer in another complicated auction in 2021, for the princely sum of 1. 98 million dollars, adding various costs. 928 Porsche.
Estimates suggest that this amount could be the highest in the auction this time around, but carrier Bonhams estimates that the lowest amount could cost around a million less. But who knows? Anyone who has attended such an auction knows that it only takes a few determined (or drunk) rivals to start a bidding war and lift values into the stratosphere. We will update this article with the sale value later. crossing the block on August 16.
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