It’s taking “All-original” to the max. Barrett-Jackson today announced that it will be selling the silver 1979 Z/28 wrecked by Sean “Jeff Spicoli” Penn at its April 11th Palm Beach Auction. “We’ve seen cars from the Batmobile to the ECTO-1 from Ghostbusters sell for record-setting prices,” noted Barrett-Jackson CEO Craig Jackson in a press release this week, “but we’ve never seen a car in this remarkably original condition.”
The 1979 Z/28 was discovered behind a Motel 6 in Chatsworth, California, in 2013, where it was flatbedded immediately after the filming of the movie.
Thirty five years later, it still wears the “Die Ridgemont” and “Lincoln Rules” red spraypaint from the original filming of the movie. It also comes with a letter of authenticity signed by Key Grip John Linder, who originally hand-lettered the graffiti.
“We’re thrilled to be offering such an incredible example of American cinema history,” notes Craig Jackson.
The Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Auction is scheduled to run from April 11 to April 13, 2014, and the Ridgemont High car will run on Friday night at 8:30 PM on Fox Sports.
Barrett-Jackson estimates the car will sell for between $180,000 and $225,000.
Just what I want for my new car collection. “Cars of the zombie apocalypse “.
April fools
My old main’s a TV repairman. He’s got the ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
Where is this party anyway?”
I remembered the car driven in the movie and the one wrecked not having the same T Tops but never realised until seeing the screen shot the wrecked one was not a t top car but just had cut out fakes.
happy learn somethin worthless day
You Guys are really Expecting to get $180,000.00 to $225,000.00 for this Car, I don’t know about that – but I’ll 2 hits of whatever Your on!!! Be real!
i woulnt buy that junk for 1 dollar
I love comments like this.. yeah, it’s a lot of money, to you. For some people it’s not a lot of money though. And these people, who can actually afford to buy something like this, they’ll bid on the car, and maybe it won’t go for the expected price, and maybe it will. No reason to be so resentful though, just cause you can’t afford something that costs so much.