The hit John Hughes-directed teen comedy \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off,\u201d released on this day in 1986, stars a young Matthew Broderick as a popular high school student in suburban Illinois who fakes an illness in order to score a day off from school, then leads his best friend and his girlfriend on a whirlwind day through Chicago. The movie\u2019s cast also included Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones and Jennifer Grey. However, the most memorable performer may have been an automobile: the 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California, a custom-built car revered by auto collectors.<\/p>\n
In the movie, the restored Ferrari\u2014bearing the license plate NRVOUS\u2014belongs to the strict father of Ferris\u2019 depressive best friend, Cameron (Ruck), whom Ferris convinces to liberate the car from its museum-like home and drive it to Chicago. The three teenagers leave the car with a pair of garage attendants, who are later seen taking it for a high-speed joyride. On the drive home, Cameron goes into shock when Ferris notices that hundreds of miles have been added to the odometer. As they attempt, unsuccessfully, to remove the miles by running the Ferrari backwards, Cameron starts venting his anger at his father by kicking the front end of the coddled car. His tantrum dislodges the blocks holding it in place, sending the Ferrari through the glass wall of the garage and into the ravine behind the house.<\/p>\n
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According to Motor Trend, the first Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California\u2014colloquially known as the \u201cCal Spyder\u201d\u2014was produced in 1957 and the last was built in early 1963. In addition to the long-wheelbase (LWB) Spyder, Ferrari also produced a sportier, short-wheelbase (SWB) model. Though estimates vary as to exactly how many were made\u2014Cameron says \u201cless than a hundred\u201d in the film\u2014approximately 46 LWB and between 50 and 57 SWB Spyders were produced in all. For \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off,\u201d the filmmakers used a modified MGB roadster with a fiberglass body as a stand-in for the Ferrari. The filmmakers reportedly received angry letters from car enthusiasts who believed that a real Ferrari had been damaged.<\/p>\n
One 1961 250 GT SWB Spyder California, with chassis number GT 2377GT, belonged to the actor James Coburn (\u201cThe Magnificent Seven\u201d), who died in 2002. On May 18, 2008, at the second annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event at Maranello, Italy, the British deejay Chris Evans bought that car at auction for 6.4 million Euros, or $10,894,400 (including fees), the highest price ever paid for an automobile at auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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