Cruise In a Porsche 928 a la Risky Business

The Porsche 928 was an impressive car and pretty familiar to those born between 1970-1980. The Porsche 928 starred along with Tom Cruise in Risky Business and has presented an opportunity for your acquisition by Volo Auto Museum near Chicago. You could get a glance of the shots, engine and interior through the photos on museum’s website. The car with this kind of popularity would go for very high asking price. Brian Grams one of the partners of the museum Volo has bought the car in Denver, Colorado from the Forney Museum. Actually he was obsessed with owning a Porsche car since his age of 14 which was finally materialized in 2005.

The car with the history of a movie will boost the sale which takes place in the upcoming auction on July 28, 2012. Pre-auction estimation rate guessed by the auction house for the car which was drove by Tom Cruise in Risky Business would fetch approximately $40,000 to $60,000. The odometer of the car just has 102,755 miles which would go normally for $10,000 or $12,000.The impressive model of 1970’s teenagers, with their unfulfilled dreams of buying the car now could park in their garage with asking price $60,000. We won’t get surprised if it exceeds more than $60,000 as the car has some nostalgia.

The 1970 Porsche 928 has a five-speed manual gearbox. The car has a cork leather interior, steering wheel with three spokes. There were four Porsche 928s used in the film, one of them was used for close ups and driving scenes and the other was the one called dump car rolled into Lake Michigan.

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