Pre-owned cars are usually a less expensive option than buying a new trip from the showroom. In some cases, however, the previous owner was a blockbuster character, and in other cases the car itself was a character in the film. In this case, people are ready to lay out huge sums of money to own these pieces of cinematic history.
Herbie Love
Herbie the Love Bug was actually several different cars presented in six films. The first film of 1968, The Love Bug, was a hit with more than $ 50 million in a budget of just under $ 5 million. In the early and mid-1960s, America was in love with Beetle, an inexpensive and economical German import. Therefore, when they made a film about the soul with a man, people immediately expanded their passion. In the first film, an anthropomorphic car helps a race car enthusiast to turn his life and find love when he returns to the past, all the while laughing. Recently, the original Love Bug is sold at auction for $ 125,000 to a collector who grew up loving a small car with a big heart.
KITT
Nowadays, David Hasselhoff may be better known for Baywatch, but it was Knightrider that brought him to fame. From 1982 to 1986, Hoff played Michael Knight, an LAPD officer recruited to fight crime from behind the wheel of a special high-tech trip. This car, the co-star of the series, was KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand). KITT was a car with high-tech gadgets and equipped with a computer with artificial intelligence. KITT was voiced by William Daniels, who readers may remember as George Feeney from Boy Meets World. Together, Kitt and Michael fought crime in Southern California. In July 2015, almost 30 years after the last break of KITT, the collector paid for this auction for more than $ 300,000. As in some used cars, it did not have all the original functions, moreover, the computer did not turn on the computer.
General Lee
General Lee is a true part of American history. From 1979 to 1986, he flashed bright orange American muscles on television with prime networks, helping Bo and Luke Duke to evade their legal problems in Hazard County, Georgia. The 1969 charger was named after General Robert Lee, Commander of the Confederation. It was a hard peak decorated with a Confederate flag in an era that was a little less politically correct than the real one. Being such an emblem of the south, it is not surprising that one of the original cars on the screen was sold to golfer Bubba Watson, the proud son of Florida. Watson attracted the wrath of many suicide bombers when, as a result of disagreements over a confederative symbol, he painted the American flag on top to replace old stars and bars. But if you want to develop more than $ 120,000 for a car, you probably should be allowed to do whatever you want.
These used cars are more expensive than most new luxury cars. If you are a collector, however, it is worth it!
