Are you a gearhead with a few extra barrels of money taking up space in the basement? Well, the crew at Mecum Auctions has just the car for you.As one of two replica Ford GT40s finished in this livery for use in the James Mangolds new film Ford v Ferrari, this beautiful machine is the Ken Miles hero car driven by Christian Bale during filming.Built at Rich MacDonalds Superformance Facility in California, this isnt your typical movie car thats been hacked to pieces before being rode hard and put away wet.MacDonalds incredible attention to detail is truly astonishing, making it easy to explain why this car was the one that provided the movie magic GT40 close-ups in the film. In what is surely one of the most legendary examples of self-confidence, MacDonalds shop built the car before they had even been selected to provide the vehicles for the movie.Powered by a specially prepared Roush V8 built to 511 cubes, this movie monster cranks out 600 horsepower thanks in no small part to kit like a KN Inglese-style injection system and an jaw-droppingly gorgeous rear-exit bundle of snakes exhaust. All this sends power through a five-speed manual transaxle, meaning youll be saving the manuals while being a total baller.Slathered in that iconic Gulf Blue, it features a pressed steel roof and a unibody structure constructed of electro-galvanized steel. Independent suspenders are installed front and rear, with unequal-length A-arms up front, Bilstein shocks with HR springs at both ends, and trailing arms out back.The car is also signed by Ken Miles 1966 crew chief and Ken Miles son, Peter. This hero car has seen plenty of screen time beyond the movie and its trailers, appearing at various red carpet events alongside the stars of the film. Short of an original GT40 racecar, provenance doesnt get much better than that.Itll be on the block at Mecums event in Kissimmee next
Origin: A Ford GT40 replica that starred in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ is heading to auction
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Screen-used ‘Ferris Bueller’ Ferrari replica heads to auction
A replica of a Ferrari 250 California GT Spyder used in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is coming up for auction.According to Hemmings, the vehicles used on-screen were made by a small company in California called Modena Design, from which John Hughes, the director of the film, requested three vehicles.Since the company was just a small upstart at the time, they had to lend the production a customer car, as well as two more cars which were said to be incomplete when delivered, to be finished by the staff at Paramount.The current owner of the car for sale says this is not the one that fell out of the back of the garage in the infamous scene, but could possibly be the one used in the Star Wars jump scene, due to reports it came with a crushed exhaust and some body damage. It is impossible to tell, though, because the vehicles were mostly used interchangeably for the film.The vehicle sits on a custom tube frame and sports a fibreglass body, plus an aluminum nose (so it would look more real when it gets kicked in by the Cameron character in the film). Under the hood, there isn’t a 3.0-litre Ferrari Colombo V12, but there is a 351 Ford Windsor V8. The previous owner intended to daily-drive the car, so he had the Windsor engine stroked to 427 cubic inches, and added a Tremec five-speed in place of the automatic. It now makes 564 horsepower, a serious bump over the 280 horsepower of the real deal.A few other changes were made to improve the handling, including the addition of a front coilover suspension, front and rear disc brakes and larger 16-inch wheels with lower-profile tires.The vehicle is expected to bring between US$300,000 and $400,000 at the Mecum auction in California on August
Origin: Screen-used ‘Ferris Bueller’ Ferrari replica heads to auction
Bill Gates drives Vancouver-made electric Porsche 356 replica to Dairy Queen
Billionaires — they’re just like us! At least, that’s the impression two of the world’s biggest might’ve given off in a recent video with a sweet Canadian classic car cameo. Bill Gates recently released a video himself of him and his buddy, Warren Buffett, pulling a shift at Dairy Queen — which Buffett owns, who knew!? — where they delighted customers by offering soft-serve cones that looked like they’d been drawn by Salvador Dali, learned the art of the upside-down Blizzard, and chatted about investing. But what piqued our interest in this three-minute spot wasn’t the investment advice or comic value of two billionaires serving fast food to the public, but the red Porsche 356 convertible with British Columbia plates and the words Electra Meccanica across the side. It’s a car we recognize, having gotten behind the wheel of a similar model in blue last year, the sole one in existence at the time. The 356 eRoadster is an open-top Porsche 356 replica that has been converted to electric power by Vancouver-based EV startup Electra Meccanica. Parent company Intermeccanica has been building 356 replicas in Vancouver since the late 1970s and only launched its electric-vehicle division, Electra Meccanica, which removes the fuel-powered engine and swaps in electric powertrains, a few years ago. But the eRoadster is already a modern West Coast classic, offering drop-top driving in a classic Porsche body with cutting-edge, environmentally friendly tech. It’s unclear if Gates owns this red one or was just borrowing it, but we do know the man is a Porschephile, having famously pushed into U.S. legislation the show and display laws, just so he could drive his Porsche 959 stateside.
Origin: Bill Gates drives Vancouver-made electric Porsche 356 replica to Dairy Queen
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