perrys4

200k???? In our dreams maybe. I could see maybe 50k.

928ntslow

Well, he doesn't really put to rest what the sound of the car was. We ALL know as 928 owners, that is not a 928 sound. I will challenge even this guy. One PERFECT example is when they are sitting at the stop light with some other car and the one guy says "Hit it". The cars takes off (not that fast) but you here tires screaching and a car that revs much quicker than a 1981 928 can. The sounds may have not been a Ferrari, but they certainly aren't a 928. I ain't buyin it. There are several engine dubs in there and most 928 owner will tell him otherwise.

BTW, I hope he does get $200K. I just personally think it is foolish that a car is worth more because it was in a movie or someone drove it or owned it.

BULLETIN: Someone go find the Scarface car!!! Ee coo bay wort a lala mony!

Airflite40

Well, I talked to Lewis and he said that he went through the production files and notes and they placed mics in different places like the intake, inside the car and from behind, then mixed the sounds together.

The 928 used for the sound had a rear stock muffler that had a rusted hole in it.

The sound of the tires and engine was dubbed. Lewis said he has seen the raw footage and it was very quiet, as most stock 928's are.

The engine sound was probably dubbed from a car that was sitting in nuetral, which is how it could rev so quickly and sound like that.

It is much easier for a film crew to have the car standing there and record sound than to attach the mics to the car and drive it around.

scott863

There are plenty of people who would say "who gives a rats ***" about a car being fast, having leather interior, etc. While it doesn't matter to you, an interesting provenance on a car, house, STD, etc. is an extra bonus for some people.

"I got this raging case of crabs from Bea Arthur" is more interesting than "I got this raging case of crabs from this woman at Bingo"

scott863

I wonder if the owner found out how many guys Tom Cruise picked up with the car? "This is the seat Tom was in when he put the moves on Balkie"


I think it's kind of interesting that the guy could track it down with just the VIN numbers, and the person actually sold it to him for a fairly reasonable price. If he sold it for $50,000, what is the year of researching, travelling, etc. worth? Sounds like this guy obviously doesn't have a traditional job. Not knowing anything else, he must have known the producer he mentions or had a strong friend of a friend thing happening. I'm sure all of the production files/ raw footage wasn't just sitting on this guy's kitchen table for the last 22 years...

123

On a couple of different occasions, when people first saw my car they referred to it as a "Risky Business car".

tdelarm

Well…nothing wrong with having a hobby and this one would be fun to embark on.

I would think the resale value (based on its history) is strictly subjective by the party purchasing it. Hell, there are enough 928 for sale, if one can be linked w/a story why not I guess eh! Not sure what he’s asking.

Now, I wouldn’t lump this car in the same category as perhaps Roy Disney or Tom Selleck’s cars that recently were available because RSKY BIZ was a movie car and not a personal car.

It’s not uncommon for movie lots/production company’s to sell off props (cars) after a production is finished (includes barter, purchased, product placement type) tools. It’s highly possible Porsche or dealer ‘donated’ that car as product placement.

Looks like a cool journey.

heinrich

Keith I beg to differ, that car sounds exactly like a 928 to me.

Airflite40

Lewis explained to me that Warner Bros had recently done an audit on the movie, and had it not been for that, all the documents would have been destroyed already by the time he got to them.

They were in storage, along with other films produced by Jon Avnet.

Porsche wanted nothing to do with the movie, and tried to block the cars from being used.

The cars were "loaned" from private owners, sourced through the Porsche dealer seen in the film, which no longer exists.

At the time the Porsche dealer in Highland Park was one of the largest seller of 928's in the country.

One funny tidbit Lewis told me was when they were filming the scene where the service guy opens the door and all the water and fish come flying out, the fish naturally would swim away from the current of water and be left in the car.
Jon Avnet had to toss the fish into the current off camera to achieve the effect of them falling out. It still took several takes to get it right.

After production was finished, the two main cars were sold off since one of the owners complained that the crew damaged it, etc.

They were not listed for sale as the cars seen in Risky Business cause anyone who had seen or heard of the film thought those cars had been dumped in the lake, and were water damaged.

They were sold off and faded away into obscurity.
The auto driver was taken out of the US in 1984 and there are no more records of it after that, so who knows where it is.

The stick driver was repainted back to the original white and ended up in California, where Lewis bought it from some guy.

Lewis did not tell him why he wanted the car, he only told him it used to belong to a dear friend.

When Lewis inquired about the car, the guy put it up for sale and Lewis was able to stall him and buy it himself.

The car was brought to Colorado and repainted back to the platinum metallic seen in Risky Business.

Z

Are you sure about that? From seeing it in the movie and going there for parts, I always thought that the dealership in the film was the one on 1st Street in Highland Park. I went there looking for a 928 a few times back when I was searching for one to buy as well. A few years ago they built a new building on Rt 41 in Highland Park and moved there. It still has the same name and owner as it did when it was on 1st Street, and isn't too far away from where it used to be. It used to be a combination Porsche/Audi dealership when it was on 1st Street, but now they have completely separate Porsche and Audi dealerships located apart from each other.

www.porschexchange.com

Airflite40

what I meant by that was they are no longer in the location seen in the film, sorry.

RSKY BIZ

Airflite40,

I think it's a way cool thing that you pursued your passion for the movie and car and contacted the man. . . AND reading what has ensued is a pretty special 'insider's view' to it all.

Thanks for sharing the info -- keep us 'posted!'
Waiting for more!

Ed Hughes

Amen to that. Keith, you're wrong. This movie was on Cinemax a few weeks ago and I DVR'd it. I've watched the cars scenes a couple of times, and it is 928 thru and thru.

Kaz

Hold on to the car. It's movie history much like the California Spyder was to Ferris Buellers Day Off except that car is known to be a fake. The replica used in the film that is. The 928 is real and as such in Risky Business will always be immortal.

Ed Hughes

So true. The 928 probably has more recognition in mainstream American from it's role in this movie. Besides Tom Cruise lip-syncing to Bob Seger in his tighty-whities, the 928 is the other aspect that most would associate with this movie.

PS: ANY Ferrari Cali Spyder is immortal too...