{"id":13059,"date":"2023-12-09T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2024-01-01T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T22:25:15","slug":"auctioning-leos-lambos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/12\/09\/auctioning-leos-lambos\/","title":{"rendered":"Auctioning Leo&#8217;s Lambos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/classic-cars\/wolf-wall-street-lamborghini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The $2 Million Conundrum of \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street\u201d Lamborghinis<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>One is wrecked, the other is still drivable, but separate auction companies have valued them at the exact same price<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/alauer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ALEX LAUER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wolf of wall street lamborghini ride safely\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1huYsSOYlVo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes a collector car valuable? The scarcity of the model, the record of ownership, the authenticity of the parts, the current condition and whether or not it still drives are all obvious factors in assessing the price of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/autos\/why-tree-indented-jaguar-xk150-sold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noteworthy vehicle<\/a>. For auction companies, it\u2019s not quite an exact science, but it\u2019s close. When you add Hollywood into the mix, though, the formula can go haywire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent months, two identical Lamborghinis that were used in&nbsp;<em>The Wolf of Wall Street&nbsp;<\/em>have been put up for auction. One, which is in pristine condition, has been valued by its seller at $1.5 to $2 million. The second, which was smashed, dented and wrecked during filming to the point that it\u2019s no longer drivable, has been valued by a different auction house at the exact same price: $1.5 to $2 million. How could that be?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The car in question is a 1989 Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary Edition. Only some 650 models of this special-edition supercar were ever made, but despite its rarity,\u00a0<em>The Wolf of Wall Street\u00a0<\/em>director Martin Scorsese apparently wanted to use the real things for filming (this kind of exacting standard has helped propel the movie to be considered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/film\/everything-martin-scorsese-has-ever-done-ranked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of the greatest of his career<\/a>). Using the authentic car makes sense, as it got a close-up during a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1huYsSOYlVo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memorable scene<\/a>\u00a0when Jordan Belfort (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) crawled into the white sports car and drove it while high on Quaaludes, crashing it into other cars, a golf cart and street signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/classic-cars\/wolf-wall-street-lamborghini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook The $2 Million Conundrum of \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street\u201d Lamborghinis One is wrecked, the other is still drivable, but separate auction companies have valued them at the exact same price BY\u00a0ALEX LAUER What makes a collector car valuable? The scarcity of the model, the record of ownership, the authenticity of the parts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}