Nearly a week after ex-NFL player OJ Simpson died from prostate cancer, the car he used during the infamous police chase of 1994 has been put up for sale by its owners. The white Ford Bronco owned by his former agent Michael Gilbert and two friends of Al Cowlings, who was driving that day, will be sold at about $1.5 million.
Gilbert told Clict that they had planned to sell it off this year regardless of Simpson’s state because it was the low-speed chase’s 30th anniversary. “Before OJ passed, we had always thought this was going to be the year we were going to sell. Who knows if we are all going to be around for the 35th or the 40th?” he said.
The Ford Bronco used in infamous OJ Simpson car chase
@dailymail In the wake of OJ Simpson’s death, the infamous white Bronco he used – perhaps the most infamous car in American history – may finally be sold 30 years on from when he led LA cops on an unforgettable chase. The owners say they want at least $1.5million through a private or public sale, claiming the last official offer they received for the car was at around $750,000 before Simpson died. #oj #ojsimpson #whitebronco #fordbronco #news #crime #police ♬ Hard News – DM Production
About 30 years ago, nearly a hundred million people watched as the Ford Bronco was being followed by the police convoy around a Southern California interstate. Behind the wheel was Cowlings, with Simpson hiding in the back seat until they arrived at his Brentwood mansion, where he surrendered himself for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.
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The SUV remained parked for 17 years in a condominium garage in Los Angeles until it was used for the opening of a sports museum in Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas. Gilbert then took it home, however, his “wife didn’t like it there, she wanted her parking spot back,” so he moved the car to Alcatraz East.
In 1996, Cowlings nearly sold the SUV for $75,000 to a celebrity memorabilia shop in Las Vegas named Startifacts. “We found out that the company was going to rent the vehicle to a company in LA called Grave Line Tours that visited famous graves,” he recalled. “They were going to re-enact the chase with the Bronco and then take people to Nicole’s grave.”
He sold the car, which has about 32,000 miles on the odometer, to Gilbert and his two friends instead because “the trial hadn’t taken place yet, and we didn’t want people thinking anyone associated with O.J. did this.” The three owners last received an offer of $750,000 for the vehicle, which was loaned out to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, in 2016.