Tom Cruise learned to move there. Porsche 928 with rare šaltpák goes to auction | Currently.cz

It could be a long-forgotten teen movie, of which dozens were made in the United States in the early 1980s. Films about high school students from the famous Chicago environment were usually in their time by screenwriter and director Jon Hughes, but this time his colleague in Chicago Paul Brickman took over the script and direction.

In the film Risky Business from 1983, he chose Tom Cruise, aged thirty-one, to play the role of a teenager. To appear younger on screen, the actor had to lose five kilograms for the role, writing the portal SFD. Famous roles were yet to come for Cruise, and it is believed that this film opened the door for the American megastar.

However, the Porsche 928 also “plays” with Cruise in the film, more precisely, three people were needed to shoot the film: one ended up underwater in Lake Michigan, it is not known what happened to one another, and the third one, could be where he came from. authenticated by the serial number, now being offered by Bonhams at auction.

“This car was used in many key shots, including the last one where Tom Cruise looks into the camera and says the famous line: There’s no room for a Porsche .” states in the description Bonhams Car.

According to legend, the producer of the film, John Brickman, thought that the Porsche 911 was too banal and the Ferrari, which he was also considering, too unusual. That’s why he said he reached the Porsche 928, which at the time was considered the top among Gran Turismo models.

However, according to the marketing phrase from the mouth of Tom Cruise, it looks more like an agreed collaboration with the German manufacturer, who in the early 80s thought that the current customers of the “nineteen eleven” gradually changing to the type 928. Its sales fell year after year, and the type 928 was significantly larger and more comfortable to travel with.

Built in 1979, the car was originally painted white, but for the film it was given a platinum metallic finish, which was only available for this model from 1981. Most of the car to the United States with a three-speed Mercedes-Benz automatic, so the five-speed manual transmission is considered rare. So when the auction house claims that it was on this car that Tom Cruise learned to operate the clutch pedal and gear lever, it can be considered as reliable information.

After appearing in the film, the car was repainted white. In California, it changed several owners before it was found by the film car collector Lewis Johnsen, who dedicated an entire documentary to the discovery of the car. The car then moved to a collection on the east coast of the United States, where it underwent an expensive restoration. The current owner acquired it in 2021.

A particular paradox of Friday’s Californian auction is the fact that old Porsches are not allowed on local roads at all. “Please note that in accordance with California emissions laws, this vehicle can only be sold to non-California residents who will not use it on California territory or to a licensed automobile dealer,” Bonhams wrote in the note.