![]() ![]() Pawel Litwinski Photography 2021/Courtesy Bonhams The 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible was one of General Motors' most expensive models. First full year of the DynaFlow Transmission.” “Only 8,000 production models made,” he tells his girlfriend as they look over the Buick. In the film, Charlie Babbitt, played by Tom Cruise, is an exotic car importer facing a financial squeeze when he finds out that his long-estranged father has just died.Īfter flying to Ohio, where he grew up, he finds out that his father has left him only two things in his will: some prize-winning rose bushes and the Roadmaster, the very car that had been at the center of their final falling out. ![]() “Rain Man” was, essentially, a road trip movie. The car is being offered at an auction in Arizona on January 27. The beige convertible has been owned by star Dustin Hoffman since production of the film finished, and it’s expected to sell for between $150,000 and $250,000, according to the auction firm Bonhams. And the movie’s most famous car, a 1949 Buick Roadmaster, is up for auction. ![]() It wasn’t exactly “The Fast and the Furious” - pretty much the opposite - but the 1988 Oscar winning film “Rain Man” featured cars as an integral part of the story. ![]()
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