I’m guessing most of you will have immediately recognized the famous Lamborghini we’re talking about from the header photo. A smashed, white Countach 25th Anniversary like this can only mean one thing: the famous “Wolf of Wall Street” car, which was involved in multiple collisions with none other than Jordan Belfort at the wheel, masterfully played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece above the life of Mr. Belfort, how we rose from a simple employee of a brokerage firm to the top of his own company, only to fall again after the trial in court, and I have to admit, I have seen this film more than once, it is really good, it may not correspond to what happened in real life, but it’s a movie. “Based on true events” so it has to be entertaining, and if this movie is one, then it is definitely entertaining.
For car lovers, there are several great cars in the film. The opening credits start with a Ferrari Testarossa, at first a red one, but then Jordan Belfort corrects it by stating that he had a white one, just like the one from Miami Vice, and a little later in the film he also gets a yellow Diablo Roadster have on his driveway. The absolute star of the film, alongside the beautiful Margot Robbie, is of course a white and white Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary, an absolutely stunning car that is the epitome of late ’80s style, which he unfortunately under the influence of during a short drive home from the country club strong…let’s call it “medication” ruined.
Who can forget the scene where Belfort rolls down the stairs at the country club and tries to open the scissor doors of his white Countach with his foot, only to climb in on the passenger side and get behind the wheel anyway? Now I’m moving to I don’t know if many of you have ever sat in a Lamborghini Countach, but it’s a very low car with rather limited interior space, so getting from the passenger side to the driver’s seat also takes some major effort in the first place would have required Driving a Countach requires pushing the clutch pedal hard to the left…somehow Jordan managed it all and got the car safely on the road and home…or so he thought.
In fact, he was so “out of this world” that he never realized he crashed into multiple cars, multiple mailboxes, and traffic signs, only to arrive at his home with a heavily damaged Countach, but according to Martin Scorsese, it was the damage The damage sustained during the actual filming of this ride just wasn’t bad enough, so they used an additional car and truck to achieve the almost completely destroyed look they were going for. Once the shoot was complete, this bad Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary, chassis ZA9CAOSA6KLA12692 , was removed from location… and stored “as is.”
You may be wondering why they would use a real Lamborghini Countach if they were going to crash it anyway. Wouldn’t that be a total waste of money? Now, you have to put that in perspective: a well-preserved Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary is worth quite a bit of money today, but Wolf of Wall Street was filmed in 2013, 10 years ago, and values were much lower back then. Overall, the film would grossed an incredible $406.9 million, DiCaprio reportedly got $10 million for his role, Margot Robbie was supposed to get “only” $347,000 according to sources because she wasn’t that popular in 2013, so on a large scale Overall, the price of a Countach wasn’t really huge compared to the numbers involved.
And be aware: two Lamborghini Countachs were used, the production-rented chassis ZA9CA05A0KLA12722 as a backup car, but in the actual film it was only seen for 16 seconds, while the hero car, chassis KLA12692, is offered at auction , was shown for 3 minutes and 11 seconds, and more importantly, sharp-eyed moviegoers would have spotted some big differences between both cars: The replacement car didn’t have the US front bumper and a two-tone steering wheel in Bianco and Nero This car also has the set left without a scratch, which can’t be said for the hero car, but it’s exactly this damage that now makes these movie memorabilia worth significantly more than a normal, pristine Countach 25th Anniversary. Bonhams, who will present this car at the On the Grid The Abu Dhabi auction in late November, has estimated this car at $1,500,000 to $2,000,000.
Part of this rating is largely due to the fact that it is a “screen-used” car, as they call it in the film industry, but it will also contain some amazing memorabilia from the film, like one of the four Costumes DiCaprio wore during the filming of this scene included the blue shirt, white t-shirt, sweatpants, and even Nike shoes. But that’s not all, the car also comes with a director’s chair, an authentic clapboard from the film signed by Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie, as well as two crew hoodies and two DVDs of the film… it really is a film -Collectible, which will be reflected in the final bid if the hammer falls.
