The infamous white Ford Bronco that carried O.J. Simpson on a low-speed chase through Los Angeles after he killed his ex-wife and her friend is finally up for sale and could fetch at least $1.5 million.
The 1993 SUV has three owners – Simpson’s former agent Michael Gilbert and two friends of longtime friend Al Cowlings, who was behind the wheel on June 17, 1994. told Kricht They plan to cash in on the new interest following the disgraced NFL great’s passing last week.
“Before OJ passed away, we always thought this would be the year of sales because it’s our 30th anniversary,” Gilbert told the magazine. “Nobody knows if we’ll all live to be 35 or even 40.”
The three owners told Kricht that the last offer they received for the Bronco, which has been on loan to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, since 2016, was $750,000.
However, the outlet said they are now hoping to raise at least $1.5 million in a public or private sale.
Nearly 100 million people were glued to their television screens as Simpson hid in the back seat of the Bronco as Cowlings drove leisurely down an interstate in Southern California, pursued by a convoy of police cars. .
Simpson eventually arrived at his Brentwood residence, where officers negotiated the former NFL star’s surrender following the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Kricht said the Bronco was parked in a Los Angeles apartment garage for 17 years before being shipped to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, where it was used to open a sports museum.
They then arrived at Gilbert’s house.
“My wife didn’t like it there. She wanted the parking spot back,” he told the outlet, so the SUV was eventually moved to Alcatraz East.
In 1996, Cowlings agreed to sell the Bronco to Starifact, a Las Vegas celebrity memorabilia store, for $75,000.
“We found out that the company was planning to rent a vehicle to a company in LA called Grave Line Tours that would visit famous graves,” Gilbert said. told ESPN.
“They were going to recreate the chase with the Bronco and then take people to Nicole.” [Brown Simpson’s] Grave. “The trial hasn’t happened yet and I didn’t want people to think that someone associated with O.J. did something like this,” he added.
Cowlings eventually sold the Bronco to Gilbert and two of his friends.
This iconic SUV has only about 32,000 miles on the odometer.
Simpson, who died of prostate cancer last week, was acquitted of criminal charges in the murders of his ex-wife and friend. He was later found liable in a civil suit and ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to his family.
