By Brandon Brown | Phoenix Business Journal
The second day of the collector car auction and gathering for lovers of everything that goes on four wheels, was highlighted by several movie and TV vehicles crossing the auction block including a 1989 Chevrolet Corvette “Speed Racer” re-creation as well as custom re-creations from “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” the last two both bought for $77,000 a piece, which seemed steep enough but didn’t crack the Top 10 highest-priced vehicles sold that day.
The top selling car on Tuesday in the 2025 auction was a 1921 Oldsmobile custom hot rod used as “Jethro’s Hot Rod” in the “Beverly Hillbillies” TV series. It sold for $165,000. Several of the cars either from movies or rebuilt to look like vehicles from TV or film are from a famed collector Stewart A. Berkowitz.
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