The owners of OJ Simpson’s infamous white Ford Bronco, which was the center of a low-speed chase across Los Angeles, are finally ready to sell the car, with the hopes of getting at least $1.5 million.
Simpson’s former agent, Michael Gilbert, and two friends of Simpson’s longtime friend Al Cowlings, who was behind the wheel on June 17, 1994, all share ownership of the vehicle and shared with Clict that they now plan to sell it.
“Before OJ passed, we had always thought this was going to be the year we were going to sell because it’s the 30th anniversary,” Gilbert told the outlet. “Who knows if we are all going to be around for the 35th or the 40th?”
The three owners shared with Clict that the last offer they received was $750,000, which they turned down.
Since 2016, the white Ford Bronco has been on loan to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
However, the group is now looking to take back the vehicle in the hopes of getting at least $1.5 million in a public or private sale, Clict reported.
Simpson’s Ford Bronco became a part of American history when it was announced and televised during Game 5 of the NBA Finals that he had been fleeing a flock of police cars along the interstate in Southern California.
The slow-going chase eventually came to an end when he arrived at his Brentwood mansion, where officers negotiated that he surrender himself in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.
The Bronco then spent 17 years in a garage in LA before going to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Clict reported.
Gilbert then reclaimed the vehicle and brought it to his home before it was moved to Alcatraz East.
“My wife didn’t like it there. She wanted her parking spot back,” he said.
In 1996, Cowlings was going to sell the Bronco to a celebrity memorabilia shop in Las Vegas, but after Gilbert found out what they were going to do with it, he stepped in, and it was sold to the group, which he shared with ESPN.
“They were going to re-enact the chase with the Bronco and then take people to Nicole [Brown Simpson’s] grave. The trial hadn’t taken place yet, and we didn’t want people thinking anyone associated with OJ did this,” Gilbert told ESPN.
Simpson was acquitted in his former wife’s murder case. The former NFL star passed away last week after a fight with prostate cancer.