The Porsche in the Will Smith Movie Bad Boys Just Sold for P73 Million
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Sometimes, cars used in Hollywood movies can be just as famous as their human co-stars. Actors Martin Lawrence and Will Smith teamed up in the 1995 hit movie Bad Boys, which ultimately became a three-movie franchise for Columbia Pictures. The buddy cop action/comedy film was Michael Bay’s directorial debut and was followed by Bad Boys II in 2003 and Bad Boys for Life in 2020.
The car used by Smith was a Porsche 964 Turbo. Smith’s character Mike Lowrey was a cool and well-dressed Miami vice cop who, together with his partner Marcus Burnett played by Lawrence, investigates $100 million worth of drugs stolen from a police vault. The ending scene featured the black Porsche Smith drove to chase the bad guy, who forced him to crash into a concrete barrier at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport.
The black Porsche 964 Turbo was undoubtedly one of the coolest parts of the movie, and even earned a spot in the movie’s poster. Now, nearly three decades later, the car was the star in the recent Mecum Kissimmee 2022 auction. It was sold for a hammer price of $1.43 million (about P73 million). A quick search at Elferspot, one of the largest online used Porsche classified ads site, puts a similar Porsche 964 Turbo at the $200,000 or P10 million price range.
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According to auction records, the car is a 1994 model Type 964 Porsche 911 Turbo and is rated at 355 horsepower from its 3.6 liter flat six-cylinder engine and can sprint from 0-60 miles per hour in four seconds flat, finishing the quarter-mile in just over 12 seconds and topping out around 175 miles per hour, which was considered wicked fast in its time.
Bay is a car enthusiast himself and knows the importance of having the right car in a movie like this. He once told Car and Driver magazine, “The studio didn’t want to rent a car and we didn’t have the money to rent one. And Porsche didn’t want to support the movie.” So he turned to his own collection and picked the Porsche.
The movie was originally said to have been filmed in New York, but production was changed to Miami, Florida perhaps because of a better driving environment from a climate standpoint. Miami also offered a number of fantastic backdrops and driving roads along with waterways to allow speedboats to add to the “Miami Vice” theme to the now famous action flick.
The Porsche featured in the film is one of only 1,427 built, while less than 350 made it to the American market in 1994. It was the last rear-wheel-drive Turbo model since all subsequent versions come with an all-wheel-drive platform. The car received restoration work by Body Motion in New Jersey in 2006 and again for a show preparation by Road Scholars in 2020. Its French-based front license plate as seen in the movie reads “447 DB 75,” while the rear plate reads “BAD BYS1.” The car’s odometer reads just 34,396 miles from new.
Bay sold the car to movie producer Pat Sandstone, while Matthew Drendel bought the car in 2008. In 2014, the current owner bought the car back from the Drendel Collection.
The car comes complete with a Porsche Certificate of Authenticity and a Movie Certificate of Authenticity, and has won many show car competitions. It was a first place winner at the 2014 Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance, received a First Place Award at the 2015 French Lick Porsche Parade, earned the Weissach Award, the Zuffenhausen Award, won first place at the 2016 Jay Peak Concours d’Elegance and claimed yet another first place at the 2017 Amelia Island Concours Werks Reunion.
