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Own screen-used Plymouth Fury from Carpenter & King’s Christine

John Carpenter's adaptation of Stephen King's CHRISTINE is one of the hands-down classics of our genre. And today you have the chance to own a screen-used Plymouth Fury straight from the movie … for $400,000 – $500,000.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Star Car from the 1983 film "Christine" directed by John Carpenter and based off of the novel by Stephen King

The only certified Polar Films titled car

Producer Richard Kobritz video testimonial

Promotional sweepstakes giveaway car for the movie

After production wrapped, the car was raffled off on New Year's Eve on USA Network's show "Night Flight"

Approximately 40,000 participants entered the sweepstakes, Scott Edminster was the winner

Previously part of the Ron Pratte collection

Featured at the 35th Anniversary celebration of the film held at the Rochester Auto Museum in 2018 with various cast and crew members in attendance

Comprehensive restoration

Small block wedge V-8 engine

Offenhauser intake manifold

Dual 4-barrel carburetors

Torqueflite pushbutton automatic transmission

Power steering

Power brakes

Finished in Red with White roof

Red vinyl and cloth bench seat interior

Full-size wheel covers

Whitewall tires

Furthermore, the site says:

This Plymouth Fury is one of very few known surviving Christines used to produce the movie. One of the star cars from the film, this Fury was used for close-up beauty shots meant to drive home the point that Christine was stunningly gorgeous… Rolling on wide whitewall tires with full-size wheel covers, a bumper sticker adorns the rear bumper reading, “Watch out for me, I am pure evil, I am Christine.” Of course, that was never seen in the film “Christine,” but movie buffs may remember seeing it in the movie, “Cat’s Eye,” another Stephen King adaptation in which Christine made a cameo appearance.

Check it out HERE. Meanwhile, CHRISTINE follows:

Unpopular nerd Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) who buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury, which he names Christine. Arnie develops an unhealthy obsession with the car, to the alarm of his jock friend, Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell). After bully Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander) defaces Christine, the auto restores itself to perfect condition and begins killing off Buddy and his friends. Determined to stop the deaths, Dennis and Arnie's girlfriend, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), decide to destroy Christine.

Carpenter directed CHRISTINE from a script by Bill Phillips based on the novel by Stephen King. Richard Kobritz produced with Larry J. Franco and Bill Phillips. Keith Gordon starred with John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, and Harry Dean Stanton. As per usual, Carpenter composed the film's score along with Alan Howarth. Columbia Pictures drove Christine head-first into a theater near you back on December 9, 1983.

Producer Richard Kobritz with CHRISTINE Documents

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Mike Sprague