Ferris Bueller Movie Set Tour - PICTURES

This is so extremely cool, I'm getting excited like a little girl <Sprockets>. The movie is an icon of the eighties and one of my all time favourites.

I can't wait. Ordered my DVD copy of the movie today. Along with some memorabilia stuff.

This will be so cool. Is it May yet?

 

I remember the day I saw them filming the scenes in the Loop. I was working downtown at the time and was walking around during lunch hour when I saw what looked like a Ferrari being driven around by a guy in a beret with a dufus in a plaid Ivy League cap skrunched behind him. I saw them several times during that lunch hour, and wondered what they were trying to prove, or who they were trying to impress. It wasn't until I saw the film that I knew what I had seen. Interestingly, it was not the actors but doubles who were doing the drive-arounds I saw.

 

Yeah, haha, me too! Favorite movie of all time

 

One of the nice touches about the movie was that Cameron, the son of the Ferrari collector, drove an Alfetta. Who else but an Italian car lover would make his son drive one?
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+1

 

From my leaking memory:

Ferris: "Your car is a tin can!"

Cameron: "Hey, watch it!"

Ferris: "Don't worry, I don't even have a tin can."

 

Is that a good movie?

 

Hey, the Alfetta was an EXCELLENT car, much better than most of its competitors in the '70s, fast, glorious handling and great sound. Or at least that is true of the carburetor, no-emissions-restrictions Euro market cars... I heard that the US-bound cars had a choked-to-death engine that couldn't pull itself out of the garage. I'd like to find and restore one, but only if I could fit it with Euro-spec carbs...

 

Creative real estate promotions. Unless the (real) car makes an appearance, this sounds like any other open house. Sorry to sound like a downer.

 

I have to agree Jack!

I was there years ago not long after 'Risky Business' came out, and there still wasn't much to see. By the way, I believe the Porsche that went into the lake was filmed at LFSC after it's recovery from said waters.

 

Any FCA or FOC member want to befriend me just long enough so I can tag alongp)? Sounds like it'd be cool to actually see it in person, I love that movie. Definitely one of the few I have to watch if I see it being aired.

 

I think you're missing the point. As far as I'm concerned that garage is an icon of the movies in general and for Ferrari fans in particular. Having a chance to see it in person means a great deal to me. Movie set tours are btw currently all the rage: There are even tour operators here in Chicago who take you to places where famous movies were shot. I wouldn't go that far, but a Ferrari movie is a different story, which also happens to be one of my fav movies of all times.

If this were Miami or Honolulu I would have to do the same thing in a Miami Vice/Magnum PI kinda way.

Besides: It is a free event, free lunch and a nice excuse for a get together with like minded people. What's not to like?

PS: I remember you posting a (great) pic on here of your 328 in front of the Wrigley building. Why did you do that? Because the building is meaningful to you and it has a history, it is an icon for what it stands and a cool back drop. Same difference.

 

Agreed 100%, I really can't wait. Btw, anyone know where is the car now?

 

Somehow I would have expected DaytonaRick to chime in by now. He knows a lot of the 250 California replicas around the country.

Anyhow, there were a couple of different cars used for the movie: The infamous replica with the Ford engine etc, but also a real 250 California for some of the detail and interior shots.

That doesn't answer your question though. Somebody else? Bueller? Bueller? Anybody?

 

Not LFSC... It was shot at Lee Klinger Porsche+Audi in Highland Park.

 

No fair--that was an edit! You're right, different strokes and all. I was the guy who spent a day looking for the Brady Bunch house in LA!

 

Kewl! I did this with the red car like 2 years ago!

It's a little difficult getting a car back there but the woman came out and showed us some pics from her husband and her past collecting and racing cars... They had the Helle Nice Bugatti as well as quite a few interesting old race cars

The widow Rose was not in the best health .... she had a home health care worker back then, I hope someone gets the chance to go through all the old racing pics she has and ID them while there are people who know which cars are which and when the pics were taken.
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Hey I'm in. Sure wouldn't mind having a Calif Spyder replicar with me when I get there, just have to do with my other toys. One of the best car movies ever, in my eyes. Right up there with Hollywood Knights and American Grafitti!, and the Calif Kid. Classic!!!!

 

I edited your post to make it more accurate

 

What you forgot to mention (being so modest) is, that a car magazine did a multiple page foto spread of your 250 GTO R based on the Ferris Bueller movie with foto shoots all over town.

 

Dan you are way to young to remember these other car flics. However, you should check them out some day. They are all CLASSICS!

 

I bought some film cells from the original movie and will hand them out to the participants as a little memento. They're pretty neat with all the famous scenes from the LSD cruise, the principal, the evil sister and the downtown parade (twist and shout).
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Very cool.

 

Grand Poobah, you are da MAN!