Famous Cars at Auction

A Toyota Supra driven by Paul Walker in The Fast And The Furious is expected to sell for £130,000 at auction.

The 1993 sports car was one of a number of Supras used in the 2001 Hollywood film, which starred the late Walker as an undercover police officer. 

Walker drove this model in the dramatic final race scene when he went up against Vin Diesel’s character in a race to a railroad crossing.

Both cars cross the tracks, just missing an oncoming train, and as the action appears to calm down, Vin Diesel’s character collides with a lorry and flips over the Supra.

The Supra, which was built by Eddie Paul at The Shark Shop in El Segundo, California, will be sold by Mecum Auctions in the US next month.

It is expected to go for around £130,000.

A slightly different type of car than Paul Walker’s Supra, a 140mph Aston Martin originally owned by Peter Ustinov, is expected to sell for £1 million at auction – more than TWICE the price it fetched four years ago.

The actor bought the Aston Martin DB4 Cabriolet in 1962, shortly after winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Spartacus. 

It cost Ustinov around £4,000 and was delivered to him at a Swiss hotel at a time the average British home was £2,500.  

And while the average UK home is now £177,000, the value of Ustinov’s Aston has rocketed and is expected to sell for  around £1 million next month.

This is £570,000 MORE than the price paid for the Aston Martin when it was sold at a London auction in 2011. 

Engineers had fitted the car with a 3.7-litre engine developing around 240bhp, giving it  a 0-60mph time of nine seconds and a top speed of 140mph.

The car went down well with critics, with Motors magazine praising its “high quality, exceptional performance, lavish finishing”. 

They called it a was “a great British product, benefiting from the styling input of Touring of Milan”. 

It is not known how long Ustinov owned the Aston Martin, but it had two more owners before being bought by British race car driver David Piper, who sold it in 1984. 

The car will go under the hammer at Bonhams’ annual Aston Martin sale, which is held in Newport Pagnell on May 9.