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The Buick Roadmaster Tom Cruise drove in 'Rain Man' is up for sale
CNN
It wasn't exactly "The Fast and the Furious" — pretty much the opposite — but the 1988 Oscar winning film "Rain Man" featured cars as an integral part of the story. And the movie's most famous car, a 1949 Buick Roadmaster, is up for auction.
The beige convertible has been owned by star Dustin Hoffman since production of the film finished, and it's expected to sell for between $150,000 and $250,000, according to the auction firm Bonhams. The car is being offered at an auction in Arizona on January 27.
"Rain Man" was, essentially, a road trip movie. In the film, Charlie Babbitt, played by Tom Cruise, is an exotic car importer facing a financial squeeze when he finds out that his long-estranged father has just died.
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