A Lamborghini Countach used throughout filming for 2013’s “The Wolf of Wall Avenue” bought at an RM Sotheby’s public sale in New York Metropolis final month for $1,655,000.

The determine was in step with expectations, with the pre-auction estimate from RM Sotheby’s starting from $1.5 million to $2 million.

The automotive is a separate automotive from the broken Wolf of Wall Avenue Countach that went underneath the hammer at a Bonhams public sale in Abu Dhabi final November. That automotive did not promote, regardless of a remaining bid of $1.35 million.

Two Countachs had been used for filming of the film which was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Leonardo DiCaprio as unscrupulous stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Whereas the automotive bought in New York was left undamaged after filming, the automotive on the on the Dubai public sale nonetheless wore harm it obtained for a sequence within the film wherein a drug-addled Belfort tried to drive house, wrecking his automotive within the course of.

Lamborghini Countach that starred in “The Wolf of Wall Avenue” – Picture credit score: RM Sotheby’s

The value of a Countach, together with the particular Countach twenty fifth Anniversary Version, just like the automobiles used for filming, may be discovered for nicely underneath $1 million on fashionable categorised web sites, a lot of the perceived worth of the instance that simply bought rests on its Hollywood connection.

The twenty fifth Anniversary Version is distinguished by distinctive spoilers and modified air vents designed by future Pagani founder Horacio Pagani when he was nonetheless working at Lamborghini. Energy comes from a 5.2-liter V-12 delivering 455 hp and permitting for a 183-mph prime velocity. A complete 658 examples had been constructed, accounting for a good portion of the Countach’s whole run of roughly 2,000 automobiles.

The automotive that bought in New York is a 1989 instance that was considered one of simply 12 examples initially delivered to the U.S. with a white-on-white configuration. Throughout filming, it wore the smaller entrance bumper design the Countach was bought with exterior the U.S., however its earlier proprietor swapped again the U.S.-spec entrance bumper in some unspecified time in the future. Curiously, the opposite Countach featured the U.S.-spec entrance bumper throughout filming, and this distinction between the 2 automobiles may be noticed within the remaining lower.