The white 1986 ride was one of two Ferraris used for the show's filming and has 16,000 miles on it, the auto magazine said.
The show first filmed with a replica car, but when Ferrari found out, two brand-new authentic cars were donated to the show. Apparently, Ferrari had one caveat to the donation—the knockoff car had to be destroyed on the show.
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The car’s history is as wild and fiery as a Miami Vice plot: In the show’s second season, Ferrari caught wind of the Daytona-bodied replicas—built on C3 Corvette running gear—use by the show. The Italian horsepower house sued to shut down McBurnie, the replica house building the generic Daytonas, and offered to donate two brand-new Testarossas to take the place of the iconic knockoff.
Legend has it that there was just one stipulation to Ferrari’s offer, and it was worthy of a Vice bad guy’s revenge plot: The offending Daytona replica had to be destroyed on the show. That, allegedly, is how this scene ended up in the Season 3 premiere episode.
And how Crockett finally got his hands on the immaculate white Testarossa, an early model with a single side-view mirror that came out of the factory painted black.
Now, according to the seller, the very same car that Crockett and Tubbs drove across Miami’s bridges and under New Wave neon lights can be yours. It comes with a long rap sheet of documentation going all the way back to the day the car was delivered to Universal Studios. Not to mention, a $1.75-million Buy It Now price.
Just don’t show up to the seller’s place with a suitcase full of cash and suspiciously twitchy eyes. Because if there’s one thing we learned from Miami Vice, it’s that crime doesn’t pay.