The white Ford Bronco that O.J. Simpson was driving during the slow-speed police chase that captivated America in 1994 may soon hit the market -- with a price tag of at least $1.5 million.
The vehicle's owners said they're ready to sell the infamous SUV, now on loan to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, according to cllct.com.
"Before O.J. passed, we had always thought this was going to be the year we were going to sell because it's the 30th anniversary," co-owner and former Simpson agent Michael Gilbert said. "Who knows if we are all going to be around for the 35th or the 40th?"
During a Sunday night conference call, Gilbert and the two other co-owners said that they bought the 1993 Bronco for $75,000 from former Simpson teammate and friend Al Cowlings, who drove it around Southern California with his pal in the rear during the 45-minute police pursuit.
An estimated 90 million people watched the spectacle unfold on live television on June 17, 1994, after Simpson failed to surrender and was declared a fugitive in the fatal stabbings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman five days earlier.
Simpson, who parlayed a record-setting football career into celebrity as an actor, was acquitted after a televised trial in 1995 but was found liable in a 1997 civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages.
He later served nine years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery in Las Vegas over what he claimed was an attempt to recover was sports memorabilia stolen from him, and he died of cancer on April 10 at 76.
The two other owners of the Bronco are friends of Cowlings, who initially agreed to sell it in late 1996 but had second thoughts after hearing the prospective buyer planned to use it for Simpson-themed tours, including along the route of the police chase, cllct.com said.
Simpson owned an identical white Bronco but it was impounded as evidence and destroyed after Simpson's trial, ESPN reported in 2016.
The most recent offer to buy the 1993 Bronco was for $750,000, the owners said, but they want at least double that through a private or public sale.
That amount would dwarf the $250,000 paid by the owners of Whiskey Pete's Primm Casino in Las Vegas in 1988 for the stolen, bullet-riddled 1934 Ford Model 40 B Fordor Deluxe in which bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were killed by police officers near Sailes, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934.
It now holds the record for the highest price paid for a notorious vehicle, according to cllct.com.
