Owners of Ford Bronco used in OJ Simpson chase ready to sell infamous SUV — and want at least $1.5M (2024)
The infamous white Ford Bronco carrying OJ Simpson in a low-speed chase across Los Angeles after the murders of his ex-wife and her friend may finally be up for sale — with the hope of getting at least $1.5 million.
The 1993 SUV’s three owners – Simpson’s former agent Michael Gilbert and two friends of longtime pal Al Cowlings, who was behind the wheel June 17, 1994 – told Cllct they plan to cash in on the new interest following last week’s death of the disgraced NFL great.
“Before OJ passed, we had always thought this was going to be the year we were going to sell because it’s the 30th anniversary,” Gilbert told the outlet. “Who knows if we are all going to be around for the 35th or the 40th?”
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The three owners told Clict that the last offer they received for the Bronco — which has been on loan to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, since 2016 — was $750,000.
But they are now hoping to get at least $1.5 million in a public or private sale, according to the outlet.
Nearly 100 million people were glued to TV screens as Simpson hid in the back seat of the Bronco, which Cowlings was driving leisurely along a Southern California interstate while being followed by a convoy of police cars.
Simpson eventually arrived at his Brentwood mansion, where officers negotiated for the former NFL star to surrender in the brutal deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
The Bronco spent 17 years parked in a condominium garage in LA before it went to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, where it was used to help open a sports museum, according to Clict.
It then made its way to Gilbert’s home.
“My wife didn’t like it there. She wanted her parking spot back,” he told the outlet, so the SUV was eventually moved to Alcatraz East.
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In 1996, Cowlings agreed to sell the Bronco for $75,000 to Startifacts, a celebrity memorabilia shop in Las Vegas.
“We found out that the company was going to rent the vehicle to a company in LA called Grave Line Tours that visited famous graves,” Gilbert told ESPN.
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“They were going to re-enact the chase with the Bronco and then take people to Nicole [Brown Simpson’s] grave. The trial hadn’t taken place yet, and we didn’t want people thinking anyone associated with O.J. did this,” he added.
Cowlings ultimately sold his Bronco to Gilbert and his two friends.
The iconic SUV only has about 32,000 miles on the odometer.
Simpson, whodied of prostate cancer last week, was acquitted on criminal charges that he killed his former wife and pal. He was later found liable in a civil suit and ordered to pay the families $33.5 million in damages.
The three owners told Clict that the last offer they received for the Bronco — which has been on loan to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, since 2016 — was $750,000. But they are now hoping to get at least $1.5 million in a public or private sale, according to the outlet.
The Bronco, which Simpson sat in the back of while his close friend and former teammate Al Cowlings drove, has most recently been on loan at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and on display since 2016. The car was originally owned by Cowlings, who is now 76.
In the white Ford Bronco was O.J. Simpson and former USC teammate Al Cowlings. O.J. was reported to be in the back seat of the vehicle with a gun to his head while Cowlings drove. Following the infamous chase, Simpson was arrested and charged in the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Cowlings told 911, via car phone, that Simpson had a gun and was threatening to kill himself. Now: Cowlings, 76, reportedly still lives in Southern California.
Simpson died of cancer April 10 at the age of 76. Coincidentally, Ford recalled 44,000 broncos that same day because of a possible fire hazard. And that's not the only link between Simpson and the car. Ford discontinued the Bronco in 1996 and planned to bring it back on July 9, 2021.
District Attorney Gil Garcetti eventually determined, however, that pending charges against Cowlings would be dropped due to lack of sufficient evidence. During Simpson's criminal trial, Cowlings surprised the media with a press conference held a block from the courthouse.
Rovell reports that the latest offer for the Bronco stood around $750,000. The owners say they are looking for at least $1.5 million. The famous Bronco was not actually owned by Simpson originally, although he did own a white Bronco himself, one that was investigated at the alleged crime scene.
Simpson White Bronco Is Now a Museum Piece. In Tennessee. The vehicle that Simpson fled in as 95 million Americans watched on television is on display at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
Goldman's blood was found inside the Bronco may be especially significant because the two men had apparently not met, unless it was on the night of the killings. Together, the DNA test results seem to be the strongest evidence yet linking Mr. Simpson's blood type to the slayings.
On July 3, 2014, Brown's father, Louis Hezekiah "Lou" Brown Jr., died aged 90. He was interred next to Nicole in Ascension Cemetery in Lake Forest, California. Nicole's headstone (which had space on the headstone for an additional inscription) was altered to include her father.
Before her death Nicole Brown Simpson had two children: a daughter, Sydney, and a son, Justin. The two minors were raised by their father, OJ Simpson, after he was acquitted in 1995. Today, the siblings — now 38 and 35 — live and work in Florida and have become parents themselves.
Simpson and Robert Kardashian, who died in September 2003, became friends in the 1970s, and the NFL Hall of Famer has said he is Kim Kardashian's godfather. Simpson's late ex-wife, Brown Simpson, was the best friend of Kim Kardashian's mom, Kris Jenner.
He served nine years in a Nevada prison and was paroled in 2017. In recent years, Simpson lived quietly in Las Vegas, where he played golf and sometimes posed for selfies with those still enamored with his celebrity. He died Wednesday from prostate cancer.
Simpson, who died from prostate cancer on April 10 at age 76, was not actually driving the vehicle – his friend Al “AC” Cowlings was behind the wheel – but was sat in the back seat holding a gun to his temple, seemingly close to ending his life.
Approximately 6:45 p.m. on June 17, 1994, police saw Simpson on the expressway in a white Ford Bronco driven by his best friend and former teammate, Al Cowlings. Simpson was riding in the back, and he reportedly had a gun.
Simpson's mansion, investigators found his white Ford Bronco with lots of blood transfer, a second bloody glove and bloody socks. O.J. Simpson was arrested after leading police officers on a two-hour, slow-speed pursuit.
But those storylines would quickly be dwarfed by another unfolding sports story in Los Angeles, where a slow-moving white Ford Bronco was cruising down the interstate. In the back seat was megastar O.J. Simpson, holding a gun to his head.
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