Michigan Museum Displaying Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Ferrari
For anyone who grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, watching “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was a rite of passage. I mean, even if you weren’t a kid during those decades, chances are you’ve seen the classic flick.
Now, The Henry Ford Museum is displaying a 1985 Modena Spyder, aka the “Ferris Bueller car,” beginning this month. The display is in partnership with the Hagerty Drivers Foundation. The Spyder is the same was that appeared in the classic movie. It was vehicle was used for that famed scene when two parking garage attendants jump the car through the air while on a wild joyride in Chicago.
The 1985 Modena Spyder is commemorated and documented as a part of our national heritage under the National Historic Vehicle Register and U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service and the Historic American Engineering Record.
“The purpose of the National Historic Vehicle Register is to record the history of America’s most culturally significant automobiles so they can exist forever within the Library of Congress alongside other culturally significant artifacts,” Jonathan Klinger, executive director of the Hagerty Drivers Foundation said in a statement. “The movie car from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has delighted multiple generations far outside the automotive community and we are excited to share this car with the visitors at The Henry Ford.”