{"id":13147,"date":"2021-09-29T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:06:17","slug":"risky-business-porsche-928-sells-at-barrett-jacksons-houston-auction-for-record-us1-98m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=13147","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRisky Business\u201d Porsche 928 sells at Barrett-Jackson\u2019s Houston Auction for record US$1.98M"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13148\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13148\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Porsche-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Porsche-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Porsche.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Porsche 928, which was driven by Tom Cruise in &#8220;Risky Business.&#8221; Photo courtesy Barrett Jackson<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The highlight of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrett-jackson.com\/Events\/Event\/Home\/Houston-2021\/fe1d8998-28db-4af2-9f45-63c0d0aeea8f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barrett-Jackson\u2019s Inaugural Houston Auction<\/a>, held on Sept. 18, 2021, was undoubtedly the record-breaking sale of the 1979 Porsche 928 driven by Tom Cruise in the film \u201cRisky Business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breaking world records for the sale of any Porsche 928 from any year, this piece of automotive and pop culture history sold for US$1.98M.<\/p>\n<p>The hero car from the film, this vehicle was most notably featured in the film\u2019s signature chase scene that culminated in Cruise, looking straight into the camera, declaring the German carmaker\u2019s slogan, \u201cPorsche. There is no substitute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To view the historic moment when this car was sold at the auction, click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iPWO886Kq_E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of Barrett-Jackson\u2019s Inaugural Houston Auction, held on Sept. 18, 2021, was undoubtedly the record-breaking sale of the 1979 Porsche 928 driven by Tom Cruise in the film \u201cRisky Business.\u201d Breaking world records for the sale of any Porsche 928 from any year, this piece of automotive and pop culture history sold for US$1.98M.<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=13147\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,163,21],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auctions","category-barrett-jackson","category-porsche","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13150,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions\/13150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}