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With a dweeb at the wheel, it might not have captured the imagination of moviegoers and cruisin' fans like Milner's coupe or Bob Falfa's black Chevrolet, but the customized white 1958 Chevrolet Impala in George Lucas's American Graffiti remains one of the stars of the movie, and the one owner of the car from the time the studio sold it to today will put that star power to work when Toad's Impala crosses the auction block at the end of the month.
In the film, the Impala actually belonged to Ron Howard's character, Steve Bolander, who offered it to Charles Martin Smith's Toad for the night. In real life, according to American Graffiti enthusiast Kip Pullman, Lucas's co-producer, Gary Kurtz, bought the nosed and decked Impala two-door hardtop somewhere in the Los Angeles area specifically because the script called for a car with a tuck-n-roll interior and the Impala already featured that modification.
Is this Impala really worth $1 million?
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