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Original Chinese Girl by Vladimir Tretchikoff up for auction at Bonhams

Trech

Type Tretchikoff into eBay and you'll be greeted with well over 100 results, including a number of prints of the iconic Chinese Girl by Vladimir Tretchikoff. But there is only one original – and it is up for auction at Bonhams this month.

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Categories / Cars and Bikes, Film and TV

Ferris Bueller Ferrari up for auction at Bonhams

Ferris

No, it didn't actually slip off a sharp cliff near Cameron's modernist house – the Ferrari that featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off survived and is now up for auction at Bonhams.

It's a Ferrari 250GT Spyder California, but not a real one – only 100 of the original were made between 1958 and 1963, making it super-rare, so John Hughes and Paramount actually had a replica made for filiming. Which is the one being sold off now. Just think, you too could be careering around the city in that same car – but you'll not have to worry about the mileage or your parents.

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