Ford Bronco used in O. J. Simpson chase could sell for $1.5M

(Gray News) - Following the death of O. J. Simpson last week, the infamous white Ford Bronco might soon be up for sale.

Clict reports that the 1993 SUV’s current owners, Simpson’s former agent Michael Gilbert and two friends of longtime pal Al Cowlings, plan to cash in with the renowned interest in the former football star.

The owners told Clict that the last offer they received for the Bronco was $750,000. But they are now hoping to get at least $1.5 million in a public or private sale.

“Before O.J. passed, we had always thought this was going to be the year we were going to sell because it’s the 30th anniversary,” Gilbert said. “Who knows if we are all going to be around for the 35th or the 40th?”

According to the New York Post, nearly 100 million people watched Simpson and Cowlings driving in a low-speed chase on June 17, 1994, in Southern California with a convoy of police cars.

Simpson eventually arrived at his Brentwood home, where officers negotiated with the former NFL star to surrender in the deaths of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

For 17 years, the SUV was reportedly parked at a condominium garage in Los Angeles. It then made its way to the Luxor hotel-casino in Las Vegas where it was used briefly to help open a sports museum.

The Bronco then went to Gilbert’s house, but his wife “didn’t like it there and she wanted her parking spot back” before it moved to the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Tennessee when the owners signed a lease agreement for an undisclosed sum, the Clict reports.

The current owners of the vehicle reportedly paid Cowlings $75,000 for the Bronco in the mid-1990s.

Simpson died of prostate cancer last week in Las Vegas at the age of 76. He was acquitted on criminal charges that he killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Goldman in 1995.