Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man Buick Roadmaster is ready for its next Cruise

[Hagerty]

You don't have to be an excellent driver to own the 1949 Buick Roadmaster Convertible from Rain Man. Excellent credit, on the other hand-now, that's a must. The beautiful Buick, which played a central role in the 1988 Academy Award-winning film starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise as brothers Raymond and Charlie Babbitt, will cross the block on January 27 at Bonhams' Scottsdale auction.
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[Rick2]

Beautiful car, to bad it is out of my toy car price range.

[autowriter]

Just by coincidence, ran across a 1/18 scale model of this exact car, down to the color yesterday while picking up a chair we were having re-caned. And here it shows up today! While I was in high school in about 1960, my best friend had one of these in white, with the ugliest sheet metal tail fins welded on you ever saw. I loved it! His dad didn't -- said it was a gas hog. Made him sell it and he bought a TR-3A instead. One extreme to the other.

[Gary_Bechtold]

The car looks great. The interior is gorgeous.

[MoparMarq]

Twelve minutes to Wapner, twelve minutes to Wapner!

[bblhed]

This brought back memories of going to see that movie. If it crosses the block at the estimate that will be fair, the car needs a bit of work here and there and it all looks like it would be fun to finish up. I have a feeling that this car is going to end up going for way too much and end up not being finished up and cleaned up.

[91Benz300D]

Great article and brings back great memories of the movie. I knew that Wayne Carini had the car from the movie, but had no idea that there were 2 and that Dustin Hoffman owned it. Great stuff! Look forward to following the auction results!

[Cincylance]

Great movie and the car definitely stole the show. Having grown up in Cincinnati, I recognized many of the scenes.
Dustin Hoffman made a wise investment way back then and I’m glad to know that someone next in line will get to enjoy the car. Maybe they’ll drive it across the country too, lol.

[SuperDeLuxe]

If George Bailey's Dodge is worth a half-million dollars, then this car should easily sell for $800k!

[Maryann]

I saw the other car at Wayne Corini's F 40 a few years ago. His story that after painting it he brought it back to Leviston who told him to leave it in a garage. The garage had a dirt floor. He wouldn't leave it so he brought it back and keep it at F40.