A man selling a Ferrari that he boasts once belonged to Nicole Brown Simpson admits he doesn’t have a mountain of evidence proving it was her car — but insists he’s got enough “circumstantial” proof to make his case.
Mississippi-based Jon Gottschalk said he bought the sporty white 1987 Ferrari Mondial 3.2 Cabriolet, with 73,000 miles on its odometer, through a broker in Southern California in 2009.
No one ever said outright that the car belonged to Nicole, and no one had to — Gottschalk had a hunch.
This particular type of Ferrari is extraordinarily rare — only 14 white Mondial 3.2s were made in the world between 1986 and 1988, leading Gottschalk to conclude that the simplest answer was most likely the correct one: He had bought Nicole’s car.
“There was never a smoking gun, no ‘aha!’ moment,” Gottschalk told The Post. “I’m not absolutely sure — but I’m 99.9 percent sure.”
Nicole’s Mondial with the vanity plate L84AD8 — “late for a date” — was a birthday gift from O.J. Simpson, and she owned it until the day she was brutally slain, along with pal Ronald Goldman, on June 12, 1994.
“This is a unique chance to possibly own a piece of the crime of the century,” the eBay listing reads.
About a month before her killing, the tires on Nicole’s Ferrari were slashed — perhaps by her jealous estranged husband.
“Many believe was the whole motive for the crime as O.J. had slashed the tires on this once before and many believe … he had gone over that night to Nicole’s residence with the same intentions,” the listing reads.
In her May 1994 will, Nicole said she wanted her mother and father to share the car, then valued at $35,000. Her parents finally got the car three years later, following protracted legal wrangling over her possessions.
A typical 1987 Ferrari Mondial Cabriolet could go for anywhere between $32,000 (excellent condition) to $20,000 (good condition) to $11,700 (fair condition), according to Kelley Blue Book.
The auction, which has a reserve price of $36,000, ends at 9:48 p.m. Sunday, and by Friday morning, bidding had reached $26,000.
It’s the fifth time in a month that Gottschalk listed the car on eBay; two buyers didn’t meet the reserve, and winning bidders from Florida and the Netherlands, respectively, flaked out.
Ferrari produced the Mondial from 1980 through 1993, and over the years, celebs such as Michael J. Fox, David Carradine and Ice-T have cruised around in them.
Interest in “The Trial of the Century” has spiked in recent months, thanks to FX’s “The People vs. O.J. Simpson” and ESPN’s five-part documentary “O.J.: Made in America.”