The 1965 Chevrolet Corvette convertible that Heather Graham drove as CIA agent Felicity Shagwell in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is heading to auction this fall. Carlisle Auctions has slated the star-spangled C2 for its October 1-2 sale, alongside two other cars from the franchise.
That American flag paint scheme is about as subtle as the movie itself. But underneath the red, white, and blue, this is a genuinely desirable car: a numbers-matching 327 V8 with a four-speed manual in the most collectible Corvette generation ever built.
The C2 ran from 1963 to 1967, the shortest production span of any Corvette generation, landing squarely in the muscle car golden age. Collectors have been fighting over clean examples for decades. This one got a frame-off restoration completed in 2008 and has turned just 7,000 miles since.
What makes this particular car unusual by Hollywood standards is that it appears to be the only one used during filming. Most productions source multiple copies of hero cars as backups for stunts, close-ups, and mechanical failures. The Austin Powers sequel didn’t require ejector seats or oil-slick dispensers, so a single Corvette sufficed.
That singularity matters to collectors. There’s no arguing over which chassis is “the real one.”
The same car also appeared in Lenny Kravitz’s 1999 cover of “American Woman” for the film’s soundtrack, giving it a second layer of late-’90s cultural cachet.
Documentation follows the car from its Hollywood origins, including the bill of sale from New Line Cinema to its first civilian owners. That paper trail is the kind of provenance that separates a verified movie car from a convincing replica wearing a costume.
The natural question is what the flag Corvette will fetch compared to its British counterpart. The Union Jack 1967 Jaguar E-Type, the famous “Shaguar,” sold for $880,000 at auction in January 2025. The E-Type has its own collector gravity, of course, and it played a bigger role across the franchise, but $880,000 sets a marker for what the Austin Powers brand can do to a car’s value.
A stock 1965 Corvette 327 convertible with a four-speed in excellent condition typically trades somewhere between $80,000 and $120,000 depending on options and documentation. The movie connection could push this well beyond that range, or it could land with a thud if bidders see the paint job as a liability rather than a feature. Repainting a movie car strips its identity, but keeping the livery limits your audience to buyers who want to own a rolling conversation starter.
Carlisle is also offering the psychedelic Volkswagen New Beetle from the films, making this a rare chance to grab multiple cars from a single franchise in one weekend.
The C2 generation keeps climbing in value as clean examples get harder to find. This one just happens to come with a CIA 1 license plate, a Hollywood pedigree, and paint that will never let you blend into traffic. Whether bidders see that as a bonus or a burden will tell us a lot about where the movie car market stands heading into 2026.
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