From the Classifieds: Park a piece of the Matrix movie in your garage

Keanu Reeves’ most memorable on-screen ride may well be a Los Angeles city bus in The Matrix Reloaded, the makers of which carefully selected every element – from costumes to music and cars – to pull off this epic 2003 blockbuster.

But his coolest is this 1972 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, which comes with certification from Fox Studios confirming its use in The Matrix Reloaded as well as importation papers to help get Aussie registration.

The car still runs its original 8.2-litre V8 producing a humble 235hp – a figure which we’re sure would make Neo and Morpheus smile.

The second Australian owner claims to have replaced plenty of steering and suspension parts, alongside a bunch of cooling and electrical components. The steering box, power steering pump, alternator, brake booster and master-cylinder are also said to have been restored.

Movie cars always have a tendency to influence generations, inspire car culture and become the stuff of people’s dreams. The 1970s was a time of economic uncertainty and, despite petrol shortages and hardship, Cadillac defied economic practicalities and continued to build big, expensive and thirsty cars that people continued to lust after.

The concept of The Matrix also plays on imagination in a place where reality is virtual, data is tangible and the mind's possibilities are endless.

The depth and diversity of The Matrix flipped many conventional ideas of sci-fi film making on their head by using the perfect mix of philosophical and farfetched ideas woven into a textured, multileveled exploration of human existence and our own free will.

One of the action scenes features this Cadillac, now in Western Australia, front and centre with Neo in a carpark trying to stop a war between mankind and sentient machines that are pursuing the people of Zion, a fictional city with the last known population of humans on planet Earth.

Introducing this ’72 Eldorado into the script starts off with an iconic foot chase and ends in an underground carpark which is where we get a glimpse of the chrome-cladded convertible.

From the option of new and old Cadillacs, Trinity bypasses the old-timer and grabs a late model CTS as her getaway vehicle to escape ‘The Twins’, two of the Merovingian's henchmen who are aggressively hunting both her and Morpheus down (see the garage fight scene here). The next scene carries on without the Eldorado in sight.

Sadly, the producers have said there are no sequel or prequel plans for The Matrix, so if you can’t wait for another Matrix film car to pop up and have a spare $15,000 lying around then you can buy this and recreate the scene in your garage.