One of the Back To The Future signature accessories is missing and a global hunt has started

When Marty McFly went on the stage to absolutely nail her interpretation of the emblematic song of Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode”, he created an indelible moment in the history of cinema. “Back to the future” has been kept and venerated since, but now Gibson Red Gibson’s guitar is missing, and the team behind the film is hunting to find it.

Gibson Guitars, as well as the star of “Back to the Future” Michael J. Fox and the writer / producer Bob Gale (who worked on the three films in the “Back to the future” trilogy), joins forces to produce “Lost to the Future”, a documentary that will tell their research to find the missing guitar, which seems to have been lost in the Space-Time Fox has already put Fox.

It is difficult to imagine something so famous that disappears, but the trailer for “Lost to the future” explores what the guitar means and why the casting and the film of the film are so desperate to find it. The director Doc Crotzer told Hollywood Reporter that they “examined the tracks and rumors for a long time, and as you can imagine, we speak 40 years ago, so memories fade. We were not in the era of digital trails, or receipts and things like that. There are also contradictory reports. You can find as much rumors.

The team believes that the guitar disappeared after returning to the rental of rare guitars from Norman to Los Angeles. Crotzer approached Mark Angisi, director of experience of the Gibsons brand and former director general of Norman in the 2000s, on the guitar, and they believe that he could have been sold at auction, although they have no evidence that he was sold by an auction. Most likely, a Norman’s client simply bought the guitar. Contradictory stories emerge from there, whether the buyer is a friend of Norman or an international buyer of Japan, with any proof of this lost sale in the Sands of Time.

With research that has not produced answers, the team behind the film now asks you – yes, you! – If you have tracks on the place where the Cherry Red Gibson ES-345 could be. You can call or send an SMS 1-855-345-1955 with all prospects, or share your advice on the “Lost to future” website.

According to Gibson, the Cherry Red ES-345 is either a 1960 or 1961 model. The guitar does not have a serial number for authentication, but there is a detail that makes this particular guitar stands out from all the others: the 12th Frette had a single golden barrier instead of the inlaid parallelogram split normal completely lowered the edge of the edge. This unique signifier is what the team calls “the smoking pistol” who will tell them that they found the right guitar.

Despite their difficulty in finding it so far, the team thinks that it will eventually locate the guitar. AGESSI said that “Japan theory” is the probable truth, given the popularity of vintage guitars in the country, and they have international Gibson teams.

Although this research is a bit of fun marketing, for director Crotzner, it is really a question of bringing Fox together with this guitar, either for an hour or perhaps forever:

“My hope would be that anyone who has this guitar is enough for a fan of films to allow it to happen. There are a lot of possible scenarios. Does the person who did it want to be found? Wind, say, lend us the guitar?”

This does not mean that anyone on the guitar must put it back for nothing other than charity. Angei added that he was “absolutely 100% ready to start talking with anyone who manifests himself who could have the guitar to buy it potentially”, which would allow Gibson to add it to his collection.

Any vintage model of this guitar was worth between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000, so the guitar itself is literally invaluable. Good hunting, everyone!