Cowlings Offers Signing Of The Times Simpson’s Pal Agrees To Sign Autographs Near White Bronco

Over Labor Day weekend, Al “A.C.” Cowlings will set up in front of a white Ford Bronco to sell his signature.

He’ll sign almost any souvenir, including pictures of the O.J. Simpson freeway chase, which will also be on sale. But sponsors say he won’t sign anything he considers tasteless.

Cowlings’ contract calls for him to sign photographs and memorabilia for “3 hours or 1,000 autographs, whichever comes first,” according to autograph dealers Randall Pollock and Derrick Johnson.

Cowlings was behind the wheel of a white Bronco when Simpson was the target of a police chase along several Southern California freeways June 17, 1994, five days after Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were slain.

Pollock arranged for a white Bronco to serve as Cowlings’ backdrop when he appears Sept. 3 at a large memorabilia show in Anaheim.

“I would assume he would not want to do any mug shots, or anything that he feels is negative to him,” Pollock said. “No pictures of the crime scene, obviously.”

Cowlings has also set up a 900-phone line, accessible at $2.99 a minute, offering bits of his life story.

Johnson and Pollock, owners of memorabilia shops, deal in Simpson memorabilia, including items he has signed in jail. They say they are paying Cowlings close to $10,000.

Fans will pay $20 for signed photos from Cowlings’ days in the NFL or at the Southern California. It costs $25 for his signature on a football, helmet or jersey.

“To me, the whole thing is negative,” Pollock said, “but that doesn’t keep people from buying that stuff.”