Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

Billf · Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 202 Location: North Cyprus.

Morning All.

Just been watching this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1624845/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

And http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1983079/?ref_=nv_sr_6

Do you know anyone who's classic cars has been in any TV Series. or your car.

I did register my Somerset with a web site where you make you classic car available for TV Series. when i lived in the UK.

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

I nearly had a vehicle in a TV show. I was asked to hire out my Mk1 transit camper for a scene in a TV film. I was asked to sign a form absolving the company from any damage and this was after the insurance company telling me that they would not cover any damage if the vehicle was hired out. So,I refused.
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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2746 Location: South Cheshire

I spent a day on a film set with my car parked in the background as 'street furniture' - no movement required. So far the film hasn't been finished or released, but fingers crossed.

Billf · Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 202 Location: North Cyprus.

baconsdozen · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.

Hi,I should have said this was a quite a few years ago. Now there are companies who hire out vehicles and arrange insurance and I understand that the TV and film companies are far more sensible about insuring and looking after the cars etc in their care. I suppose too the increased values that old vehicles now have encourages this.
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colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

I sold a pre-war car that needed a lot of work cosmetically to someone who hired cars out to film companies. So it was irrelevant to him if the car was slightly mishandled. It got a quick respray and ended up in the later series of Doctor Finlay.

BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

I had my P6 as street furniture on the film "Northern Soul".
It's glamorous, base camp was a B&Q car park in Bury

The terraced street was converted to 1973, when my car would have been worth as much as a house.This was before with UPVC.

This is after with wooden cassettes over the new doors.They even placed fake dog turds randomly about.
The crew were very good to us and fed us well, the car was covered by their insurance, and it was just parked up in two different places (by me) on the same street.
I saw Lisa Stansfield, (stood in door way) who was playing the lead actors mum, which made me feel very old!

Billf · Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 202 Location: North Cyprus.

Great Pics. and good little story.

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22841 Location: UK

Billf · Joined: 01 Jul 2011 Posts: 202 Location: North Cyprus.

It always amazes me when they blow up WW2 Army Trucks, Tanks and so on in the Movies. I am sure these can't be real. After all can't see any owner just watch his pride and joy being blown to bits, no matter how much they get paid. And there must be a hell of a stock pile of Willys Jeeps GMC Trucks in the US. According to some of the movies we have downloaded lately.

colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

Getting classical vehicles to blow up seems no problem to James May Very Happy

Referring back to my previous post where I had heard a car I used to own was used in Dr. Finlay. I found a reference that a batch of cars used in that production had been sold by Brooks at Olympia in 1996. So they had and that included my old Austin 10 which went for £920...less than I got for it!
So maybe it's common for companies to buy their own cars?

lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1600 Location: Le Mans

My E-type was used for the Beeb and The car's the Star back in the 90's. You can still find it on YouTube. Started at 2pm, finished at 5am, and two minutes tops of exposure!

goneps · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:51 am Post subject:

Ten years ago the Auckland Morris Register was asked at short notice to provide cars for a street scene for a film, Thunder in June, about Eisenhower and the D-Day landings. We were handsomely rewarded for an afternoon during which a central Auckland back street in summer was transformed into a wintry wartime London street scene (I believe some digital magic was used to remove a high-rise at the top of the street). The cars were fitted with mock British registration plates and headlamp masks.

One of our members who was a graphic artist put together the montage below for our newsletter. Never saw the film myself, but I was told that if you blinked you'd miss the scene altogether.

kevin2306 · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 7:53 am Post subject:

52classic · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 493 Location: Cardiff.

My Checker became the 'cable cab' for a series in which Stuart Cable (Stereophonics) interviewed various celebrities whilst driving them around.

Names included Tom Jones and Eddie Jordan but I never managed to get a list from the production company.

I rediscovered the car languishing in the production company studios, bought it back and stashed it for future restoration.