has your car been in the movies? share your stories

My Jet was used by Disney in a Jonas Bros. music video a couple of years ago, out here on a dry lake bed. It was quite an experience...

 

Mine 53 F100 in Nikola Sarcevics music video Soul for Sale.

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So it had a little of it's soul sucked out of it?

 

Mine had a cameo in "Hide the Bacon" and "Pizza Boys Unannounced"

 

Yeah, my 64 GMC was in "Bottle Shock" for two brief scenes...

 

As R1FIGHTER mentioned (nearly 2 years ago now ), Our cars were used in FLIPPED. Here's a couple pics from the set. The movie has been showing on HBO recently within the past month or so.

 

My roadster was in two scenes in Duece of Spades. The first was in the shop when young Johnny was talking to his Dad. The second was when he chased the jeep taking Dad to war, he ran past my car. I had a speaking part in the modern day El Mirage scene.

DW

 

Not in a movie but in a mgazine ad for a new line of shoes and jeans.

 

had a cruising shot of my car in american graffitti

 

Two of my cars - '63 Falcon wagon and '50 Chevy DeLuxe are in the current movie "Higher Ground" done in NYS with Vera Farmiga the pretty actress from the Clooney film "Up In The Air". After the shoot , Ms Farmiga was asked for her autograph by the other car owners and extra's but I had her sign the Falcon's sun visor - she got a kick out of that...

The parked cars are in the movie trailer on IMDB for @ 1 second and in the movie for a few seconds. The catered food was good, It was fun for first few hours but anyone who's been to a shoot knows mostly it was just boring wait.

My friends had a few cars in other Hudson Valley movie shoots and a bunch are in the recent "Taking Woodstock" film.

My cars, bikes and tractors are listed in a Manhattan agency but so far no work from them.

I was in a backgound shot of kids in a park in the original "Valley of the Dolls" - autographs anyone ...

 

I always wondered who the people are that sell nice old stuff to movie companies knowing that they are going to be destroyed. I wouldn't, wait until someone comes along who wants to buy it and deserves it. Just a thought.

 

My 1970 Fargo pickup appeared in a movie called The Michelle Apartments. I drove it up the street with the back full of Shriners in Hawaiian shirts waving sparklers 7 times one night.

The best part to me was I got $250 and a tank of gas out of it. My buddy with his original mint Hemi Challenger got $50 bucks lol.

I gave the transportation guy receipts for 2 tanks of gas so we both made some money.

This was in Port Hope, for some reason they shoot a lot of movies in Port Hope.

 

C'mon now, Don... eleven million hits on youtube proves that there's several 12-year-old girls with no taste.... but soulless?

 

My car has never been in a movie, but it was on TV. I had no idea the police cruiser had a dash mounted camera.

 

The original trailer for the movie has been removed but there is a new HD version on YouTube .....

RAZOR​

It's now been almost six years since I was involved with this project and the movie is still in the can or on the shelf, or whatever they call it when it's never been released. I can't imagine how much money they spent during the six days they were here plus the filming at other locations I wasn't involved with.

 

I've had cars in several projects that have never been seen. Its common to film a short 10-15 min trailer to hawk around studios to obtain feature funding. Most never see light of day. I worked on one "test" commercial filmed by an ad agency trying to win a contract with a major company. They spent 1/4 mil that one day in hopes of a contract.

 

we "rented" out to MG midgets to a small indy film a few years back. they rolled the parts car over for one scene (rental was equivilent to sale price not a bad gig).

missed the chance to be in Shag way back when. It was raining cats and dogs in asheville when we got the call and dad didn't want to drive to myrtle beach in the rain.

 

It's great you helped support the food services industry! LOL

 

THats your aunts car? She is awesome my aunt drives a focus lol

 

My 49 Merc was used in the Paula Abdul music video Rush Rush when they re-enacted the Rebel Without a Cause scene at the L.A. Observatory with Keanu Reeves. I watch the video every once in a while.

 

My old Colonial Model A was used in an 80s made movie, called Bad Blood. Its a true story about a kiwi guy, set in 1942, who got anoyed when the police tried to take his firearms for the war effort. He ended up shooting 7 cops, then going on the run untill he got shot by police. Its not a real nice movie, but its true, and Stanley Graham went on to be a local legend with some, and hated by others, even several generations later. Another car in the movie is Hamber, @Davewp 35 Ford, which is now blue with flames, and SBC.

 

http://holleytv.com/?p=694

does this count??

 

Update .....

I guess "Razor" is still in the can but the trailer is still on Sig Haig's website. He may own the rights to it now but I'm guessing it turned out really bad and that's why it's never been released.

 

This is a good buddy's '52 Olds used in Goodfellas. His car was just like you see in the movie. He told me there were a bunch of old cars there and whoever was arranging the cars wanted to spray them with something to flatten out the shiny paint. His was okay as is, some guys went along with the spray down (which washed off), some just took their cars home.
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_8599-Oldsmobile-88-1952.html

 

My F100, just a few seconds in the begining of a goofy shortfilm.

https://vimeo.com/channels/521168/64144333

 

This bus was in a movie, and it wasn't Jeepers Creepres. They painted it gray to serve as a prison bus. Whatever paint they used washed right off, so they could return it to the owner looking just like this.

 

I spent a couple days driving my 40 ford pickup on the set of "The Finest Hours" it was a pic by Disney about a real life sea rescue off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952. I never did bothered to see the movie to find out if the truck was actually in any of the scenes.

 

My old Mercury 1955 Montclair (its now my dads car) was in the TV-serie "Rich Man,Poor Man" in the 70's.
Car was imported to Sweden 1978 with another car from same show.

 

My old 1959 Morris J-type ice cream van was used in the small independent film ratcatcher and also on the BBC Scotland tv comedy series chewin the fat.
The pic isn't a film clip it's a summer parade in Glasgow.

 

I work in the film business (I worked on Finest Hours, and 25 years worth of other things.)

In the nineties I worked on a lot of Superbowl commercials. In one, the "wife" is tired of her "husband" spending all of his time with his classic car, so the joke is that while he is gone to get some more car wax or something, she crushes it and leans it up against the wall with one hand, he then comes home, auto store bags in hand, automatic garage door slowly opens to reveal his crushed car up against the wall, women smiles and walks away, guy dumbfounded.

To do this we had to buy a pretty nice car, film dude polishing it, etc., then we had to actually bring it to a junkyard and have them crush it flat, bring it back to be filmed in the garage all flattened. We had special effects guys rig it with cable so the woman could "pretend" to shove it up on it's side against the garage wall, an it leans there like a piece of plywood.

Here's the shitty part; since I was the only "car guy" in the art department they tasked me with finding a nice old Cadillac for less than $10,000. This is before CL, so in the Want Ads I found a decent old red '58 Caddy convertible (not an Eldo) with red interior. A father and son had just fixed it up together, got it driving and registered, mostly just mechanical fixes, the thing looked ok from 15 feet, not perfect, but more a driver, pretty original, before people valued "original". They were really excited to have their car in a commercial. The producers insisted I not tell them it was going to be crushed, if I did these guys would never had sold it to us. I gave the dude and his son the cashier's check and drove off with it on a flatbed. We detailed it, filmed the first scenes, then I drained all the fluids, removed the battery, the gas tank and accompanied the same flat bed driver to a junkyard where I felt sick as they crushed this thing flat. We brought it back and filmed the rest, and it went as planned.

Old Caddys were always my favorite and I could barely stand to do it, but it was business and not personal. Sometimes I think I did deeply injure my "car-ma" though.