you want to BLOW UP MY CAR?

Now THAT's funny!

 

Falfa would have saved the Buford -- he felt bad enough about the '55 he rolled on Paradise Road!

(clue: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32672 )

 

HAVE running driving 50 buick 4 door...ready willing and waiting to be **Blown Up** and emortalized on the silver screen...

 

just to remind you why this car shouldent be blown up

 

Not no, but HELL NO! Unless.......he offered over $20K. You'll kick yourself in the ass the rest of your life and nobody cares if you say "that's my car"...unless......he offered over $20K then who cares! I was flipping through the channels the other day and came across some old Eddie Murphy movie where he drives an early 60's D100 Dodge pickup, like my panel truck. About the time I tell my son, "Hey there's the headlight trim piece we need", this guy drives the truck through about ten 55 gallon barrels full of gas, they explode and burn, then the truck goes off a dock and into the bay, on fire of course, never to be seen again. I about shit my pants! Perfectly good truck blown to pieces and then dropped in the ocean. Fuck those movie assholes! I say $40K!!!

 

You without a doubt made the right choice. Don't worry about it any more...I guess I'm sentimental too, but we put too much hard work and time in these things to have them disrespected. Blow up a Honda.

 

Let Em Buy It..blow It Up As Long As You Get It Back..... Take It On Tour...
Indianna Jone's Buick Of Doom

 

Money isn't everything in life, people forget that sometimes.

Now if they want a buick to destroy, PM me, I got a complete '53 that I saved from the crusher, it had a fire on the interior. I was just gonna strip it for useable parts but if they wanted to buy it whole, let me know.

 

I'll add my thoughts here at the far end where no one is going to read it anyway.

I worked for many years in the motion picture business(yawning ensues) Many things about it are not normal. There are many reasons for this.

I've supplied many vehicles to productions over the years. This is always fraught with some peril.

I own a nice original 1957 Dodge d-100. Back in 1993 the production people for Eddie Murphy's film "Metro" wanted to rent my truck.

But they wanted to make a few changes like replace front fenders with 1958s and paint it red.
I declined.
They offered to buy but again I declined, offer was low. They bargained but I declined. They were not going to overpay and I wasn't selling. This truck also has sentimental value, so again I wasn't interested.
I saw some of this movie. The truck was a feature player. They had bought several 1958s (they wanted the quad headlights) and pieced one together. They did lots of fabrication and then beat the hell out of it. My truck would have been destroyed and it wasn't much of a movie anyway.

Movie production is driven mainly by time and money. (and good craft service) Production units have budgets to adhere to. A well run production has accounting and cash control to keep production arms from blowing through budgets. Bad productions run overtime and over budget.
The production vehicles dept. or the art dept or whoever is rounding up the cars will try to get stuff as cheaply and as locally as possible and then will expand their search. They aren't going to offer stupid money for your car. They will move on. There are other Buicks and other ways to solve any problem.

By the time production starts they may have made changes to the script, maybe different car. Ultimately any one car is not very important. It is an easy component to replace compared to loss of a location or starring actor.
They may never use your car. Also scenes get cut from the film in the editing. That would be great huh? Sacrifice your car and then they don't use the shot.

Motion picture work is hustle and chaos. Stuff gets used hard and things get fucked up and forgotten in the rush. Almost every vehicle I rented for production received some damage, minor and not so minor. Make sure that your stuff has insurance and make sure you talk to the unit production manager about their production insurance. Get everything in writing!

 

If you are that "attached" to your 50 Buick (for whatever reason) don't sell it. To the movie industry it's nothing personal. It's just business. You make the final call.

 

If you know what days they will be there filming, let me know. I will go down and take some pics.
Ray

 

my 72 caddy almost ended up in a movie...was a couple years too new though.

my 49 caddy i bought with grand visions of making a led sled out of it. it was way to original to cut up though so i sold it to a retired couple in palm springs where it resides to this day.

If I am not going to cut up a car that is too original there is no way i am going to sell it to someone else that is going to blow it up.

unless it is 5 to 10X more then what the top dollar amount i think the car is worth. then I would take that money and buy a few other cars and save them.

seems it would be easy enough to fix up a rotted out car or do some cgi work to make a car crash look real enough instead of blowing up cars still on the road.

 

UPDATE:

Last week i decided that i was going to keep the car- everything was fine and dandy and i was very happy with my choice. on tuesday i get a phone call from the guy... it went something like this:

"hey, is this danny with the green 50 buick? well, things didnt go as planned we were only able to find 1 other one that fit the criteria making 2 total including your car- name your price"

i gave him a pretty high price expecting him to say forget it but....

"ok, sounds good- ill give you a call tomorrow "

sure enough i got that call. the money will be waiting for me tomorrow morning

i gave him a call back telling him that i still had some aprehension and he gave me this news

"since we only found 2 that we want, only 1 of them is going to be destroyed, your car is in better shape than the other one we have and we dont have any more time to look for another. the art director is going to meet with you tomorrow to see how things are going to fly, theres a very good posibility that your car might be used as the establishing car- meaning basically that it will get a new good paintjob and some other goodies. once the filming is done here in los angeles, you can buy your car back for something 1000 bucks"

so think about it like this- i get a sum of money- MUCH more than the car will be worth- and theres a good posibility that it wont be wrecked and i can buy it back for dirt cheap

i have my money, i have my car and i have a decent paintjob.


im going to ask for cash- and a written contract about the fate of the car. thats the only way ill turn it over to them.

after all - its a win win situation (Regardless if another is going to get smashed)

 

Be sure and keep us updated on this , Would like to know if you get the car back and what kinda shape it is in.

 

Thanks for keeping us updated

It's a tough position you're in.
Be sure to let us know how it goes

 

So what started as a scheme to destroy your buick has turned into a plan to sorta restore it and put money in your pocket? Man, I need your kind of luck. That is awesome.

 

Trust me, this scenario will never happen. Something will go wrong and they’ll need that second car to film the wreck- or just "to make sure we got the shot." Trust me, even the "hero" cars aren't treated all that well on a film set. Btw, what makes you think you'll actually get it back all dolled up for 1000.00? This does not happen either. That's the type of shit they tell people to get the cars they want. Want to know more? PM me.
On a side note, I'm really disillusioned by a lot of the responses here. I thought it was all about the cars here...there are a lot of people on here far too motivated by money. 4dr or no, it's a '50 Buick. There's a handful of those cars left and just by the sheer passage of time and life there will be less every year.

Maybe that's just me and my position against gratuitous destruction of classic and antique cars.

 

tell him to just make the cars out of foam-- like that fake ass foam sports car that was on the back of the rig driving around Paso...

CGI and fake shit should help protect the real shit. dont support otherwise.

-scott noteboom

 

If they'll give you the front end sheet metal back after they blow it up... DO IT!

Sam.

 

good luck with that. even if you do get them to sign such a contract, it will be virtually unenforceable. you'll spend your fat wad of cash trying.

 

HAMB'er Vade needs a 50's Buick.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=185378

Tracy

 

Yes, but HAMB'er Vade has been determined to be a total jackass of a NOOB who can't handle something like an early 50's Buick. So selling it to him might cause every bit as much damage as Hollywood blowing the shit out of it, even if his heart and soul are totally devoted to EXACTLY that kind of car. But screw that, it's not gonna keep him from getting what he wants!

All that being said, I fucking LOVE your car, Danny, and I've been sick to my stomach thru this whole post... largely cause I can't put enough money where my mouth is to save your Big, Beautiful Buick. Even at 6k it's outta my range but 2-door, 4 door?... I agree "FUCK THAT!" Just hearing that they're gonna blow up even ONE of these cars that I'm positively dying for makes me want to punch babies. But the early 50's Buick Supers & Roadmasters are my softspot. You can bet your bottom dollar that if I had the cash to pony up for the car and shipping across the whole country, I would.

Ultimately, I'd be sad to see one go, but if there IS validity to what the guy claimed, I'd agree that it's WAY too good of a deal to pass up. You could actually not only profit AND get bragging rights but also do your beauty one hell of a service. It's YOUR car and YOUR money so it's YOUR decision. Don't care about what other people think, just what YOU want to/are willing to do.

If nothing else, thanks for the really interesting story and extra special thanks for posting pics. I hope you don't mind... I saved all of them.

Oh... and if the deal goes thru as CLAIMED? And you decide you don't WANT to buy her back for a grand? Tell me... PLEASE? ESPECIALLY if they'll be filming her in CT. I'll buy her from them in half a heartbeat.

 

Any news? I agree that that sounds like a load of bull to get your car. After they give you a wad of cash it will be thier car, and I wouldn't expect it to come back nicer than it was, and certainly not for less money than they gave you.

It's like pimping out your girlfriend dude, it just ain't gonna work out right.

 

let em blow up a bondo bucket piece of shit, all cars look good on screen so it doesnt matter how wavy or shitty it looks

 

I've personally seen what has happened to three different late 1930's "Movie Cars" The cars were all damaged in one way or another (no thank yous and no repairs)
Don't believe 'em for a second...
Get all your money up front, let go of the car and forget about all the cool things they'll do for you... If they do come through, I'm sure we'd all like to see the new paint job!

 

Hell, I can find rotty parts cars that could be bondoed up and made to roll and just have someone airbrush the missing side trim onto the car long enough to blow it up. They're shooting this in CT? I bet there's 50 or 100 50 Buicks sitting around here in NY. Just a matter of finding one that the frame isn't rotted right in two on.

Actually, now that I think about it, if a '52 Super would work, we have a pair. One with a good frame, one with a lousy frame. Both 4drs, and both no one seems to give a crap about.

 

Interesting turn of events. Glad you thought about it and have been able to work a deal, movie air time for your car is cool. Get it all in writing, if you do sell.
For me, it would be too tough. Your car is wonderful and the thought of movie guys disrespecting it, should make you cringe. I was upset over the weekend seeing "3000 miles to Graceland" where the Caddy they drive gets tossed into the drink (lake/river/ocean, whatever). One less car for my little girls to find and drive around in 15 years from now.

Jon

 

Well, its good to see this thread bumped back to the front.


just an update: car comes back aug 1st. whatever shape its in is fine by me, they gave me an incredible amount of money for my car. an amount of money that id be able to buy a 2dr hardtop for. im not upset, the car is coming back, and if its not in bad shape, then im buying it back.


also, i saw a few pictures from the set, they are using and abusing a lot of very cool cars- someone posted last month a video from the indiana jones shoot of a 50 ford and a hot rod. this movie should be right up our alley, but i really hope they arent abusing the cars too much.

 

Hey, if you got a nice payday and can still get your car back in good shape then you did alright. There were a couple of Buicks being used in the New Haven shoot. I was one of many owners of 40s and 50s cars that were extras in the New Haven filming. The two Buicks were still in one piece as of late Monday last week. That was the last day of shooting in New Haven.
Now there is a little story about how much was , allegedly, given for the rental of one particular car. There was a shoot Monday morning in West Haven. There was a wedding scene outside a small Chapel on the green. In front of the Chapel were two cream colored convertibles. One was a 1942 Packard. The other was a 1953 Chrysler. The Packard was driven in by its 92 year old owner. He was a Connecticut owner. I was fortunate to spend a lot of time with him after the West Haven shoot was done. We drove back to New Haven only to sit and wait, and wait and... Anyway the Chrysler was flat bedded in from New Jersey. Rumor had it that a 50s cream colored convertible could not be found in Connecticut. So the 53 from New Jersey was voted over the Packard and was used for the Chapel shoot. After the shoot was finished the 53 was put back on the flatbed and taken back to New Jersey. Most of the drivers I had contact with all seemed to hear the same thing. The Chrysler was rented for $25,000.00. Not bad for a few hours work! Dominic

 

I work in the movie/TV industry too... and no way would I let that happen to a car I own(ed). Heck, they'll probably "clean" up the shot with a little CGI after the fact anyway. If Lucas was a real car guy, he'd just do the whole thing in CGI from the beginning.