[DeTomaso] sacrificial Panteras - :-(

Tue Apr 13 09:11:38 EDT 2010

Hi Guys,

I work in the business and the money that is wasted is immense, the number
of boneheads are equally immense.

It would make tons of sense to build mock ups, etc if it were a low budget
movie like "Cannonball" or a  weekly series like "Miami Vice" ( the Daytona
was a Corvette, The Testa Rossa was a Pantera ( I'm told ), true story about
the TR512,
the only reason that the Daytona was blown up was it was to be replaced by a
Turbo Porsche Whale tail, but Ferrari got wind of it and supposedly got so
upset that Tubbs, Crockett, Mann and the Production Co
all got a Free TR512 to keep the Ferrari name in the series.)
But the day rates of of Movie Car or "Picture Car" folks ( like me sometimes
) are prohibitive in comparison to just solving the problem with a
checkbook.
If I had to pay a person to oversee the mock up preparation each day for a
month, I could just buy another car and call it a day.
Sometimes you get Car guys involved, like Tom Cruise on War of the Worlds,
the GT350H was real and given to him afterwards.  The Tucker used in Tucker
sits in the Coppola's Winery in Napa Valley,

Two weeks ago I crashed a 1988 Chevrolet Celebrity that we bought for 2,000
and put another 1,000 into it for a roll bar, race seat and belts.  Nobody
cried over that one, since Cash for Clunkers, it took me 3 weeks to find a
POS Celebrity like I needed, I actually stopped a guy driving down the road
and offered to buy his car out from under him.  He sold it and drove it
straight to the bank with me to get cash.

Michael Shortt
Savannah, GA.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, bill gaino <gaino at earthlink.net> wrote:

> These movie guys have BIG budgets. They may set one car up for a jump
> scene, another for a "dirt wheelie"  Maybe rienforce the rear deck for a sex
> scene. They may have other mock-ups for crash sequence. I was watching "how
> its made" The Spiderman movie and was surprised how much trouble they went
> through to make it real, so it looked real, even for a few seconds of film.
>  Bill 1362
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: steven.liebenow at att.net
> >Sent: Apr 12, 2010 4:52 PM
> >To: mailing list detomaso <detomaso at realbig.com>
> >Subject: [DeTomaso]  sacrificial Panteras - :-(
> >
> >I think that this 72 hour thing shows how bone headed the people are that
> are running the movie production..........typical of a snot nose production
> manager (or less) running off to "throw money" at a problem.....
> >
> >IF, they had their collective sh*t straight, they would realize that it
> could take a couple of weeks/months to try and find "collector cars" worthy
> of a good death.......or at least mockups....
> >
> >If I was king, I'd get hold of Larry Stock, who has some fiberglass molds
> for sheet metal bits and pieces, find some Toyota MR2's or the new Capri's,
> or old RX7's, or basically any car that was made in quantities of
> gazillions, with no redeeming qualities, and put fiberglass bodies on them
> for any destruction sequences......
> >
> >Certainly one would think that you could build 3 "fake" cars for a lot
> less than a bottom of the line rusted out but complete Pantera!
> >
> >It would be interesting to hear if Dave got any takers!!!
> >
> >Had a buddy that had a 67 Mustang convertible, that they loaded up with
> options...and he had rented other cars to movie productions in the past.
>  The filming for Arnie's "Last Action Hero" was taking place and the movie
> co. wanted a convertible Mustang to fly off of a something or other.....
>  This convertible was nothing special, as my friend had added all of the
> optional stuff to the fairly rusty car......  The movie company was offering
> something like $11K (back in the early 90's??) for what was basically a
> polished turd.....car was rusty, but ran.
> >
> >SO, my buddies took ALL of the optional stuff off of the car, sold it to
> the movie co for $11K and ran!     They then proceeded to sell all the
> optional stuff too!
> >
> >In the end, the movie co. scrapped the Mustang idea and went with a Duster
> or some other lame model of a ho-hum car to do the shot...... Never heard
> what happened to the Mustang!
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
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Michael L. Shortt
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