[DeTomaso] Jay Leno's garage

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/23/14 13 00 23, dave at damardirect.com writes:


> What did they use (type of vehicle) to shoot the outside of the Pantera, 
> as you were driving.
> 

>>>Normally they (seemingly) work hard to keep the camera car from 
appearing in the finished video, but in this one, there is a very, very clear view 
of it partway through, starting at about 21:12.

It's a Ford SUV.   My understanding is that when manufacturers start 
producing a new vehicle, they do a 'dry run' and run some high number (hundreds) 
of cars down the production line, to test the manufacturing process and 
evaluate the quality of the finished product.   These cars are normally destroyed 
(by the thousands each year) as they aren't legal to be sold to the public. 
  But the manufacturer can retain them for their own purposes.

Jay told me that Ford loaned them this SUV; I am presuming it is one of 
these preproduction vehicles as it still wears the manufacturer's license 
plate.   You can see that they blew all the windows out of the right side and 
rear, and built camera mounts on the inside.   There is a fixed camera on a 
boom attached to the outside of the right door, and one camera out the rear and 
another camera out the side.   It retains its windshield so I don't exactly 
know how they got the shots of the car from the rear, but I suspect they 
swung onto the wrong side of the road and then hung a camera out the right 
side window, facing forward.

The cameras mounted in and on the Pantera, as well as the microphones that 
were on me and Jay, all transmit wirelessly back to the camera car, so they 
were able to monitor us the entire time in real time.   Besides the driver, 
there were three cameramen and the producer bouncing around in there, and 
the driver really knew how to haul ass in that thing.   I didn't pay much 
attention to them, but I noted that the Pantera was being driven at a pretty 
brisk pace on the canyon road, and we were following the SUV much of the time, 
so that guy really was pushing it hard!

Mike
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   In a message dated 6/23/14 13 00 23, dave at damardirect.com writes:

     What did they use (type of vehicle) to shoot the outside of the
     Pantera, as you were driving.

   >>>Normally they (seemingly) work hard to keep the camera car from
   appearing in the finished video, but in this one, there is a very, very
   clear view of it partway through, starting at about 21:12.
   It's a Ford SUV.  My understanding is that when manufacturers start
   producing a new vehicle, they do a 'dry run' and run some high number
   (hundreds) of cars down the production line, to test the manufacturing
   process and evaluate the quality of the finished product.  These cars
   are normally destroyed (by the thousands each year) as they aren't
   legal to be sold to the public.  But the manufacturer can retain them
   for their own purposes.
   Jay told me that Ford loaned them this SUV; I am presuming it is one of
   these preproduction vehicles as it still wears the manufacturer's
   license plate.  You can see that they blew all the windows out of the
   right side and rear, and built camera mounts on the inside.  There is a
   fixed camera on a boom attached to the outside of the right door, and
   one camera out the rear and another camera out the side.  It retains
   its windshield so I don't exactly know how they got the shots of the
   car from the rear, but I suspect they swung onto the wrong side of the
   road and then hung a camera out the right side window, facing forward.
   The cameras mounted in and on the Pantera, as well as the microphones
   that were on me and Jay, all transmit wirelessly back to the camera
   car, so they were able to monitor us the entire time in real time.
   Besides the driver, there were three cameramen and the producer
   bouncing around in there, and the driver really knew how to haul ass in
   that thing.  I didn't pay much attention to them, but I noted that the
   Pantera was being driven at a pretty brisk pace on the canyon road, and
   we were following the SUV much of the time, so that guy really was
   pushing it hard!
   Mike