Another of my threads that's had a long gestation period, though admittedly 95% of the upcoming content has been captured this month whilst on holiday with friends from the UK. Happily, I felt able to break the news to them of my intentions to snap away at dull old cars and on occasion, managed to rope them in for assistance as well. I was even getting suggestions from eagle-eyed passengers on our road trip but frankly , I'm getting way ahead of myself.
Let's start from the beginning, on a set I was working on at the start of the year. The film's not been released yet but I can't see any harm in putting up some spots, especially as there's no paparazzi shots of famous* people. It is set shortly after WWII and has a US and oriental basis, so look out for inaccuracies:
This thing was being lifted around the set by forklift to give the impression of more wrecks than we had available. Is this a 'jailbar' Ford? I'm thinking it's a little too new, anyway.
Nice us of set decorations here:
WHAT THE....?
No, this isn't a war zone, just Sunderland. I popped back to the UK in February to celebrate my Grandma's 100th birthday, so managed to catch this Chevette and CPT (possibly a Chevanne, since there was one in this garden years ago), just round the corner from one of my old uni houses.
Newcastle now and some Geordie fella thinks this is an acceptable tow bar set-up.
I think this deserves a close-up. Loving the self tapper number plate screws and lack of number plate lighting. Unless they tow one of those ex-army 1/2 tonne trailers on Land Rover wheels, I reckon the trailer would be towed at some comedy jaunty angle, too.
Back in the sun now and a bit more work on the film job. Here's our department's Japanese import hire truck with a slight addition....
....a 40ft x 20ft green screen, which we could drive around and use as a backdrop for actors to perform against, thus cutting out any inappropriate background stuff.....
....presumably like this German Opel Blitz
Big American car
Big American truck
Used to tow big American car. Anyone familiar with Hollywood actor's backs of heads may well find a scoop picture here but I'm sure that, as a group of fully grown men who chat about obsolete cars, we're all too highbrow to harbour such useless knowledge.