Practically Classics Forum

Hello,

We are shooting a low budget feature film in Enfield this Sunday and we are looking for cars from 60s - 80s to come and park in the background for a few hours.

As this is a low budget project I'm afraid we can only cover expenses, however it should be a fun few hours and your car will get in a film.

If you are interested and available please do get in contact.

Many Thanks,

Jonah.

Did this happen and if so, when and by what medium might we see the end result?

JPB wrote:Did this happen and if so, when and by what medium might we see the end result?

Don't hold your breath John, if there is one thing that is dubious, it's a so called film company requiring classic cars.
So many get taken in, but think about it, how much would it cost you, if you had been commissioned to make such a film,
to buy, film and sell on, all the classic cars that you need?
Owners are so in love with their classics that they leave themselves open to a rip off.

Hmm, ordinarily I'd think that way too, but the O/P has a showreel on youtube so he must be real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4AQ5hsOPA

Roll on Movember.

A lot of companies will try and get cars for street furniture roles in films this way. In the long run buying the cars you want and then selling them on may not cost anything, but if you want 20 period cars the the up front cost of buying them is probably not feasible.

I offered the services of myself and a car for a production company making a program for the BBC. I won't do it again as I feel that if these companies want to hire a car they should pay for it properly. Having said that, if it was a student making a film, or something genuinely without a budget I might be more obliging.

1900sr wrote:I offered the services of myself and a car for a production company making a program for the BBC. I won't do it again as I feel that if these companies want to hire a car they should pay for it properly. Having said that, if it was a student making a film, or something genuinely without a budget I might be more obliging.

Some students from the Arts Centre, part of Bournemouth University, were making a short film, set in an early postwar period, late 40's early 50's. Some friends of ours, who were appearing as 'extras,' mentioned my car. The students contacted me explaining who they were and who it was who gave them my number. They thought that I would be so excited about my car's appearance in their film that I would do it pro bono. (free)
When I said that I get £260 plus fuel, plus £40 wear and tear, for every wedding that I do, and that they would have to pay the same, up front, they said that they would think about it. Never heard from them again.

Wow! That's good money, the blushing bride could have had a K10 free from the Datsun club though it would be more likely to be Janet Dibley's or Anna Friel's car than Bono's since the famously eccentric, tree hugging U2 frontman isn't on the club's list of famous people who've owned or still own examples of the groundbreaking** Japanese hatchback from the eighties and early nineties.






**- They are if you drop them from sufficiently far up aheight.

JPB wrote:Wow! That's good money:

Last wedding I did, there were two classic cars, mine and an early sixties Mk2 Jaguar. The Jag was white with lashings of chrome, even had chrome wire wheels. The absolute ego trip when the bride wanted my car to take her to the ceremony. She wore a long bridal dress with a short train, about two feet I would guess, but she gathered her dress over her lap, settled into the rear seat, and looked radiant. Made my day. Hand on heart, I would have chosen the Jaguar, just for the room it afforded.
My internet knowledge is pathetic to say the least, but, hopefully this link will take you to the wedding. You will see the bride's dress, and there's a good shot of the cars. The rest of the photos are of the ceremony. Hope you enjoy them, she was a lovely lady and a beautiful bride.

the article featured in the link wrote:her ring bearer

I wonder, what did this "ring bearer" do?

GHT wrote:gathered her dress over her lap..

Ah, yes of course, that makes perfect sense. Weddings are so complicated these days.

JPB wrote: Weddings are so complicated these days.

Tell me about it. We have a kindly old man, that the locals gossip, is a wizard.
I went to see him and asked if he knew how to lift a magic spell that had cursed me all my life.
"Well yes," he said cautiously, "but I need to know the exact wording of the spell."
"No problem," I said, without hesitation, it was:
"I know pronounce you, Man & Wife!