07-30-2020, 09:08 PM | #1 |
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My 40 Ford 2 dr Deluxe Green was in an HBO Movie "Lovecraft Country" Supposed to be on HBO around August 15. I think it is on for about 15 seconds total. I made 600 bucks for two days work.
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07-30-2020, 10:41 PM | #2 |
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Congrats! That is way cool.
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07-31-2020, 07:15 AM | #3 |
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Nice!
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07-31-2020, 07:22 AM | #4 |
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I hope your experience was much better than ours, would NEVER rent a car to a movie/tv company, EVER!!!!
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07-31-2020, 12:03 PM | #5 |
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THe movie company was well run and well insured. And a friend of mine was involved in getting the cars. He had three of his own in the project.
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07-31-2020, 04:30 PM | #6 |
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08-02-2020, 12:35 AM | #7 |
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It's not just southerners...those snobs do that to everyone...movie shoots can get very trying but they do help pay for car parts.
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08-02-2020, 04:34 AM | #8 |
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Not for the movies, but participated in a photo shoot for a local playhouse performance of 'Driving Miss Daisy' several years ago.
After seeing all the equipment, setup and positioning, the final shot that was used probably could have been done with a less than $100 digital camera, operated by any passerby.
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08-02-2020, 10:46 AM | #9 |
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In the early '80s, I made around $1,000 having my 55 Chevy conv filmed for several TV ads for a local parts store. It was fun and I got a vhs tape with the footage.
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08-02-2020, 01:46 PM | #10 |
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I’ve had cars in 5 movies.
The going rate the last 10 years is $350 a day. One movie used three of my cars each day for a couple of days. That’s $1,050 a Day! The cars were parked on a street on a side hill one day and filmed as Joquin Phoenix walked by them in the movie The Masters. When we did the movie Valley of the Heart’s Delight a spectator keyed the side of a ‘29 Maxwell. The movie company coughed up $5,000 to repaint the car. One night (same movie)they were gonna film a ‘32 model B pickup that wouldn’t start. The gas tank had a bunch of tiny green beads in it. The fuel pump was jammed with them. I drained the gas tank and they had a cop that was with us for security drive me about 10 miles to where I worked and I got an electric fuel pump and some jumper wires and got the pickup running. Then when it got dark they noticed the leading star’s model A roadster had one headlight burned out. So the cop drove me back to where I worked again and I grabbed three headlight bulbs out of the seven model A cars my boss had sitting in a row. The movie company gave me an extra $250 for those two repair jobs on top of the $300 a day we were getting at that time for one car I had that was also filmed that night as it chased the B pickup. |
08-02-2020, 11:44 PM | #11 |
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I had a 1961 Hillman Minx they wanted to hire for an advertisement a few years back but I turned them down. You see I had car friend who had the 39 barrel nose in this advert that screened on NZ TV many years back......he got it back as a wreck from the insurance company. Story goes that some of the film crew took it to a pub on the West coast where they did some of the filming ( south Island NZ), got on turps and then proceeded to roll it.
Here's the ad, sorry for poor quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAVaS7SzgQE
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08-03-2020, 12:37 PM | #12 |
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Congrats Slow40. Nice to see our old rides on the screen.
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08-28-2020, 01:11 AM | #13 |
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Update on movie appearance
Go to https://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=6905686 Look for the Green 40 tudor About 30 seconds of screen time |
08-28-2020, 01:17 AM | #14 |
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Mr. Movie Star car
Lovecraft Country on HBO Sunday evening Go to https://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=6905686 Look for the Green 40 tudor About 30 seconds of screen time |
09-17-2020, 05:44 PM | #15 |
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Got my Forty Back from Fargo 4 today, They paid well cleaned up the car and left me with a new battery and a full tank of gas, Trunk handle was damaged and they bought a new one. Fargo 4 on FX channel starts Sept 27
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09-18-2020, 01:30 AM | #17 |
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glad it worked out for you ME NEVER NEVER EVER AGAIN !!!!!!!
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