[TR] [Spits] A movie NOT for Triumph fans -

[Bill Davies]

> [mailto:spitfires-bounces+bill=rarebits4classics.co.uk at autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Richard Gosling
> 
> Secondly, I'm guessing (and hoping) that the movie company aren't
> interested
> in burning money for no good reason, and won't have spent #6,000 or more
> on
> a decent Stag only to go and wreck it.  

While I can't comment on this particular case, every so often I get
contacted by film and television companies looking for this kind of "prop".
Their requirements are usually pretty simple - any state as long as it's an
identifiable rolling shell with most of the external trim. They don't even
want a cosmetically pretty vehicle, they have people on payroll to deal with
this kind of prettying up - why pay for someone else to do it? Bearing in
mind how cheap and plentiful rotten Stags are here in the UK, at worst this
one might have been a restorable project, more likely it was rotten as a
pear!
Requirements are of course different when cars play a significant part in
the action. Any Jaguar lover who has seen what was done the Mk2s used in the
filming of Mona Lisa will know what I mean!
If you really want to worry about what is done to decent classic cars in the
name of entertainment, Top Gear will be a good starting point. They have the
opposite philosophy - start with a good car and make it look bad.... then
destroy it. 
Cheers,
Bill.