other Should I Rent Out My Car For A TV Commercial? Advice and Experience Please.

[saaron]

My only experience with this is there was a Don Cheadle movie shooting here last summer, and they needed cars from the '70s.  I submitted mine (Eurotrash found the contact iirc) via email and heard back that they wanted to use it.  They were like, "IS THAT A 2002?!?!?!"

 

At first it was going to be parked on the side of the road, then later they said they wanted it to drive through a scene, and I could probably drive it.  

 

Then I never heard from them.  Ah, Hollywood.

 

Scott

[PaulTWinterton]

I loaned my choice '63 Ferrari to a production company for a small obscure movie called Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Maybe you've heard of it. Anyway, they promised to take very good care of it, but despite their best efforts, somehow it fell off a cliff or a deck or something like that.

 

ARE YOU SERIOUS!?  That is the coolest story yet. Or the worst story.    It was a deck AND a cliff AND criminal valets, IIRC.

 

I can still see the scenes of the Ferrarri in my head.  

[gaius]

in the 90's there was a B movie ( stone cold ) shot on the coast, the star was somewhat of an ... but it also had the guy that played the android in Alien, a genuine nice guy. anyway, i was an extra for about a week at like 40.00 a day, plus my motorcycle at 50.00. when it came time to pay up, they tried to not pay me for my bike, saying it was not a Harley Davidson. i told them that the artistic director  placed it in the spot it was in all week, and take it up with him. i was paid full price, but the bike was cut (skipped over) in the movie.

the bike was a 64 Honda 305 dream (CA 77)