Film chase sequences? No problem!! - you'd be surprised what we can do
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Cars in camera was recently asked to supply vehicles that would be appropriate for Afghanistan. We delivered a motorbike and a suitably aged four wheel vehicle to the quarry, where ITV were filming a re-enactment of an operation in Afghanistan to enter in the Sun Newspaper Military Awards. Our precision driver was surprised when, after the delivery, he was directed to wardrobe to be kitted out in suitable costume including robes and dishdasha then asked to take part in a chase sequence fleeing an armoured vehicle!! He was subsequently captured by one of the soldiers from the tank who was on foot and unarmed and it was then discovered that the captive was a very high ranking Taliban officer!! The soldier won a Sun award for his efforts and the whole awards show was screened on TV - so we now have a TV star among our drivers! Although we didn't supply a tank on this occasion we can source ANY kind of vehicle and we're also flexible enough to provide "extras" for film without any warning at all. |
Increase our fleet by 10%
Despite the hard economic times that abound at the moment, we have managed to increase our fleet by 10% by the addition of new vehicles. The one pictured here is a 4 car carrier complete with punch hole decking and large barn doors to make loading easier and safer.
The transformation of four Motorbikes and one Taxi
We have recently completed the transformation of 4 * 1930’s Harley Davidson motorbikes from their original colours of black, red, silver, black and white and a 1930’s Dodge Taxi that was orange and yellow to white and black police cars, for a film that is being made in Elstree studios about President Roosevelt.
This has involved delicately taking the machines apart, applying our top secret protective coating and the spraying them in the new colours.
The great advantage of our top secret coating is that, when the filming is over, the vehicles can be returned to their original colour schemes without the need to repaint and ensuring that their authenticity remains intact.
These pictures show the transformation.....
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As a consequence of the success of this job, we have been asked to source a Maserati 250F and recent F1 car to do a similar job – can you help?
Happy birthday!
Our purchase and ownership of Cars in Camera has reached its first birthday this week but we’re no infants in our industry and we have a lot to celebrate.
Since we started we now have a complete new look with a newly launched and stunning website, fresh marketing literature and a staff make-over in the form of new uniforms.
The fleet has been expanded by 10% over the year, enabling us to provide an even more professional service to even more organisations and to be instantly recognisable with their smart new livery.
Three existing trucks have also been refreshed and refurbished.
We are also delighted to have won new customers for our multidrop transportation operation, including Jaguar Land Rover.
Mercedes has also appointed us to deliver cars to their VVIP customers through our special Stars Cars personal delivery and complete run through by our trained and experienced drivers.
Not only that, we’ve increased our storage capacity and facilities for car preparation for the special needs of film, advertising and events promotions.
All in all it’s been a pretty amazing year and we’re pretty delighted with our progress.
We expect next year to be even better.
We've just done a "product reveal" for Hyundai
at The Saatchi Gallery in Cadogan Square, London.
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Hyundai asked us to position two cars, one in an upstairs gallery and one in the ground floor rear gallery.
The challenges included stairs, a collonaded portico, sliding glass doors and having to do it all without the neighbours seeing.
The front of the portico was screened with black cloth then each car was taken up the entrance steps through the side of the portico, placed on its side on a special trolley, turned through 90 degrees to point bonnet forwards then manoeuvred through a sliding glass entrance door to the foyer with just 1.5 inches spare room on each side!
Getting the car into the upstairs gallery involved an extremely tight fit into a goods lift then along a narrow corridor.
It was an interesting technical challenge with no room for mistakes and we got the job done! We love it when a plan comes together.
