XKE movie wreck

[hottvr]

Just got fiished watching Brannigan. John Wayne goes to England to catch a criminal. The bad guy gets shot and goes over a cliff in a firey blaze. All I could think about was all the great parts that went up in flames. Oh well.
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Rick Hansen

 

[Bruce Bowker]

Just watching parts of it too. Was flipping through channels and saw the XKE!

 

[sammyb]

For some reason, movie makers love wrecking great XKEs! Some other movies that come to mind include:
-The Avengers (and that one was freshly restored-- like a 4 or 5 year restoration by its owner, and they bought the car from the owner, and didn't tell them they would blow the car up.)
-Vanishing Point
-The Italian Job (I think one of the cars pushed over the cliff in the original version was an E-type.)

 

[Basil]

If you have ever seen the Movie "52 Pickup" with Roy Scheider and Ann Margaret, Roy drives a Silver Blue Series I XKE exactly like mine that gets blown to bits at the end of the movie.

 

[PC]

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For some reason, movie makers love wrecking great XKEs! Some other movies that come to mind include:
-The Avengers (and that one was freshly restored-- like a 4 or 5 year restoration by its owner, and they bought the car from the owner, and didn't tell them they would blow the car up.)
-Vanishing Point
-The Italian Job (I think one of the cars pushed over the cliff in the original version was an E-type.)

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Movies are about entertainment and excitement. Nobody's going to be on the edges of their seats if you blow up a Camry.

From a logistical perspective they were much less expensive for the filmmaker than other exotics. At the time Vanishing Point or the Italian Job were made E-types were current models, easily available and replaceable. It would be like crashing and XK-8 in a movie today.


PC.
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[John S Farrington]

I usually hope that the pristine E Type that is blown up at the end of the movie has in reality been substituted by a similar but much less pristine E Type. In the movie On Golden Pond, a beautiful Chris Craft Sportsman, mahogany, rare and perfect condition, was wrecked in the movie by driving it into some boulders and crunching the prow. In reality, the beautiful boat was substituted for the wreck scene by another Sportsman in terrible condition but made floatable via plywood patches. Both of these boats, the restored Sportsman and the wrecked Sportsman, are now on display at Key Largo. Hopefully the E Types might used similarly.

 

[sammyb]

I know that in The Avengers, the actual E-Type was blown up. The owner wrote an article about it.

Interestingly, in The Italian Job, the Lamborghini Miura at the beginning had been a wreck car that was repaired just to wreck it again. I seem to remember it was cosmetically put together, and I don't believe the Lambo engine was even used (that great sound was dubbed-in later.)

 

[bobmga62]

Actually in 52 pick up if you watch the film closely, you see the XKE, then the next thing is a fire ball....

Even when this movie was made, I strongly feel that the The producers knew and XKE was just way to valuable....I really believe they never blew up the car up... they just clipped the edit and had a bund of pyro go up with smoke an about 200 gallons of gas. a flame..

BTW.. always, my pet peeve... why do cars in movies always blow up and launch about 20 feet in the ari..

I have seen movies where the car goes off a bridge/cliff/embankment and blows up.. without hitting anything!!!!

R

ahhh... hollywood... what a joke!

 

[Bugeye58]

Sure it's a joke. I always enjoy the shots where, say, a Rolls Silver Cloud goes off a cliff, and by the time the thing hits the ground it has been transformed into a '49 Studebaker!
Jeff