Lights, camera, throttle: Movie camera cars
Click above for a gallery of the cars that make the movies about cars
We dig the cars in car flicks -- but what about the cars that make the flicks about cars? Looking less like Transformers and more like space junk peddled by the sand people, it's hard to imagine what it takes to turn a regular old car into a mobile studio worthy of Deja Vu (pictured).
The Dukes of Hazzard TV series was barely better than those campy 60s movies, with a scenery film running in the back window of the General Lee during in-car shots. The General Lee from the movie is practically two car lengths longer than what you seen on the screen due to the equipment needed to make realistic rolling footage (and a roll of really bad film). Who'd have thunk it? Have a look at the gallery below, and follow the link to check out a bunch more shots of the rolling sound stages. Thanks for the tip, Brian!
Gallery: Movie Camera Cars
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jesse 8:23PM (9/25/2008)
Why would you repost these pictures, with barely any mention of there source, and leave out the captions? this is just a reposting of pictures with their captions removed and replaced with two paragraphs of crappy observations based on no research
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steve 12:38AM (9/26/2008)
very well put sir
Rob 12:46AM (9/26/2008)
I saw this EXACT COMMENT on another site! Why would you copy this comment from them with only a few words rearranged.
Lee 8:26PM (9/25/2008)
" longer than what you seen on the screen "
What?
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Berto 8:50PM (9/25/2008)
That's what she said.
Cary 9:23PM (9/25/2008)
It's fine, leave him alone. His parents also misspelled his first name in the birth certificate. We'll let it slide this time.
Fooman 8:25PM (9/25/2008)
BOO no mention of the GT40 camera car used in the movie LeMans. Or the Citron DS used for the GT40 car commercial.
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Bert 8:29PM (9/25/2008)
Has anyone ever mentioned that Autoblog is actually a time machine??? It reports what others have reported days ago.
Maybe it has something to do with Autoblog Green, all that recycling and all.
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Automann 9:42PM (9/25/2008)
Yup!
Every blog must publish the news, at the same time.
'Cause we are all like Lee, UP-TO-DATE, with a lot of other sites.
We MUST receive this important news, as SOONER as we can.
(Seriously, Lee, this is not autoblogbreakingnews.com)
Automann 3:30AM (9/29/2008)
Ooops, sorry Lee.
I meant Bert.
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Bert 11:25PM (9/25/2008)
Not up to date, but if one 'reports' something, say 3, 4 or 5 days later, one would hope that the 'reporter' would have something to add to the discussion. This is a global discussion after all. I would hate to think that the operators of this site thinks that readers only read this one and only site.
THIS is important news?
Lee 8:34PM (9/25/2008)
"longer than what you seen on the screen"
What?
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matt 12:05AM (9/26/2008)
twice, is that really needed now?
Lee 12:09AM (9/26/2008)
Uh, no. Reposted by mistake.
Berto 8:54PM (9/25/2008)
Watching these in action is pretty cool. There is a company here in San Francisco that uses a couple of Porsche cayenne camera cars.
I have seen them twice filming in the Transbay terminal in SF. Once they were actually filming a commercial for the Acura TSX before its debut... unfortunately the security was ridiculous!!
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Miguel 9:27PM (9/25/2008)
"Looking less like Transformers and more like space junk peddled by the sand people..."
Junk peddlers?
I think you were looking for Jawas: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jawa
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EXP Jawa 8:20AM (9/26/2008)
Exactly!
Diego 9:39PM (9/25/2008)
no mention of the Cayenne used in Transformers
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BoxerFanatic 12:12AM (9/26/2008)
wow that is a lot of stuff strapped to those things.
That black CTS-V with the blacked out mesh grille is hawt, though. Very sinister.
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Torrent 2:22AM (9/26/2008)
I agree. It looks great all black- very menacing. Makes me think that's what the old V shoulda looked like.