Oh no not another fake Ferrari

[Mr Roper]

deltashad said:

Hardcastle and McCormick car was a beetle, with a 914 engine. It just looked like a McLaren.... ish.




Now, I thought that Automan used a fake Countach,I just checked, they didn't. A real LP400 was used for the show. Big budget, shame it flopped. loved that program.

Hardcastle and McCormick....two words I've not heard for a long time.

[007 VXR]

Ari said:

By the way, fake or not, still totally the coolest car ever to appear on screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0oSrjLlwY

[blippo1984]

Fun Bus said:

Rushmore said:

What about Knight Riders' car is it reel.

I believe it was a kitt car.

[oobster]

swerni said:

y2blade said:

StreetHawk was fake
So was Blue Thunder & AirWolf

fk off!

Airwolf was real!!,

I think I read somewhere, perhaps Wikipedia (so its probably untrue) but Airwolf was sold to some German air ambulance type of mob after the series finished. It was then in a fatal accident.

[007 VXR]

oobster said:

swerni said:

y2blade said:

StreetHawk was fake
So was Blue Thunder & AirWolf

fk off!

Airwolf was real!!,

I think I read somewhere, perhaps Wikipedia (so its probably untrue) but Airwolf was sold to some German air ambulance type of mob after the series finished. It was then in a fatal accident.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[ARAF]

oobster said:

swerni said:

y2blade said:

StreetHawk was fake
So was Blue Thunder & AirWolf

fk off!

Airwolf was real!!,

I think I read somewhere, perhaps Wikipedia (so its probably untrue) but Airwolf was sold to some German air ambulance type of mob after the series finished. It was then in a fatal accident.

That's what comes from hitting the turbo boost button by mistake.

[fjord]

I wish they'd air miami vice again on tv.

Well overdue.

[y2blade]

swerni said:

y2blade said:

StreetHawk was fake
So was Blue Thunder & AirWolf

fk off!

Airwolf was real!!,

[F1GTRUeno]

The Surveyor said:

Conian said:

The Z4 in ... Golden Eye (I think) wasnt a real one.
BMW wanted the car in the film, but didnt have production cars ready, so lent them a prototype and told them to make copies which had to live up to BMW quality.

It was a Z8 in Golden Eye which was a replica, not a Z4. Still, as it was cut in half that probably wasn't a bad thing!

It was a Z3 in GoldenEye.

It was a Z8 in The World is Not Enough, which wasn't ready and therefore wasn't actually a Z8. Thankfully they didn't cut a real one up in the film.

[007 VXR]

fjord said:

I wish they'd air miami vice again on tv.

Well overdue.

This thread just made me buy the box set from amizon for £39

[fjord]

007 VXR said:

This thread just made me buy the box set from amizon for £39

Epic buy sir

[GC8]

F1GTRUeno said:

The Surveyor said:

Conian said:

The Z4 in ... Golden Eye (I think) wasnt a real one.
BMW wanted the car in the film, but didnt have production cars ready, so lent them a prototype and told them to make copies which had to live up to BMW quality.

It was a Z8 in Golden Eye which was a replica, not a Z4. Still, as it was cut in half that probably wasn't a bad thing!

It was a Z3 in GoldenEye.

It was a Z8 in The World is Not Enough, which wasn't ready and therefore wasn't actually a Z8. Thankfully they didn't cut a real one up in the film.

In a making of documentary they state that it was a valuable protoype. Obviously a GRP rep was cut up later on.

[CampDavid]

DanielSan said:

bakerstreet said:

Eighteeteewhy said:

American stock car underneath IIRC?

I think they did make some Astons for that same bond film using 4x4 running gear mated to Mustang V8 engines.

The cars used for driving on ice (Jag and Aston) both had yank V8 lumps and 4x4 systems.

On another note, Eleanor in Gone in 60 seconds is a fake GT500.

Edited by DanielSan on Sunday 27th January 21:47

There were loads of Eleanors made, 12 in fact. 5 died in filming while only 3 were fully "Hero" spec and only one of them had the full interior with the "Go Baby Go" button. It was sold in 2012 at Coys Autosport sale. Price was circa £100k

[405dogvan]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

The 'Bueler 250 GT California was a rep as well.

Sold at auction couple if years back (well one of them did) for a pretty reasonable sum iirc

IMO the fact is was Ferris Bueller's car should make it worth easily as much as a real Ferrari - FERRIS BUELLER FOR fkS SAKE

[GC8]

If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up...

[RobTVR.]

chr15b said:

Rushmore said:

What about Knight Riders' car is it reel.

Can it catch fish?

[Ari]

soad said:

Ari said:

Yup, totally common knowledge. Ferrari North America threatened to sue, but by then Miami Vice was so big that they negotiated the use of several Testarossas instead, and the Daytona bit the dust, blown up in one of the episodes.

Good job too, as Testarossa looked way way cooler.

GET! OUT!

[Ari]

fjord said:

007 VXR said:

This thread just made me buy the box set from amizon for £39

Epic buy sir

Absolutely! Best series ever!

Don't know what happened to the cars, but the boat is still going strong! Filmed last year...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74prTiUTsh4

[CampDavid]

405dogvan said:

IMO the fact is was Ferris Bueller's car should make it worth easily as much as a real Ferrari - FERRIS BUELLER FOR fkS SAKE

A GT Cali is £5m all day long...

[Nedzilla]

A fake testarossa was also used in miami vice.This was used as a stunt car so as not to damage one of the two real testarossas which were used in the show.The fake was based on an early 70's De Tomaso Pantera.