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I once provided my Mk1 Escort Mexico for an episode of Holby City a few years back. Was only required to be static in the hospital car park whilst the guest star of the week, Junior Simpson, tinkered under the bonnet.
Guess I kind of got paid as they covered all expenses for getting the car down there...plus a little bit extra. Was also fed and looked after all day on the set and given a tour round the studio lots including Albert Square (which is/was the set next door).
Guess I kind of got paid as they covered all expenses for getting the car down there...plus a little bit extra. Was also fed and looked after all day on the set and given a tour round the studio lots including Albert Square (which is/was the set next door).
standardman said:
To be honest weddings are a far better earner. Lots of fit girls and less waiting around.
Not for much longer, there are proposals afoot to enact legislation that will probably prevent the use of your classic car as a wedding car, without being subject to the requirements of private hire licensing. This is part of the Law Commission’s proposals for ‘Reforming the law of private hire and taxi services.’Riley Blue said:
Not for much longer, there are proposals afoot to enact legislation that will probably prevent the use of your classic car as a wedding car, without being subject to the requirements of private hire licensing. This is part of the Law Commission’s proposals for ‘Reforming the law of private hire and taxi services.’
I would imagine that this would be almost unenforceable - the owner could say he/she was a guest at the wedding, and the fee could be paid in cash "on the day". Untraceable. The only problem would be if there was an unfortunate crash or other accident during the period of hire, when insurance documents may need to be produced.(BTW I'm not condoning law-breaking).
This was filming an episode of "Watson & Oliver" for BBC2.My car was "driving" through 60`s France and pulled up at a cafe.This was all done in a main road in Surbiton and a school play ground.It took all day to film and the sketch with my car lasted a few minutes.I had a very interesting day,full english brakefast,lovely lunch and £500,well chuffed.
nicanary said:
Riley Blue said:
Not for much longer, there are proposals afoot to enact legislation that will probably prevent the use of your classic car as a wedding car, without being subject to the requirements of private hire licensing. This is part of the Law Commission’s proposals for ‘Reforming the law of private hire and taxi services.’
I would imagine that this would be almost unenforceable - the owner could say he/she was a guest at the wedding, and the fee could be paid in cash "on the day". Untraceable. The only problem would be if there was an unfortunate crash or other accident during the period of hire, when insurance documents may need to be produced.(BTW I'm not condoning law-breaking).nicanary said:
Riley Blue said:
Easily enforceable if wedding cars are required to have local authority plates on like taxis.
So if the bride's own dad used his car instead of hiring one, he would have to have it licensed? This will be a real can of worms.lotus72 said:
this is interesting as I'm thinkingof registering my Mustang for film/tv/magazine/book work. How did youget the job with the BBC? Are you registered with any agency for vehicles or what?
Via my club (clubPeugeotUK), www.mgmcars.com based at Elstree studios needed a LHD 60`s French car for this film shoot and contacted the club who passed them on to me and I negotiated with them direct.I found registering with online agency`s a waste of time,and never PAY a fee.Send a few photo`s to Ben at MGM cars,you never know.He contacted me about an advert shoot,so I must be on his file.Good luck. Licensed operators dont WANT extra competition from "wedding" car limos and are happy to leave them to weddings (and funerals under the same AOP), once plated a Silver Spur could do airports and prom nights too, but they DO object to stretch "tart carts" doing proms with no plate/ops licence or driver badge/CRB using the "self-hire drive" dodge, not many "stretch" limos can meet the requirements of private hire (side seats see to that) or a COIF (8-16 passengers).
Some weddings (especially asian) can last all day whereas a typical CofE affair is a few hours, and its home-church-reception-end....
Some weddings (especially asian) can last all day whereas a typical CofE affair is a few hours, and its home-church-reception-end....
Upatdawn said:
Would you be happier with paying a % from what you get instead (like an other agency)?
I`m not sure what you mean?? The agent who arranged for my car to be used in the film shoot charges the film company a fee,that`s his business.He then pays me the sum we agreed beforehand for me to be with my car on site.I`m quite sure he got a lot more than me.What I meant with these so called online agents is they just have a website and nothing else,charge a fee to put your details on and nothing happens.This thread caught my eye as I've been thinking about setting up a website offering my campervan for weddings - it's an off-white splitty too which is helpful. Seems to be quite a demand nowadays and VW buses seem to usually command £250-£300 for 4 hours. Assuming you'd pay say £50 a pop to get a retired mate to chaffeur it, I figure that a couple of gigs a year would certainly cover the servicing and upkeep costs, when otherwise it would just be sat in the garage doing nothing.
However....I'm not sure I'd want to be dealing with (perhaps) all the enquiries, changes of mind, messing around etc that would clearly come with the enterprise, and suspect to do it well you'd have to turn up and tout yourself at the odd wedding fair.
Film work sounds good but there's not much call for it in this neck of the woods. Ideally you'd want to list on a database that provided cars to media companies generally, including fashion shoots etc.
ETA: slightly different type of "sitting" .... a family member had their car featured on a set of local stamps (the 50p e-type). Interestingly the Post Office over here commissioned an artist to paint the pictures for the stamps with reference to actual specific local cars, rather than just work off photographs of generic examples, so the cars had to be made available to him! The stamps are actually very detailed, although the picture doesn't show it.
However....I'm not sure I'd want to be dealing with (perhaps) all the enquiries, changes of mind, messing around etc that would clearly come with the enterprise, and suspect to do it well you'd have to turn up and tout yourself at the odd wedding fair.
Film work sounds good but there's not much call for it in this neck of the woods. Ideally you'd want to list on a database that provided cars to media companies generally, including fashion shoots etc.
ETA: slightly different type of "sitting" .... a family member had their car featured on a set of local stamps (the 50p e-type). Interestingly the Post Office over here commissioned an artist to paint the pictures for the stamps with reference to actual specific local cars, rather than just work off photographs of generic examples, so the cars had to be made available to him! The stamps are actually very detailed, although the picture doesn't show it.
Edited by CY88 on Monday 2nd July 21:06
Old Merc said:
I`m not sure what you mean?? The agent who arranged for my car to be used in the film shoot charges the film company a fee,that`s his business.He then pays me the sum we agreed beforehand for me to be with my car on site.I`m quite sure he got a lot more than me.What I meant with these so called online agents is they just have a website and nothing else,charge a fee to put your details on and nothing happens.
Its only fair that an agent makes something for their efforts, Tom Jones maybe hands over 10% of what he earns to his agent and I see no difference (except a splitty/capri/jag XK120 cant sing), what you have recounted is just another way of doing it, except he added on his slice first (swings/roundabouts).Food for thought (and to avoid the "registration fee" scam)
Edited by Upatdawn on Monday 2nd July 21:13
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