Muse Among MenSuburban Bunny Princess?Its time for a new shtick Registered Userregular
edited March 2010
You all did such a spectacular job on those cars; your jeep looks terrific and I"m sure quite a bit of fun to sport about town. It must be nice to have such astronomic endeavers
if you have similar photos of you making your ghostbusters car, i desire to see them
desire strongly
Thread is on the way.
if by that you mean making a new thread for it, you'd probably be better off posting it in here. decent chance of the mods closing it for being a "duplicate" thread otherwise!
In September we were invited to bring the car to a 25th anniversary event at DragonCon in Atlanta, GA. Since we had already made plans to visit New York with the car we decided to make it one giant roadtrip. Denver to Indianapolis to Centralia, PA to New York to Philadelphia to Washington D.C. to Raleigh to Atlanta to St. Louis and back to Denver. The event was called Ecto Across America and we blogged the entire trip. We even rigged up our phones to broadcast the current location of the car so it could be followed with up-to-the-minute feeds.
Then, disaster. While passing through Cambridge, Ohio, we suddenly lost power in the car. We pulled over and found we couldn't start the car. We had it towed and found out the following morning that we'd spun a bearing. Luckily, the car was still under warranty so I did not have to pay for the replacement of the engine. But the trip was aborted. We rented a car and drove home and tried to avoid spending any more money that we had since I would have to fly out and retrieve the damn thing as soon as it was fixed.
Was a fairly interesting trip, though.
After a few weeks I flew back out and retrieved the car. We stopped in Chicago while I was out there and tooled around on Whacker Drive and seeing the sights on a Friday night.
Then, the trip home. Oh hey, St. Louis.
After that, a whole lotta nothing. Getting ready for the Halloween season (haunted house appearances, charities, costume parties), and taking a variety of weird pictures.
We did get to lead off a Coffin Race parade near Colorado Springs. That was a kick.
We participated in the local Denver Zombie Crawl.
Oh, and then we met Dan Aykroyd.
Who loved the car!
Another two shots I really like. 30-second long exposures with a full moon. Very neat.
This is my buddy's car. It's a hearse that's equipped with FLAME THROWERS.
Allright. So a few months back my roommates and I start watching series Scrubs from beginning to end. I've already seen the whole thing but I'm a huge *** for that show so I didn't mind. About halfway through I say, in passing, "we should go to the hospital where they filmed this before they tear it down or change it or do something to it." This thought hangs in the back of our minds for several weeks, it is always there, but we do not act upon it. ...yet.
A little while later I make really good friends through a replica prop-building website with this dude from the Coachella valley, and we vow to hang out the next time I am in California, explore the desert, hit up In-n-Out, take the Ecto to interesting places, the usual.
A short time later I post my cars on Somethingawful.com and I am contacted by a member named Wes, who apparently works as a tour guide for the Warner Bros. Studio. He tells us about the Batmobiles and other movie cars they have in storage, and proposes that I bring the Ecto out sometime and take a look.
Then we heard about an art auction and movie screening in Pasadena that was part of a fledgling charity. Basically they have screenings of classic 80s movies along with an art show, where you can bid on pieces made specifically for the charity. The money raised then goes to help various programs to help schools around the nation.
When the Ecto broke down in Ohio, a bunch of people raised money to help pay for potential repair and transportation costs. Since I do not see myself a cause worthy of charity, (I have two movie cars, work for Apple from home, oh poor me!) I got their permission to donate the money they raised towards something that could benefit others.
All this pretty much caused the Perfect Storm of epic roadtrips. With so much to do, and the perfect time to do it, how could resist?
So my roommate Kris, along with the owner of the largest Ghostbusters site, drove to California and had an amazing goddamn weekend.
Leaving a horrifying -10 degree Colorado, we drove 16 hours to Los Angeles.
I'd made the trip down I-70 and I-15 before on our way to San Diego, but that was in July and we managed to make it all the way to Vegas before the sun went down. Not so on this trip. We hit darkness about halfway through Utah, and experienced some truly chilling temperatures.
Welcome to Utah. "It's an ugly planet! A bug planet!"
We stopped in Las Vegas to cruise the strip for a bit, and then headed on to L.A.
I wanted to stop and get a really good long-exposure of the Ecto in front of a casino, but time constraints prevented this from being possible. Next time, Vegas. Next time!
We arrived in Burbank around 1AM and crashed at a friends house in. In the morning, we got up and planned to go over to the Scrubs hospital (North Hollywood Medical Center) to see if it was being used and if we could coerce whatever guard is there to let us in. On the way there we stopped at Fry's (which we don't have in Denver), where we started thinking about the rest of our day.
The original Ecto had recently been restored for the video game and Blu-ray release, and there were rumors that the Ecto-1A(from the second movie) was currently being worked on. We googled the company doing the work and found our way over to Cinema Vehicle Services. Basically, they are a company that owns nearly a thousand cars used by the entertainment industry. When you see NYPD cop cars, NYC taxis, news vans, SWAT vans, school buses, or period cars on tv or in a movie, odds are they came from this place. Stuff like this:
Rows and rows of fake cop cars from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, every place you could think of.
Tons and tons of ambulances and news vans, too. These were used recently in Angels and Demons.
Really, if you've seen it on TV or in a movie, it probably came from this shop!
I figured it would be closed or gated off and we wouldn't even be allowed into the main office, but when we arrived we had no difficulty driving in and parking next to a pair of 300Cs used in The Island.:rock:
I asked Bob, one of the rental coordinators, about the Ecto-1A, and he replied saying that Sony had bailed on the restoration and taken the car back just as they were getting started on the engine. Lame.
And then, without any kind of provocation, Bob stood up and told us he was going to show us around the lot. We piled into an electric cart and cruised over to the first of several warehouses. Right outside he point to this, the truck from Tango and Cash.
Good lord! Bob owns the Tango and Cash truck, as well as this monster.
Yeah. Screen-used, Fast and the Furious.
Upon entering the first warehouse, he drew our attention to this unsuspecting motorcycle.
That's the motorcycle that Iron Monger throws at Iron Man. Directly behind it, Bob flipped up a car cover to reveal...
One of the many screen-used General Lees!
Over in the corner, a pile of Eleanors from Gone in Sixty Seconds.
Next to that, oh hey it's Tony Stark's Cobra, which was crushed by the Mark II suit!
At this point, we were having trouble breathing. We were so surprised that it wasn't until later that we realized we could have asked to lay on the car and have our pictures taken. GODDAMMIT.
A ways over, one of the Goldmember Sparrows from Austin Powers.
Porsche from Californication...
Fast and the Furious... 4, I think?
He then took us outside and drove us around the lot, where we saw a ton of 70s cars currently being used in the Green Hornet, the Landcruiser from The Mist and 50 First Dates, and several old Broncos from Suns of Anarchy. We passed more cabs and random police cars with markings from departments both real and fictional. There was an entire row of SUVs with news antennas that were apparently used in Angels and Demons last year.
If you look closely, you'll see a repainted Bluth Staircar from Arrested Development.
Their rear lot. Right up next to the fence, those weird blue pod-things, those are the snowmobiles from G.I. Joe.
Down at the end was this
Casanova Frankensteins stretch-Stingray from Mystery Men. Currently for sale, apparently! As we walked back to the car, we noticed they had just brought in a pair of old Broncos from the set of Sons of Anarchy. This place was a madhouse!
We thanked Bob profusely for such an incredible opportunity, took one last look around, and left for our next adventure.
We don't need separate threads for this so I'm going to merge the 2, ok?
Er, if you think so... I usually keep them separate because one doesn't usually involve the other...
it's more of a 'two concepts that are pretty similar and the discussion of each will probably bleed over into the other, so let's just smoosh it all together'
it'll make sense if you stick around, trust me
anyway, love the vid of the pontiac monolith
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edited March 2010
not that these aren't amazingly cool
because they are
but i've heard of these things called "blogs" where you can stash all of your adventure stories and pictures in one place
i know, it sounds crazy! but you might want to check it out
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desire strongly
Please keep posting, sir
Thread is on the way.
Check out Colorado Movie Cars! It's amazing!
if you are truly soulja boy, prove it by stealing the jeep and driving it off a cliff.
Thanks in advance.
Check out Colorado Movie Cars! It's amazing!
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its me, i farted.
Then, disaster. While passing through Cambridge, Ohio, we suddenly lost power in the car. We pulled over and found we couldn't start the car. We had it towed and found out the following morning that we'd spun a bearing. Luckily, the car was still under warranty so I did not have to pay for the replacement of the engine. But the trip was aborted. We rented a car and drove home and tried to avoid spending any more money that we had since I would have to fly out and retrieve the damn thing as soon as it was fixed.
Was a fairly interesting trip, though.
After a few weeks I flew back out and retrieved the car. We stopped in Chicago while I was out there and tooled around on Whacker Drive and seeing the sights on a Friday night.
Then, the trip home. Oh hey, St. Louis.
After that, a whole lotta nothing. Getting ready for the Halloween season (haunted house appearances, charities, costume parties), and taking a variety of weird pictures.
We did get to lead off a Coffin Race parade near Colorado Springs. That was a kick.
We participated in the local Denver Zombie Crawl.
Oh, and then we met Dan Aykroyd.
Who loved the car!
Check out Colorado Movie Cars! It's amazing!
And it is worthy of some form of award.
Edit: Keith, it's the same guy.
I CANNOT DIVIDE MY SHEER ADMIRATION ACROSS TWO THREADS
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the crystal skull booze
This is my buddy's car. It's a hearse that's equipped with FLAME THROWERS.
Allright. So a few months back my roommates and I start watching series Scrubs from beginning to end. I've already seen the whole thing but I'm a huge *** for that show so I didn't mind. About halfway through I say, in passing, "we should go to the hospital where they filmed this before they tear it down or change it or do something to it." This thought hangs in the back of our minds for several weeks, it is always there, but we do not act upon it. ...yet.
A little while later I make really good friends through a replica prop-building website with this dude from the Coachella valley, and we vow to hang out the next time I am in California, explore the desert, hit up In-n-Out, take the Ecto to interesting places, the usual.
A short time later I post my cars on Somethingawful.com and I am contacted by a member named Wes, who apparently works as a tour guide for the Warner Bros. Studio. He tells us about the Batmobiles and other movie cars they have in storage, and proposes that I bring the Ecto out sometime and take a look.
Then we heard about an art auction and movie screening in Pasadena that was part of a fledgling charity. Basically they have screenings of classic 80s movies along with an art show, where you can bid on pieces made specifically for the charity. The money raised then goes to help various programs to help schools around the nation.
When the Ecto broke down in Ohio, a bunch of people raised money to help pay for potential repair and transportation costs. Since I do not see myself a cause worthy of charity, (I have two movie cars, work for Apple from home, oh poor me!) I got their permission to donate the money they raised towards something that could benefit others.
All this pretty much caused the Perfect Storm of epic roadtrips. With so much to do, and the perfect time to do it, how could resist?
So my roommate Kris, along with the owner of the largest Ghostbusters site, drove to California and had an amazing goddamn weekend.
Leaving a horrifying -10 degree Colorado, we drove 16 hours to Los Angeles.
I'd made the trip down I-70 and I-15 before on our way to San Diego, but that was in July and we managed to make it all the way to Vegas before the sun went down. Not so on this trip. We hit darkness about halfway through Utah, and experienced some truly chilling temperatures.
Welcome to Utah. "It's an ugly planet! A bug planet!"
We stopped in Las Vegas to cruise the strip for a bit, and then headed on to L.A.
I wanted to stop and get a really good long-exposure of the Ecto in front of a casino, but time constraints prevented this from being possible. Next time, Vegas. Next time!
We arrived in Burbank around 1AM and crashed at a friends house in. In the morning, we got up and planned to go over to the Scrubs hospital (North Hollywood Medical Center) to see if it was being used and if we could coerce whatever guard is there to let us in. On the way there we stopped at Fry's (which we don't have in Denver), where we started thinking about the rest of our day.
The original Ecto had recently been restored for the video game and Blu-ray release, and there were rumors that the Ecto-1A(from the second movie) was currently being worked on. We googled the company doing the work and found our way over to Cinema Vehicle Services. Basically, they are a company that owns nearly a thousand cars used by the entertainment industry. When you see NYPD cop cars, NYC taxis, news vans, SWAT vans, school buses, or period cars on tv or in a movie, odds are they came from this place. Stuff like this:
Rows and rows of fake cop cars from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, every place you could think of.
Tons and tons of ambulances and news vans, too. These were used recently in Angels and Demons.
Really, if you've seen it on TV or in a movie, it probably came from this shop!
I figured it would be closed or gated off and we wouldn't even be allowed into the main office, but when we arrived we had no difficulty driving in and parking next to a pair of 300Cs used in The Island.:rock:
I asked Bob, one of the rental coordinators, about the Ecto-1A, and he replied saying that Sony had bailed on the restoration and taken the car back just as they were getting started on the engine. Lame.
And then, without any kind of provocation, Bob stood up and told us he was going to show us around the lot. We piled into an electric cart and cruised over to the first of several warehouses. Right outside he point to this, the truck from Tango and Cash.
Good lord! Bob owns the Tango and Cash truck, as well as this monster.
Yeah. Screen-used, Fast and the Furious.
Check out Colorado Movie Cars! It's amazing!
Are you thinking about any new projects?
That's the motorcycle that Iron Monger throws at Iron Man. Directly behind it, Bob flipped up a car cover to reveal...
One of the many screen-used General Lees!
Over in the corner, a pile of Eleanors from Gone in Sixty Seconds.
Next to that, oh hey it's Tony Stark's Cobra, which was crushed by the Mark II suit!
At this point, we were having trouble breathing. We were so surprised that it wasn't until later that we realized we could have asked to lay on the car and have our pictures taken. GODDAMMIT.
A ways over, one of the Goldmember Sparrows from Austin Powers.
Porsche from Californication...
Fast and the Furious... 4, I think?
He then took us outside and drove us around the lot, where we saw a ton of 70s cars currently being used in the Green Hornet, the Landcruiser from The Mist and 50 First Dates, and several old Broncos from Suns of Anarchy. We passed more cabs and random police cars with markings from departments both real and fictional. There was an entire row of SUVs with news antennas that were apparently used in Angels and Demons last year.
If you look closely, you'll see a repainted Bluth Staircar from Arrested Development.
Their rear lot. Right up next to the fence, those weird blue pod-things, those are the snowmobiles from G.I. Joe.
Down at the end was this
Casanova Frankensteins stretch-Stingray from Mystery Men. Currently for sale, apparently! As we walked back to the car, we noticed they had just brought in a pair of old Broncos from the set of Sons of Anarchy. This place was a madhouse!
We thanked Bob profusely for such an incredible opportunity, took one last look around, and left for our next adventure.
Check out Colorado Movie Cars! It's amazing!
You can link this post in the OP and change the title if you want.
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Er, if you think so... I usually keep them separate because one doesn't usually involve the other...
Check out Colorado Movie Cars! It's amazing!
honestly this conversion is totally unconscionable as far as I'm concerned
it'll make sense if you stick around, trust me
anyway, love the vid of the pontiac monolith
because they are
but i've heard of these things called "blogs" where you can stash all of your adventure stories and pictures in one place
i know, it sounds crazy! but you might want to check it out