In the Grage Picture of the month there is a Fiero stripped down to be a photo chase car. It is in the shop with many other project this guy in Texas has.
Thanks for the contact info guys. Here is my invite.
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e-mail: Greetings Jeff. We on Pennocks Fiero Forum have taken notice of your Fiero camera chase car in the November issue of Car Craft. I am contacting you on behalf of myself. Why a Fiero? Because of it's handling? Are you a Fiero person? Me thinks so. I want to take this opportunity to invite you down here to Kerrville Texas for the Rockin Red River Ruckus Road Rally https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/064489.html in October. This is the sixth annual Red River Ruckus of which I am the host this year. We have many Fieros coming from all over Texas and beyond. Including a custom choptop with suicide doors which truely is a car magazine quality Fiero. Powered by a LT1 Chevy V-8 mated to a six speed tranny. Many other fine Fieros will be there also. You will enjoy yourself and our company. We would love to see your camera car up close. To have you film our rally cruise...well, I am dreaming. By the way, here is a link to what we are saying about your Fiero camera chase car. https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/067260.html Also, here is a link to our Fiero club in the Dallas area. http://www.northtexasfieroclub.com/ The North Texas Fiero Club. Have a great day, Cliff
Tom, you gonna make the Ruckus ?
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Posts: 3061 From: Waco, Texas, USA Registered: Mar 2006
email Well Cliff I'm very flattered that you guys have invited me to your shin dig and that you find my Camera car interesting, I could go into all kinds of crazy stories about that car but it would take hours for me to type it. I've been in the film biz for a long time and doing **** loads of car commercials, and the standard was to use a big old camera truck built out of a 1 ton truck with generator and all kinds of crap and they weigh about 7 thousand pounds and don't move very fast or just mount a camera on one of the hero cars (they usually give us 3 or more) and the grips hated mounting cameras on the hero cars cuz its not that e-z to do and point less if its not shooting the car itself, well I heard of a guy or two in LA that had built high performance camera cars one was a El Camino so I figure I could build a better one or should I say different one since I specialized in mostly car commercials at the time I figure if the camera was on the car it had to handle really well. As it was we were road racing at the time so I would walk around the pits and think of what I could do with each type of car, and I just thought that a prototype like an ALMS car would be best But I couldn't possibly afford to build a car like that, it would take 3 life times to get my investment back, then I went to visit my dad on our way to race in Sebring and I walked by the Fiero that he had bought back in 88 (he always liked them) and it hit me that that damn thing would be perfect to start with and so I spent 2 days reading books and researching the web about suspension parts and I talked to a bunch of grips and Dps about it they all said build it and we will try to talk production companies into using it, the first real job it did was a chase scene on the Walker Texas ranger show movie, and that was some crazy **** we did that day because it had to fit down a sidewalk that was 7 feet wide and I was going 60 + with a railing on one side and a concrete wall on the other. It gets changed a lot and I wish I had more money to do things but every one who hires us loves it, in fact it is going to be shooting a chase scene on Prison Break tomorrow and a commercial on wend. I could tell you all kinds of crazy stuff it has done and all the work we have done on that thing over the years, by the way it doesn't look the same as on the web site its way cooler now, I'll attach a photo.
The long and the short is I was determined to use an American car and I really wanted a mid engine so I got what I wanted and I love that thing. You have probably seen all kinds of thing it has filmed, Talk to ya latter Jeff
By the way once race season is done with this year And if your club would you guys could come by and check it out I could show you some footage of it going 120 through down town Dallas
Jeff
He included another pic of his chase care. heh...he has a Holley scoop. I can e-mail it for someone to post.
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e-mail Thank you for the reply Jeff. Very interesting. I had a thought. We on the forum have a member with a magazine, Domestic Driver ( http://www.domesticdriver.com/ ). I am not real familiar with it nor the member but, with my cut quote of yours below, I think he would be real interested in featuring your car and your story. Win Win for the both of you. Here is a link... https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/065288.html ... of him asking for entries to feature in his magazine. I think that he would be very interested.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Milburn [mailto:weld666@airmail.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:13 AM To: Cliff Smith Subject: Re: From Jeff's Film Work Website
The long and the short is I was determined to use an American car and I really wanted a mid engine so I got what I wanted and I love that thing. You have probably seen all kinds of thing it has filmed, Talk to ya latter Jeff
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Tom Slick Member
Posts: 4342 From: Alvarado, TX Registered: May 2003
, it worked for me, 
. You never know unless you try.
