Wendy's Commercial with Olds
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Regarding the commercial, all of that queso makes me nauseous.
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Sure they do! Hollywood has plenty of money. The production company will try to get you to do it for 'free' saying your car will be on TV but if you know what you're doing you can always get paid for a featured vehicle, not so much for background. (they use crew vehicles if possible) I PROMISE you there is a budget for the vehicles used in production and you will want to review the insurance they will provide while your car is being used. What happens when a butterfingered teamster is trying to shine his big 4 "D" cell Maglite on the VIN of your 440-6 70 Roadrunner and drops that heavy light on the fiberglass hood? (thank God for the newer LED tac lites) What about when an unsecured pop up tent blows across the parking area and wraps itself around your gullwing Benz? Witnessed both those incidents.
I keep offering my vehicles to local productions, especially when I'm already working on set but nothing has made it to screen yet. My 83 Dodge 4X4 short bed was cast as the truck for the abusive father who beat his son in the 2010 20th Century Fox television production "Lone Star". I was instructed to leave it "as is". It was filthy from working the rural locations and hauling the catering trash out of base camp. The show was cancelled at episode 5. My truck was devastated. He told all his friends and never even made it on screen, but I still got paid.
I've tried to get both my current Olds in a production but it hasn't happened yet. The 67 Cutlass convertible is a hard sell since it's red. They rarely want red cars. The 76 442 was "too nice" when they were casting a scene calling for "hard looking homies with beater cars". A crappy G body lowrider Cutlass, gold with 13 inch wire wheels made it though. My green 96 Chevy dually got cropped out of a scene that aired 2 weeks ago at the night club set.(background) I'll see if I can get one in season 3 of "Queen of the South" on USA Network next year.
I keep offering my vehicles to local productions, especially when I'm already working on set but nothing has made it to screen yet. My 83 Dodge 4X4 short bed was cast as the truck for the abusive father who beat his son in the 2010 20th Century Fox television production "Lone Star". I was instructed to leave it "as is". It was filthy from working the rural locations and hauling the catering trash out of base camp. The show was cancelled at episode 5. My truck was devastated. He told all his friends and never even made it on screen, but I still got paid.
I've tried to get both my current Olds in a production but it hasn't happened yet. The 67 Cutlass convertible is a hard sell since it's red. They rarely want red cars. The 76 442 was "too nice" when they were casting a scene calling for "hard looking homies with beater cars". A crappy G body lowrider Cutlass, gold with 13 inch wire wheels made it though. My green 96 Chevy dually got cropped out of a scene that aired 2 weeks ago at the night club set.(background) I'll see if I can get one in season 3 of "Queen of the South" on USA Network next year.
Last edited by texxas; Aug 12, 2017 at 08:55 AM.
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From: Brazil Indiana
I only know of a local advertisement from several years ago. They told my buddy that they don't pay because they could easily find the next guy that would want there car in one. He told them to find someone else thinking they would pay but they had someone else lined up in about an hour.
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Pay to play
they pay or they can find another car. My black car got props at stop lights and everywhere. If an advertiser wanted to profit from it they would have to share the wealth. Your time is worth something too. Business 101. I took a photo of my car in front of Anheiser Bush's Grants farm and they would not let me use the picture in the Olds Calander because I may profit from it and they did not want anything but beer associated with their front gate.
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