My new project - Movie car

[Morpheus]

Great pics! Can't wait to see the progress!

[MML]

One very important plate that is missing from that site...

1970 Colorado plate, OA-5599

On the 1970 Dodge Challenger, with a 440-Magnum, and a 4-speed and a Hurst shifter, as seen in the original Vanishing Point.

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Here it is!
http://www.celebritymachines.com/page/oa5599.html

[DL4567]

That's terrible. Worst JPJeep I have seen, That white bucket is the wrong size and everyone knows it should be grey, and it's totally in the wrong spot - you need to scour an old airfield and find an authentic grey one. No, you can't take a cast of mine, find your own.

(just to make you feel like you are in a prop forum)

Sounds like someone's been spending lots of time on prop forums!! hehe What you wrote is super-accurate.

[Parzval]

Must be something with tropical locales, as they managed to get the VW Bus started with an old tank of gas that was about maybe 20 years old too... though Hurley had to push it down a hill to get it to start.

Man, that was my first thought too. And Hurley definitely rode that way farther down the hill than he needed to pop that clutch. There wouldn't have been room for a second/third attempt.

[MartyP]

Lookin good so far! I've considered building one of these too and would love to own one some day. Just not enough hours in the day as it is for all the other projects I've got going.

Looks like you did a good job matching the paint colors and sheen on the finish. Did you use vinyl for the red or is it masked off/plasti-dip?

Hi mark, everything is painted. I didn't go halfway. the fender flares where painted beige by themselves and attached them to the jeep and painted the red.

It is the actual screen used color.

I'm really trying to make this one screen accurate. I'm still missing the front fogs and the winch, and also the green interior door panels with the leather pouches.

The Jabsco overhead light will be home next week. (these are pricey $$$$)

[Timebender]

Man, that was my first thought too. And Hurley definitely rode that way farther down the hill than he needed to pop that clutch. There wouldn't have been room for a second/third attempt.

All for the drama as they were nearing a cliff.

[Rich W]

Just thought I would throw in a reference photo.

D Rex posing with a JP Jeep earlier this Spring.

D-Rex_and_JP_Jeep.jpg

[Nicholas R]

Just thought I would throw in a reference photo.

D Rex posing with a JP Jeep earlier this Spring.

D-Rex_and_JP_Jeep.jpg

That Jeep must have been made before the high definition version of the movie was released. For years a lot of people thought that the color of the jeeps was silver/grey. As a result you see a lot of JP jeeps painted that color. As the movie got released in better and better quality, it became apparent that the color was actually a tan/beige color, not silver. The color just wasn't picked up very well on video tape or low quality digital releases. MartyP's is the true screen used color.

[Kane]

I have been thinking about what to get for my next movie car and would love to get a JP Jeep as my daily driver. But it looks like quite a bit of work to do the conversion. I am too impatient to put that much time into it. Maybe one day...

[MartyP]

That Jeep with the D-Rex is a TJ, so that's far from screen accurate. But it all depends what you want.

You need a YJ (1992 to 1995) preferably already sand beige and preferably Sahara edition to have the side steps and right interior.

And rust will be your biggest issue here, as these thing DO RUST a lot, body and frame.

For the rest depending on which number you are doing, it is not really complicated. I went with the most complicated one with the overhead lights.

I'm doing mine as close as I can to screen accurate.