h011yw00d

Interesting comment in the Hagerty article on fake movie cars:

http://www.hagerty.com/classic-car-a...mous-fake-cars


"Neil
NY


What about Tom Cruise's debut movie Risky Business? There's the scene where Tom's high school character and his girlfriend park his dad's Porsche 928 in front of a pier leading to a lake. They are standing behind the car when it suddenly starts to roll forward and before you know it, it's in the lake. The following scene is in an auto repair shop waiting room where the service manager enters and asks 'who's the U-boat commander?'. I was the owner of the 928 used in that scene. It wasn't a fake; rather, it was my car that had gotten submerged in ocean water due to a hurricane in 1980. When they filmed that scene, they substituted my no longer running 928 to roll into the water."


I know there has been some discussion about where it came from and what happened to that car...

SeanR

Not that it matters a lot, but it's good to know they used a trashed 928 for that part.

Speedtoys

Pause the scene, and you can see its a trashed car. No engine, busted trim..

SeanR

I'd have to want to pay attention to a Tom Cruise movie for me to notice that.

hacker-pschorr

Yea..... most of us were not paying attention to the 928 in that scene.....







But hey..... whatever trips your trigger..... NNTAWWT.....

robot808

h011yw00d

I'm just glad it was a stripped (and salt water...even better) car. You can see up into the engine bay through the fenders as it rolls and they didn't even bother to cut the springs so the front is crazy high.

safulop

I think the real car used for the driving parts was a 1984 model the director borrowed from a friend.