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[Lizzie_Zoom]

did you know they did that jump across building for real, and that the director had a waiting chopper, in case it all went t!ts up, as in Italian law then, the director would have been held responsible?

Alternative ending included them getting the money back, and banking it, but when they bank man turned around in his chair it was the Italian mafia boss?

Useless info i have stored....

Indeed Tunnie, and as I remember, but could be wrong, none of those mini's suspensions survived the jump, with numerous cars being wrecked throughout the filming.

I heard they wrecked 40

That was the figure I heard in the distant past, but always wondered if it was a bit of film world PR


BMC if I remember correctly sponsored the 'fleet' of new mini's for advertising purposes.

[Del Boy]

The new film does have one good thing going for it - ol' blondie is worth a squirt

She is pretty amazing.

[Entwood]

All the Minis featured three-point rollcages and had the back seats removed. Anyone who believes that Minis are not 'Rigid' enough should take a good look at the cars which are thrown out of the bus at the end as they roll down the mountain. If anything they are too rigid for modern crash standards, and don't crumple readily enough.

Michael Caine has gone on record as saying that BMC refused to help with the production. However, several people who were working for BMC at the time have gone on record as saying at least one Mini was specially prepared for the film, being equipped with the BMC 1800cc B-series engine and gearbox from the BMC 1800 'Landcrab', as the Coopers lacked sufficient torque to climb stairs.

No-one really knows what happened to the fleet of surviving Minis that were used on the set. As far as figures go, the production crew bought 6 Coopers and an extra 25 Mini's from Switzerland, but it's unsure how many of these were Coopers or regular Mini's. Approximately sixteen Cooper S's were used during filming. The Cooper's that were thrown out of the coach were in fact regular Mini's dressed up like Coopers. Ken Morris, one of the last of the production crew members to leave after filming in Turin stated that there were six surviving Mini's and 30 sets of mag wheels in the lock up garage that they were using. He said that he locked up and headed for the UK, and as far as he was aware neither Paramount or production company Oakhurst returned to collect them!

from

http://www.theitalianjob.com/cars_coopers.htm

[TheBoy]

did you know they did that jump across building for real, and that the director had a waiting chopper, in case it all went t!ts up, as in Italian law then, the director would have been held responsible?

Alternative ending included them getting the money back, and banking it, but when they bank man turned around in his chair it was the Italian mafia boss?

Useless info i have stored....

Indeed Tunnie, and as I remember, but could be wrong, none of those mini's suspensions survived the jump, with numerous cars being wrecked throughout the filming.

I heard they wrecked 40

That was the figure I heard in the distant past, but always wondered if it was a bit of film world PR


BMC if I remember correctly sponsored the 'fleet' of new mini's for advertising purposes.

Apparently not...

[Andy B]

shame that jump was filmed so poorly, did not do it justice 

Not bad for the day though, no CGI to fall back on! 

[Vamps]

All the Minis featured three-point rollcages and had the back seats removed. Anyone who believes that Minis are not 'Rigid' enough should take a good look at the cars which are thrown out of the bus at the end as they roll down the mountain. If anything they are too rigid for modern crash standards, and don't crumple readily enough.

Michael Caine has gone on record as saying that BMC refused to help with the production. However, several people who were working for BMC at the time have gone on record as saying at least one Mini was specially prepared for the film, being equipped with the BMC 1800cc B-series engine and gearbox from the BMC 1800 'Landcrab', as the Coopers lacked sufficient torque to climb stairs.

No-one really knows what happened to the fleet of surviving Minis that were used on the set. As far as figures go, the production crew bought 6 Coopers and an extra 25 Mini's from Switzerland, but it's unsure how many of these were Coopers or regular Mini's. Approximately sixteen Cooper S's were used during filming. The Cooper's that were thrown out of the coach were in fact regular Mini's dressed up like Coopers. Ken Morris, one of the last of the production crew members to leave after filming in Turin stated that there were six surviving Mini's and 30 sets of mag wheels in the lock up garage that they were using. He said that he locked up and headed for the UK, and as far as he was aware neither Paramount or production company Oakhurst returned to collect them!

from

http://www.theitalianjob.com/cars_coopers.htm

Imagine finding them now............

[Turk]

i hope its the original and not that dire shite american re-make

  There is ONLY 1 Italian Job with real Mini's...

................and the real, lovely, Michael Caine 8-) 8-)

Is that all you ever think about Lizzie......MEN.   

Is that all you ever think about Sethsmate.....BUSES.     

[tunnie]

shame that jump was filmed so poorly, did not do it justice 

Not bad for the day though, no CGI to fall back on! 

Oh it was a good stunt, but no doubt to budget not many filming angles, should have been much further back to show distance in involved, rather than just landing  :-/

Still, i am nit picking, cracking film 

[Vamps]

Got me looking.....
So is this a manual or an Auto??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-30-1989-John-Cooper-Conversion-from-New_W0QQitemZ250606102405QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item3a5949a785

Picture 8 :-/

[henryd]

manual ,it says so on the spec list

[Sixstring]

Just a bit of info for you......(can be easily checked up on if anybody DOESN'T believe me)

BMC were quite embarrassed by the revalations in the press that they didn't help the producers of the film, so they contacted the film company to try to "rectify" the situation and save face. The producer of the film is alleged to have said to John Gaydon (BMC PR man at the time) "Thankyou for your belated interest, but we have managed to do it all ourselves without your help. Now F*CK OFF."

He then put the phone down.

this was confirmed in one of the "Top Gear" programmes that was shown promoting the more recent film of "The Italian Job", and the BBC bleeped out Clarkson saying the reply, but it was easy to lip-read what was said..........