I bought a car for our next movie project, check out!

Post by **jukkasil** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:31 pm

We are planning to shoot (mainly super 8) our next film during Summer 2007. The Film is a road movie-type of thing and called as "The circle six". I just bougth (couple days ago) this nice looking car for that film project. It's a russian made GAZ M21 ("Volga") from year 1963 in very good original condition. I'll do some fixing during next Winter and that's it. So I sold one american maden electric guitar (Kramer Night swan) and bought that russian piece of metal!

Here are couple images of it:

BTW. Our spaghetti western movie called "Al Dente" is almost finnished, I'll put some info about it soon.

Post by **The Swede** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:53 pm

She is a real beaty!

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:48 pm

It runs? Nice find. Hilarious that an electric guitar can be sold for a car ;) Not too fond of Kramers myself.

Post by **flatwood** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:20 pm

Thats in pretty good shape for a 63. Thats the year I graudated from high school.

What do you plan to do preparing it for your film???

Post by **morales72** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:59 pm

The best way to invest a Kramer's money! Congratulations!

Post by **Taelon** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:16 pm

A spaghetti western called Al Dente? ROTFL. I love that name.

Nice going on the car - what role is it going to play in the film?

Post by **StoneBuilder** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:22 am

It looks like an old Simca Aronde, from the same era. Perhaps it's partial clone ?

Post by **VideoFred** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:40 am

Haha!

I know these Volga's very well. We had lots of them running here in Belgium in the sixties.
They where build like tanks. I think Poetin has one in his collection, and he is very proud of it.

Yes, they look like the big Simca models from those days.
Remember Lada was a copy of Fiat, too.

With a car like this your new film can not go wrong 8)

Fred.

Post by **jukkasil** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:53 pm

Evan Kubota wrote:It runs? Nice find. Hilarious that an electric guitar can be sold for a car ;) Not too fond of Kramers myself.

Yes, it runs (have to fix brakes etc. during next winter before we'd start shooting the film). Here is a story of that Kramer Night swan-model:

http://www.vintagekramer.com/night.htm

I'm just building myself couple more guitar, so I don't need this Kramer anymore (too hard rock-type of one for my taste), you can check my guitar projects here (sorry only for Finnish):

http://windyhilllguitars.blogspot.com/

Post by **jukkasil** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:56 pm

Taelon wrote:A spaghetti western called Al Dente? ROTFL. I love that name.

Nice going on the car - what role is it going to play in the film?

With the name of that movie you'd get the main idea of it!

Volga will have very big role in this road movie.

Post by **jukkasil** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:00 pm

StoneBuilder wrote:It looks like an old Simca Aronde, from the same era. Perhaps it's partial clone ?

You know, the first GAZ was a clone of T-model Ford, that's why russians copied also Volga from Ford area (Volga is bigger than Simca, but much influences from it too, ok Simca has also influences from 50's Fords):

http://www.volga.nl/vergelijkingsmateriaalEN.htm

The great site for information of Volgas in English:

http://www.volga.nl/indexEN.htm

Post by **jukkasil** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:04 pm

VideoFred wrote:Haha!

I know these Volga's very well. We had lots of them running here in Belgium in the sixties.
They where build like tanks. I think Poetin has one in his collection, and he is very proud of it.

Yes, they look like the big Simca models from those days.
Remember Lada was a copy of Fiat, too.

With a car like this your new film can not go wrong 8)

Fred.

In Belgium and here in Finland there were a lot of Volgas, also with diesel motor. BTW. GAZ made also Volga (model M-23) with 5,5 litre V8 motor for KGB.

Yes, Putin has a nice white one:

http://www.volga.nl/putin-bush.htm

Yuri Gagarin had one too:

http://www.volga.nl/GagarinEN.htm

Post by **jukkasil** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:58 pm

Couple new images of this car. We got it home 6.8.06 and it looks just great and after couple little fixing it will be ready for next summer shootings.

BTW, this car has been in movie also before, in the best selling movie here in Finland year 2001, called "Rentun Ruusu" (movie about the life of Finnish singer Irwin Goodman):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249110/

Two images from that movie: