Sunbeam Alpine in music video clip

[alpine_64]

Back in 1997 I was contacted to ask if my Alpine could be used in a James bond spoof music video clip. The band was a Melbourne group the "screaming jets". I left uni early that day with a borrowed hardtop on.

The car got filmed for about 2 hours, the hardtop clip in front of the attractive female driver kept falling down as we rocked the car side to side to fake the driving on the blue screen. I had to go in and re-clip it a few times.. i still remember the tight body suit suggestively unzipped that i had to lean over and into! Anyway... i digress..

I did a search on youtube.. and sure enough.. there it is..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfUdLkHL3lc

enjoy the view.. The alpine shows up at the 8sec mark then longer at 3:00 min mark.. you can see the soft top folded in the back.. i hadn't installed the hood boxed.. i had only just fitted the soft top the week before.. the filming paid for that!

 

[MikeH]

My brother-in-law had his '57 Chevy convertible in an Alabama video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i019fwYM_Pw
at 2:20 and 2:27

 

[bmohr]

Nice videos boys. Michael, did you encounter any 'overheating' issues while fixing the clip? How did you keep out of the shot while rocking the car?

 

[65beam]

video

I would worry about getting dents in the hardtop!

 

[alpine_64]

Nice videos boys. Michael, did you encounter any 'overheating' issues while fixing the clip? How did you keep out of the shot while rocking the car?

I think i might have had a very red face the first time I realised my proximity to certain areas and views I had of the actress the first time i had to fix the clip.. aint much room to get your head in the window with the HT on! And those body suits were unzipped a fair way.

It was quite a fun day.. but a bit of prep.. i had cleaned and polished the car... but it rained on the way to the studio.. so chamoised the car down when i got there. Then they had to cover all the rego and other stickers on the screen so we made some mockup Russian registration stickers and covered the others with black tape. I had to remove the front number plate as well.

We knelled behind the back of the car and shook it side to side.. That's why the front shots are so low down and also the side shot is a close-up in the window. The Bond character had a big woolen pad stuck to his underside to stop his buttons scratching the top and they used a rig to lower him on the car that was belted around his waist so no pressure on the hardtop. I was more worried that his feet were going to go through the rear window when they lowered him.

Its a pity I didn't have my camera with me at the time, should have taken photos of the car in the studio and with all the people walking around it etc... but that was before the digi-cam days.. and no mobiles with cameras.. then again.. i might have forgotten to take pictures of the car!

I also notice it has the large thin rim wheel i used to have on the car... I think i took that off mid 1998 or so... hard to believe this was over 16 years back.. watching the video reminded me of so many details of the day..

 

[sunbeamowner]

A couple of screen shots..... Click on the thumbnail to enlarge.