Possibly the most frustrating part of our journalist jobs is the ice-cold vow of silence we’re sometimes forced to take in return for all-access passage. "We were going pretty fast at times, drifting through the streets, driving sideways, etc." "Five were 'draggers’ that were literally dragged behind the actors’ cars and the filming vehicles at freeway speeds and smashed into other objects, and the two drivers’ were essentially dropped over Ford one-ton pickup truck chassis and 454 big-block engines." We were able to shoot two vaults: the hero dragger, featuring a complete interior of locked drawers and standard vault innards, and one of the drivers complete with four-wheel electric steering, a manual transmission, a multitude of gauges, an aluminum racing bucket, and a see-through faux front control panel and armoring. "We built seven vaults for that scene, all in Puerto Rico," Dennis explains. Rather than break into a vault and make off with its contents in a speedy getaway, in the film, Dom and Brian wheel two modified Dodge Chargers to pull a vault right out of the wall it’s affixed to and drag it down public streets in a speedy getaway, using it smash anything in their way-law enforcement, parked cars, small infrastructure. All their stunts are real."īut it’s the "bank vault heist" scene that will no doubt garner the most publicity. ![]() "We drove those things through genuine cement walls, over cars, fired live ammunition at them, hit them with pyrotechnics," elaborated Dennis. Two were ordered for filming at half price, but were de-tuned a bit: based on F-350 chassis, given smaller V-10 engines and lighter armor (without blast-resistant filling between the armor plating of their bodies). It weighs 19,000 pounds and sells for about $250K. Built on a Ford F-550 platform, a fully loaded Gurkha boasts a 6.7L V-10 developing over 400 hp and 700 lb-ft of torque, ordinance-resistant NATO STANG 4569 Level 3 armor, three-inch-think ballistic glass, an optional roof-mounted weapons turret, a staggered armor grille to protect from frontal assault, and Continental 50-mile run-flat tires. (AAVI) is the Ontario-based manufacturer and retrofitter of tactical vehicles for military, law enforcement, and civilian purposes that’s responsible for this creation. For those of you not living in NATO-patrolled areas or without a price on your head, Armet Armored Vehicles Inc. ![]() ![]() Without divulging too much information, the crew’s antics land them in doubly hot water with a corrupt businessman and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson’s character, Luke Hobbs: a federal agent driving an Armet Gurkha F5. Shot in Atlanta, tuning enthusiasts will appreciate this scene for the background appearances of more than 200 tuned rides plucked right from real-life streets and import show circuits. And to do that, they organize a meet/race-think something along the lines of Ken Block’s take on Gymkhana-among more real-life, tuned, performance makes whose owners they race for titles in the film. We treated it like gold and it actually got a lot of camera time I think because of that." The plot continues with the crew devising a plan for a new heist that requires them to procure some fast, maneuverable cars to evade certain high-tech security measures. ![]() "That was a great car," said Dennis, flatly. Buying or recreating high-dollar exotics is really expensive, so I recommended we do it with older collectibles that could be cheaply replicated with crate motors and kits."Īfter things don’t exactly go as planned for the team during the train heist scene, we see them back on their hometown turf for the film-Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (filmed in Rio and parts of Puerto Rico)-with their daily drivers: Dom in a ’70 Charger, and Brian in an authentic, modified, mint-condition ’71 Nissan Skyline GT-R the real-life find of John Wiser, an Orlando, FL-based figurehead in the tuning community and assistant feature car coordinator for the film. "But the action Justin envisioned just couldn’t be executed without heavily abusing and wrecking the cars. "The producers originally planned for an Enzo Ferrari, McLaren SLR, and some other really high-dollar cars to be used in the train heist scene, to really add value to what was being stolen," he says. His job is to find, build, and wreck cars for a living. Meet Dennis McCarthy: Picture Car Coordinator for Fast Five and the aforementioned two films before it. True to franchise form, action begins at the start of the film-this time with our star characters heisting three very expensive collectible sports cars from a moving train-and never stops a product of Justin Lin’s continued occupancy of the director’s chair, and his collaboration with many of the same stunt coordinators from Fast and Furious and Tokyo Drift.
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