Advertising Last completed movie pages 1941 Ford F8 CMPClass: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2011-01-27 15:18 |
Is that one of the Canadian made military vehicle? |
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◊ 2011-01-27 15:42 |
Ford (Canada) F60H, RHD as made for British Army? |
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◊ 2011-01-27 15:46 |
I think it was actually supposed to be a Japanese vehicle in the movie (though that doesn't mean it was in real life). |
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◊ 2011-01-27 18:16 |
There's no need to put RHD in the extra info, because all Canadian Military Pattern trucks were right hand drive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Military_Pattern_truck |
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◊ 2012-06-30 09:51 |
It's actually a Ford F8, also written '8cwt', or "800-weight". It was indeed supposed to play a Japanese vehicle and I had to give the actor a quick lesson. Those things are incredibly cramped and hard to drive if you're taller than 5'5". We did this scene over a couple of nights in mid-late September when the nights were already starting to get pretty cold and dewy just before dawn. Because this was one of the 'collector pieces' taht wasn't to be repainted or altered in any way, they had to be satisfied with a good "tech-down" (fullers earth, glycerine and rubber cement to make permanent 'dirt', and hairspray on the headlights) to make it less shiny and less Canadian. I think this one's a 1941. Chevrolet and Ford both made the CMP vehicles in different sizes, and the cabs changed in later production vehicles to a design which had the windshield glass "tilt the wrong way"; that is, it would slope from top to bottom *towards* the driver and not away as in the F8 in the picture. |
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