Surfing over the various movie blogs and websites I frequent throughout the corse of a day I found a rather interesting interview with Dennis McCarthy who supplied the vehicles on the upcoming Justin Lin film ‘Fast & Furious’.

It’s probably a lot more interesting if you know anything at all about cars but he does talk a lot about the movie making side of things and I did find that rather interesting.
I’m assuming you don’t tell them you’re buying it for a movie.
MCCARTHY: We do not, no. I mean, eventually we have to because the check comes from Universal. But you never use that when you’re in the negotiating stage.
They won’t sell it to you.
MCCARTHY: Sometimes they won’t sell it to you. Because they’re afraid…a lot of times, these cars are their babies. “Oh, we’ll take great care of it.”
Some of these cars aren’t gonna make it out in one piece. Does it break your heart?
MCCARTHY: The majority of these cars aren’t gonna make it out in one piece. Very few cars will make it out. You know, with some of them I would say — like the ‘70 Chevelle is one of my personal favorites. So yeah, it is hard when, for instance, they take out the side of a car in a scene and say, “Ok, we need to match a perfectly cherry ‘70 Chevelle with that one.” So we have to literally break out sledghammers of a forklift and start pounding the side of the car in. Yeah, that’s a little grim. We do it all the time, but there are some cars that I’m fond of and it’s painful to watch.
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Source: Collider