[DMCForum] Re: My Delorean to be on VH1 and in the theaters!!

["Flavia" <frvianna@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Kevin, how cool!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the pictures too, post more, 
post more :)
I can't wait to see it on TV!
Congrats for your famous car.

Flavia
--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Kevin Abato <delorean@xxxx> wrote:
> I just got home from a video shoot with VH1 in NYC today.  They are 
using my
> Delorean for some promo spots for the upcoming "I love the 80s - 
3D" (third
> installment of the series)
>  
> I was on the shooting location from 10:00-6:30 today and it was a 
treat to
> not only work with the crew, but to see how much interest my car 
generated
> by passers by, the actors, and the crew!
>  
> From what I can tell, two commercial promos were shot today.
>  
> The first has "Mr.. 80s" walking around the city with a BIG 
boombox, and
> people freezing after they see him (not sure what this was all 
about...)
> there were other actors dressed in some pretty outlandish 80s garb 
also.   I
> believe that this will be a promotion used in the movie theaters in 
the next
> couple of months.   The end features Mr.. 80s hitchhiking and 
catching a
> ride in my car.  I did all the driving, but you don't see me in the 
final
> shoots.   They put a plate on my car that said "I {HEART} 80s 3D"  
(heart
> was a symbol).   I tried to keep the plate, but the production crew 
said I
> couldn't.  :(
>  
> The second shoot was my car with a red carpet, red velvet ropes 
(VIP style)
> and dry ice smoke filtering out.   Little did I know, that they had 
Corey
> Feldman set up to do the shoot!  I got to talk to him for a while 
and have
> my picture taken with him also.  He told me he LOVED the car.  :)
>  
> The guy from the movie car rental company (who set me up with the 
gig and
> flat bedded my car into and out of the city) told me he has worked 
with
> hundreds of cars (some costing millions of dollars) on movie sets, 
video
> shoots, etc... and has NEVER seen a car get as much attention as my 
Delorean
> did.  He was amazed!
>  
> There is no set "air date" since it is a commercial spot.  If 
anyone happens
> to catch it and can record it for me...PLEASE DO!!!!!!
>  
> I am working on putting some shots online, but here are a couple 
for now:
> http://www.deloreanmidatlantic.com/scrapbook/love80s/CRW_8197.jpg  
Corey
> Feldman shooting the promo  (Note...he has 3D glasses on under the
> sunglasses that were used later in the shoot)
> http://www.deloreanmidatlantic.com/scrapbook/love80s/DSC05086b.jpg  
Me with
> Corey Feldman
> http://www.deloreanmidatlantic.com/scrapbook/love80s/CRW_8138.jpg  
The car
> with the plate
>  
>  
> Kevin Abato
> Vin# 16680
> 
> 
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