I had an outside shot going while a camera and my camera-girl (Persephone) were in the car capturing the scenes for the custom. I didn’t really have anything to do other than twiddle my thumbs so I thought I might as well make use of the camera I had in hand. 🙂
This video starts with Vivian getting the old Bug fired up and moved to the area we’re shooting the custom. The Bug sputters to life and some smoke comes out of the exhaust as she revs it lightly. There’s a car cover right behind the exhaust that gets a face-full of exhaust. She stalls it a few times trying to move it – I don’t know if the car was cold and being stubborn or if she was just rusty driving it.
The car is in it’s spot and she gives some hard revving to warm it up nice and good. I shouldn’t say ‘hard’ revving, I should say ‘HAAARD ASS’ revving! She’s making that little engine scream! I pop the lid so you can see that belt going wild and the throttle linkage working overtime from Vivian pumping on it.
Next is a short scene where it wasn’t starting and I mentioned it might be out of gas.
Then comes the various scenes of Vivian in character doing the custom itself. Lots of cranking, sputtering and stalling scenes filmed from outside the car at the rear, to the side and peeking in sometimes through the windows. Gotta love seeing her head bouncing up and down from pumping on it good.
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