The Ferrari knock-off was a yellow 355 in the movie The Rock with Nicholas
Cage and Sean Connery. They took a car that needed body work, repaired it
(minus paint). Then made molds from the original car. Any of the chase
scenes were of the reproduction car. The shots of it sitting still were the
original. The company that made the car for the movie also produced kit
cars. They started selling body kits for a stretched fiero frame a few
months after the movie was released. I think the legal troubles you are
referring to are the ones the company had when ferrari saw just how
authentic the body lines were to their own car. Ferrari has a crack legal
team and aren't scared to use them. The F355 fiero rebody kits are pretty
much nonexistant now.
Arthur
Also love kit cars (though I haven't purchased one)
> << Usually when you see a nice car (old or new) being destroyed (unless it
is a
> very common or inexpensive car) for a production, it is a replica. That
is
> one of the things that keeps the kit car business going. It also leads to
> some legal issues as in one movie (I don't know which) a Ferrari 355 is
> destroyed. Well, they could not afford to do that in reality, so a
replica
> was "splashed" off of it (kit car term for making a replica from the
> existing body) and it was mounted to a fiero chassis. The fiero died for
> the cause. In fact, the panel lines were painted on (the panels did not
> open as on the real one!) just for the illusion.
>
> Now, for the Dukes of Hazzard, they destoryed real chargers (sorry MOPAR
> fans!) Watch a rerun sometime - those cars bent something fierce when
they
> hit the ground!
>
> By the way, did anyone know that there is a kit car body available for the
> Datsun Roadster chassis? It resembles a Ferrari Birdcage if I recall
> correctly.
>
> Sid
> (also a Kit Car enthusiast)
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