rmchrgr
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I don't really watch TV but a friend of mine alerted me to a new TV show called "Duster".
Duster TV show
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Lord Sparky
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He’s been lost since Lost.
Dartvader440gt
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I'll give it a try.
middleagecrisis
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Any reviews?
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middleagecrisis
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Looks good! Since it’s period correct, should be lots of older iron besides the duster. Hopefully the show doesn’t take out a bunch of dusters like the Dukes of Hazzard did to the Chargers, lol.
rmchrgr
Skate And Destroy
This is an excerpt of a preview article about the show. The picture car Coordinator of the show, Ted Moser was interviewed for it and here's what he said;
"One Duster was used as what’s called the “hero car,” a picture-ready vehicle beautiful enough, inside and out, to be shot in close-up. The other three were stunt cars, retooled with automatic transmissions and designed to accommodate camera placements. They were joined by more than 250 other vehicles, including a replica of Howard Hughes’s Lincoln “Aero-Mobile,” a vintage Jaguar, a Ford Thunderbird, various trucks and the Plymouth Belvedere driven by Nina, the F.B.I. agent played by Rachel Hilson, the other series lead. (That Jim and Nina both drive Plymouths suggests a potential friendship.)
When a script required Moser to bang up these classic cars, even wreck them, he found it hard.
“Well, there’s a finite amount of them,” he said. “Every one you destroy is one less.” For crash cars he goes out of his way to find what he called, “a real rust bucket, something that wouldn’t be restored anyway.”
It’s easy to imagine a version of “Duster” that cuts corners, or screeches around them, with cars that perhaps aren’t quite of the era or that dare a plastic windshield wiper or a radial tire. Moser won’t stand for it.
“Cars are a form of art,” he said. He intends to honor that. It’s why he worries as much as he does about the interiors, the engine sounds, those wipers.
“It’s about people looking at that show going, ‘Yeah, they got it right,’” he said."
Is what it is. The fact that the show is named after the car and having it as the main focus is pretty cool. There's no show called "Camaro" or "Mustang", right?
"One Duster was used as what’s called the “hero car,” a picture-ready vehicle beautiful enough, inside and out, to be shot in close-up. The other three were stunt cars, retooled with automatic transmissions and designed to accommodate camera placements. They were joined by more than 250 other vehicles, including a replica of Howard Hughes’s Lincoln “Aero-Mobile,” a vintage Jaguar, a Ford Thunderbird, various trucks and the Plymouth Belvedere driven by Nina, the F.B.I. agent played by Rachel Hilson, the other series lead. (That Jim and Nina both drive Plymouths suggests a potential friendship.)
When a script required Moser to bang up these classic cars, even wreck them, he found it hard.
“Well, there’s a finite amount of them,” he said. “Every one you destroy is one less.” For crash cars he goes out of his way to find what he called, “a real rust bucket, something that wouldn’t be restored anyway.”
It’s easy to imagine a version of “Duster” that cuts corners, or screeches around them, with cars that perhaps aren’t quite of the era or that dare a plastic windshield wiper or a radial tire. Moser won’t stand for it.
“Cars are a form of art,” he said. He intends to honor that. It’s why he worries as much as he does about the interiors, the engine sounds, those wipers.
“It’s about people looking at that show going, ‘Yeah, they got it right,’” he said."
Is what it is. The fact that the show is named after the car and having it as the main focus is pretty cool. There's no show called "Camaro" or "Mustang", right?
- Marvin -
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...but it looks that the Duster has Radials...
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The show as on tonight. The lead actor seems cool enough and a decent actor. The production quality of the car chases was great, I love the mobile panning and zoom shots. It felt like you were seeing it live. Good stuff.
One chase had two guys in an AMC AMX or Javelin, they jumped and rolled it. I really do hope that they use trickery and CGI even for the Fords when they show cars getting wrecked.
The plots and storyline will be what keeps people watching but it is fun seeing old cars onscreen.
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