Tunisia's Star Wars locations: Hunting down podracer engines in Port el Kantaoui, near Sousse

[@ScafidiTravels]

Come for a full tour of Mr Kamel Souilah's Star Wars shop down in Nefta: ua-cam.com/video/h-ohtQuf9rA/v-deo.html

[@mitchdarby8027]

My guess is that all of those engines were from Star Wars (aka Episode I aka The Phantom Menace). There were 18 pod racer engines in total that were built in England and shipped to Tunisia for filming. I think most were were built from wood, plaster, styrene, etc., but a few were adapted from existing plane engines. I'm definitely not an authority on pod racer engines, but you can get a few glimpses of them on location in this featurette from back in the day (nearly 30 years ago!!)...
ua-cam.com/video/8TO9ydF2tKQ/v-deo.html

[@ScafidiTravels]

Thanks Mitch, I'll check this out!