A couple of points, the engine shown at 1:18 is a modified 850cc engine with a Speedwell modification kit, which was an alloy cylinder head plus a twin carburettor layout and a twin-pipe silencer. It was basically designed to "soup-up" a standard Mini to Cooper S performance. Not sure why they didn't include front disc brakes as well. The other thing you missed was the running order of the cars in the film is ALWAYS red, white and blue, the exception being the replica enthusiasts who didn't bother.
The most fun chase movie after The Blues Brothers. I still want an original Mini Cooper because of this movie. Thanks for making this video - now I want to see the film again.
Funny?! I want a Mini Cooper because; in the TV show CHIPS, Jon( Larry Wilcox) owned one! I knew that if he could fit in it then, I could! Unusual Cool Car?
@@mikeks8181I don't know how tall Larry Wilcox is but I knew a truck driver at work used to have an original mini who was 6 foot 7ins!!!! He said the look of amazement on people's faces when he got out of the car was brilliant!!
"..we are the 'Self Preservation Society'.." 😂 Thanks very much for doing an episode on this great movie & these iconic cars. Proud to say I have both versions on DVD & enjoy them regularly. Skål!
One or 2 mistakes in this video, the main one is that the sewer/underground chase scenes were not filmed in italy, they were filmed in coventry UK.....the only surviving vehicle from the film is the E type jaguar (848 CRY) all of the mini's were returned to the UK and were destroyed after filming.
Not quite right. The Aston Martin (Reg ELT 123), survived also and was a show car at Pedigreed Cars, Forres, Scotland for many years. The owner of the garage had a huge collection of classic cars but not sure what happened to everythibg after he died. If you watch the movie the cars that are bulldozed off the road are rolling shells only....no engines or transmissions etc
I really enjoy your video series and I couldn't wait for you to talk about "The Italian Job". This is the movie that made me fall in love with classic Minis when I was a kid, buy a Rover Sportpack as my first car and still use it today!
Truly an iconic movie which I first saw at a local cinema in 1969 and still watch every time its on TV! I've lost count of the times i've seen it but it never fails to entertain. Many memorable lines too!!
The 'drainage pipe' stunts were actually filmed near Coventry in England where they conveniently just happened to be installing new mains sewage pipes.
@@grahambell4298 Yeah I noticed that too, what none of us mentioned (until now) is that one ended up on it's roof as they'd either gone too slow or lost traction, driver was ok though. Mind, this may be an internet rumour and not true but, I did hear that somewhere.
@@CarStarz42 No worries sir, that's the joy of being a petrol/gear head, we can all throw in some knowledge and we all get something from it so it's fun. The guy who has the three replicas built using the original chassis plates and registrations ( to make them legal) lives about an hour from me.
British company Corgi has made lots of 60s Mini Coopers over the years! And I seem to remember having an Italian Job set from long gone Dinky Toys in the 70s! Awesome video by the way! One of my fave car movies!
Same here, which is probably why I procrastinated on this one for so long before getting around to making it, but indeed the movie is full of talent, both automotive and human alike 😉👍
The "doors" scene was filmed at Crystal Palace Sports Centre grounds ,I worked there in the 80s .I saw the film when it came out at one of first t.he multi small screen cinemas in Soho .
It was actually Crystal Palace race track which was still in use at the time. It closed finally in 1974(ish). They left a bit of a mess on the top straight, I remember going there for a practice day (in a mini!) and the track staff were still trying to clean up.
For the scene where the Minis come down the stairs, the director secured permission to bring ‘macchina’ ,(generic Italian word for machines), through the building and down the stairs. The building owners were not happy when they realised it was 3 cars!
as a young teen my father was service manager for Dominion Motors here in New Zealand. One day in 1962 he brought home a Morris Mini 850cc and took us for a little ride out of the town where we lived, the ride was not far but the cars seemed so small to his Morris Minor at the time. In my life I owned many Mini cars both Austin and Morris, I could work on them fairly easily, they were certainly fun to drive and great to park fuel consumption was not too bad, I taught a few youngsters to drive them in later life Thanks for a great post
I love the minis but I have to mention the Harrington legionnaire coach only 58 where made so very rare the one from the film was unfortunately scraped in 1990 in Scotland
Excellent subject matter here, man! Very glad to see this, as any info on these HAD to be extremely hard to come up with. Another ICONIC movie, that made a seriously memorable impact in childhood. Thank you!
Classic car chase movie. I'd love to something on some less-known old car chase movies, like 1978's 'The Driver' with Ryan O'Neal, or the insane (illegaly filmed) chase in 'The Seven-Ups' (1973) with Roy Schneider.
Iv'e watched The Italian Job many times, but only the first few minutes for the Miura .Maybe I should check out the rest of it for the Italian scenery.
@@CarStarz42Perhaps you could do a video on another European movie ( French) "A man and a woman " 1966 .The car stars are , GT40, '66 Mustang GT coupe , ''66 Mustang convertible ( maybe they were '65,s ?) the driving in the racing scenes was done by well known French racing driver Henri Chemin , who was a Ford of France driver in Mustangs, and later on for Chrysler/Simca in a '70 Hemi Barracuda, which Iv'e heard was the car of either Swede Savage , or Dan Gurney in the 1970 Trans Am series ( with the 304 ci engine replaced with a Hemi) .
For the 2003 remake, the modern mini's were all modified in a hanger at Whiteman Airport in Pacoima CA. When I was flying out of there, I would walk over to see how the work was progressing for a few months before the movie was made.
Fantastic upload! Always loved the mini in its original form (and now in its BMW owned form too). The remake made me fall in love with the cars (as Charlize Theron drives an original as her personal car in the film) & made me search out the original film which is fantastic!
People have mentioned a couple different locations at this point on here, but in the video anyway; I just meant within the context of the film it was portrayed as being part of Turin.
Great video , a company called CORGI/VANGAURD made a couple of set's in one set you got the three mini's ,a jag e type plus the famous truck from " blow the bloody door's off scene.
A family member of mine was restoring a Mini in the late 70's. The floor boards were almost completely rusted out, and at the time, there were after-market fiberglass floor panels for the Mini that could be glassed in. It worked thou I wouldn't trust that. Another great episode! Thanks.
Regarding large models ... Marks and Spencer released 1;10 scale radio control versions of the red and blue Italian Job Mini's. They were available on a "buy two, get one free" promo so you could buy an extra to paint white. They were either 27mH or 40mH dependant on colour so if you bought six (pay for four) you could have two sets with each set of three being controlled as one.
Interesting video about the minis. What i was wondering how did they waterproof the ignition system for the river driving scene as minis didn't like water
@CarStarz42 maybe I know if you drove through standing water on the road, they could miss and cut out. A nother bit of useless information the shirt fitter from near the beginning of the film. Simon dee was my wife's uncle
@@CarStarz42 You could be right. Problem with the Mini was that the transverse engine put the distributor at the front right behind the grille, so heavy spray would soak the HT system and cause it to short out. One solution was to fit a deflector plate behind the grille to keep the spray off the distributor. Other solutions involved lots of WD40 or sticking a rubber kitchen glove over the distributor with the leads coming through the ends of the fingers...
I remember visiting my cousin in Surrey who had a scrap yard and he showed me a blue mini cooper that he got from the studio. He told me that he often got a call to go and clear out various types of scrap that were damaged or no longer required. One day, he said, the mini Cooper was included and that he was told it was from the movie and that after the movie it was used around the studio as a runabout. This would have been about 1973. I'm not saying that he was telling me the truth but the car was certainly a cooper and had all the markings as the cars in the film.
The Surreal Dancing Cars sequence that was considered out of place in the main story, could had been included as a Dream Sequence of a sleeping character.
Of note: the sewer scenes were filmed in Coventry England and the Minis during these scenes have extra aux. lights up front. What the scene closely and you can see the extras.
I read elsewhere that during rehearsals for the sewer scene, one of the stunt drivers managed to do a 360 degree loop off camera. Unfortunately when they tried to replicate it again, the stunt driver ended up crashing badly and it was not attempted again for the movie 😔
Not quite, Remy confirmed that they got very close, but considering the low speed and traction issues with the water and imperfect design of the pipe, it simply physically wasn't possible unfortunately.
@@CarStarz42I remember reading in a '69 magazine interview with the stunt co - ordinater that they did manage a 360 but as the car was looping back down the front wheel hit a grating & it ended up on its roof. Same article also stated the only part that needed to be replaced was 1 Koni shock on all the cars. It could all have a publicity stunt though i suppose.
I've just seen an old interview of Michael Cain , in which he stated, "I dislike cars intensely " , and went on to say that it gave him immense pleasure wrecking as many of them as possible in the Italian Job . How odd.
I live not far from the tunnels under the m6 motorway and actually worked at the factory where they where built when they were still building them and owned and drove them, even now I still work on a few and every single time I drive one I think “ WTF was I thinking “ 🤔 😂😂😂😂😂
Am I the only one to notice all the "models" (toys) shown are missing the second fuel tank filler cap clearly visible on the Cooper "S" in the film and any other authentic Cooper S
I saw an interview with someone on the production team, they said they had rented a garage which was packed with stuff including mini lite wheels, can’t remember if he said there were any cars in it, but he said when they finished they just left everything behind in the lock up. That other version of the film made a few years ago was absolutely terrible and not worthy of being called the Italian Job. My friends all loved this movie and we said when we got our driving licences we would get red white and blue mini’s, I got a blue 1968 mini, the others let me down 😔
The "G" suffix is a 1969 reg car. When the cars are being bulldozed of the mountain pass, the "Aston" is actually, I think, an Alfa Romeo. The bonnet opens the wrong way when it topples of the mountain.
Yeah, I believe they had to do that stunt twice as the pyrotechnics misfired the first time and they didn't have time to find another actual Aston or something along those lines.
@@fredericksaxton3991 Not quite, apparently the pyrotechnic explosions got triggered accidently before they even started the scene the first time, fairly close to actors who weren't expecting it too, could have been a really ugly situation; but no major injuries fortunately.
@@TrailBlazerSS502 if you notice in the film, you never see Caine drive. It’s because at the time, he didn’t know how. The closest you get is Caine pulling up in the Aston.
The cars are lovely. I loved both the films though the older one was definitely better. I have two sets of the Greenlight Models. And a real R56 Mini Cooper S which I love to drive. Im a bit of a MINIAC in that sense….
As a person who watches movies often, I always wonder- what happens to the actual CARS that take part in films? Like who wouldn’t want the red mini from the Jason Bourne film, there are nice cars in almost all movies, what happens to them? They really should be saved.
Al depends on how they were used and under what agreements by which they were initially obtained, each movie/show cars have their own post production story, which is a big part of this channel and through the many videos on here you'll find the answer to many of the popular ones 😉
can you do the jeep gladiator from tremors? I always wondered if that truck had anything to do with Kevin bacon as he also drove an m715 in flatliners. and when he did that commercial pretending to be a Kevin bacon fan there was one in the driveway
Always wonder why Mk1 Mini's were used and not Mk2's, the Mk2 came out in 67 the film was made in 69, the cars were on a UK 1969 "G" reg but these are well known to be fake registrations.
Such a great film the biggest ever advert for bmc and they wouldn't supply the cars. Fiat offered the film as many cars as they wanted if they swapped out the minis. They bought a lot of minis in Italy for the cliff scenes. It's already been stated but the sewer scene was filmed in Coventry UK. I love the minis in the film but for me Charlie's Aston was stunning. Also it wasn't thrown over the cliff that wasn't a Aston it was an alfa or lancia in disguise .
Another EXCELLENT video. I guess I knew about the original movie when I saw the remake, but my life was probably too chaotic about then for me to check it out. Thanks for putting this together!
I was under the impression that an English bloke found 3 of the of minis in boxes, in a customs warehouse in Italy some years ago now, and restored then, had the clothing reproduced, All my kids know about the best film in the world 😂
A few folks on here have said otherwise, but yes, I believe so; in the video anyway, I was talking about that part as within the context of the film of it being in Turin😉
My father had a Mini Copper when we were over there stationed in Dunoon Scotland as my father was in the US Navy. And I nearly died many times in one of those as father love to drive fast like in the movie on the small dirt roads of Scotland. One time, I yelled go faster daddy faster over and over, and he shifted and put foot down on the gas. The gear box exploded, and the car came to a stop fast causing me as a 2-year-old child to fall forward and a bolt nearly went thought my head missing me and there was a hole in the roof of the car where it went right through like a bullet. If I had not moved because of the car stopping, it would have killed me.
@@CarStarz42 It's not that, it's because in UK you pay more road tax depending on engine capacity. So say, £100 up to 1299cc, £150 for 1300cc and so on. So manufacturers would slightly underbore to ensure the cars would stay in the lower tax bracket. Plus, after a bit of wear they would be almost 1300 anyway.
@@TryptychUK Interesting, one of many reasons I would never live there, the more I hear about the UK, the more it's starting to not sound like a free country, at least automotive wise 😬
@@CarStarz42 Brits are not as reliant on vehicles as Americans are. We have good public transport for one thing. Road tax has been around here since before cars were invented, to pay for the upkeep of roads. Bigger vehicles cause more damage, hence the scaled price.
@@TryptychUK Yeah, part of our general taxes go towards roads and such as well; I just meant vehicle or vehicle engine size are not a factor, just seems odd to me to be penalized, so to speak, just for choosing a certain engine option on a car.
The reg numbers refer to things In the film HMP is Charlie's prison id Her Majesties Prison,LGW the return flight number London GatWick,, & I can't remember what OGF IS, there's been several RC groups of minis & the coach. There's also an amazing recreation of all the major vehicles in hand made 1/32 slot cars on UA-cam.
The reg numbers weren’t real UK registrations at the time of filming, the company that recreated the cars negotiated with the Licensing Agency to get those plates issued as legal to use on the road
There are 1/18 scale red white and blue Austin Mini Cooper S cars from Kyosho that are very close replicas but wrong wheels and GB stickers on the bonnets. Probably to get around royalties. You showed a clip of a mini with a Speed well rocker cover which would have been a modified car but not a movie car. The 3 Replica cars are well done but just use the previously unused number plates which were not actually issued at the time of filming. Each plate represents a part of the story in the movie.
Hi again I've always a mini cooper Also I'm pretty sure the claim of there being at least 30 of them is people getting them confused with the ones used in the remake from 2003
The Chase scenes from this movie were used in the season one episode 3 of the 1985 TV series MacGyver "The Thief of Budapest" the scenes were used right down to the Drainage pipe chase , Check it out
Great video, but I must admit that it's quite disappointing that the original mini Coopers that were used couldn't have been saved and be put in automotive museums so that they could be admired by everyone,even the hero cars themselves for sure, just disappointing in my opinion but cool video as always and great job making it.
Thanks much and indeed, like so many others; they just rarely see the significance of screen used vehicles in the heat of the moment and regret not preserving them later on.
@@CarStarz42 no doubt about that point but still disappointing as well, but I will admit that those mini Coopers would have been great looking at a museum though, such an unfortunate consequence for sure.
Those three Mini Cooper travelling in convoy carry the original number plates of the three original Mini Coopers in the original Italian Job and l thought the remake was crap compared to the original after the original Italian Job was made by the Brits and the second poor attempt by the Americans
I suppose, I guess most folks who like Mini Coopers in general, like the remake, I'm not a compact car fan myself, but I do certainly respect the wild stunt work of the original film in particular though 😉👍
@@CarStarz42 ln Australia there are a lot of reasonably small 4 cylinder cars hatchbacks from Toyota Honda Mazda and Suzuki infact we own a Suzuki Baleno with a 1400cc 4 cylinder engine which us slightly bigger than the Suzuki Swift and in Australia there are plenty of four cylinder cars around
It would be fun to own a 1967 Mini for a few days of driving on country roads at 70 degrees outside. However as a daily driver a modern Mazda Miata MX-5 has air conditioning and is much safer in a crash, and is a convertible. Easier to find parts for too.
I'm no Mini fan even though I live in the UK, give me a big fruity American muscle car any day but always feel a bit sad watching them being thrown over the cliffs at the end lol
A couple of points, the engine shown at 1:18 is a modified 850cc engine with a Speedwell modification kit, which was an alloy cylinder head plus a twin carburettor layout and a twin-pipe silencer.
It was basically designed to "soup-up" a standard Mini to Cooper S performance. Not sure why they didn't include front disc brakes as well.
The other thing you missed was the running order of the cars in the film is ALWAYS red, white and blue, the exception being the replica enthusiasts who didn't bother.
Observant 😉
The most fun chase movie after The Blues Brothers. I still want an original Mini Cooper because of this movie. Thanks for making this video - now I want to see the film again.
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Funny?! I want a Mini Cooper because; in the TV show CHIPS, Jon( Larry Wilcox) owned one! I knew that if he could fit in it then, I could! Unusual Cool Car?
@@mikeks8181 Lol, never thought about that, but good point 😉
i would put it above the Blues brothers but each to their own :D
@@mikeks8181I don't know how tall Larry Wilcox is but I knew a truck driver at work used to have an original mini who was 6 foot 7ins!!!! He said the look of amazement on people's faces when he got out of the car was brilliant!!
"..we are the 'Self Preservation Society'.." 😂 Thanks very much for doing an episode on this great movie & these iconic cars. Proud to say I have both versions on DVD & enjoy them regularly. Skål!
You're very welcome and cool 😉👍
One or 2 mistakes in this video, the main one is that the sewer/underground chase scenes were not filmed in italy, they were filmed in coventry UK.....the only surviving vehicle from the film is the E type jaguar (848 CRY) all of the mini's were returned to the UK and were destroyed after filming.
Sod the Minis,😜
what happened to the green Land Rover S2A 109?.
ok, well I didn't mention the Jag as it's not a Mini of course 😉
Note 5:25
Not quite right. The Aston Martin (Reg ELT 123), survived also and was a show car at Pedigreed Cars, Forres, Scotland for many years. The owner of the garage had a huge collection of classic cars but not sure what happened to everythibg after he died. If you watch the movie the cars that are bulldozed off the road are rolling shells only....no engines or transmissions etc
one more mistake, the Minis only had 50hp 1275 engines, not 1300
I really enjoy your video series and I couldn't wait for you to talk about "The Italian Job".
This is the movie that made me fall in love with classic Minis when I was a kid, buy a Rover Sportpack as my first car and still use it today!
Cool and glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
Man - those are some crazy stunts. I need to watch this film. Thanks for turning me on to it.
Cheers!
Indeed and glad to have brought it to your attention 😉👍
Not seen it? *Jaw drop*
You're in for a treat!
It's a British institution!
Between the precision driving and the practical stunts this is an icon in car chase movies
Truly an iconic movie which I first saw at a local cinema in 1969 and still watch every time its on TV! I've lost count of the times i've seen it but it never fails to entertain. Many memorable lines too!!
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The 'drainage pipe' stunts were actually filmed near Coventry in England where they conveniently just happened to be installing new mains sewage pipes.
Haha!! That's 2 Graham/Graeme's who were going to comment about that fact but you got there first!
@@graemew7001 Although when fully reading the comments I noticed that somebody got there before either of us.
@@grahambell4298 Yeah I noticed that too, what none of us mentioned (until now) is that one ended up on it's roof as they'd either gone too slow or lost traction, driver was ok though. Mind, this may be an internet rumour and not true but, I did hear that somewhere.
Indeed, I didn't word that right in the video; but was meaning that it was "portrayed" to be part of Turin 😉
@@CarStarz42 No worries sir, that's the joy of being a petrol/gear head, we can all throw in some knowledge and we all get something from it so it's fun. The guy who has the three replicas built using the original chassis plates and registrations ( to make them legal) lives about an hour from me.
this film remains a favorite of mine and appreciate this video especially. thanks for all the work you put into these!
You're welcome and glad you enjoyed it!
@@CarStarz42 it was due to filming the one in Coventry was brand new and not in use and was open at each end still for filming.
British company Corgi has made lots of 60s Mini Coopers over the years! And I seem to remember having an Italian Job set from long gone Dinky Toys in the 70s! Awesome video by the way! One of my fave car movies!
Cool and glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
I absolutely love this movie… and I don’t normally like british cara, but this movie is so fun!
Same here, which is probably why I procrastinated on this one for so long before getting around to making it, but indeed the movie is full of talent, both automotive and human alike 😉👍
The "doors" scene was filmed at Crystal Palace Sports Centre grounds ,I worked there in the 80s .I saw the film when it came out at one of first t.he multi small screen cinemas in Soho .
Cool 😉👍
It was actually Crystal Palace race track which was still in use at the time. It closed finally in 1974(ish). They left a bit of a mess on the top straight, I remember going there for a practice day (in a mini!) and the track staff were still trying to clean up.
I LOVE this movie, and the remake isn’t close to as good as the original. A blast to watch over and over! ❤️
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A 66 Cooper S was my winter "get to work" car 1983 to 1992. Summer I rode a 1975 900SS Ducati. Handled like a go kart. Great.
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For the scene where the Minis come down the stairs, the director secured permission to bring ‘macchina’ ,(generic Italian word for machines), through the building and down the stairs. The building owners were not happy when they realised it was 3 cars!
Indeed, I heard that in the 40th anniversary documentary when I watched through it on my Blu-ray 😉
I’m honestly pretty shocked to hear they didn’t have any engine mods.
Me too, they seemed quite peppy! 😉👍
As they said, they modified the sumps, because they hang quite low, and if you hit a big bump, you will smash the engine.
I know, I did just that!
@@TryptychUK I did that on my dodge charger too.
Wow. This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
as a young teen my father was service manager for Dominion Motors here in New Zealand. One day in 1962 he brought home a Morris Mini 850cc and took us for a little ride out of the town where we lived, the ride was not far but the cars seemed so small to his Morris Minor at the time. In my life I owned many Mini cars both Austin and Morris, I could work on them fairly easily, they were certainly fun to drive and great to park fuel consumption was not too bad, I taught a few youngsters to drive them in later life Thanks for a great post
Cool and you're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
I’m happy you are still going!!!
Thanks and me too 😉
I love the minis but I have to mention the Harrington legionnaire coach only 58 where made so very rare the one from the film was unfortunately scraped in 1990 in Scotland
Interesting
They used one to create a full sized Thunderbirds FAB1.
I remember watching this first run on a flight from San Francisco to New York. 😀
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Excellent subject matter here, man! Very glad to see this, as any info on these HAD to be extremely hard to come up with.
Another ICONIC movie, that made a seriously memorable impact in childhood.
Thank you!
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
Great video! Never knew much about the original Italian Job Minis👍
Thanks and glad you got something from it 😉👍
Classic car chase movie. I'd love to something on some less-known old car chase movies, like 1978's 'The Driver' with Ryan O'Neal, or the insane (illegaly filmed) chase in 'The Seven-Ups' (1973) with Roy Schneider.
Indeed and those are already on my to do list for sure. Thanks 😉👍
Can’t believe they scrapped all the Mini Coopers!
Indeed and a typical fate for many a movie cars.
Best car ive ever had, 1982 mini cooper s,
Silver and black 1275cc, twin carb, 98bhp
Any corner at any speed
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Iv'e watched The Italian Job many times, but only the first few minutes for the Miura .Maybe I should check out the rest of it for the Italian scenery.
The film itself it's pretty bad.....but the chase at the end is the best part
@@itsmephil2255 The presence of Michael Caine is never a bad thing.
@@barrycuda3769 very true to be fair
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@@CarStarz42Perhaps you could do a video on another European movie ( French) "A man and a woman " 1966 .The car stars are , GT40, '66 Mustang GT coupe , ''66 Mustang convertible ( maybe they were '65,s ?) the driving in the racing scenes was done by well known French racing driver Henri Chemin , who was a Ford of France driver in Mustangs, and later on for Chrysler/Simca in a '70 Hemi Barracuda, which Iv'e heard was the car of either Swede Savage , or Dan Gurney in the 1970 Trans Am series ( with the 304 ci engine replaced with a Hemi) .
The man driving the white Mini in Vive Le Sport 1969 is David Salamone who drove the red Mini in The Italian Job.
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For the 2003 remake, the modern mini's were all modified in a hanger at Whiteman Airport in Pacoima CA. When I was flying out of there, I would walk over to see how the work was progressing for a few months before the movie was made.
Cool, yeah being larger and heavier, they probably need a lot of modding so they didn't fall apart.
Fantastic video! It is like a good song.....I can play it through over and over. tHanks for the video
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
You can buy slot car versions made by Scalextric. Corgi also made a boxed set that includes the coach.
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Fantastic upload!
Always loved the mini in its original form (and now in its BMW owned form too).
The remake made me fall in love with the cars (as Charlize Theron drives an original as her personal car in the film) & made me search out the original film which is fantastic!
Thanks much and indeed 😉👍
filming was done at Stoke Aldermore in the Stow Valley duplication sewer system near where i lived in Coventry. The camera car was a Minimoke.
People have mentioned a couple different locations at this point on here, but in the video anyway; I just meant within the context of the film it was portrayed as being part of Turin.
Great video , a company called CORGI/VANGAURD made a couple of set's in one set you got the three mini's ,a jag e type plus the famous truck from " blow the bloody door's off scene.
Thanks and indeed 😉👍
That’s free fantastic video. I love it.❤😂
Glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
My first car was a 1977 British Leyland Mini 1000 with 34hp. It was so fun to drive. Should have kept it.
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A family member of mine was restoring a Mini in the late 70's. The floor boards were almost completely rusted out, and at the time, there were after-market fiberglass floor panels for the Mini that could be glassed in. It worked thou I wouldn't trust that. Another great episode! Thanks.
Cool and thanks much, glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
Excellent details as always, thank you. ~ Chuck
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
LOB884F, the orange car in the Vive Le Sport advert is, according to DVLA records, still around!
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Regarding large models ... Marks and Spencer released 1;10 scale radio control versions of the red and blue Italian Job Mini's. They were available on a "buy two, get one free" promo so you could buy an extra to paint white. They were either 27mH or 40mH dependant on colour so if you bought six (pay for four) you could have two sets with each set of three being controlled as one.
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Never knew this existed 🎉🎉
Glad you're aware of it now as it's pretty cool 😉👍
Interesting video about the minis. What i was wondering how did they waterproof the ignition system for the river driving scene as minis didn't like water
Not sure, but my guess is the added chassis protection might of redirected the water away a bit perhaps?
@CarStarz42 maybe I know if you drove through standing water on the road, they could miss and cut out. A nother bit of useless information the shirt fitter from near the beginning of the film. Simon dee was my wife's uncle
@@CarStarz42 You could be right. Problem with the Mini was that the transverse engine put the distributor at the front right behind the grille, so heavy spray would soak the HT system and cause it to short out. One solution was to fit a deflector plate behind the grille to keep the spray off the distributor. Other solutions involved lots of WD40 or sticking a rubber kitchen glove over the distributor with the leads coming through the ends of the fingers...
@@grahambell4298 Fun, fun, lol.
@grahambell4298 The washing up glove was a popular solution in the UK
I remember visiting my cousin in Surrey who had a scrap yard and he showed me a blue mini cooper that he got from the studio. He told me that he often got a call to go and clear out various types of scrap that were damaged or no longer required. One day, he said, the mini Cooper was included and that he was told it was from the movie and that after the movie it was used around the studio as a runabout. This would have been about 1973. I'm not saying that he was telling me the truth but the car was certainly a cooper and had all the markings as the cars in the film.
Interesting and quite possibly, as mentioned in the video, they were still around for awhile before "eventually" being scrapped.
The Surreal Dancing Cars sequence that was considered out of place in the main story, could had been included as a Dream Sequence of a sleeping character.
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Another great episode bro, I would love to have one of these classic minis. Please keep the cool vids coming. 👌👍🔥
Thanks and glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
Of note: the sewer scenes were filmed in Coventry England and the Minis during these scenes have extra aux. lights up front. What the scene closely and you can see the extras.
Yeah, I noticed that too, but only for that one scene though oddly.
I had a 1981 mini city in the lare eighties early 90's. Loved it had a 99 copper S in the early 00`s too fast
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The movies chase footage was later reused in the second episode of MacGyver: "The Theif of Budapest"
Indeed 😉
My dad built the mini’s in London when he worked at john sprinzel racing london
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Scalextric also produced a limited run of 4,000 box sets containing 3 accurately modelled Minis from the film.
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I read elsewhere that during rehearsals for the sewer scene, one of the stunt drivers managed to do a 360 degree loop off camera. Unfortunately when they tried to replicate it again, the stunt driver ended up crashing badly and it was not attempted again for the movie 😔
Not quite, Remy confirmed that they got very close, but considering the low speed and traction issues with the water and imperfect design of the pipe, it simply physically wasn't possible unfortunately.
@@CarStarz42I remember reading in a '69 magazine interview with the stunt co - ordinater that they did manage a 360 but as the car was looping back down the front wheel hit a grating & it ended up on its roof. Same article also stated the only part that needed to be replaced was 1 Koni shock on all the cars.
It could all have a publicity stunt though i suppose.
The three Minis despite being 1967 Mark 1s are sporting registration numbers ending in G which means late 1968 or 1969 registration.
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Michael Caine's wildcard was "Play Dirty"
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Great movie
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I would love to see a video, about the 70 Chevelle in the movie Jack Reacher, starring Tom Cruise.
I do indeed already have that one on my big list to look into, thanks 😉👍
I've just seen an old interview of Michael Cain , in which he stated, "I dislike cars intensely " , and went on to say that it gave him immense pleasure wrecking as many of them as possible in the Italian Job . How odd.
Lol.
The Minis were fitted with three spotlights, but when in the drainage pipe they had four spots!!
Yeah, was talking with someone on here about that a few days ago, must have been super dark in there😉
I live not far from the tunnels under the m6 motorway and actually worked at the factory where they where built when they were still building them and owned and drove them, even now I still work on a few and every single time I drive one I think “ WTF was I thinking “ 🤔 😂😂😂😂😂
Lol 😉
Am I the only one to notice all the "models" (toys) shown are missing the second fuel tank filler cap clearly visible on the Cooper "S" in the film and any other authentic Cooper S
Interesting indeed 😉
Corgi did a limited number 3 car set of the Italian job mini's. I have one and got it signed by John Cooper himself.
Indeed and nice 😉👍
I saw an interview with someone on the production team, they said they had rented a garage which was packed with stuff including mini lite wheels, can’t remember if he said there were any cars in it, but he said when they finished they just left everything behind in the lock up. That other version of the film made a few years ago was absolutely terrible and not worthy of being called the Italian Job. My friends all loved this movie and we said when we got our driving licences we would get red white and blue mini’s, I got a blue 1968 mini, the others let me down 😔
Interesting.
The fiat roof scene was the only part where the three minis came out of colour sequence, red, white and blue.
Lol, possibly so 😉
The "G" suffix is a 1969 reg car.
When the cars are being bulldozed of the mountain pass, the "Aston" is actually, I think, an Alfa Romeo. The bonnet opens the wrong way when it topples of the mountain.
Yeah, I believe they had to do that stunt twice as the pyrotechnics misfired the first time and they didn't have time to find another actual Aston or something along those lines.
@@CarStarz42 You mean they really chucked an Aston over the edge first!!
@@fredericksaxton3991 Not quite, apparently the pyrotechnic explosions got triggered accidently before they even started the scene the first time, fairly close to actors who weren't expecting it too, could have been a really ugly situation; but no major injuries fortunately.
It was a Lancia Flaminia convertible that took the place of the Aston Martin DB4 convertible.
@@johnchurch4705 Thank you.
The 1967 Cooper S engines were 1275cc and produced 76bhp from stock
Converting to liter, we round it up, here in the US anyways 😉
@@CarStarz42 Most engines you would round up. But the 1275 was always referred to as the 1275, never a 1300
The original Cooper S is the automotive version of a Jack Russell Terrier!
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A tuff little bugger that's not afraid to punch above it's weight!
@@Rob-fc9wg Well said 😉
The 2003 version was quite nice, but yeah, it paled in comparison to the original version that stood out even further.
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The 2003 version lacked the charm of the original.
@@CamaroAmx No one drove these cars better than Michael Caine.
@@TrailBlazerSS502 if you notice in the film, you never see Caine drive. It’s because at the time, he didn’t know how. The closest you get is Caine pulling up in the Aston.
@@CamaroAmx WOW!
You can get a Scalextric triple box set of the Italian Job Minis in 1/32 scale
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The cars are lovely. I loved both the films though the older one was definitely better. I have two sets of the Greenlight Models. And a real R56 Mini Cooper S which I love to drive. Im a bit of a MINIAC in that sense….
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As a person who watches movies often, I always wonder- what happens to the actual CARS that take part in films? Like who wouldn’t want the red mini from the Jason Bourne film, there are nice cars in almost all movies, what happens to them? They really should be saved.
Al depends on how they were used and under what agreements by which they were initially obtained, each movie/show cars have their own post production story, which is a big part of this channel and through the many videos on here you'll find the answer to many of the popular ones 😉
can you do the jeep gladiator from tremors? I always wondered if that truck had anything to do with Kevin bacon as he also drove an m715 in flatliners. and when he did that commercial pretending to be a Kevin bacon fan there was one in the driveway
I do indeed have that one on my large to do list already 😉👍
Always wonder why Mk1 Mini's were used and not Mk2's, the Mk2 came out in 67 the film was made in 69, the cars were on a UK 1969 "G" reg but these are well known to be fake registrations.
True, not sure either on that.
Such a great film the biggest ever advert for bmc and they wouldn't supply the cars. Fiat offered the film as many cars as they wanted if they swapped out the minis. They bought a lot of minis in Italy for the cliff scenes.
It's already been stated but the sewer scene was filmed in Coventry UK.
I love the minis in the film but for me Charlie's Aston was stunning. Also it wasn't thrown over the cliff that wasn't a Aston it was an alfa or lancia in disguise .
Indeed and in the video I was just referring to the pipes they drove in as being in Turin within the context of the film 😉
Another EXCELLENT video. I guess I knew about the original movie when I saw the remake, but my life was probably too chaotic about then for me to check it out. Thanks for putting this together!
Thanks much and lad ou enjoyed it 😉👍
I was under the impression that an English bloke found 3 of the of minis in boxes, in a customs warehouse in Italy some years ago now, and restored then, had the clothing reproduced,
All my kids know about the best film in the world 😂
Yeah, the replicas have had a few false back stories on them like that over the years due to misinformation.
It is very well known that the sewer scenes were filmed in Coventry, England.
A few folks on here have said otherwise, but yes, I believe so; in the video anyway, I was talking about that part as within the context of the film of it being in Turin😉
My father had a Mini Copper when we were over there stationed in Dunoon Scotland as my father was in the US Navy. And I nearly died many times in one of those as father love to drive fast like in the movie on the small dirt roads of Scotland. One time, I yelled go faster daddy faster over and over, and he shifted and put foot down on the gas. The gear box exploded, and the car came to a stop fast causing me as a 2-year-old child to fall forward and a bolt nearly went thought my head missing me and there was a hole in the roof of the car where it went right through like a bullet. If I had not moved because of the car stopping, it would have killed me.
Yikes!
PS: A shout out for the Ford Thames van - a workhorse of the 60s and they went a bit too!
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I should see this movie at some point. I've only seen the remake. Speaking of, could you do a video about those Minis too?
Yeah, I'll get to the remake at some point too. Thanks 😉👍
@@CarStarz42 You're welcome. Sounds good.
My original Mini was welded up by the set welder on the film. He bought the Land Rover, if memory serves.
The stair driving was a modified model with a Landcrab engine and limited steering, with a steel plate under the engine.
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Pretty shore cooper s engines were 1275 cc ,I owned 2 in 1968 Australian model Morris Cooper S
Yep, I rounded up which is typically what is done when stating in liters 😉
@@CarStarz42 It's not that, it's because in UK you pay more road tax depending on engine capacity.
So say, £100 up to 1299cc, £150 for 1300cc and so on.
So manufacturers would slightly underbore to ensure the cars would stay in the lower tax bracket.
Plus, after a bit of wear they would be almost 1300 anyway.
@@TryptychUK Interesting, one of many reasons I would never live there, the more I hear about the UK, the more it's starting to not sound like a free country, at least automotive wise 😬
@@CarStarz42 Brits are not as reliant on vehicles as Americans are. We have good public transport for one thing. Road tax has been around here since before cars were invented, to pay for the upkeep of roads. Bigger vehicles cause more damage, hence the scaled price.
@@TryptychUK Yeah, part of our general taxes go towards roads and such as well; I just meant vehicle or vehicle engine size are not a factor, just seems odd to me to be penalized, so to speak, just for choosing a certain engine option on a car.
RIP Quincy Jones 😢.
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"...known for their reliability..." 🤣😂😆
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The reg numbers refer to things In the film HMP is Charlie's prison id Her Majesties Prison,LGW the return flight number London GatWick,, & I can't remember what OGF IS, there's been several RC groups of minis & the coach.
There's also an amazing recreation of all the major vehicles in hand made 1/32 slot cars on UA-cam.
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The reg numbers weren’t real UK registrations at the time of filming, the company that recreated the cars negotiated with the Licensing Agency to get those plates issued as legal to use on the road
Suggestion for an upcoming video; do the deathmobile from the movie animal house.
I do indeed already have that one on my very large to do list. Thanks
There are 1/18 scale red white and blue Austin Mini Cooper S cars from Kyosho that are very close replicas but wrong wheels and GB stickers on the bonnets. Probably to get around royalties. You showed a clip of a mini with a Speed well rocker cover which would have been a modified car but not a movie car. The 3 Replica cars are well done but just use the previously unused number plates which were not actually issued at the time of filming. Each plate represents a part of the story in the movie.
Cool and indeed 😉
Hi again
I've always a mini cooper
Also I'm pretty sure the claim of there being at least 30 of them is people getting them confused with the ones used in the remake from 2003
Hi and most likely.
The Chase scenes from this movie were used in the season one episode 3 of the 1985 TV series MacGyver "The Thief of Budapest" the scenes were used right down to the Drainage pipe chase , Check it out
Indeed and I think you're the third person to mention that now 😉
@@CarStarz42 I didn't Realize that! I enjoyed your Count down just the same
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67 Plymouth Belvedere GTX competition 🍊from the movie Joe Dirt.
I do have that one on my large to do list as well and already covered the fake Daytona Charger in it 😉
Enjoyed your video. Sunstar made highly detailed models of the early MK1 Minis 1:12 scale. A good basis for a replica Italian Job Mini.
Glad you enjoyed it and cool 😉👍
Ray's whaletail riviera from due south?
Not a big fan base but a beautiful car
I'll add it to my big list of ones to look into, thanks 😉👍
Great video, but I must admit that it's quite disappointing that the original mini Coopers that were used couldn't have been saved and be put in automotive museums so that they could be admired by everyone,even the hero cars themselves for sure, just disappointing in my opinion but cool video as always and great job making it.
Thanks much and indeed, like so many others; they just rarely see the significance of screen used vehicles in the heat of the moment and regret not preserving them later on.
@@CarStarz42 no doubt about that point but still disappointing as well, but I will admit that those mini Coopers would have been great looking at a museum though, such an unfortunate consequence for sure.
Do the Chevy Lagune/chevelle from “Driver”
It is indeed already on my very long to do list, thanks 😉👍
Can you do Mike's Ferrari 550 and 575 Monarallo?
I'll add it to my mega list of ones to look into, thanks 😉👍
Those three Mini Cooper travelling in convoy carry the original number plates of the three original Mini Coopers in the original Italian Job and l thought the remake was crap compared to the original after the original Italian Job was made by the Brits and the second poor attempt by the Americans
I suppose, I guess most folks who like Mini Coopers in general, like the remake, I'm not a compact car fan myself, but I do certainly respect the wild stunt work of the original film in particular though 😉👍
@@CarStarz42 ln Australia there are a lot of reasonably small 4 cylinder cars hatchbacks from Toyota Honda Mazda and Suzuki infact we own a Suzuki Baleno with a 1400cc 4 cylinder engine which us slightly bigger than the Suzuki Swift and in Australia there are plenty of four cylinder cars around
The Mini won Bathurst in '66
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It would be fun to own a 1967 Mini for a few days of driving on country roads at 70 degrees outside. However as a daily driver a modern Mazda Miata MX-5 has air conditioning and is much safer in a crash, and is a convertible. Easier to find parts for too.
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Bad Ass as usual.
Glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
@@CarStarz42 Mustang from POINT BREAK.
@@badhombre9820 I do indeed have that one on my large to do list as well, thanks 😉👍
do you know the 68 Camaro from Eat My Dust ??? first movie of Ron Howard
I do already have that one on my to do list, thanks 😉👍
O,mat munro. On days like these.
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I'm no Mini fan even though I live in the UK, give me a big fruity American muscle car any day but always feel a bit sad watching them being thrown over the cliffs at the end lol
Lol, indeed.