What was the rv in the movie stripes

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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Tim was also dumbfounded. I had given him my card, and pleaded with him to put me in touch with his dad Terry. He called his dad in L. Minutes after meeting Tim, I found myself meeting Jessie! She was working on the set as well, helping set up an insane stunt for the next day by doing practice runs while everything was dialed in.

After my 16 hour shift was over, my teammates Joshua Stephen and Alecia Snellings arrived with a couple of my older vehicles. The company that lines up vehicles for movies had asked me to bring them, and they remained on set all day for the filming. Meanwhile, we all left to go check out the RV. It sported dry rotted tires, stuck wheels, a rusty fuel tank, a thick coating of dust and debris, and rodent droppings galore. That was just the outside.

The inside was worse! The tags expired in , and the leaky, rodent-infested garage was not exactly a time capsule. It was much rougher in person than the pics had portrayed. The seller understood. They really just needed it gone. And, a thousand bucks later, it was mine. The following day, I made the call to Terry James in California. It went to voicemail, and I left a message.

I started to write this story several times this week, but I really wanted to hear back from him first. Earlier today, I tried him again.

This time, he answered. He was extremely nice, and excited to talk about the EM project. I felt terrible having bothered him on his wedding day, but he assured me he was happy to chat.

Terry told me about his experiences driving the EM in Stripes. It was almost impossible for him to see through the steel window blinds, so he made himself a periscope to use while driving.

My own plan all along had been to use chrome tint and limo tint in strips to keep it safely streetable, so I was—purely by happenstance— gonna duplicate almost exactly what he did on the movie!!!