Car coordinator Dennis McCarthy is no drifter to the Fast and the Furious franchise. He was the account car coordinator on Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious and allotment for the hat-trick on Fast Five. The latest affiliate will affection a ample 21 cars, including Dom Toretto’s cast Dodge Charger.
In the aftermost affiliate of Fast Five week, we booty a attending at the abounding cars of Fast Five during an account with the film’s car coordinator, Dennis McCarthy. If the aftermost three films don’t accord him abundant credibility, McCarthy is additionally the man abaft the cartage of Green Hornet and Death Race.
McCarthy kicked off the account by cogent us the alternative of cars is “a lot different” than the antecedent films. Nearly every casting or aggregation affiliate interviewed during our set appointment mentioned the new attending of the cars in Fast Five. Each blur has bedevilled its own vehicular identity, but now that Dom, Brian and the assemblage are on the run, their car selections are bit beneath aerial profile. Of course, low contour cars for car junkies like them aren’t so low profile.
Dennis McCarthy: It’s due to the area and the circumstances. They are bottomward to their aftermost pennies. They’ve transferred all the way from the U.S. on the run bottomward to Brazil, so they don’t accept the money to buy a cast new Skyline. So it was aloof character, environmental, and based on their means.
Now that we apperceive a little added about the appliance of the cars in Fast Five, let’s analysis out what cartage will bolt some awning time. Of course, some cars are added accustomed than others. Assertive characters are absorbed to assertive cars, but added cartage accomplish abrupt appearances.
Car Coordinator Chris McCarthy on set of Fast Five in a 1966 Corvette Grand Sport.McCarthy gave us a blast advance on the advanced ambit of cars that arise in Fast Five:
DM: Okay so at the alpha of this blur the cartage would be: We accept a Pantera – a Classic 1971 Pantera. We accept a GT40 – the aboriginal one. We accept a Corvette Grand Sport – a 1965 Corvette Grand Sport. Those are the aboriginal three cars that you see in the aperture sequence.
