Peters: I think if Michael Bay knew that. I know sometimes they’ll use a vehicle like that because it’s not common. Peters: Well, they might have had an Oshkosh. Was that the same vehicle from one of the Fast and the Furious? There’s a couple of those that the nose opens up and you drive right in. They used to be owned by the Russian military and now they’re owned by cargo companies. It’s a Russian cargo plane, it opens from the front. I think the Camaro goes, I think Bumblebee goes. We sent the Freightliner already on a boat that left yesterday. Peters: That has to go by airplane because China won’t allow those … or Hong Kong’s military won’t allow it coming in on a boat. So we take a stock Camaro and kind of tweak the car. We do all these after-market flares and sculpting and the hood things, and they tweak it and tweak it, and then they go and play it. So every time we do a new Transformers, we start playing with what we want to do, and this is the new model here. Well, that scene in Transformers where they swap cars out, we see the old Camaro and then this one flies over. GM hadn’t done that yet, so we took the two GTOs, which are made in Australia, and we had a company out here in Detroit CAD the body onto the GTO, which was like two inches shorter in the wheelbase. A CAD file, you put it into the computer and it reads it and blah, blah, blah, you take it to a CNC machine and cut all the body parts out. So we had a Camaro, we knew GM was going to be a player, and they had the CAD files all they gave us was the CAD files. That was a huge learning curve on the first one. We had all these pictures on the wall and they had to decide what’s going to be Bumblebee, who’s gonna be Optimus Prime, and so on. Randy Peters: They were thinking about making it a Camaro, to go with GM. Unfortunately, none of the Dino-Bots were wandering around the movie set, but we did get to talk to transportation coordinator and stunt driver Randy Peters who shared a lot of behind-the-scenes tidbits on the vehicles and their design:
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