FILM & T.V

[Wheel2Reel LTD]

We are a company called Wheel2Reel Ltd supplying vehicles for TV and Film. We are currently working on a TV series called the ?Antiques Road Trip? and the ?Celebrity Antiques Road Trip? which are showing now on BBC2.
We have been commissioned by Scottish TV to do another two series and are looking for a variety of Classic convertible cars to hire. This is our second year now of supplying vehicles for this programme and we are looking for a total of 32 classic convertibles that are fully road legal being MOT certificated with tax and being in a presentable condition.
On the ?Celebrity Antiques Road Trip? your vehicle would be used for three days. This is broken up into two days of buying antiques and filming and then one day at an Auction.
Your vehicle would be required for the three days filming (dates yet to be confirmed) Two days will be consecutive but the Auction date could be up to two weeks later.
Your vehicle would be collected and transported by us to the locations and the vehicle would be driven by a ?Celebrity? and one of the presenters. It will be looked after by our vehicle technician whilst on set.
The ?Celebrity Road Trip? is still in the production phase so I cannot give you any firm dates or which Celebrity would be driving your vehicle at this stage.
We will pay ?100.00 per day for the hire of the vehicle over the three days totalling ?300.00.
Your vehicle will be valeted and filled up with fuel at the end of the three days.

For the ?Antiques Road Trip? it would entail hiring the vehicle for ten days in a period over two months for either series starting in May until June or from July through to September.
We would pay ?1000.00 for the hire of the vehicle. The vehicle is transported to and from locations on a low loader and is driven by the presenters whilst filming so there is limited mileage and wear and tear on the vehicle.
After use the vehicle would be valeted and returned to you with a full tank of petrol.

Unfortunately we are unable to provide you with photographs of you vehicle with the presenters or celebrities until the program has been aired but we would be able to provide you with these at a later stage.

Please feel free to contact us on 07590697119 or email us matt@wheel2reel.com and thanks for taking the time to read this and hopefully we will be hearing from you soon.

Many thanks
Matthew Weekes
Wheel2Reel Ltd

[1954Etype]

Matthew, didn't realise it was April 1st so soon! ?100 per day is laughable mate. Going rate to hire is around ?400 per day for an E type.

Good luck with the search though ;-)

[Heuer]

The following companies listed in our Knowledge Base hire E-Type's:

Classic Motoring: http://www.classicmotoring.co.uk/
Great Escapes: http://www.greatescapecars.co.uk/cars-jaguaretype.asp
Selfdrive Classics: http://selfdriveclassics.co.uk/index.html
Cornwall Classics: http://www.cornwallclassiccarhire.co.uk ... ails/jage/
E-Type Jag Experience: http://e-type-jaguar-hire.co.uk/live-the-dream.html

Mid-week rates are about ?720 for 3 days or about ?300/day.

[christopher storey]

I am sorry to say that the two people I know who have been foolish enough to do this have both said " Never again" . The cars were not well treated . The "celebrities " were, as one might imagine, complete plonkers. Incidentally, exactly the same was said by Stuart Holmes who lent his beautiful Mark X to one of the Classic magazines for a comparison test with a Bentley - they thrashed the living daylights out of it and were stupid enough to do so in front of him . And, as Angus has pointed out, there is a decimal point error in the money offered

[Dave K]

I have done two one day appearances, one which I can't remember the name of but featured Jason Dawes and Penny Mallory I think it was called 'second hand car Roadshow' for channel 4 and got only expenses which was about ?60 but I had to produce receipts. 'Concours' Joe Hardy's immaculate S1 OTS also appeared in the same programme.

The second was for the beauty mag Marie Claire and got ?100 and a boat load of hassle from Camden council. I filled out the parking pass wrong and as I soon as I walked off a parking attendant jumped out the hedge and gave me a ?60 fixed penalty and I had to stay with the car for 3 hours until the 'shoot started because they wanted to tow the car away and tried 3 times.

I got a puncture which cost me ?120 for a new tyre so with expenses I got out about even and they wouldn't even give me a copy of the photos taken.

Never again unless it is well worth the hassle.

Dave