[TRE Cup]

We've discussed No Man's Land in other threads here on Pelican.

It started with one of my Porsche buddies that works in the film industry. He called to chat one day and we discussed some movie in the works revolving around renting a lot of Porsches, drivers, etc. Most of the time this stuff never comes to fruition.

But about a month later up rolls this van and these guys spill out into the shop. They are excitedly pointing and discussing amongst themselves. The lead guy hands me his card and is talking about renting the shop for an upcoming movie involving Porsches, etc etc. Cool....
Ok- so we rent out the place between Xmas and New Year's for a week. And then they want to rent cars... Ok- so now we are calling clients looking to leave their car with us for a week- and actually paying them to be in the shop (for a change!).

Not as easy as you think ,despite our large client roster. At the time Red, black , and white were the predominant colors. Silver was too washed out looking on film. So we had to rack our brains to find different colors for the different "days" of filming. No problem in the end ; a lot of our clients came thru for us (and themselves)

The hours were long- it was dark when we came to the shop, and dark when we went home. I was hired as tech adviser- the script was written by Dick Wolf (Miami Vice) and he did not know much about cars. So it was fun to proof read , make suggestions here and there. Besides the drive up scene with my "tanga", my race car was in one of the over look scenes too. They left the TRE logos here and there as the mythical shop was called Technic (we alluded to TRE meaning Tecnic Racing Enterprises instead of Toad)
They bought some parts for some of the scenes, we ate very well, and it was generally quite boring just waiting around.

Charlie Shean was a professional , just like all the rest of the crew. He kept one of the light blue cabs that was "his" car in the movie (they had a spare as back up).

Overall a positive experience and somewhat of a contribution to the Porsche lore