Iltis in the movies

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

I think Chris summed it up nicely.

Once thing that should be learned from a thread like this, which shows before and after pictures of a quick cosmetic application, is that you should never buy a vehicle based on photos only.....spend the loot to travel out and see it in person, or get someone local to have a look at it for you. Imagine how much someone might have paid on something like ebay based on the pre-crush photos.

Who says they were in a bad shape? Some people would have no problem with letting as-good-as-new Iltis jeeps be crushed, simply because they truly dislike the type of vehicle

H.

[rob love]

The third photo presumably shows these vehicles before they were dressed up. It looks like some pretty severe cancer in the bodies.

[Marc Montgomery]

my experience with movies is that they care not one iota for rare vehicles..or fully restored immaculate rare....
they are props..and to them if a $50 thousand vehicle needs to be destroyed, so be it...while thats a big amount to collectors...its peanuts to a film with a 150-million budget. and where just the promotion runs into several dozens of millions more.

I can't begin to imagine the number of beautiful, rare, vehicles, planes, boats, destroyed forever by Hollywood

Frankly even a rust bucket has usable parts to keep others running --unlike M series jeeps where you can actually build a jeep from the ground up with repro parts... iltis parts are rare and getting rarer...
and its a shame these four were wrecked.