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Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:13 pm
by Rangecroft
Help Needed!

Hi all at the Suzuki Club UK,

My name is Matt, and I work for a television production company called Attaboy TV. We produce a car breaking show for the National Geographic Channel where two teams buy a vehicle that is beyond repair / declared non road legal, strip it for parts and then sell the parts on. We like to follow the journey of the parts into other vehicles so you can see that even if one car is broken the parts have helped on vehicles that are still going.

For one of the new episodes we're breaking a Suzuki Samurai.

At the start of each show, we film an introductory sequence we call a “Pristine.” In the pristine sequence we film with a pristine version of the car we are about to break. This allows us to introduce the car to the audience and show to them how good the marque can look. I wanted to get in touch with your Club, in the hope that you may be able to help us source a “pristine” version of our Samurai.

We’re looking for an owner with a clean, working, and great looking Samurai / SJ413. We're hoping it will be as standard as possible! The owner would need to be happy for us to drive their vehicle on camera, and preferably live around the London area as this is where filming will be. However we can offer accommodation if somebody wants to be involved and come from further afield. Essentially we're looking for an owner who is proud of their vehicle and wants the opportunity to show-off their prized possession on national television. We will cover all expenses and provide a DVD of the programme after the show has aired.

The main issue with this is that we're looking to film this coming Friday 01st March. I've been on the search for quite a while but with no luck. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Kind Regards

Matt

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:34 pm
by donkeychomp
Is he getting divorced?

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:40 pm
by turbo-tom
donkeychomp wrote:Is he getting divorced?

This is legit this time :lol:

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:46 pm
by dan_2k_uk
Helen will be in touch shortly but still unsure about time off work.

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:54 pm
by Tramp
I'd have thought Helens would have been one of the few original examples in the uk.

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:56 pm
by dan_2k_uk
not a Sammy though!

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:00 pm
by ScottieJ
turbo-tom wrote:
donkeychomp wrote:Is he getting divorced?

This is legit this time :lol:
I told rangecroft to join up ;) we have got a few members with mint SJs and samurais so this is the best place to ask :thumbup: would be cool to see someone off here's SJ on TV (wearing suzukiclubUK stickers of course ;) )

Andyrew's tintop would be a good one for it!

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:10 pm
by dan_2k_uk
Helen has just e-mailed the guy.

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:16 pm
by ScottieJ
dan_2k_uk wrote:Helen has just e-mailed the guy.

:doublethumbs:

Re: Help Needed! Suzuki Samurai Needed for TV Appearance

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:32 pm
by Tramp
Tbh darrells example is nice, a 2" lift is not that far off standard! i'd love a mint standard example but I don't think I'd pick a samurai, id want a mint 87 hardtop 410.... my dream SJ!