Part of the fun of owning an iconic vehicle is taking notice when it appears in film and TV. One of my favorite G-Sightings was in the first season of The Man in the High Castle. The producers selected the G-Wagen as the military truck in an alternate post-WWII timeline where the Japanese and German prevailed. A G-Class variant also appeared in the short-lived TV NBC series, Blood and Oil driven by Don Johnson's character Harlan "Hap" Briggs.
One of the biggest surprises was when I was watching my daughter in her show Into the Badlands and saw the G-Wagon used in the popular dystopic marshall arts drama. How perfect, in a land without computers, guns and only the most basic of technology remains, the good old 80's G will thrive.
My daughter invited me and my sweetheart to visit the set during the shooting of season 3 and as luck would have it, we were able to visit the set of the Window's fort. Behind the fort was a collection of trucks that were used for the shoot. Among them - a couple of W641 former military G-Wagons.
I was shooting black and white film loaded in a Contax G2 Camera so the photos here lack color but it only seems to accentuate the miserable conditions on set. Why anyone would want to work in this rainy, muddy, cold and wet environment is beyond me. But once again the truck seemed perfectly at home in such an inhospitable environment.
So for those of us who have the early G-Wagons that, once started, require no electricity and can run on vegetable oil, we know that producers looking for the perfect truck for the dystopic post-apocalyptic world would do well to pick the iconic G-Wagon.
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| Ally Ioannides on Set |
My daughter invited me and my sweetheart to visit the set during the shooting of season 3 and as luck would have it, we were able to visit the set of the Window's fort. Behind the fort was a collection of trucks that were used for the shoot. Among them - a couple of W641 former military G-Wagons.
I was shooting black and white film loaded in a Contax G2 Camera so the photos here lack color but it only seems to accentuate the miserable conditions on set. Why anyone would want to work in this rainy, muddy, cold and wet environment is beyond me. But once again the truck seemed perfectly at home in such an inhospitable environment.
So for those of us who have the early G-Wagons that, once started, require no electricity and can run on vegetable oil, we know that producers looking for the perfect truck for the dystopic post-apocalyptic world would do well to pick the iconic G-Wagon.
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| On the Set of Into the Badlands |
