Fast Furious 4: The Cars and Trucks

FAST FURIOUS COVERAGE Opens Friday, April 3 In the movie business, cars are expendable. They re not respected, nowhere near cherished, subject to abuse and constantly thrashed. It doesn t matter if the cars are Ferraris or Ford Crown Vics, the job of any vehicle in a movie is to tell the story effectively even if it must be destroyed in order to do so. And in a movie like Fast Furious (opening April 3) the cars do a lot of storytelling. We should know; we went behind the scenes. In October of 2007, Dennis McCarthy was hired as the picture car coordinator for Fast Furious, and after leasing a 60, 000squarefoot shop in Southern California s San Fernando Valley and hiring a staff of mechanics and fabricators, he got started building the 240 or so cars that would be needed for the production to portray about a dozen onscreen cars tied to a character. After all, duplicates we br, br,