1982 Made for Movie Everyman's Car by Gene Winfield on VW Typ 1

1982 Made for Movie Everyman's Car in Blade Runner, Movie, 1982

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1982 Made for Movie Everyman's Car by Gene Winfield on VW Typ 1

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antp ◊ 2025-11-29 18:16	Previously posted on the main movie page: mike962 wrote red microcar on the right ?? antp wrote More yellow than red It is seen in this video from Movie Cars Central: https://youtu.be/XmC2nwwF7AQ?t=566 Build on a chassis of VW Beetle edit: seen again in https://youtu.be/JJ-nEmuAjiY?t=138 where they buy it antp wrote In France, on a trailer on the parking lot of Movie Cars Central: (picture taken from this video on an unrelated subject) Paulius43 wrote Sold a couple of days ago at Bonhams Paris, detailed pictures here: Link to "cars.bonhams.com" I guess it could have it's own page as a backrgound car?
antp ◊ 2025-11-29 18:19	Indeed they are selling all their collection. This one was sold for €8,960 Photos from that page, for archiving: It looks like a scale model on these photos Quote • Featured in Blade Runner (1982) Los Angeles street scenes • Designed by Syd Mead, the visionary concept artist behind the film's futuristic aesthetic • Hand-built by Gene Winfield, legendary Hollywood car customiser and effects fabricator • Constructed on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis with custom fibreglass bodywork • Exhibited at the Petersen Automotive Museum as part of Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019–2020) • Acquired directly from Gene Winfield by Movie Cars Central Created for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), this "Everyman's Car" was conceived by production designer Syd Mead as a mass-market urban vehicle populating the film's dystopian Los Angeles of 2019. Built by Gene Winfield's Mojave-based workshop on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis, the vehicle features hand-formed fibreglass coachwork and distinctive covered wheels, capturing Mead's aerodynamic and utilitarian vision of future transport. Confirmed as screen-used in the film's downtown street sequences, this example later appeared in the Petersen Automotive Museum's acclaimed Hollywood Dream Machines exhibition (2019–2020), celebrating cinema's most iconic science-fiction vehicles. Purchased directly from Gene Winfield by Movie Cars Central, it is one of very few surviving practical vehicles from the original production. The car is fitted with a gearbox but currently without an engine, and is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Gene Winfield, together with a certificate of sale to Movie Cars Central. -- Last edit: 2025-11-29 20:12:19
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antp

◊ 2025-11-29 18:16

Previously posted on the main movie page:

mike962 wrote red microcar on the right ??

antp wrote

More yellow than red
It is seen in this video from Movie Cars Central: https://youtu.be/XmC2nwwF7AQ?t=566
Build on a chassis of VW Beetle

edit: seen again in https://youtu.be/JJ-nEmuAjiY?t=138 where they buy it

antp wrote In France, on a trailer on the parking lot of Movie Cars Central:

(picture taken from this video on an unrelated subject)

Paulius43 wrote

Sold a couple of days ago at Bonhams Paris, detailed pictures here:

Link to "cars.bonhams.com"

I guess it could have it's own page as a backrgound car?

antp

◊ 2025-11-29 18:19

Indeed they are selling all their collection.
This one was sold for €8,960

Photos from that page, for archiving:

It looks like a scale model on these photos

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• Featured in Blade Runner (1982) Los Angeles street scenes
• Designed by Syd Mead, the visionary concept artist behind the film's futuristic aesthetic
• Hand-built by Gene Winfield, legendary Hollywood car customiser and effects fabricator
• Constructed on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis with custom fibreglass bodywork
• Exhibited at the Petersen Automotive Museum as part of Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2019–2020)
• Acquired directly from Gene Winfield by Movie Cars Central

Created for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), this "Everyman's Car" was conceived by production designer Syd Mead as a mass-market urban vehicle populating the film's dystopian Los Angeles of 2019. Built by Gene Winfield's Mojave-based workshop on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis, the vehicle features hand-formed fibreglass coachwork and distinctive covered wheels, capturing Mead's aerodynamic and utilitarian vision of future transport.
Confirmed as screen-used in the film's downtown street sequences, this example later appeared in the Petersen Automotive Museum's acclaimed Hollywood Dream Machines exhibition (2019–2020), celebrating cinema's most iconic science-fiction vehicles.
Purchased directly from Gene Winfield by Movie Cars Central, it is one of very few surviving practical vehicles from the original production. The car is fitted with a gearbox but currently without an engine, and is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Gene Winfield, together with a certificate of sale to Movie Cars Central.

-- Last edit: 2025-11-29 20:12:19

mike962

◊ 2025-11-29 19:47

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