So, I'm walking outta my Russian Hill apartment on Saturday morning, headed to the Missing Sock with a load of dirty clothes. Right outside my door is a Yellow w/Black 2002 Cooper. Great! I can corner the owner who's standing by the car and talk MINI stuff. Except he's not the owner. He's a Hollywood stunt driver in my neighboorhood with two identical yellow Coopers and a film crew from Bedford Falls Productions.

They were there to film a "regional" MINI TV ad. The driver kept taking the Cooper through the intersection outside my livingroom window at high-speed, fishtailing, then up and over the hill. Also, there was lots of filming of the MINI on the crooked part of Lombard Street, 2 blocks away.

I just dropped everything and stood around taking snapshots of the scene.

Who would've imagined that my house would be in shots for a car commercial or that the featured car would be a MINI.

Then at 7:55 Sunday morning: Same routine. Except this time one of the Coopers has a driver's door-mounted camera to capture the "just-outside-the-car views" of the high-speed turns. Awesome.

I'll post my snaps when I can. If anyone sees the TV ads with yellow Coopers on Lombard and Hyde streets in SF, please make noise.

 

That's really cool! Nothing like that ever happens around my neighborhood!

 

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Sounds WAY cool! I would loved to have seen that. Hope someone can post the actual ad when it comes out, too! If it is *regional* I probably won't see it in PA.

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I'd love to see the MINI negotiate Lombard Street at about 35 mph!

 

Where the heck was your MINI.........

 

>>So, I'm walking outta my Russian Hill apartment on Saturday morning.


I'm jealous. That is one beautiful neighborhood. I love San Francisco, and I love Russian Hill.

 

On a different note, during its first season, they taped a scene for the HBO hit series, Sopranos, 3 houses from my apartment. I have since moved from that apartment but it's one of the reasons why I love that show - we've been to or know of all of the locations where they film. It's so cool to see a scene in a parking lot that you were just at last week or at a mall that you were at yesterday!

 

Yeah you were hanging out at the BADA BING strip club weren't you

 

Wow, that's cool! I've yet to see ANY MINI commercials. Hope the Lombard street shots come out good. How do you get so lucky?
I remember when Mike Kimball, a legendary 1275S owner from some years back, went down Lombard at 1:00 AM, late after one MMW. One Missisppi, Two Mississippi...... He finished in about 15 seconds, with two passengers. The lucky one was in back, braced sideways. Very Italian Job.

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Rob in Dago