The Home-Made Car
The Home-Made Car is a 1963 British short film directed and written by James Hill. It was produced by The British Petroleum Company, which continues to distribute the film.
A young man rebuilds a vintage car and finds love.
Plot
A young man sets to work restoring a vintage car at the home of his aunt. The little girl who lives next door is intent on sabotaging his project at any cost, but when he wins her over with a smile, she ends up helping him to build it. He completes the project and wins the hand of the girl’s older sister, who has been dating a mannerless local who tears around in a sports car.Cast
- Ronald Chudley as young man
- Sandra Leo as little girl
- Frank Sieman as garage owner
- Caroline Mortimer as young woman
- Anthony James sports car driver
- Alice Bowes as auntie
- Ewen Solon as Rolls chauffeur
Production
Locations
The film was shot largely in and around Farnborough, Hampshire, and Cove, Hampshire. The car was rebuilt at Blackwell Cottage, Cambridge Road West, Farnborough. The house remains, although the garage has been replaced by a detached house, now number 26. The house where the little girl lived, next door, is also still there. As well as Farnborough, parts of the filming took place at the petrol station in Bucks Horn Oak, Hampshire and Seale, Surrey.The car
The owner of the Bullnose Morris in the film, Eric Longworth, kept the car until his death in 2011. The car is now owned by Stuart Cooke of Darwen Lancashire. When the film was shot, the car had already been fully restored, so the chassis of another car which Eric was restoring at the time, a rare 1916 Perry, was used to replicate the Morris during restoration.The featured sports car, registration VWK 929, is a white late '50s Austin-Healey 100-6 with red interior.