{"id":6797,"date":"2014-10-31T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2014-10-31T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:58:51","slug":"wallace-and-gromit-anti-pesto-van-is-on-screen-at-beaulieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6797","title":{"rendered":"Wallace and Gromit Anti-Pesto van is ‘on screen’ at Beaulieu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vans rarely appear in famous roles on screen, but there are a few exceptions, such as Del Boy’s Reliant Regal (it’s not a Reliant Robin!)<\/em>\u00a0and Wallace and Gromit’s Anti-Pesto van, an Austin A35 that the pair used to transport Wallace’s Bunvac 2000 invention!<\/p>\n

Both of these vans, along with a number of notable cars, are currently on display at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, as part of Beaulieu’s On Screen Cars display.<\/p>\n

Metal, not plasticine<\/h3>\n

A plasticine version of this Austin A35 van was created for the film Wallace and\u00a0Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Nick Park, creator of the Wallace and Gromit animations, used to own an A35 and thought it was the ideal model to use in the film because \u201cthe van needed to be big enough to transport Wallace\u2019s invention, the Bunvac 2000, while slick enough to go on high-speed chases.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film, Tottington Hall\u2019s Giant Vegetable Competition is fast approaching and Wallace and Gromit are running a vegetable security and humane pest control business, Anti-Pesto. In order to cope with the increasing amount of captured rabbits Wallace invents a brainwashing machine, but a mistake during the operation creates a \u2018Were-Rabbit\u2019, a giant rabbit which eats vegetables of any size. It\u2019s down to Wallace and Gromit to capture the rampaging beast before the competition!<\/p>\n

The Anti-Pesto Van, which has been loaned to Beaulieu following a call-out for new vehicles for the exhibition, joins a host of other star vehicles, including the \u2018flying\u2019 Ford Anglia used during the making of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets <\/em>and Mr Bean\u2019s lime green mini, a television favourite I remember well. This particular car was used in the character’s third series and made its first television appearance on 1st<\/sup> January 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu is currently home to the real-life version of Wallace and Gromit’s Anti-Pesto van, an Austin A35, as part of the museum’s On Screen Cars exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1882],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6800,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}