Isn’t it nice when things just…work?

I found it! The English Honda commercial I talked about in the last post. (Like that was difficult with the Internet at hand.)

It took 603 tries to get this impossibly outrageous Rube Goldberg effort on film. No computer chicanery was used to make it. It’s REAL! In this day and age, who would ever?



All of the objects were actual Honda parts, taken from two of the only five hand-made models that existed at the time! The Honda folks were really nervous about letting the crazy film makers take 40% of the entire world’s supply to make a commercial. The odd behavior of the wheels that roll up a ramp was made possible by loading the insides of the tires with bags of nuts and bolts (taken from the Hondas, of course) that off-balanced the wheels.