The original military vehicle used in the latest Spider-Man film and currently housed in Northamptonshire is to be auctioned.<\/p>\n
Known on screen as DD6, the machine is featured in a major chase sequence in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, alongside the web-slinging superhero played by Tom Holland.<\/p>\n
It is currently being kept at a military vehicle experience company based in Brackley, which has been home to other iconic motors from films including Fast and Furious 6 and Black Widow.<\/p>\n
The vehicle will be auctioned online by Humbert & Ellis on 25 November with a guide price of between \u00a350,000 and \u00a370,000. <\/p>\n
Jonathon Humbert, auctioneer, said: “This film star could prove to be one of the most collectable movie props ever.”<\/p>\n
The film, starring real-life husband and wife Tom Holland and Zendaya – set a North American record, with box office takings of $360m (\u00a3268m). It was the biggest opening weekend ever in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n
Film production company Marvel bought the vehicle from Nick Mead who has been running Tanks A Lot in Helmdon for the last 30 years. <\/p>\n
Originally a 1969 Alvis Stalwart 6×6 military load carrier, the vehicle was developed to carry military supplies across difficult terrain and waterways. It was known as “the Stolly”.<\/p>\n
Mead said Marvel “completely transformed” the machine into a futuristic hero strike vehicle. It included a dramatic armoured appearance, desert camouflage and studio weathering. <\/p>\n
Other than making it legal to be driven on the road he said it is “completely the same as it was when it left the film set”.<\/p>\n
Mead said he has owned about 400 other military-style vehicles.<\/p>\n
He said: “I do tend to chase film props. The [Spider-Man vehicle] is a pretty cool piece of kit.”<\/p>\n
Mead believes the vehicle is “likely to appear in a lot more famous films.” Although he’d like it to stay in the UK, he thinks it will be used in America for film promotion. <\/p>\n
Aside from film appearances a large number of machines have been bought from Mead’s tank collection to be used in Ukraine for casualty evacuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original military vehicle used in the latest Spider-Man film and currently housed in Northamptonshire is to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}