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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: monkian on February 02, 2010, 10:40 PM

Title: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: monkian on February 02, 2010, 10:40 PM

Just saw this on the museum. This guy supplied / made the bikes for the film ???
He's got loads of interesting stuff. Some cool picks of the bikes being delivered on location and early concept sketches of the bike design.
There's even shots of the decals used on the other bikes in the film.
https://proteanpaper.com//scart_results.cgi?comp=howiebik&framed=0&scat=1&categ=000000000000000288&scatord=desc&scatall=yes&skey=norm
http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=197100

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: mark 2 on February 02, 2010, 11:33 PM

Yes , that's Howie Cohen's site. Speilberg contacted Kuwahara in Japan. They told him to contact Howie Cohen who owns Everything Bicycles, which is the distributor in US. He sorted out all the bike stuff for the film, got 50 KZ-1's sprayed up in a variety of styles, Speilberg chose the red / white fade bike. Howie Cohen and his parents before him have been in the bike business forever and the website is all his memorabilia.

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: jimmyp on February 02, 2010, 11:40 PM

Nice  :smitten:

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: modfather on February 02, 2010, 11:53 PM

Brilliant site  :coolsmiley:

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: boofy44 on February 03, 2010, 12:08 AM

and the ET replicas almost bankrupted kuwahara coz they made an absolute shedload of em.

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: monkian on February 03, 2010, 12:04 PM

Quote from: boofy44 on February 03, 2010, 12:08 AM

and the ET replicas almost bankrupted kuwahara coz they made an absolute shedload of em.

Where are they all now :-\

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: JAY on February 03, 2010, 12:37 PM

Yeah, brilliant site, just ordered a ET Kuwi poster from him...........Cool 8)

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: boofy44 on February 03, 2010, 05:59 PM

think they cut them up and re-used what they could on later models.

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: Tefore on February 03, 2010, 06:16 PM

i remember a advert bitd that if you bought a kuwahara you got a et one free as well.lol

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: meticulous on February 03, 2010, 07:20 PM

Quote from: monkian on February 03, 2010, 12:04 PM

Quote from: boofy44 on February 03, 2010, 12:08 AM

and the ET replicas almost bankrupted kuwahara coz they made an absolute shedload of em.

Where are they all now :-\

i got one of em'.... 

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii194/quattro2008/bmxpickies715.jpg)

Title: Re: Kuwahara ET stuff
Post by: Gashead on February 04, 2010, 06:38 PM

A few people know this however........


When I interviewed Brian Curtis (aka Curtis BMX) he told me that he received a phone call of Steven Spielberg way before filming started, Spielberg asked Brian to supply 50 bikes for the film and then he could have the exclusive rights to the ET bike product after !

Brian said he was too busy  :LolLolLolLol:

In all fairness Brian's bikes were all hand made and he didn't want to ruin the quality of his bikes in mass manufacture !


Not many people know that  :daumenhoch:


Nick