During production of the film, when the car was needed, Transportation Manager, Henry Travers would pick up the car at the Daily's home in the early evening and take it downtown for filming. Becuase the owners used the car as transportation to work, Travers made sure the car was returned promply each morning by 6:00 AM.
At the time Mr. Daily was working in San Francisco as a manager in the New Technoliges Dept.for Pacific Bell. Becuase of his early morning commute, he and his wife rarely stayed up late enough to witness the filming downtown. He does remember witnessing the filming of the scene where Richard jumps out of the VW when he sees the T-Bird and he runs up the street. On that night May brifely spoke to Ms. Somers to ask her how the car was handling. Clay never did speak with the actress. Duirng interviews, Ms. Somers had mistakenly claimed that during the filming that car owner made her nervous becuase he was always close by, polishing the car, and telling her to be careful. However the "nervous car owner" was not Caly Daily but in fact Henry Travers who was making sure the car was being handled properly and taken care of. Clay recalls that he was never overly concerned about the welfare of his car and that Mr. Travers took very good care of it. In fact, a couple of times he had to jump start it before he brought it back to Daily's becuase the actress would leave the lights on and the radio playing between shots and run the battery down. |
