In early November, Tony Malgapo, president of the Central Jersey Mustangs and Fords Club gets a call from someone who said they were an associate producer for Paramount Pictures.

She said they needed help in a film they were making, he recalled. She stated that they were doing a set build. The premise was the person was building a Mustang inside his home and they needed to hire a person who was familiar with various aspects of Mustang history, parts and restoration, to provide a sense of authenticity for their set designers and prop masters with ideas for the set build.

The associate producers had received Malgapo's name from a local dealer because the club has members throughout the tri-state area, including people in Hoboken, Weehawken, and Kearny.

She wanted Malgapo to start right away as a consultant to the set designers. He said he would get back to her in a few hours.

At first I thought it was a joke some CJMF members were playing on me, but the person's phone numbers checked at as Paramount offices in New York, Malgapo said. The woman called back later and asked him to start the following Monday. Luckily for Malgapo, a branch manger for First Jersey Mortgages based out of Union City, he was on vacation and could give the time to the project. As it turned out, Spielberg needed someone with Mustang expertise to decorate Sanchez garage set as well as the kitchen set which was constructed in the movie studios in Bayonne's Military Ocean Terminal.

The main problem was that everything was too new and looked like it was all mail ordered. I said, 'Unless the character is wealthy, this is not typical of someone, blue collar restoring a car in his kitchen and garage.' So I had to find older parts, maintain authenticity, and even 'age' the parts they already had. They wanted someone like me, who knows Mustangs, to say 'now that is what my garage motor rebuild looks like' without any reservations.

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