Trivia / Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

• Blooper: The movie has a fair few. Ivo Caprino himself referred to these as "gremlins", and the DVD extras has a highlights reel using the original footage where mistakes occurred during filming, usually when props moved inappropriately on their own, or black streaks and pops that plagued the negatives and somehow made it into final development. The negatives were cleaned up for the DVD and Blu-ray releases, but the aforementioned "gremlins" remain.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Solan has several voice-actors throughout the movies, but it's consistent that he's always voiced by a woman. Averted in the 'Louis & Luca'' English dub, though, where Louis (Solan) is voiced by a man.
• Defictionalization: The Il Tempo Gigante would go on to be built true to scale in real life. So powerful and noisy is it that it violates the European auto regulations, so it's only allowed on closed circuits (the official top speed recorded is 180 km/h, or 111 mph). To date, it stands proudly on display at the Hunderfossen theme park in Lillehammer.
  • The car originally had an 250 hp Cadillac engine but when Niki Lauda saw it he provided them with an 7.6 litre, 550 hp, big-block Chevrolet engine. The car also has an auxiliary jet engine, but due to EU restrictions the vehicle is barely permitted to be used at all save for exclusive TV cameos.
• The Other Darrin: Enforced by necessity in the two follow-up movies, as the old voice-actors had either died or gotten too old to reprise their parts. Solan has a different voice for each of the three movies. The voice-actors for Ludvig, Reodor, Blodstrupmoen and a few others reprised their roles for Gurin med Reverompa, but in The Snow Machine there is an entirely new voice cast (though Thoralv Maurstad, who voiced Ludvig in the two earlier movies does have a role in the movie, as the narrator).
• Throw It In!: When the Il Tempo Gigante got stuck just as the race started was unscripted - the small-scale model used for the shot where the other racers start driving got hung up on a mechanism, which was then worked into the script as Reodor having last-minute engine problems.

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