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this is the car that Brad Pitt drove and

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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we are the largest movie car provider in

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Hollywood so there's a good chance if

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you see a movie with a car in it it came

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from our lot

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my name is Sean Grogan I'm one of

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fabrication managers at Sumo vehicles

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we have about 1100 cars on a lot

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anywhere from police cars ambulance is

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school buses 50s cars 40s cars 30s cars

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military vehicles trailers taxi cabs

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prison buses some of our cars are in

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pristine condition some of them are

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crashed some of them are burned I mean

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you name it we have it on our lot

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we've been in the business for over 40

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years we've done tons of movies but some

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of the ones you might recognize would be

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gone to 60 seconds Die Hard Ant-Man and

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the lost the Avengers Spider-Man 2 The

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Hangover Mr and Mrs Smith rush hour and

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the list goes on and on

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in our shop we have an upholstery

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Department we have a fabrication

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Department we have a mechanical

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Department paint and body department and

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a graphics Department the way that it

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works is a production company will call

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us and say they're filming a new movie

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and they need X Y and Z and they'll send

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us over basically a drawing of what they

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want and then it's our job to turn that

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drawing into reality

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one of the challenges that we run into

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is finding multiples of the same car so

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one point in time we turned a Chevy

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Silverado pickup into a Rolls-Royce for

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the movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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okay

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if we go to any one of a million sites

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where you can find used vehicles they

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don't have to be in running condition as

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long as they look good and we can make

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them run again that's the most important

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part once that vehicle comes into the

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shop we'll have our design team do some

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renderings and drawings and spec things

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out from there the upholster will change

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the seats maybe we'll add seat covers

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maybe we'll add Dash covers

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once the upholstery shop is working on

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their portion of it the fabrication team

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is building custom parts

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when the car is completed it'll go over

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to our paint and body shop and from

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there they will do all the body work

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needed to make the car look like it's

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pristine and then they'll go in and

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they'll paint it

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and then the mechanics will just check

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the powertrain check fluids make sure

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there's no leaks take it for a test

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drive make sure the brakes are good but

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make sure that when that car is on set

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it doesn't break down

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the last step is the graphics team will

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print those logos up and then install

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the graphics

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from there a production team will come

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pick cars up and then we don't see them

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again until the movie Shoot is over

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we're here in Building C where we keep a

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lot of our cars that need to stay

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indoors we have this lovely Pontiac

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Firebird with the suicide doors from an

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old commercial for uh Kentucky Fried

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Chicken I think it's finger looking gold

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one of my favorites is from from the

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movie The Hangover but they were painted

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brown for another movie

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if you ever seen the show the Agents of

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Shield this red Corvette is Lola

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we are proud of the work that we do here

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at Cinema Vehicles Hollywood wouldn't

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operate the way that it does without us

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when we see our cars on the big screen

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it's one of the most gratifying things

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to see the finished product

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thank you

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