this is the car that Brad Pitt drove and
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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we are the largest movie car provider in
Hollywood so there's a good chance if
you see a movie with a car in it it came
from our lot
my name is Sean Grogan I'm one of the
fabrication managers at Sumo vehicles
we have about 1100 cars on a lot
anywhere from police cars ambulance is
school buses 50s cars 40s cars 30s cars
military vehicles trailers taxi cabs
prison buses some of our cars are in
pristine condition some of them are
crashed some of them are burned I mean
you name it we have it on our lot
we've been in the business for over 40
years we've done tons of movies but some
of the ones you might recognize would be
gone to 60 seconds Die Hard Ant-Man and
the lost the Avengers Spider-Man 2 The
Hangover Mr and Mrs Smith rush hour and
the list goes on and on
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in our shop we have an upholstery
Department we have a fabrication
Department we have a mechanical
Department paint and body department and
a graphics Department the way that it
works is a production company will call
us and say they're filming a new movie
and they need X Y and Z and they'll send
us over basically a drawing of what they
want and then it's our job to turn that
drawing into reality
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one of the challenges that we run into
is finding multiples of the same car so
one point in time we turned a Chevy
Silverado pickup into a Rolls-Royce for
the movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice
okay
if we go to any one of a million sites
where you can find used vehicles they
don't have to be in running condition as
long as they look good and we can make
them run again that's the most important
part once that vehicle comes into the
shop we'll have our design team do some
renderings and drawings and spec things
out from there the upholster will change
the seats maybe we'll add seat covers
maybe we'll add Dash covers
once the upholstery shop is working on
their portion of it the fabrication team
is building custom parts
when the car is completed it'll go over
to our paint and body shop and from
there they will do all the body work
needed to make the car look like it's
pristine and then they'll go in and
they'll paint it
and then the mechanics will just check
the powertrain check fluids make sure
there's no leaks take it for a test
drive make sure the brakes are good but
make sure that when that car is on set
it doesn't break down
the last step is the graphics team will
print those logos up and then install
the graphics
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from there a production team will come
pick cars up and then we don't see them
again until the movie Shoot is over
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we're here in Building C where we keep a
lot of our cars that need to stay
indoors we have this lovely Pontiac
Firebird with the suicide doors from an
old commercial for uh Kentucky Fried
Chicken I think it's finger looking gold
one of my favorites is from from the
movie The Hangover but they were painted
brown for another movie
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if you ever seen the show the Agents of
Shield this red Corvette is Lola
we are proud of the work that we do here
at Cinema Vehicles Hollywood wouldn't
operate the way that it does without us
when we see our cars on the big screen
it's one of the most gratifying things
to see the finished product
thank you
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