Hollywood

Mercifully Aged 1961 Mercedes 300 SL Roadster

BlogBy webmin March 23, 2011

Back in the salad days of the Nineties dot-com boom, we eked out a living painting sets for television and movies. Tasks included making many new things look old, which included building a ship set inside a restored WWII-vintage Liberty ship. Why? Glossy new stuff looks phony on film, because glossy new stuff does not […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Cadillac Eldorado

BlogBy webmin January 17, 2011

One of the great mysteries of modern celebrity is why someone who has enough scratch for a gold-plated Cadillac Escalade can’t scare up a few more bucks to hire a driver when it comes time to descend into Hollywood and drink enough to raise the eyebrows of W.C. Fields and Winston Churchill. Up-and-coming celebrities who […]