Buying a Car
Gone Again – Feature – Auto Reviews – Car and Driver
In a grim neighborhood in Los Angeles seldom mentioned in the Chamber of Commerce brochures, it isn’t unusual to find someone chopping up a perfectly good Mercedes S500.
What is unusual is that in this case it’s a crew of union guys getting paid double time in the parking lot of a grubby diner next to a strip club at 1 a.m., in anticipation of its being comically pulled apart by an oversize tow truck.
But that’s the sort of thing that happens on a movie set. In this case, the set of Gone in Sixty Seconds, producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s big-budget (about $90 million, according to the Wall Street Journal) reimagination of the late filmmaker Toby Halicki’s practically no-budget, barely comprehensible 1974 car-crash epic Gone in 60 Seconds. Read the rest of this entry »