Ted Moser at Barrett Jackson 2020 In January 2020, Ted Moser was invited to speak at a symposium at Barrett Jackson's famous auction in Phoenix, Arizona. The topic: Cars in film. For 90 minutes, Ted was on stage alongside Terry Leonard, a stunt director who has had more than six decades in the motion picture industry. Ted and Terry knew each other from their shared experiences working on 2 Fast 2 Furious in 2003. That was a complicated movie,...
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Is Hollywood Killing Our Muscle Cars? “Yes,” says one insider, but his company is doing something about it! From the July, 2011 issue of Popular Hot Rodding / By Johnny Hunkins / Photography by The Author Ted Moser would never admit it, but he’s one of the most powerful men in Hollywood—at least to any car guy who likes watching movies or TV. Moser, owner of Picture Car Warehouse (headquartered in an old Cadillac dealership in Northridge, California), is responsible...
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CGI vs Car Guy It's no secret that movies are relying more and more on CGI, but for those who still crave realism in their movies, especially when it comes to car stunts, there's no substitute for a professional car guy. This job falls to the Picture Car Coordinator. In this article from 2015, David Murray interviews our own Ted Moser, CEO of the Picture Car Warehouse. By David Murray, October 12, 2015 How Hollywood’s old-school stunt- and prop-car provider...
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On Location: Business is cruising for Picture Car Warehouse MAY 3, 2011 | 2:26 PM It looks just like any other car lot in the Valley, with its own showroom, parts department and body shop. But this former Cadillac dealership in Northridge isn’t open to the public. Picture Car Warehouse is a kind of one-stop car shop for Hollywood filmmakers where the vehicles themselves are the stars. There’s the iconic yellow Volkswagen bus from “Little Miss Sunshine,” the gold Pontiac that actor...
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Picture Car Warehouse Moves To Northridge By Mark Madler, 04/11/2011 Having moved all its operations to Northridge from downtown Los Angeles, Picture Car Warehouse is all revved up and ready for the cameras. After five years at L.A. Center Studios, founder and owner Ted Moser relocated his collection of some 700 vehicles to a former Cadillac dealership on Reseda Boulevard where there was more space to store the cars, trucks and motorcycles and for the staff to work their...
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