Shooting the GTS for Motor Trend

The weatherman called for rain. 90% chance, thunderstorms possible, starting tonight and getting heavier tomorrow. This is what I read over and over again before falling asleep. There’s nothing like shooting in the rain…I’m being sarcastic. Everything gets wet and heavy, the strobes can fail, and the camera itself is in danger. Even though the rain looks awfully darn cool…..So I planned ahead with lots of plastic and umbrellas. As fate would have it there was no rain, not at night nor during the shoot, it blew right over, we did get some pretty amazing clouds. I shot at a Sulphur factory, giant stinky mounds of yellow sulphur. I must say it looked really cool. It was a small location and I spent extra time doing beauty shots, did 2 rig mounts as well, car to car, interiors, details and so on. The car to car looked tremendous, there were giant shipping containers parked next to the entry road and I took full advantage of them. I wanted this feeling of a giant shipping boss heading down to the docks in his Maserati, like Enzo would of done, the cars are made to be driven and commanded on the road, none of this wimpy car might get dirty stuff. The road was dusty and the sun was diving back and forth behind the clouds, big tanker trucks shared the road as we shot. It was cool!! One thing that struck me as we shot was the motor. Everytime we started the car, and we started it with a key, no buttons or wierd key fob’s, just a good old fashioned key, as you twist the key the motor erupts with a race car like growl or should I say “snarl” that sends goose bumps of fun. I think if I had one of these my neighbors would eventually get pretty upset with me starting it 3 or 4 times just to hear it. A long time ago I had an MGB with weber carbs, velocity stacks and straight exhaust. I lived in Westwood while working on movie projects, in the mornings the webers were grumpy until warm and that first key twist always made me smile….until the elderly couple with their windows close informed me that they would prefer if I could start my car somewhere else…I guess they weren’t car lovers at 6am. Thats ok, I’ve moved since then, but my Alfa is just as noisy!! Now, would I own a Maserati? Sure, the details are beautiful and that motor, just like the 8c…why not?