A number of things seem to be coming together as of late. Today Gaz and I spent some time at Steve Tillack’s restoration shop in SoCal, a number of people consider him one of the better classic car resto guys. We were starting principal photography on one of our new Discovery Channel Shows, the Science of Classic Car Restoration. At the same time our web designer, Steve, was updating our DVD distribution website, GearheadDVDs.com to include the introduction of our newest DVD, “In Pursuit of Excellence: The Story of Mercedes-Benz”. Perhaps the best way to describe it is as a history of Mercedes-Benz coffee table book come to life on your television. It has all sorts of interesting parts, including the history of MBZ, info on Gottlieb Damiler & Karl Benz, The birth of the Gullwing Series, a section on the Pullman 600 Series, A tour of the museum and my personal favorite, a tour of MBZ’s hidden garages, where they keep the companies personal car collection!
Now, I’ve been working on this particular project off and on for quite some time, probably the better part of the past year in between other projects and television shows, and today as Gaz & I were wrapping out shoot at Tillack’s joint I found myself getting more and more excited to finally be sending the finished materials off to our DVD replicator. It’s not everyday that you get to share your experiences at such a historically significant marque. Frankly I don’t know what a great number of Mercedes-Benz fans will think, we’ve tried to create something that’s unique and special and at the same time take non-MBZ collector level fans to places that they don’t normally get to or don’t have the chance to see. As with many of the projects that I work on, I’m never quite sure how critical reaction will fall. So much of the TV biz seems dependant on what others think and obviously it’s the one part of the process that I can’t control, so I guess it’s just one of those things that you leave up to others. Until the reviews start coming in however I’m not quite sure how to feel. And strangely it’s always the same, no matter what sort of project I’m working on. I’m always on pins and needles until I hear the reviews.
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