Cinema Vehicles acquired Alan's Auto Glass, the most iconic and trusted glass company servicing the entertainment industry since 1960. For over 40 years, Cinema Vehicles has been the largest supplier of customized vehicles, automotive fabrications, and car rentals for the movie, television, and commercial industries in the country. We're proud to offer our customers the most comprehensive, family-owned cinema vehicle services in the business out of our headquarters in the heart of North Hollywood's bustling movie production scene, as well as our full-service facility in Atlanta, Georgia.
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For over 40 years, Cinema Vehicles has been the largest supplier of vehicles to films, television and commercials in the country with the most comprehensive owned and operated fleet in the business. Since 1975, Cinema Vehicles has worked with clients such as Disney and Marvel, providing custom car rentals and specialty built vehicles.
Established in 1975 by picture car revolutionary, Ray Claridge, Cinema Vehicles opened in Van Nuys and within two years, was working with some of the most acclaimed production teams in Hollywood. The 80's brought expansion to a new location and a shift to focusing on the entertainment industry. We moved to our current 8-acre location in North Hollywood where we increased the fleet and built a state-of-the-art facility that could accommodate all studio prep work in house.To this day, Cinema Vehicles is the only full-service picture car company in operation.
Cinema Vehicles has been the leading supplier of vehicle rentals to the film, commercial, and television industries since 1975. Today, our family-run business continues to be the first resource for movie cars for rent in Los Angeles and beyond. Our in-house inventory allows us to meet production needs quickly and seamlessly without any complications.
While Cinema Vehicles has been partnering with Alan's Auto Glass on various feature films and T.V. series since our inception, we recently acquired the iconic and trusted glass company to create a full-service glass fabrication shop, providing custom auto glass for movies, television, and commercials in Los Angeles.
Reviews (4)
Alex Ramey
Feb 07, 2022
TrumpWon M.
Jan 23, 2022
I try to understand how a company that is like 40 yrs old tries to price themselves out of a business since they are outrageously $$$$$.almost a joke.600$ to rent a basic sedan car plus tow fee lmao Funny thing they dont understand is that since the internet now.people are privately renting on databases and half of that price they are asking lol
Dominique D.
Jun 13, 2018
Have to unfortunately put them on our "do not rent" vendor list. We had a last minute client request come in for a trash truck and called CVS. It took some time, but eventually we got a quote back for a trash truck and the price was within our budget ($675). However, when we got the estimate, there were a slew of additional fees, all of which added up to $1300 more.
There wasn't more time to shop around, so we were stuck with it. At the time we locked in the rental, call time was 5am, but I let the rental agent know that our AD team would be sending out a revised call sheet and the call time would 90% be pushed. We push the call time to 10am. We send the call sheet. We call to confirm. No one picks up. The next morning, we get a call from the delivery driver that they're on set at 5am.
We apologize but let them know that hey, the call was pushed. They drop the truck anyway and disappear. For the entire day. We call but get no answer. To compound matters, we have to spend hours on set getting the compactor to work (CVS assured us that it would work) and had to push our shot back. Mind you, our initial agreement was the have the shot finished by 1pm. We're tight on budget and want to avoid the OT that would come with such an occurence.
We call the driver again. No answer. CVS does send a mechanic to actually get the compactor working in the afternoon. That's why this review isn't one star. But when we're wrapping, the driver still hasn't returned. Two weeks later, we get a bill from CVS for 15 hours of driver time, bringing the bill to more than 3 times what the price of the vehicle was originally.
We call and plead our case. Finally we get to a manager, who actually yells at me on the phone. I finally tell him to charge me for the OT and he'll never get our business again. As an indie producer, I'm really leaving this review for other producers because I know your struggle. You're on a tight budget. You're trying to get something done that probably feels impossible. You're accountable to people.
You need vendors who are upfront about their pricing, responsive and professional. That was not our experience with this shop. Which is a shame, because we have shoots coming up in the next month and now have to find another picture car vendor.
There wasn't more time to shop around, so we were stuck with it. At the time we locked in the rental, call time was 5am, but I let the rental agent know that our AD team would be sending out a revised call sheet and the call time would 90% be pushed. We push the call time to 10am. We send the call sheet. We call to confirm. No one picks up. The next morning, we get a call from the delivery driver that they're on set at 5am.
We apologize but let them know that hey, the call was pushed. They drop the truck anyway and disappear. For the entire day. We call but get no answer. To compound matters, we have to spend hours on set getting the compactor to work (CVS assured us that it would work) and had to push our shot back. Mind you, our initial agreement was the have the shot finished by 1pm. We're tight on budget and want to avoid the OT that would come with such an occurence.
We call the driver again. No answer. CVS does send a mechanic to actually get the compactor working in the afternoon. That's why this review isn't one star. But when we're wrapping, the driver still hasn't returned. Two weeks later, we get a bill from CVS for 15 hours of driver time, bringing the bill to more than 3 times what the price of the vehicle was originally.
We call and plead our case. Finally we get to a manager, who actually yells at me on the phone. I finally tell him to charge me for the OT and he'll never get our business again. As an indie producer, I'm really leaving this review for other producers because I know your struggle. You're on a tight budget. You're trying to get something done that probably feels impossible. You're accountable to people.
You need vendors who are upfront about their pricing, responsive and professional. That was not our experience with this shop. Which is a shame, because we have shoots coming up in the next month and now have to find another picture car vendor.
Jenifer N.
Jan 01, 2016
