Posted on 01/05/2006 10:12:01 AM PST by day10
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Take a few leggy California blondes, throw in a passion for luxury cars, plenty of parties, and a distaste for parking your own car.
What have you got? A multimillion-dollar, female valet parking business, where struggling models and actresses dressed in bikinis, miniskirts or lingerie and Santa hats park the cars of the rich and famous in the Los Angeles area.
Beverly Hills, California-based Girls Valet Parking opened for business less than six months ago. This week, it took over its rival, Valet Girls, and announced plans to expand to San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego and Phoenix.
"Given the option of hiring acne-riddled teenage boys in red vests, or beautiful and sexy models and actresses trained in safety and hospitality, we're betting our success that restaurants, boutique hotels, clubs and private parties will prefer the latter," company founder Brad Saltzman said on Wednesday.
Saltzman said the privately held company expected 2006 sales in excess of $3 million (1.7 million pounds), rising to $14 million by 2010.
Clients, most of them movie stars and producers, can request a variety of uniforms, including lingerie, bikinis, capri pants, camisoles and miniskirts.
"If it is legal, we will do it, but we draw the line at nudity or topless," Saltzman said.
About half the business is based on requests for women valets dressed in the traditional dark pants and shirt.
Employees are hired through the kind of casting calls traditionally seen in the movie business and there are plenty of applicants. About 260 women showed up recently and six were hired.
I agree. One good looker, three hard cases and one street walker.
But she wanted Bill to show up.
Do you have any more pictures of it?
It reminds me of the way I used to "customize" model cars when I was young.
What's the time and speed for the quarter mile in that rod?
Danica Patrick?
Mark
That looks amazingly like the car of a guy I knew back in the early 1980's in New York.
He built it with a tubular steel frame, and dropped a Keith Black 650ci aluminum big block into it, along with a pair of Holly 850CFM carbs, Lunati roller cam, and a high rise Offy manifold. Although his was normally aspirated.
It was a beast!
Mark
It has done 1/4 mile in 8.26 at 171 mph, with the new engine, it should run a 9 at 165+ (new engine, husband wanted to calm it down a bit). It is for sale and should be on my home page with specs (keep checking), should there be any Freepers interested.
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