Inventor Eddie Paul leaves El Segundo’s Smoky Hollow for Texas
This 14-foot Great White was piloted by a diver inside the shark. Easy Reader archive photo Over the past nearly five decades Eddie Paul supplied hundreds of cars for television and film, some modified, some hand built. Among them were the ‘47 Ford John Travolta drove in “Grease,” Sylvester Stallone’s 1950 chopped-top Merc in “Cobra,” the “Dukes of Hazzard’s” “General Lee” Dodge Charger, “Back to the Future’s” Delorean, the “E.T.” rescue van, and the “Lightning McQueen,” “Tow Mater” and “Sally Carrera” touring cars for the Disney animation movie “Cars.” Paul recently moved out of the 10,000-square-foot warehouse in Smoky Hollow, where he built the cars. Smoky Hollow’s name comes from smoke that used to settle in the low lying area from the Standard Oil Refinery. The smoke is long gone and now Paul’s landlord wants to convert the industrial-zoned space, a few blocks from downtown El Segundo, to creative offices. “I don’t like to fight, so I moved out two weeks after he said he wouldn’t renew my lease,” Paul said. Eddie Paul with the blood spurting baby seal he built for Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week.” Photo In his Smoky Hollow warehouse, Paul also built mechanical seals and…
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