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In the meantime, Nazarian has already accomplished something that his father, and virtually everyone else in L.A., has found impossible: beating rush-hour traffic. Tired of the slow climb up Coldwater Canyon to his house off Mulholland Drive, Nazarian (who usually leaves the sports cars at home and travels in a chauffeur-driven Ford Excursion equipped with bulletproof windows and strobe headlights) noticed a shortcut through the gated community of Bowmont Estates. For only $2,500—lunch money, really—he bought exclusive drive-through rights, allowing him to speed home in one third the time. “I just go right up,” he says with a huge smile. “There's no traffic, ever.”
