Archives for December 2013
Ferrari NART Spyder
More Dirt Pretending To Be Patina
by Mike - I don't mean to pick on Gooding but they seem to love the dirt as patina and rust as an asset sales method more than most of the other auction companies. It is easy to find an example in nearly all of their auctions. 1965 Aston … [Read more...]
Dirt Is Not Patina And Rust Is Not Desirable
by Mike - Dirt is not patina and rust is not desirable patina on a car. So why do so many experts go crazy when they find a "barn find" that has dirt and rust and paint that is falling off and they don't want to even clean the car? They also … [Read more...]
Raymond Loewy Had Difficulty With His Jaguar XKE Even After He Redesigned It
by Mike - Raymond Loewy , wrote a letter to the editor of Road & Track magazine, Dean Batchelor, in March 1968 to let him know that he had just bought a new Firebird 400 from Jim Wangers and to complain about his problems with his Jaguar … [Read more...]
The Studebaker Avanti Once Owned By Dick Van Dyke
by Mike - I was visiting my friends Ron and Sonya Kellogg in Southern California yesterday and sitting in their garage is one of their recent acquisitions. They bought this beautiful 1963 Studebaker Avanti R-1 Coupe at the Auctions America … [Read more...]
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