This would have been posted yesterday if not for a major storm in California that hit with high winds blowing down fences and trees accompanied by a lot of rain - my power was off for about six hours - Mike Op Ed: Let’s declare all is … [Read more...]
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Focus On An Artist: Larry Fuentes, Mendocino, CA
January 15, 2019 By 5 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - So I’m in Mendocino, a little village on the West Coast about 3 hours drive North of San Francisco and I go into a bar, one of those old western bars that should have a swinging gates to enter, and I see this guy arrive in … [Read more...]
The Italian Mustang – The Qvale Mangusta
January 14, 2019 By 3 Comments
Some great names involved but the product was drek… by Wallace Wyss - It seemed like old times. Here you had Kjell Qvale, a successful car dealer in San Francisco, and here he had Alejandro de Tomaso, a successful car builder in Italy. A … [Read more...]
Event Report: The Petersen Shelby Show
January 12, 2019 By 4 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - At the Shelby tribute on January 5 and 6, 2019 at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles (hampered mightily on cruise-in day by an overnight rain), one question was answered definitively, that question being: Will the … [Read more...]
“Distressed” Is In…This Cobra Is In
January 8, 2019 By 4 Comments
A 427 Cobra that is shown with all its barn find patina... by Wallace Wyss - I am currently developing some clothing that consists of weathered looking, i.e., “distressed” jackets. Maybe the best customer will be a guy with … [Read more...]
Porsche Claims Ownership Of One Of My Images
January 5, 2019 By 19 Comments
by Mike - Sometimes it is a pain to be on the leading edge of the digital evolution. Porsche claims, “to be the owner or licensee of related intellectual property” (referring to the image shown here) which is an outrageous claim. It seems that … [Read more...]
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