Text and photos by Wallace Wyss - If you are used to full blown concours like Pebble Beach, then the Beverly Hills Father's Day show held on Sunday June 18 on Father's Day in Beverly Hills, the Rodeo Drive® Concours d’Elegance, is more of … [Read more...]
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A Million-Dollar Fraud With Porsche Race Cars
June 11, 2023 By 3 Comments
by Martin Schröder - This was the German Press Agency report of December 8, 2020: "After two years of investigation, the Aachen (city at the German-Belgian border) public prosecutor's office has filed charges against three gentlemen for … [Read more...]
Ferrari 250LM Artist’s History
June 7, 2023 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - A lot of the cars I paint in oil on canvas I only have a scant memory of but some I've seen in person. When I first moved to California to stay (having worked the summer of '65 for Motor Trend) in 1970 I started attending … [Read more...]
The Benedict Castle Car Show
June 5, 2023 By 2 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I won't call the Benedict Castle Concours Car Show a concours--too many cars are modified. But it's not a hot rod show either--there were some million dollar classics there--my favorite a custom bodied prewar Bugatti from … [Read more...]
The Case of the Custom Carrera
June 3, 2023 By 3 Comments
A 356 with a colorful history including a bank robber and a Hollywood Kustomizer. by Wallace Wyss - I used to drop into Hollywood customizer Dean Jeffries’ shop whenever I passed by, on that road that paralleled the Hollywood freeway in … [Read more...]
The Dream Of Designing And Building A Special Car Becomes A Reality – Part 2
May 30, 2023 By 11 Comments
As promised here is Part Two from the My Car Quest Wayback Machine, from July 2014. Part One was posted yesterday and is available at this link. Mike Gulett, Editor by Raffi Minasian The Los Angeles Auto Expo in 1982 We proposed to … [Read more...]
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